Is the Huge Brow of This Human Pennywise Determine a ‘Welcome to Derry’ Spoiler?

Horror followers have a reasonably good concept of what to anticipate from Pennywise the Clown. The Stephen King creation takes many varieties, however he exists to encourage terror in his victims earlier than demolishing them, and his best and recognizable guise entails a frilly costume, glowing eyes, and a mouth filled with means too many razor-sharp enamel.

That’s why this new NECA determine tied to HBO’s upcoming prequel series It: Welcome to Derry is so disconcerting. This isn’t the Pennywise we’re used to working into within the sewers!

First, and most startlingly, the determine exhibits a human countenance beneath the clown wig. And the face beneath that receding hairline is… surprisingly gentle-looking?

As NECA’s web site studies, that is the It: Welcome to Derry “Final Bob Grey as Pennywise” seven-inch scale motion determine. For those who’re extra of an off-the-cuff It fan, “Bob Grey” might not ring any bells, however diehards will know the identify. And it appears, not less than in accordance with NECA, we’ll be assembly him within the flesh in HBO’s new sequence:

“Earlier than Pennywise was a demonic clown, he was Bob Grey, a circus performer enjoying a clown onstage. Based mostly on the present’s flashback scenes, this 7-inch scale determine consists of a number of interchangeable heads and fingers, stage props, flowers, picket beaver, wig, and wig stand.”

We did know that Welcome to Derry can be tapping into flashbacks to set the scene in Derry, circa 1962, however attending to see Pennywise the Clown earlier than he grew to become entwined with an entity of evil seems like a reasonably large reveal. And that’s not all; the determine consists of clown faces that make one in every of horror’s best villains seem alternately light, unhappy, and comfortable.

Right here’s all of the equipment the “Final Bob Grey as Pennywise” comes with. A clown will not be a clown with out his sidekick picket beaver, in spite of everything.

Desire a Bob Grey of your personal to remind you that even child-chomping monsters may not have been such baddies to start with? You may preorder now ($38, ships in 2026) at NECA’s website.

How large of a spoiler for Welcome to Derry this collectible is stays to be seen, however Pennywise himself—performed within the present by the returning Invoice Skarsgård—has barely been glimpsed in any of its official advertising to date.

For those who choose your Pennywise as a bloody beast, NECA has you lined with a much more ghoulish 7″ model accessible for pre-order here. Much less gory but in addition means larger at 18″ tall is this tackle the balloon-bearing menace.

It: Welcome to Derry premieres October 26 on HBO. Will Bob Grey flip up along with his beaver and wig stand? NECA appears fairly certain.

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