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

Horror followers have a fairly good concept 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 manner too many razor-sharp tooth.

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 operating into within the sewers!

First, and most startlingly, the determine exhibits a human countenance beneath the clown wig. And the face under 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. Should you’re extra of an informal It fan, “Bob Grey” could not ring any bells, however diehards will know the title. And it appears, no less than 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 could 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 contains clown faces that make one among horror’s biggest villains seem alternately light, unhappy, and completely satisfied.

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 wood beaver, in any case.

Need a Bob Grey of your personal to remind you that even child-chomping monsters may not have been such baddies to start with? You possibly can 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 this point.

Should you choose your Pennywise as a bloody beast, NECA has you lined with a much more ghoulish 7″ model out there for pre-order here. Much less gory but in addition manner 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 together with his beaver and wig stand? NECA appears fairly certain.

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