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Premium Toyetic Event - The 2024 Royal Rumble
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In this inaugural edition of Premium Toyetic Event, Dave and Erik break down their favorite looks from Pro Wrestling's biggest live events - beginning with the 2024 WWE Royal Rumble! See who they think should get put over by the folks at Mattel to find their way into the Elite or Ultimate lines!
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Introduction to the Podcast
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Are you ready, kids? Get your parents' permission, check your mailbox, and grab your shopping cart. It's time for the Adventures in Collecting podcast. I'm Eric. And I'm Dave. Welcome to Adventures in Collecting, where we talk toy news, culture, and halls, along with our journeys as collectors.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to Adventures in Collecting.
WWE Royal Rumble: Toyetic Highlights
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And welcome to our inaugural episode of Premium Toyetic event. So this is where we take a
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professional wrestling live event, premium live event, pay-per-view, and we break down who we think are the most toy-etic athletes, superstars from said event. And kicking off this kind of sub-series of adventures in collecting, we are starting with the 2024 WWE Royal Rumble.
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So Dave and I are going to take a couple moments of your time to tell us or to tell you who we think the most Toyota athletes in the Royal Rumble were. So with that, Dave, why don't you start us off with your first?
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So I'm going to make my first choice from the first match of the event, which was the Women's Royal Rumble. Now, there were a lot of great returns, surprises, people from TNA like Jordan Grace, who I'm sure will be getting a Power Town, so we'll talk about that during the next TNA event. But,
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We are going to talk about the most anticipated debut for a women's wrestler in WWE, and that was of course at number 28 when Jade Cargill came into the match. Jade came out with The Storm is Coming, came out with similar music with her logo, and some pretty awesome silver gear.
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a perfect debut for a superstar that we've all been anticipating for the longest time. Now Jade has had some great jazzwares figures and I think her first Mattel figure will absolutely be a home run, especially if we're looking at this Royal Rumble debut gear. So for me, my first choice, Jade Cargill at number 28. So my first pick from the 2024
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Royal Rumble comes from the events opening match the women's Royal Rumble and my first pick is returning WWE superstar Naomi. So after doing some time in TNA and winning the Knockouts Championship there, she is back in the WWE and we are feeling
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the show.
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hair tattooed, I guess you could say, in the back of her hair. Really, really great look for Naomi. Plus, she did a great job in the Rumble. She was in there for quite some time. Dave and I were actually joking about this. The person who comes in at number two never really gets the same credit as the person who comes in at number one, even though the match doesn't start until they're both in the ring. So technically, one and two are really the same slot in terms of performance-wise. But of course, Naomi, looking toyetic as ever, she is
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my first pick for my top toy addict of the Rumble. My second choice from the Men's Rumble should be no surprise to you. It is of course going to be the entry again at number 27 this time. Was he number 27? Yes, he was. We'll keep that in, because I like it. Number 27, of course I am talking about the 10 year return
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to the WWE Royal Rumble from his last match, which was pretty much if it wasn't to the date, it's pretty darn close to the date. Of course, I'm talking about CM Punk. And CM Punk wasn't in any spectacular gear, wasn't anything too crazy. It was pretty similar to his current t-shirt design, but it was a monumentous return. And momentous, monumentous, I made up a word. Monumental, that's where we were going.
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I'm keeping this in. This is the take you're getting. So CM Punk's monumental return to the WWE, to live televised events, to the Royal Rumble. CM Punk was the next to last person in the Royal Rumble. He was eliminated by Cody cuz Cody won. But CM Punk's gear, similar to his t-shirt in those Chicago flag colors.
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should be a good first figure for Mattel to bring back out. So, my second choice, C.M. Punk.
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And for my second pick, I'm headed to the Men's Royal Rumble and another returning superstar. So somebody that Dave and I, we actually got to see his last match in AEW at World's End in Long Island. Andrade El Idolo is back in the WWE. And of course, he always looks great. He is always toyetic. While I totally loved the whole DC Comics Black
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mask vibe he was going with while in AEW. Well, look at this. I mean, he just, his entrance gear, awesome. His ring gear, awesome. Andrade, you know, full stop. Great looking, great looking dude. Yeah, and he's a hell of an athlete. So really excited to see how they work him back into the story. And I know, you know, the way that the cycle goes with action figures, as we all know, it takes
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you know a while sometimes to get these guys out and it's it's been a while since we've had an Andrade WWE figure but I think this is a great opportunity to nail one of those instances you know as us wrestling figures figure collectors love to have we love to have figures that line up directly with a specific event a specific look a specific attire and Andrade made a
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made a splash at the Royal Rumble this year. And that clash in the ring with Santos Escobar, a little friction there. Looks like he's coming back a baby face. So great opportunity to work him back into the WWE Elite line. So yeah, my second pick is...
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Andrade L. Evello.
Podcast Promotion and Credits
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and let us know if you like this. If you liked this premium toy event format, we're excited to deliver more of it. And as we come up to future premium live events, maybe we'll go back into the past and we'll take a look at older
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premium toy event or premium live events from from the the great history of professional wrestling and we'll identify some some athletes that maybe didn't get a figure from uh from from their look at that event and and maybe why they should so uh yeah with that uh until next time this has been your premium toy event
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Thank you, dear listener, for hanging out with us today. Subscribe, rate, and review us wherever you listen, and then tell your friends to do it. Thanks also to Joe Azari, the golden voice behind our intro. Our music is Game Boy Horror by the Zombie Dandies. Find more about them both on our show notes.
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