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Home Depot just can’t top Skelly, the 12-foot king of Halloween

The chain has launched a number of other giant Halloween decorations. But nothing has dethroned the original towering skeleton.

October 5, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Skelly, the 12-foot skeleton, remains undefeated as Home Depot’s biggest Halloween hit. (Courtesy of Home Depot)
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There’s Madonna. There’s Beyoncé. There’s Taylor.

And then there’s Skelly — the 12-foot-tall lawn decoration that changed the whole Halloween game when he debuted three years ago.

Credit pandemic boredom (Skelly hit the market in the summer of 2020); Skelly’s unusually impressive size; or maybe the fact that skeletons are, quite literally, bare bones enough to work with nearly any style of home or decorative display. Whatever the case, Skelly’s star has thoroughly blasted through the usual limitations of plastic pumpkins, Styrofoam grave markers and other All Hallows adornments. He makes year-round appearances at bar mitzvahs, graduations and, with the right seasonal flair, holidays such as Christmas and the Fourth of July.