Giant Home Depot Skeletons Are on Crazy Sale Right Now (2025)

I know you've seen it. The glowing eyes. The gangly frame that should not be able to stand, propped up by rods unseen in the dark.

It is Skelly, the Home Depot skeleton—the most fashionable Home Depot product of probably the past decade. If you live in America, this skeleton presides over a yard near you. And newly this year, a smaller, 6.5-foot “Ultra Skelly” is outfitted with motion sensors and motors to make life truly weird—and also act as a strange alarm system against package thieves and hungry opossums.

Anyway, it's usually well north of $200. But because Halloween is pretty much already happening, Skelly and its entire skeleton brood of giant cat and dog are all 75 percent off.

Which, finally, is a price I'm willing to pay. I have secretly coveted this skeleton and its kin, the comically grim watchmen of American October. But I, like my father before me and his father before him, am a cheapskate about all things but food and drink, and will talk myself out of anything that's not (a) edible, (b) potable, or (c) verifiably “a deal.”

Well, here I am, world. This is a deal. Ultra Skelly is $70. The sitting Skelly dog is $63, not $249. The 5-foot-long Skelly cat is a mere $50. Beware the Skelly cat, my friend! The eyes that light, the claws that do nothing in particular!

Availability is, let's say, scarce. Skelly is already out of stock for delivery from The Home Depot, at least in my zip code: Just the dog and cat can speed their way through the night to join you before Halloween.

But that's what the internet is for. You may need to hunt and peck around a few locations of The Home Depot online before you find the member of the skeleton brood you most desire. Do this by changing your home store location—on desktop and mobile both, this'll be near the upper left corner of your screen.

Should Skelly be beyond your reach, you can also get 75 percent off on other animatronic giant Halloween things that stand watch in a yard, which The Home Depot presumably no longer wants cluttering its stores and warehouses. This includes something called a “Worricrow,” which is like a scarecrow but with LED lights. With a good waterproof power bank, it might even be a pretty functional scarecrow. If you side with the birds instead, there's some kind of raven.

A roaring, motion-activated Wyvern, once $400, limps in at a mere $100. Near me, it's available.

All of these are utterly un-guaranteed to be in stock where you happen to be. But if you flip around a few stores using the power of your web browser, you may discover that a giant “scary” $250 thing is now a $75 “scary” thing, ready to terrorize and/or delight the neighborhood children and raccoons.

A lot of non-animatronic giant Halloween things are also on discount right now, for anywhere from 15 to 75 percent off. But I've made my interests clear.