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

Horror followers have a reasonably good thought of what to anticipate from Pennywise the Clown. The Stephen King creation takes many kinds, 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 stuffed with approach 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 reveals a human countenance beneath the clown wig. And the face under that receding hairline is… surprisingly gentle-looking?

As NECA’s web site reviews, that is the It: Welcome to Derry “Final Bob Grey as Pennywise” seven-inch scale motion determine. When you’re extra of an informal It fan, “Bob Grey” could not ring any bells, however diehards will know the identify. And it appears, a minimum of based on 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 taking part in a clown onstage. Primarily based on the present’s flashback scenes, this 7-inch scale determine contains a number of interchangeable heads and palms, stage props, flowers, wood 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 turned entwined with an entity of evil seems like a fairly large reveal. And that’s not all; the determine contains clown faces that make one among horror’s best villains seem alternately mild, unhappy, and comfortable.

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

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

How huge 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.

When you choose your Pennywise as a bloody beast, NECA has you coated with a much more ghoulish 7″ model obtainable for pre-order here. Much less gory but additionally approach greater at 18″ tall is this tackle the balloon-bearing menace.

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

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