In the battle of the giant Halloween animatronics, Lowe’s comes out on top this year.
The home improvement retailer’s 2026 Halloween collection includes a new $429 Talking Lighted Skeleton Watcher hoisting its skull 15 feet in the air, complete with LED eyes, side-to-side movements, and spooky voice lines. It’s the biggest Halloween prop on the market this season, standing even taller than “Skelly,” the Home Depot’s viral 12-foot skeleton. (The Home Depot previously sold a 15-foot Worricrow and Galli-Crow for $399 each, but didn’t revive them for 2026.)
As of Aug. 17, the Lowe’s full Halloween collection of animatronics, inflatables, and decorations is now live. A company rep told Mashable that most of the collection will be available both in stores and online. Each item’s product page shows its availability based on the shopper’s location, they said.
Other additions to this year’s Lowe’s Halloween lineup include a Bluey Witch inflatable, a 5.7-foot skeleton DJ, a rockin’-out reaper band, a four-foot Howling Lighted Dragon, and several creepy clowns. There’s also a new Disney collection featuring talking animatronics of movie characters, like Monsters, Inc.‘s Mike Wazowski, plus replicas of tombstones from Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion ride. Prices start around $30.
Like the Home Depot’s rivaling props, Lowe’s Halloween offerings will probably sell out quickly. At the time of writing, only 111 Watchers were left in stock for shipping. One Haunted Mansion tombstone, a nine-foot Gaslight Ghoul animatronic, and a three-foot Growling Lighted Werewolf animatronic were already out of stock online.
For its part, Home Depot launched its own Halloween collection in mid-July. Summer Halloween drops might sound premature, but research shows that consumers have a healthy appetite for early shopping. According to the National Retail Federation’s 2025 Halloween spending survey, almost half of Halloween shoppers began buying décor and costumes before October last year. Respondents cited their excitement for fall, love of the holiday, FOMO, and desire “to avoid the stress of last-minute shopping” as the reasons for their proactivity, said the NRF.