Home Depot now has an app-controlled version of its viral Halloween skeleton

The summertime isn’t halfway over, and Home Depot already wants you to commencement reasoning astir Halloween. After introducing a limited-edition animated version of its 12-foot-tall skeleton decoration past year, the hardware institution is hoping for much viral fame this twelvemonth with a caller Ultra Skelly. At 6.5 feet tall, it’s overmuch smaller than the archetypal towering Skelly, but Ultra Skelly features much animated features, further lighting effects, and the quality to speech to trick-or-treaters done a mobile app.

Ultra Skelly’s precocious torso and caput tin some rotate independently utilizing motors, portion the skeleton’s close limb tin determination up and down. It has LED lights successful its rima and chest, arsenic good arsenic LCD-screen eyes (the larger Skelly has the aforesaid eyes), which tin show 1 of 18 antithetic animations, including feline eyes, hypnotic swirls, oregon adjacent the waving stars and stripes for those who privation to reuse the skeleton for July Fourth.

It includes 5 prerecorded Halloween-themed phrases that play portion the skeleton’s animated rima moves. You tin besides grounds up to 30 customized 30-second messages with voice-changing effects — oregon talk straight done Ultra Skelly utilizing the mobile app portion it’s connected implicit Bluetooth. 

The archetypal $299 12-foot Skelly volition beryllium disposable arsenic accustomed this year, going connected merchantability connected August 4th done Home Depot’s retail locations, online store, and mobile app. The caller Ultra Skelly volition beryllium conscionable somewhat cheaper astatine $279.

There are besides respective different options too archetypal Skelly and Ultra Skelly. There are caller 5-foot canine ($249) and feline ($199) skeletons with animated LCD eyes, a caller animated troll ($249) with a spiked nine successful hand, an 8-foot motion-activated animated dragon with a glowing and color-changing thorax ($399), and an imposing 15-foot animated scarecrow ($399) with flickering LED lights successful its eyes and mouth.

And, finally, the 7-foot animated Frankenstein’s monster ($279) introduced past twelvemonth volition nary longer beryllium scaring kids alone. He’ll beryllium joined by a caller 6-foot bride of Frankenstein ($279) with six animated movements, animated LCD eyes, and 4 prerecorded phrases.