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Premium Toyetic Event: WWE Bad Blood 2024
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In this edition of Premium Toyetic Event, Dave and Erik break down WWE's 2024 Bad Blood and talk about who they think is most deserving of a WWE Elite, Ultimate, or Main Event release from the folks at Mattel - do you agree?
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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.
00:00:46
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Hello everybody and welcome back to adventures in collecting. ah We are back again with another episode of premium Toyota event. That is ah if this is the first time you are listening and or watching a premium Toyota event. From Adventures in Collecting, this is where we unpack a recent premium live event. ah In this case, we are talking about wwe WWE's Bad Blood live from Atlanta, Georgia. And we are going to give you our picks of who we think was the most toy addict deserving of an action figure ah from the event. Now, this doesn't mean that they had the best match, doesn't mean that they won.
00:01:28
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could be that they lost, could be that they just showed up and they weren't even in a match. But ah their appearance at Bad Blood, in this case, is something that we think um Mattel, our friends at Mattel, Steve, Bill, Magic, we think that they should make an action figure of this w WWE superstar from Bad Blood. Now, a little bit of housekeeping before we get into our picks. Of course, if you are watching this here on YouTube, go ahead and hit that ah subscribe button down there so that way you don't miss it when we post new videos. ah While you're down there hitting the subscribe button, make sure you leave us a comment. Who do you want to see in action figure form from Bad Blood? We'd love to hear you. If you are listening to us on your podcast feed, ah thank you so much. Hopefully you have also subscribed there to Adventures in Collecting ah because ah we have a new episode every Monday. So whether it's something short like this where we unpack a premium live event, bring you up to speed on the latest news around the toy industry, or a full-length episode featuring some sort of interview or a theme, ah we are
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are live every Monday with a new episode. So we we thank you to our subscribers and hope those who are listening for the first time ah go ahead and hit that subscribe button as well. Leave us a rating. Leave us a review. ah Those kinds of things all help in this world of of podcasting. ah And then, of course, following us. So you can follow us at AIC underscore podcast on Instagram. on x on tiktok where we're constantly posting toy news deals and availability anything and everything that we think would help out of the community now with all of that ah housekeeping out of the way let's get into our our picks here from wwe wwe's bad blood uh dave
00:03:21
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Take it away. So Eric, I'm gonna give you my first pick and my second pick at the same time. That's right, I am going to do something that I'm calling for the first time, multi-pack madness.
00:03:38
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I don't know if it showed up there or there or anywhere really, I don't know. But here we are. um My first ever multi-pack madness two-pack pick, although I think I've picked two packs before, but I haven't called it anything, so I'm gonna do that now. um So my first two-pack pick...
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and my number one and number two picks for Bad Blood um come from the match featuring Blood. And of course I mean Hell in the Cell, ah CM Punk in his tribute to Shawn Michaels from when Shawn Michaels was in the very first Hell in the Cell,
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um And of course, Drew McIntyre. Now this was a callback to the original match. um That's how um Punk got busted open, same way Shawn did by getting long darted into the cage. um It was a fantastic match and I think even if we just get non-bloody versions, um you know, hey, it's an unprecedented time, maybe we get a bloody version. Who knows? I don't.
00:04:51
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Um, would I love it? Absolutely. Could it be a ringside ultimate or elite kind of defining moments type of situation? Think like bruised Cody where it was internal bleeding. Hey, who knows? Um, but what an amazing match, you know, you could get the toolbox as a, as an accessory or the wrench or ah Steps, which was absolutely gross. um My lower back hurt from watching that for about a week. um And a week hasn't even happened yet. That's how wild it's been. It was. um
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But yeah, I'm gonna go with CM Punk and Drew McIntyre for the the moment, right, of Hell in a Cell there. um You know, Drew in his classic Drew gear, um but Punk in the HBK, throwback. Gimme that as a two-pack. You know, bonus points if it's got some red on it.
00:06:00
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I don't think Mattel can do that, so um we're just gonna go with the two wrestlers from that match. CM Punk, Drew McIntyre, those are both of my picks for Premium Toyetic Event, for Bad Blood.
