Sideshow Tim Curry Pennywise Sixth Scale Figure

Asta said:

I watched It again last night, and just finished a rewatch of the 2021 documentary, Pennywise: The Story of It.

It's still so creepy.


And I'm still conflicted about getting the figure. One of the early comments on Sideshow's video was, "Looks perfect but not sure I'll be able to handle that on my shelf staring at me." I completely understand that.

Trick or Treat's 1/6 Art the Clown from Terrifier is malevolent on the shelf. While Art's possibly the most disgusting in the pantheon of evil clowns, Tim Curry's Pennywise is something more primal.


Unlike the vivid memory of first seeing the Joker in his prison uniform in the '66 Batman series, I must have suppressed the nightmare of sitting on the floor in the front row of the clown show because it only came back due to the Sideshow figure.

I can't build a full picture of that event. Don't know where it was, only that it was a school outing on a coach to somewhere. Maybe a community hall. No chairs to sit on, but back then we were accustomed to sitting on the floor for school assembly as well.

I remember the semi-dark room. No stage, so the creep with the painted face was walking up and down just in front of me. It was a real life nightmare.


I've got no problem with the likes of 1/6 Michael, Jason or Freddy, but Tim Curry's Pennywise is a different kettle of fish.

Can see myself not being able to resist pre-ordering, and then worrying about it later when it arrives.

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lordnastrond said:

You see,
I knew I was a sicko growing up because I always rooted for the villain and my favourite was Jack Nicholson's Joker - so I was down with the [evil] clowns.

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Asta said:

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albatross1 said:

Seeing some posts about final production quality. Then I went to see a recent Sideshow release, a dirty harry figure; and the quality looks the same as the product pics. So not sure what that's about. Can someone elaborate?

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Gipetto0812 said:

Sideshow is well known to have moderate to severe drop in production quality typically in paint, sculpt casting (i.e visible seam lines, rough edges, no real depth/textures) and base body quality. To their credit, their cut n sew tends to be done pretty well.

Their Clint Eastwood figures are much better than previous releases but I wouldn't use that as a gauge for their typical standards. We have yet to see other figures come out as good as those.

Production paint on headsculpts and sometimes accessories usually suffer greatly and their underlying bodies tend to be loose/fiddly or even break. Examples of this would be the Indiana Jones/Nathan Drake figures where the shoulders would break or the even more recent Animated Clone Wars Anakin and Obiwan where the hips would break. They broke their own comic Wolverine shoulder joint during a youtube live unboxing. That same Wolverine figure also had mangled elbow joints on some of the figures that needed to be replaced. Many of my more recent comic based Sideshow figures have super loose hip joints and overly tight knee joints. Not a human character, but I had 3 of their R2D2 figures and each one had varying issues with paint being very different across them from both the body of the droid to all the accessories plus some warpage and very loos hinges.

Hope this helps you understand the concern many of us have

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Gipetto0812 said:

Sideshow is well known to have moderate to severe drop in production quality typically in paint, sculpt casting (i.e visible seam lines, rough edges, no real depth/textures) and base body quality. To their credit, their cut n sew tends to be done pretty well.

Their Clint Eastwood figures are much better than previous releases but I wouldn't use that as a gauge for their typical standards. We have yet to see other figures come out as good as those.

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albatross1 said:

I wonder if Sideshow would consider selling alternate head sculpts and hands in an accessory pack?

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albatross1 said:

oof, sounds rough. I think the only Sideshow figure I've purchased was a freddy vs jason freddy figure and that one was alright, but it was over fourteen years ago. Insane that stuff would come broken out the box. Was completely unaware of this stuff. Thanks for the info.

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Asta said:

I think the thing that's most triggering about Curry's Pennywise is that it's so close to the traditional image of a circus clown, which I've always found disturbing.

Skarsgård's version doesn't have the same effect because he looks more monster than human.

The different versions of the Joker are a step away as well, though Romero feels the closest to the circus archetype.

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matrix69 said:

Completely agree. Skarsgard's take is too far removed from reality. He's too cartoony and fantastical to be creepy.
I much prefer the "less is more" approach of Curry's interpretation. It's much more powerful.

Our imaginations can do the rest.

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matrix69 said:

It's a shame SS don't make dioramas for these new Horror figs. Something akin to HT Skarsgard's version would've been nice.

Would love this set-up on the shelf...With paper boat added.

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BoricuaHec01 said:

Tim Curry is now live! $285

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