The giant skeleton at Home Depot has a voice this Halloween thanks to its new app

October is here and it’s time to start preparing your Halloween decorations. And this year, the infamous Home Depot skeleton is back application This gives Ultra Skelly a new sound and new moves to ease the trick or treat.

Don’t make any bones about it: Skelly is high-tech in this spooky season. The new animatronic version is shorter than the original, at 6.5 feet tall, but you can dismantle the entire neighborhood with this skeleton’s rotating upper torso, moving mouth and 18 LCD eye (EW) variations.

Skelly, sell on the Home Depot website or app for $279Now you can chat with visitors through five pre-recordings and up to 30 seconds of custom recordings, plus Bluetooth capabilities that let you interact in real time. And you can adjust your voice to make everything sound more married.

Skelly launched in 2020, when the pandemic forced people to celebrate Halloween at a distance. Perhaps because of its giant stature — it’s easy to spot, even when social distancing — the skeleton became a hit and has been resurrected every year since. Promotions and friends. This year, those friends include dragons, trolls, scarecrows, and the Skelly Cat (not to be confused with the Smelly Cat).