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AIC NEWS: Happy New Year 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.
Happy New Year! This week the AICNN anchors highlight toy industry news from the tail end of 2022 and announce the second-annual Archie Award winner.
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Introduction to Zencaster and Promotion
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Dave, you know why I love using Zencaster? Is it because the recording quality is better than other methods of recording a podcast virtually? Nope. Is it because they offer a free version for hobbyists just getting started? No, not that. Is it because it's super easy to use for everyone and none of our guests have ever had an issue using it? That's not it. Is it because they offer automatic post-production and transcription services? Negative.
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Stop burying the lead. Why do you love Zencaster? It's because Zencaster is all of the things you just said, Dave. Well, and they sponsor this pod. That's right. Adventures in Collecting is powered by Zencaster. How about your pod? Get started now with Zencaster and use our code to start podcasting today. Visit zencaster.com slash pricing and use promo code AICpod
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AIC News Highlights: New Year and Awards
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AICNN, where toy news matters.
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Welcome to AIC News. Give us a few minutes and we'll give you the goods. Happy New Year! I'm the New Year's Resolution you already abandoned, and I'm here with a stack of Amazon returns you need to bring to Coles. Dave and Eric are out. We have a winner. After expanding the field of teams from 32 to 64,
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Your votes have been tallied in the second annual Archie Award, and we have a winner. And of course, this award goes to the 2022 Toy Line of the Year. Our final round ended up being a rematch of last year's with the defending champs Marvel Legends pitted against G.I. Joe Classified.
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With approximately a 3-to-1 margin in the voting, our second annual Archie Award goes to G.I. Joe Classified.
GI Joe Team's Gratitude and Future Tease
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Hey Adventures in Collecting fans, this is Emily from the GI Joe team and I am so excited to be accepting this year's Archie Award on behalf of the GI Joe Classified Series team. We are absolutely in awe that you voted us the best toy line of the year. There are so many amazing toys and amazing teams that are creating them and so we just wanted to say thank you so much
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We are truly, truly humbled by this honor. And we can't wait for you to see what we're working on in 2023. So we hope you have a wonderful rest of your year. We'll see you soon.
New Collectible Announcements
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Congrats to Emily, Lenny, Tony, Corey, and the rest of the team at Hasbro on a year to certainly be proud of, a big yo-jo, or a cobra-la-la-la-la-la-la. And here's to what we can expect from them in 2023.
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all hail the Deathmatch King. 2022 was a banner year for Friend of the Pod Matt Cardona, and 2023 is certainly looking up. Expanding their Remco-inspired line of exclusives at Ringside Collectibles, the major wrestling figure podcast revealed that Matt and Nick Gage will be coming and loaded with accessories like the GCW title. Of course, they will be packaged to reenact their classic 2022 Deathmatch.
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Additionally, Matt will be available in his clean pre-match look, as well as his post-match, very bloodied one. Stay tuned for more. Stack of returns, over to you.
LEGO and Super 7 New Releases
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It's a new year, and that means new releases from LEGO. Multiple new LEGO sets were released on New Year's Day and they cross multiple LEGO themes, like Fast and the Furious, Marvel, Harry Potter, LEGO City, LEGO Technic, Star Wars, LEGO Art, Avatar, Super Mario, Lord of the Rings, and more. These are all available at LEGO.com.
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Super 7 showed off the first two members of the electric mayhem in reaction form. Animal and Dr. Teeth are the first two figures available. The iconic Muppet musicians are available at Super7.com for $25 each. On behalf of myself and a stack of Amazon returns, this has been your AIC News Brief.
BlendJet 2 Features and Promotion
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What are you waiting for? Go to blendjet.com and grab yours today and be sure to use the promo code AIC12 to get 12% off your order and free two-day shipping.
Content Distribution and Licensing
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