I have never owned anything that you can get from Skymall, but this is one of the best things I have ever bought (direct from this website)   It is a year round fixture of my home in Wilmington, NC.  In October, I move it to the front of the house, but the rest of the year, it guards the side.   We just had a huge hurricane and the power meter got taken out by a tree, but the zombie survived.    It has lasted outside for at-least ten years and looks just as awful as it did on day one.