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August is approaching, and with that, it’s Halloween shopping season.
At least, it revealed plans for the decorative lines, ghouls and monsters this year on July 28th, according to Home Depot.
Featuring familiar faces like Notorious Giant Skelly and Friends, Home Depot’s 2025 Halloween line will drop online and apps in store this fall.
(Horror) Ready to start holiday shopping? Check out some of the highlights here.
Skelly is back…
Home Depot’s unofficial superstar has entered the 21st century.
Skelly, the official name for Home Depot, the 12-foot skeleton figurine that first went viral in 2020, achieved unprecedented skill in 2025.
He’s about half the size of the original Skelly, 6.5 feet tall, but Ultra Skelly is packed with Bluetooth features that allow users to connect to their smartphones and direct movements.
Perhaps most impressively, the user can interact with Trick-Or-Treater via Skelly by speaking directly to the app on his phone and hearing words come out of his mouth. The app also comes with the option to pre-record 30 original phrases, and can be creeped using the built-in audio filter feature.
The original 12-foot Skelly is retail for $299, while the Ultra Skelly costs $279.
…with another new pet: Skelly Cat
Last year, Skelly welcomed a new friend who wasn’t too brawl. The old dog has returned with a new trick, but this time it has a shortened version of its original shape and 5 feet repetition.
Cat fans don’t have to worry this year. Because Skelly has been welcoming cats to join his group. The 5-foot Pussycat is poised to be attacked by a squatting position with adjustable, sparkling eyes.
You can bring Skelly’s dog and Skelly’s cat home for $199, but Skelly’s dog with LCD eyes sells for $249.
The more terrifying giant
This season, the bigger figures than Skelly are not the only ones who have Skullcue.
Home Depot’s new “Horrible Grounds” collection is inspired by a creepy wooded atmosphere and features two 15-foot-high characters.
It is a wandering, pumpkin patch guard scarecrow twisting take, with towers over Skelly and boasts a wingspan of over 13 feet. Adorned with a tattered jacket and hat, the moving strooker features a moving head and sparkling eyes, mouth and chest.
The relatively tall row of Garry is Urolic’s counterpart, with a literal birdlike appearance of the “crow” part of its name, with a torn cloak and red eyes and chest.
Despite their imposing size, both may face the groans of Wyverns that change their 8-foot colour. Dragon-like creatures are equipped with three colour options, two booming roars, and a head and neck that prepares to blow fire into unsuspecting visitors.
Wool, Garry, Color and Animated LED Wyvern colors are listed for $399.
A familiar face
Love – and fear – this eerie season is in the air.
Chucky, the original evil doll from 1988’s Child’s Play, will be appearing for the second time in this year’s collection as a 3.5-foot animated doll. Adorned with his classic overalls and equipped with a knife, Chucky cycles through audio lines written specifically for Home Depot decorations – after all, the language of the original film was a bit too vulgar to play in the store.
Still creepy, Chucky’s face features not only tumbling and moving eyes, but also a creepy smile that twists his realistic look into a majestic smile.
He is accompanied by his bride, Tiffany Valentine, and at a measurement of 3.5 feet tall, he wears an unmistakable white wedding dress, a black leather jacket and combat boots. With a smile that is perhaps even more ominous than her mistress, she also waves the knife, repeating her five phrases to passersby.
The Frankenstein monster has returned, and is still standing at something impressive 7 feet, but this time he is towing his own bride.
Frankenstein’s new six-foot bride is made with lively skin and bulbous wandering eyes, like her beloved. Dressed in her wedding vest, she moves with her waist, arms and face, and speaks four classic phrases.
Like Tiffany Valentine’s, it is equipped with classic Chucky and wounded Chucky, a light bloody knife and torn face skin. Frankenstein’s Monster and Frankenstein’s Bride priced at $279.
