By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-09-30 14:49:59 | Updated at 2024-10-02 20:33:30
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Home Depot shoppers who own the $299 12-foot Giant-Sized Skelly can now purchase a 7-foot skeleton dog to go with it.
The home improvement retailer is selling an all-new 7-foot Skelly's Dog to go along with its famous Giant-Sized Skelly this Halloween season.
The 5x7 skeletal animal has a poseable tail and jaw, and Halloween celebrators can keep it inside or outside.
Skelly's Dog has been flying off the shelves since Home Depot released it, and the product's price starts at $199.
Home Depot's 7-foot skeleton dog is one of multiple Halloween-themed products the chain released more than two months before the spooky holiday.
Home Depot is selling a 7-foot Skelly's Dog to go along with its popular 12-foot Giant-Sized Skelly product
The 5x7 skeletal animal has a poseable tail and jaw, and its price starts at $199
Despite selling Halloween-themed products since 2013, Home Depot's reached new heights online after releasing its 12-foot skeleton in 2020.
'For Skelly, we knew the moment we sampled him that we had created one of the best Halloween items ever,' Lance Allen, Senior Merchant of Decorative Holiday, said in a 2023 news release.
It was just a matter of time for Home Depot to add a 7-foot Skelly Dog to its Halloween collection, which it described online as the 'perfect best friend' for the 12-foot Skelly.
Like the viral Skelly, Home Depot's 7-foot Skelly's Dog comes with eight different LCD-illuminated eye settings that a shopper can choose from with a remote.
However, unlike the 12-foot skeleton, the 7-foot skeletal dog should only take around 30 minutes for one person to set up.
The product's popularity has continued to increase since its initial release and is now featured on more than one resale website, including eBay.
Shoppers who wish to purchase it on eBay instead can do so if they're willing to spend anywhere between $240 and $600.
Home Depot released its 12-foot Giant-Sized Skelly in 2020, and it quickly became a must-have Halloween-themed product
Various X users were excited about the product before its release, and one person claimed in a tweet that it sold out by the Fourth of July.
'I've never wanted to have money so much until I heard that Home Depot launched a skeleton 7ft dog to accompany their 12ft skeleton,' an X user tweeted.
Another X user wrote: Home Depot is releasing a giant skeleton dog to go with the giant skeleton… Man I'd love to be rich.'
The average rating for Skelly's Dog is just over four stars, and several reviewers criticized the product for different reasons.
Various social media users were excited about the 7-foot skeletal canine, but product purchasers were concerned
'I gave 4 stars because the spine/ body doesn't exactly match up or snap together. I'll make some modifications so the wires are better protected,' a shopper wrote.
'It's super cute but really poorly produced,' a shopper wrote in their two-star review.
'It was a struggle to assemble as the pre-drilled holes almost never lined up correctly or were missing all-together.'
Shoppers who rated the product five stars claimed otherwise. and one person claimed it looked great and was 'easy to assemble.'
'If you have Skelly, you have to have his best friend! Easy assembly and has multiple eye features,' a customer wrote.
'Everyone stops to check them out and take pictures. Highly recommend picking up Skelly's dog.'