00:06:18
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Alright, so since Dave is all about breaking the rules, and he he laid out both of his picks at once, he he did it he did a twofer. He did a multi-pack madness. I am not going to do the same. Mine definitely are not a multi-pack, but I will give you both of my picks as well, since I have nothing to cut to now from Dave between my picks.
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This is what would this is what how we're doing it. No heads up here. ah So my first pick is somebody who was not in a ah a a match. She did not she did not actually ah wrestle at this event, but she did show up and she has a sweet accessory. And I think ah some of the things that make wrestling action figures so interesting are when they come with unique um special accessories. And in this case, we're talking and a unique briefcase, we've got Miss Money in the Bank, Tiffany Stratton. So i she appeared for a a potential run in, um but did not cash in. But she's got a sweet custom briefcase that, you know, ah Money in the Bank brief briefcase that fits her character perfectly. She already has a main event figure. She has an elite that kind of represents her time at NXT. So let's get Tiffany in this outfit here from Bad Blood, which is also
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a little bit different than the outfits we've seen ah in in action figure form so far. You know, the purple, the black, pretty cool. um love love love Love her look ah and and love the custom briefcase. And we know, you know, Mattel has that awesome mold for the Money in the Bank briefcase. So let's slap some new Deco on there. Let's get a pink briefcase and let's put it in the hands of Tiffany Stratton. ah That is my first pick and yeah. I i love i love her work ah in inside and and outside the ring. you know she's She's awesome on the mic. She is a super talented wrestler. So um definitely more Tiffany Stratton figures. and And both of her figures so far have been very difficult to come by. ah the The main event figure sold out almost instantly everywhere. And the elite is kind of just starting to hit now, but it's been very difficult to to nab on um on
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Amazon or or even ringside so I definitely ah Would love to see another elite a few series as a way of of ah Tiffany Stratton and then my second pick is somebody that is no stranger to having a multitude of action figures ah He's been featured quite substantially already in main events in ah in ah elites and even ultimates But this version of Cody Rhodes from the main event ah has two unique things that I think are amazing and would make for an awesome and kind of easy, maybe even sort of repack situation. ah We already have Cody in the gold pants ah from his debut Ultimate Edition figure from his comeback. um But we've had some updates, some deco updates, some torso changes, some um new face scans and sculpts.
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And he has two things that make this particular entrance unique outside of the um divisive marching band situation. ah He has an awesome the awesome skull mask, which we have yet to see in action figure form. And also, for the first time, he had a sleeveless coat. So ah those who are familiar with the ultimate figures, and i I hope you are if you're listening to this, otherwise you're probably a little confused. But ah the arms are swappable, right? So with the shell version of the coat, they can just make it sleeveless by not including the arms and and updating the deco on it to make to match the ah the deco on the the bad blood entrance. But really, really cool entrance from Cody. um The match was great. you know and Seeing him with Roman is is something that I think is a unique
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ah stepping stone in this in this ah this story that the that they have going on with the Bloodline. So having this moment, you know, being able to recapture this moment, I think is really special in action figure form. So having this version of Cody with the mask, which of course would be, you know, swappable with other versions of Cody because he's used the mask before, the skull mask. But having um having this particular version of Cody, I think this is an important moment in this storyline overall and ah would be a really, really great Ultimate Edition or even ah Elite action figure, right? Because they don't need to worry so much about the arms because it's sleeveless. So ah yeah, co ah Cody with the the gold pants with the skull mask and with the ah shell of the coat. That's my second pick for ah WWE 2024, Bad Blood. And with that,
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That's a wrap. So you've got your four picks, um Dave coming at you with a multi-pack mess and, you know, my standard two picks, my non-rule breaking two picks. ah But again, we want to know what you think. So let us know who your favorite, ah what your favorite attire, what your favorite superstar was from wwe WWE's Bad Blood. And ah as always, we'll see you and ah talk to you next time there is a ah premium live event.
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