Tallowmere 12 ft Giant Skeleton
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See it in the scene: The Front Lawn →
FROM REAL FRONT LAWNS
Filmed by the people who put him up: the frame going down, the lift, and the street noticing.
The declared height is 140.24 inches — eleven feet eight. "12 ft" is the commercial name, not the measurement. Either way it stands taller than the door it is next to, so measure the drop from your gutter before you decide where it goes.
Two adults and about an hour. It stands on a welded steel frame: level the ground, seat the base, and pull the guy lines taut before you leave it standing overnight.
They are actual screens. Twenty LCD eye effects, changed from your phone — not a painted eye and not a bulb behind a lens.
Record up to thirty sounds, or talk through it live from the porch while the mouth keeps time with whatever you send it. The head turns on its own while it does.
No. A motion sensor wakes it for whoever walks up and the built-in timer handles the rest, so it runs the night without your phone in range.
It plugs into a standard wall outlet — no batteries. The outlet is what decides where it stands, so walk the distance before the box arrives.
The rib cage, the spine and the hips light from the inside, which is why the whole thing reads from the far side of the road long before anyone is close enough to see the detail.
It comes apart into flat sections — the bones, the steel base, the power lead and the lines — and goes back into one tub in the corner of the garage.
The whole sheet
What holds up
Twelve feet does not sound like much until it is standing next to your roofline. Cars slow down. Two people knocked to ask where we got it.
We ran through the effects the first night and settled on the plain iris. It reads like it is watching the driveway rather than just glowing.
Not difficult, but it is tall. Do the base and the guy lines properly the first time. I rushed it and redid the whole thing the next morning.
You can speak through it from the porch. My husband hid inside and answered trick-or-treaters all night. Nobody expects the thing to answer back.
Works the way it says, just plan on having a phone in range if you want to change what it says while people are out front.
The movement is subtle and that is exactly why it works. From across the yard you catch it out of the corner of your eye.
Bought him for our first Halloween in this house and he has gone up every year since. Packs down flat into one bin. The bones have not yellowed and nothing on the base has rusted, which is more than I can say for the cheap ones I started with.
He looks incredible and I do not regret it. Getting the head seated was another story — I had to back a screw out and flip a bracket before it would sit, and the instructions do not mention it. Level your ground properly too. Once he was up he has not budged.
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