Code Orange: The Home Depot has launched its 2025 Halloween collection online and on its mobile app. The drop marks the return of “Skelly,” the home improvement retailer’s iconic 12-foot skeleton, and the debut of a new 6.5-foot app-controlled Ultra Skelly.
The collection went live around 6:30 a.m. ET on August 4, and all items are only available while supplies last. (Skelly, its Ultra variant, and several other animatronics are limited to one per customer.) Some will eventually hit Home Depot store shelves later this fall.
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“This year’s collection has something for everyone,” said Aubrey Horowitz, the Home Depot’s decorative holiday merchant, in a press release. “Whether you’re a Halloween enthusiast adding to your collection or a family starting new traditions, we’ve combined creativity, quality, and value to make your celebrations even spookier.”
This is the Home Depot’s first Halloween drop of the year. It scrapped a “Halfway to Halloween” launch in April, disappointing collectors and sparking conspiracy theories among its active fandom on Facebook.
The Home Depot 2025 Halloween collection: What’s new and what’s not
The Ultra Skelly is a shorter but more interactive version of its viral 12-footer. Credit: The Home Depot
Skelly helms the Home Depot’s marquee “Grave & Bones” collection for the sixth year in a row at its usual price of $299. It’s joined for the first time by the shorter but higher-tech Ultra Skelly ($279), which has a light-up ribcage, voice effects, motion-activated animations, and Bluetooth support. Users can have it play recorded messages or control it in real time from their smartphone. Horowitz told Mashable it’s the item she’s “probably most excited about” because the Halloween market hasn’t seen such technology before.
“He’s completely customizable, so you can speak into him live and really spook your trick-or-treaters on Halloween,” she explained. “You can customize his lights and motion. He has 18 different eyes [settings], so really perfect for any party — Halloween, New Year’s. He’s kind of a year-round fixture, so I’m really excited about him.”
Skelly is a cat person — er, former person? Credit: The Home Depot
Skelly also got some new pets this year, including a five-foot-tall, Doberman-style Sitting Skelly’s Dog with moving LCD “LifeEyes” ($249) and a frisky five-foot-long Skelly’s Cat ($199). The Home Depot received a lot of requests for the latter specifically, Horowitz said. They’re being sold alongside last year’s megapopular seven-foot-long Skelly’s Dog ($199), which is available again as part of an online-only restock.
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Sit. Stay. Good boy. Credit: The Home Depot
The Home Depot has also launched a new arboraceous “Gruesome Grounds” collection that includes the Worricrow and Gally-Crow, two light-up, motion-activated 15-footers with 12-foot arm spans — its largest animatronics yet. They’re both priced at $399, and the Gally-Crow is an online exclusive.
The Worricrow (left) and Gally-Crow are the Home Depot’s biggest Halloween props to date. Credit: The Home Depot
Other new additions include an eight-foot-wide Wyvern with color-changing lights ($399); an eight-foot talking troll named Tumble ($249); 3.5-foot Scarred Chucky and Tiffany Valentine dolls ($229 each), as seen in the 1998 movie Bride of Chucky; and a 6.5-foot Bride of Frankenstein animatronic ($279) to go with the seven-foot Frankenstein’s Monster ($279), a 2024 release that’s returned.
A few familiar faces will not be back this year. That includes the 12-foot Inferno Pumpkin Skeleton, which was sold alongside Skelly from 2021 to 2024, as well as last year’s Inferno Deadwood Skeleton and motorized Servo Skelly. A Home Depot rep told Mashable that they could return down the road.
Happy belated Summerween
August might seem premature for a Halloween drop, but it’s extremely late by the Home Depot’s standards. From 2022 to 2024, the retailer launched select props and animatronics in April as part of a Halfway to Halloween sale before releasing its complete lineup in mid-July. That spring sale was canceled for 2025.
The decision was cause for serious concern among the Home Depot’s Facebook fandoms, as Mashable previously reported. Many members theorized that the retailer’s usual programming was thwarted by President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported goods from China. Skelly and other Home Depot animatronics are made there by a California company called Seasonal Visions International (SVI).
The Home Depot wouldn’t confirm that tariffs directly impacted its Halfway to Halloween event. The company told Mashable in June that its past iterations were meant as a “surprise and delight moment” for its Halloween superfans and that “it’s not necessarily a core part of our strategy.” However, our investigation found that tariffs had a ripple effect on the Halloween industry this spring.
Some of the Home Depot’s competitors wound up postponing or cancelling their own Halloween drops due to economic turmoil. And for its part, SVI ended its free replacement part program, reduced its overall parts availability, and closed its support lines in July, citing “changes in tariffs and the global supply chain shifts” in a note on its website.
In curating its 2025 Halloween collection amid tariff challenges, Horowitz said the Home Depot has prioritized customer value and new innovations.
“[Something that’s] really important to the program is being able to meet customers’ expectations on the program that we’ve had year over year,” she said. “So in terms of pricing, I am confident that our values are not going to be beat in the market. … We’re going to have both of our collections really fully stocked.”
UPDATE: Aug. 4, 2025, 6:42 a.m. EDT This story has been updated to reflect that the Home Depot’s 2025 Halloween drop is now live.