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Home Depot upgrades 12-foot skeleton with interactive features
Key points
- The new Skelly allows smartphone interaction via a mobile app.
- Features 20 animations and customizable sounds.
- Retains a simpler version at the original price of $299.
Upgrade Details
Home Depot's latest upgrade to its 12-foot skeleton, known as Skelly, introduces significant enhancements focused on user interaction. With a mobile app, users can now speak through the skeleton's animated mouth, allowing for real-time interaction with trick-or-treaters.
New Features
The upgraded Skelly includes 20 different animations for its LCD eyes, a significant increase from the previous eight. Users can also customize head and mouth movements, record sounds or phrases, and interact over Bluetooth.
Pricing and Availability
The new version of Skelly will be available online starting tomorrow for $379, and also in stores later this summer. A simpler model will return at the original price of $299.
Expanded Halloween Offerings
In addition to the new Skelly, Home Depot is launching new Halloween decor including an 11-foot mummy with sound effects and motion-activated features, glowing trees with faces, and an 8-foot zombie velociraptor.
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Home Depot has announced an upgraded version of its popular 12-foot skeleton, now allowing users to interact via a mobile app. The skeleton features 20 animations, real-time voice interaction, and customizable mouth movements, enhancing its appeal as a Halloween decoration.