NECA has shared photos and details for their upcoming IT: Chapter Two – Pennywise Ultimate 7″ Scale Figure. The figure includes a new body sculpt, four interchangeable heads, multiple interchangeable hands, and a balloon. The figure is set to ship out in March 2020. Check out the full details below, and see the official product images after the jump.
From the newly released IT: Chapter Two, the nightmarish clown returns! It’s been 27 years and the Losers Club must find a way to defeat it once and for all.
Based on Bill Skarsgård’s portrayal of the shape-shifting creature, this 7″ scale figure features an all-new body to showcase Pennywise’s costume change in the second movie. To recreate the most terrifying scenes from the film, the fully articulated figure has four interchangeable heads, plus interchangeable hands and red balloon.
Comes in collector-friendly deluxe window box packaging with opening flap.
IT: Chapter Two - Pennywise Ultimate Figure by NECA
pennywise one of 4? 5? how many of these are they going to make?
To be fair this might be the best looking It yet. But I agree they’ve made just a bit too many haha
This is amazing. I just preordered 4.
Really wishing they'd release a base body and just sell a ton of accessories kits with heads & hands, instead of full releases over and over. Because I knew they'd do this, I just gave up on getting a Pennywise. Didn't want to feel like I bought the wrong one, so I bought none.
Yeah, I'm so sick of NECA milking the Pennywise releases. Hard pass on this one, especially when you know they're just going to release 3 or 4 more "Ultimate" sets featuring the same exact figure with a few new accessories down the line. Nope.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think this is an entirely new body sculpt plus I don’t think Pennywise was dressed any differently than the previous film. After a close inspection of my IT 2017 figures, it would appear that the only new molded part for this IT Chapter 2 Pennywise figure is the chest overlay. The red pom-pom on the belt portion of his costume is now located on the chest chest and it looks like this figures features a newer bigger collar piece. Outside of that everything except maybe the upper shoulder pieces, is likely just re-use.
I really hope they don’t try to milk this film like they did the first especially when the only logical headsculpts left to make are maybe a crying headsculpt and a roaring/ chomping headsculpt.
NECA probably has another accessory set in the works that features the smaller creatures of the film like fortune cookie scene, the Spiderhead scene or the deflated baby pennywise.
I could also see NECA producing a large scale spider Pennywise that appeared at the end of the film with a few scaled-up headsculpts we’ve gotten already. And though I highly doubt it, we could also see NECA making the monster form of the old lady as well.
With all that said, I think I’ll just wait for this figure to go on clearance.
I think it's getting to the point where people are starting to shudder when they hear the phrase "NECA Ultimate Pennywise." Ugh.
Speaking of re-use, what the hell ever happened to NECA's Crash Bandicoot Coco and Neo Cortex figures? They've milked Crash to death and beyond with multiple releases using the same body, let's get some new shit out already.
If I had to take a guess, I would say the Crash line is selling similar to the Borderlands 2 Claptrap figure where by retailers only want variants of Crash and have little interest for the supporting characters or villains. Either that or NECA killed any future interest in the line by putting out every possible variant of Crash to get their money’s worth out of the sculpt to the point where collectors have all but lost interest in the possibility of side characters and it’s finally showing in the sales.
At the same time I won’t be surprised NECA releases pre-orders for Neo Cortex and Coco really soon, but at this point I’m not holding my breath either.
Going back to It Chapter 2, do any of you think there is any potential for other figures based off Pennywise’s looks from the film that this newest release doesn’t cover?
Coco and Neo Cortex may not happen. Randy recently said there was little retail support and they are looking for alternate ways to release them.
https://twitter.com/NECA_TOYS/status...566416897?s=19
There's little doubt that they basically killed the line with all the countless Crash variants they released. Thanks, NECA.
I feel like the only tweets I see from Randy are about how none of their properties are "getting enough retail support." Maybe it's time to reconsider the release strategy of entire waves being character 1 with x different head sculpts?
Personally I like the Character so have dozens of them to display each of the heads. That said, I have a massive stack of heads which seems wasteful. In my opinion they should have done this in waves of 3 like their alien and predator lines with scene specific accessories. Results in less waste and could have led to more variation and characters.
So far (including this release) for modern Pennywise you would need 19 figures to display all the heads (2 for sdcc and 2 for gamestop). Sans the exclusives that's 15 figures or 5 waves worth. Had they gone this route the skarsgard head could have had a more appropriate body likewise the lady from the painting. They could have also given us some of the other characters then upped the likelihood of selling the less popular ones by going the DST route and having a build a Neibolt house (see DST ghostbusters firehouse). Pennywise, losers, lepper, Georgie etc gives you at least 10 waves.
Final Packaging Photos of the IT: Chapter Two - Pennywise Ultimate Figure by NECA - The Toyark - News
For some reason I thought this had already come out...
Who can tell anymore? NECA's Pennywise figures all blur into one another...
IT: Chapter Two - Pennywise Ultimate Figure Available Now from NECA - The Toyark - News
Maybe it’s time to bring back a cult classics or movie maniacs type line. Like what neca is doing with toony terrors. Neca has got to come up with something new. As beautiful as their figures are, and they are beautiful, they are getting stale. The excitement just isn’t there anymore. I don’t have the answer, but if someone can get us excited again, it’s Randy. I’ll keep the faith.
I also think we're going to see a bigger shift to the Mego style releases for anything that's not a 100% sure fire hit. The risk and cost to them is just much lower in that format.
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