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IT Pennywise Balloon Lamp: They All Float Down Here

Stephen King’s IT offered up some truly terrifying moments, both in its 1990 TV miniseries run and its 2017 movie incarnation. While Pennywise the clown is super creepy, you might not want to have his head sitting on your desk every day. Perhaps something a little more subtle would show your love of the horror franchise, like this floating red balloon lamp.

This officially-licensed Pennywise Balloon Lamp may or may not conjure up images of a killer clown for everyone who looks at it, but for those who have seen IT on screen, it most definitely will offer up some chills. For everyone else, they’ll just think it’s a tribute to a certain childhood favorite by Albert Lamorisse.

The USB-powered lamp measures about 13.4″ tall and is made from environmentally friendly Breakdown Plastic, so if you decide it’s freaking you out and dump it in a landfill (or the sewer), it will eventually biodegrade. Just don’t bother trying to pop it.

Merchoid is taking pre-orders for the lamp now for $41.99, and expects to start shipping them at the end of August.

Pennywise IT Raining Blood Umbrella Doesn’t Float

Sometimes it rains cats and dogs, and you need an umbrella to avoid getting wet. Your umbrella doesn’t have to be boring and black. It can have creepy clowns and blood splatter on it.

The IT: Raining Blood Pennywise liquid reactive umbrella is up for pre-order on Merchoid. It starts out all white with black line art of Pennywise from the recent IT movie. When rain hits it, a delightful red blood spatter appears.

Pennywise also gets red lips, nose, and slash marks on his face. The umbrella is $22.99 and can be preordered now with delivery starting this June.

Monopoly IT Edition: Rich Uncle Pennywise

My first brush with Stephen King’s IT came at a young age when I was home one-day in the summer, and found it in my dad’s bookshelf. It scared the crap out of me within a couple of chapters, and I never finished reading it. The miniseries from back in the day was just as scary. I took my daughter to see the new IT when it was in theaters, and spent most of the time waiting for jump scares so I could frighten her. I got my money’s worth; the people around me not so much.

If you enjoy having the IT scared out of you too, check out this new Monopoly game, based on the creepy franchise.

 

We have yet to see any pictures of the board, tokens, or game cards, but the game will have players traveling around locations from the evil town of Derry. It will include special Losers’ Club currency, and tokens that look like items from IT as well. Hopefully Pennywise will take over duties for Rich Uncle Pennybags, and one of the tokens will be a red balloon.

Monopoly: IT Edition is expected to ship this May for $39.99, and you can pre-order it now over at Entertainment Earth.

 

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Creepy IT Pennywise Statue Will Haunt Your Sewers

The recent IT movie was very creepy if not outright scary. If you don’t like clowns, you probably will want to look away. After all, Pennywise the clown is simply horrifying. But if you like your circus folk with cracked foreheads and bloody faces, keep on reading.

Iron Studios‘ detailed 1/10th scale polystone statue of Pennywise is is 9.8-inches tall and 5.3-inches wide on the base. Despite being a statue and not an action figure, it still offers swappable heads and hands. It comes with two heads and three arms. Each one is hand-painted and based on 3D reference scans from the movie provided by Warner Bros.

The statue is available for pre-order right now at Sideshow Toys for $104.99, with an estimated launch window of April to June 2019. You’re sure to float too if you buy one of these.