Home Depot's giant Halloween skeleton sells out online: 'I love him'
The dramatic 12-foot decoration costs $300
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Many festivities have been canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps inspiring merrymakers to celebrate Halloween in a big way with a 12-foot skeleton figurine.
Home Depot is selling the dramatic decoration for a cool $300, touting the holiday must-have as a “spine-tingling centerpiece” with “creepy” animated LCD eyes that appear to move and blink.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The massive monster, designed for both indoor and outdoor use, is currently listed as out of stock online. (Home Depot)
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The massive monster, designed for both indoor and outdoor use, is currently listed as out of stock online – making it all the more coveted before All Hallow’s Eve.
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According to a product page, the figure should take two people just one hour to assemble. A now-viral TikTok clip, however, appeared to showed three Home Depot employees going all-out to build the oversized ornament. The video has been viewed over one million times.
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The giant skeleton has also received a whole lot of love on Twitter, with one user declaring that the decoration was "the only good thing to collectively happen to us this year. I love him."
"I will do whatever it takes to acquire the giant Home Depot skeleton," another echoed.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}When reached for comment, a rep for the Home Depot shared the following statement on the item’s viral popularity:
“I can’t think of a better time to bring a product to the market that would cause a collective smile for so many people,” said Lance Allen, decorative holiday merchant for the home improvement store. “We knew the 12-foot skeleton was going to be a favorite of our customers, but we never could have fathomed this level of excitement that it would create in such a short time.”
“It’s not even October yet!”
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