Is the Large 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 kinds, however he exists to encourage terror in his victims earlier than demolishing them, and his handiest and recognizable guise entails a frilly costume, glowing eyes, and a mouth filled with method 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 operating into within the sewers!

First, and most startlingly, the determine reveals a human countenance beneath the clown wig. And the face beneath 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. In the event 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 in response to 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. 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, 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 looks like a fairly large reveal. And that’s not all; the determine consists of clown faces that make certainly one of horror’s biggest villains seem alternately light, unhappy, and comfortable.

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

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

How massive 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 and marketing to this point.

In the event you desire 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 method 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 positive.

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