Home Depot's Halloween Skeleton Decorations Now Feature Electronically Enhanced Terrors
New for this year is the 6.5 ft. Grave & Bones Animated Ultra Skelly with 'Life Eyes,' which can blink, move, and be changed to fit various expressions and holiday themes—such as heart eyes for Valentine's Day. With an LED app, you can control not just the eyes and lights on Skelly but also switch up the spooky phrases it says between preset ones and voice recordings of your own that can be put through various voice filters. Plus, you can traumatize the neighborhood kids by speaking directly out of it from the app whenever you'd like it to greet anyone at your door.
See it in action in the reel below from Home Depot:
View this post on InstagramThe Halloween fandom that's been committed to extending the use of spooky animatronics has reinvigorated the lawn decor game with the even more giant Skelly, Jack Skellington, and the like. Now, we're seeing more and more ways to keep the fun going past spooky season, and we're here for it. There's even a new cinematic Halloween-to-Christmas animatronic you may all be familiar with that has joined the line-up: Gremlins icon Stripe.
Stripe is perfect for more spooky season to winter holidays fun alongside Skelly. Imagine putting Stripe atop a Christmas tree or, better yet, clinging onto Skelly? The possibilities just keep getting more ridiculous, and the holidays are made all the better for it. We can't see what's next—maybe a kaiju Christmas Godzilla?
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