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AIC NEWS: Week of December 11, 2023
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Welcome to AICNN (Adventures in Collecting News Network) where toy news matters! This is your AIC NEWS brief. Give us a few minutes, and we'll give you the goods.
This week the AICNN anchors highlight toy industry news from the week of December 11, 2023.
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Introduction and Highlights
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AICNN where toy news matters. Welcome to AIC news. Give us a few minutes and we'll give you the goods. I'm the package you keep checking the tracking status on. And I'm here with that one ornament that just won't stay on the tree. Damn it. Excuse me, Dave and Eric are out. That's
Major Awards and Achievements
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a wrap.
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After a tremendous tournament, we have our winner. For the third year in a row, Hasbro reigns victorious. Following victories from its sibling brands, Marvel Legends and the G.I. Joe Classified series, Transformers is your 2023 Archie Award winner. 2023, of course, was a massive year for the brand as they continued to churn out the toys, but they had a huge boost with their smash hit film.
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Congrats to friends of the Pod, Ben and Mark, as well as Sam, Evan, and the rest of the Transformers team for the victory.
Upcoming Action Figures
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In other Hasbro news last week, the Marvel Legends team held their final livestream of the year, revealing a bunch of figures for 2024, including a new Hydra, Captain America, Sam Wilson, Captain America, Angel, and Red Widow, as well as Wave 2 of the X-Men 97 Subline, and a series of Wolverine,
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50th anniversary two-packs, two of which are available now to pre-order on Entertainment Earth, Amazon, and Hasbro Pulse. Look for more from the Marvel Legends team in 2024. Bondi brought some new reveals and a premium Bondi pre-order with them to this year's JumpFesta event. At the show, highlights included reveals of new SH figure arts for both the anime and Netflix live-action versions of One Piece's Nami,
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and Gyu Tomioka from Demon Slayer. As for pre-orders, you can grab SH Figure Art's full-power Frieza now for $85 plus shipping exclusively from Premium Bandai. Visit AdventuresInCollecting.com forward slash links to pre-order him now.
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Lastly, DesignerCon ended this weekend, and while there were a lot of reveals and really cool stuff from artists around the world, Mondo certainly made a splash at this annual art show. Designer and Senior Creative Director at Mondo, Peter Santamaria, revealed his upcoming 12-inch vinyl Creature from the Black Lagoon, and thanks to Friend of the Pod, Toyshiz, we saw reveals of their incoming 1.6 scale figures of Marvel's Rogue and Spider-Man the Animated Series
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Venom, Spider-Man, and Symbiote Spider-Man. They also showed off from Batman the Animated Series, a one-sixth scale version of Bane. Look for all of these figures to come in 2024 with pre-orders and more information as we head into the new year. Annoying ornament? Over to you.
Collector's Corner: Special Releases
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This week Ringside Collectibles has put up the latest Storm Collectibles New Japan Pro Wrestling figure. Joining Jushin Thunderligher and Minoru Suzuki is El Desperado. He comes in his standard black and white gear and costs $49.99. There is also a black and gold variant that costs $58.99. Both figures can be pre-ordered at ringsidecollectibles.com and are due out in February.
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Remember to use code AIC to save 10% on that pre-order. McFarlane Toys has announced wave 2 of the Batman the Animated Series line. The target exclusive figures are once again a collect-to-build wave and include Batman from the episode Blind as a Bat, Commissioner Gordon, the Riddler, the Joker, and the collect-to-build figure Lock Up.
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The figures can be pre-ordered now and are due out in late January. If you caught Ring of Honor's final battle this past weekend, you saw the latest mention of the upcoming Brisco Brothers two-pack coming soon to the Jazzwares vault. More details will be forthcoming. And don't forget, next week we'll be back with our annual Christmas special.
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Conclusion
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