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AIC NEWS: Week of August 18, 2025
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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 what you need to know for the week of August 18th, 2025!
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Introduction & Giveaway Announcement
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AICNN, where toy news matters. i cnn where toy
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Hello everybody and welcome to AIC News. Give us a few minutes and we will give you the goods. First, a little bit of housekeeping here from Adventures in Collecting. Of course, it is still August and ah our August giveaway with our friends at Power of X-Men is still live. So ah you still have a chance throughout the rest of the month to win yourself a X-Men 97 Marvel Legends Wolverine. So visit us over at AIC underscore podcast.
Marvel Legends Pre-orders
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Look for that pinned post and follow the instructions to enter yourself to win the, uh, the very highly sought after, uh, X-Men 97 Marvel Legends Wolverine.
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Uh, from that, let's head on over to some pre-order news. So starting first with our friends at Hasbro, the Marvel Legends team put up some new pre-orders this week or this past week, excuse me.
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Um, And sticking with X-Men, the X-Men 97 two-pack basketball two-pack of Rogue and Gambit is up for pre-order.
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ah This is a Hasbro Pulse exclusive, so you can head on over to HasbroPulse.com and put in your order for that two-pack from the iconic scene from ah the first season of X-Men 97. Sticking with
New Releases from NECA and Boss Fight Studios
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Hasbro and Marvel Legends, they also put up pre-orders for reruns of their um retro-carded Ghost Rider and retro-carded Doctor Doom. Of course, Ghost Rider being on that Toy Biz card art for Ghost Rider and Doom being on the Fantastic Four retro-card art. Shouts to to friend of the pod, Harry Moore, who designed both of those cards.
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Doctor Doom is pretty much sold out everywhere, but you can still grab yourself Ghost Rider over at Big Bad Toy Store for $25.99. While we're talking about Big Bad Toy Store, let's switch over to NECA, where there are three new Mirage Comics i and and IDW comic-inspired releases of... um We've got Nightwatcher April from The Last Row and In The Lost Years. Casey Jones Body Count from, of course, that iconic Mirage comic run with the i red, white, and blue mask.
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And then Karai from a City at War. So those three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NECA releases are available for pre-order now at Big Bad Toy Store.
WWE Merchandise: Demonito Puppet
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And from NECA, and ah there's there's a segue here. Stick with me. um From NECA to are the folks over at Boss Fight Studios, they're...
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new two packs. It's never too early to celebrate Halloween, folks. um There are two new two packs of Garfield, ah their 112 scale Garfield, the cat lines, two packs featuring Garfield and Odie first in their Halloween costumes and then ah disguised as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So ah two different two packs also available at Big Bad Toy Store from Bross Fight Studios. Those two packs look fantastic.
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and And yeah, it looks like we'll be getting some Garfield that Ninja Turtles crossovers from both NECA and boss fight studios so that was a nice little surprise and then last but not least before i kick it over to dave for the rest of the news uh this past weekend was uh was triple mania uh we had a new character debut uh in the match against uh iguana man ah and Finn Balor.
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Finn, of course, debuted Demonito, so a little puppet themed after his iconic demon personality, persona, um quite literally eight, Iguana Man's puppet.
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ah So you can get your Demonito for $99. It is a puppet, a functional puppet. It is available on the wwe WWE
Collect Major and Trick or Treat Studios Pre-orders
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shop.
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And along with all of the pre-orders that I just mentioned and the ones that Dave is about to go over, if they are available and we have shared them, you can find links to them at AICpodcast.com forward slash links.
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With that, I'm going to hand it over to Dave for some more news. Our friends of the pod over at Collect Major have put Big Rubber Guys Series 15 up for pre-order.
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This series includes the Nasty Boys of Brian k Nobbs and Jerry Sags, as well as Road Warriors Legion of Doom Manager Precious Paul Ellering.
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The trio costs $149.95 and is available to pre-order until September 30th. These Big Rubber Guys are due to ship in February, and remember, as Matt Cardona always says, the pre-order is the order.
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Trick or Treat Studios has put the highly anticipated Terrifier 2 figures up for pre-order. These 5-inch figures are $29.99 each, and as of press time, Sienna Shaw has already sold out um For the pre-order. However, you can pre-order iPop and Art the Clown, Costume Shop Art the Clown, and The Pale Girl.
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All for $29.99 each. The four-figure bundle is also sold out already. um But these pre-orders and figures are coming on October 20th.
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The
McFarlane Toys & DC Direct Figures
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McFarlane Toys Store has entered the chat with three new figures available. The first two are pre-orders. um You can get Obsidian and Mr. Bones as DC Direct figures that come with a lithograph.
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They are McFarlane Gold Label figures. um They come individually for $27.99 each, or you can pre-order both for $47.58. These figures represent their respective appearances in Infinity Inc. No. 16 and will ship in October.
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You can also order for delivery now. Everyone's favorite character from the Harley Quinn animated series, hell yeah, it's Kite Man.
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Kite Man comes with interchangeable hands, a kite, and a collectible base, as well as a trading card. Kite Man is $34.99, has a chase variant,
Conclusion & Credits
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and ships now.
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On behalf of myself and the entire AIC News team, this has been your AIC News Update.
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