Overview
- Lowe's launched its full 2026 Halloween collection and listed the Haunted Living 15‑ft Talking Lighted Skeleton Watcher, a motion-activated animatronic with LED eyes, side-to-side movement, and spoken lines that was reported at $429.
- A company representative said most items will be sold both in stores and online, but product pages already showed limited inventory and some items unavailable at the time of reporting.
- Online listings showed roughly 111 units of the 15‑ft skeleton left for shipping at one point and several other animatronics and tombstone replicas already out of stock.
- The release intensifies competition with Home Depot's viral 12‑ft 'Skelly' and follows past seasons in which single oversized props drove rapid, location-dependent sellouts on social media.
- Lowe's broader assortment pairs large animatronics with family-friendly licensed inflatables from Disney, Bluey and Paw Patrol and uses private-label Haunted Living and loyalty perks to reach both serious decorators and casual buyers.