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AIC NEWS: Week of March 23, 2026
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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 cover what you need to know headed into the week of March 23, 2026!
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Introduction & Giveaway Announcement
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Speaker
Welcome to AIC News. Give us a few minutes and we'll give you the goods. It's time for another week of toy news and the goings on at Adventures in Collecting. So first and foremost, let's cover off on a little bit of housekeeping.
00:00:28
Speaker
So it still March. You have just about a week left to enter our giveaway. So our giveaway this month is, of course, partnering with with our friend Paternia.com to give away a McFarlane Toys Image Comics Founders Edition Elite Spawn. So head on over to our social media page, specifically our Instagram at AIC underscore podcast.
00:00:55
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where you will find a hidden post with all the information you need to to enter to win that spawn. It's a great figure, and it's very hard to find. So um congratulations to anyone that wins it. It's been one of my favorite figures of the year, and I can't stop playing with it. So I hope...
00:01:14
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you get the same enjoyment out of it as i do.
Marvel Legends Updates & Pre-orders
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Also over on our Instagram, today, ah March 23rd, is the start of the semifinals in our Marvel Legends March Madness tournament. That's right, we are we are coming down to the wire here. as we enter the final of the the the penultimate matchup.
00:01:37
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um As we head into the final ah today over on our Instagram, in stories for 24 hours only, you can vote on uh, the semifinal matchups. So, um, that is armor versus doc Sampson and nihilist versus man spider. So get out there, get your votes in, get on the stories and, uh, and, and do the thing.
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And by do the thing, I mean, hit your choice in polls and help us decide who this year's winner is. Uh, Prediction, I've made it before, I'll make it again. I think we are headed towards a final where it's Armor versus Annihilus, and and i think we all win.
00:02:19
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We all win that way, if it if it ends up going that way. So, um sticking with Marvel Legends, Last week, a new pre-order went up for the ah Marvel Legends Avengers Black Widow and Quicksilver 2-pack. You can find links to that on Big Bad's Toy Store. on It is a fan channel exclusive, and you can find links to it and any of the other things that we mention in terms of availability on on this episode.
00:02:47
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excuse me, AICpodcast.com forward slash links. This week in Marvel Legends news, i the Archangel Deluxe will be going up.
00:02:59
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ah The X-Men 97 Archangel Deluxe. So stay tuned for that. And of course, you know, we'll have the links as soon as they go live. Speaking of things that went live from Hasbro last week, we got two new GI Joe pre-orders, which are still available to pre-order at most major retailers. um That is our Professor Rockclaw and ah Cobra Dionysus.
00:03:25
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I definitely mispronounced that. It's Rotclaw with a dinosaur. We saw it at New York Toy Fair. it looks
New York Toy Fair Highlights
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amazing. um Also is a Cobra Xenia dreadlock with the chameleon.
00:03:37
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um Again, awesome looking figure. We saw that at ah at at Toy Fair as well. And Xenia is giving, is giving. That's the thing that people say now, right? She is giving Tank Girl vibes. So um if that's if that's your cup of tea, those two releases are also available for pre-order.
00:03:56
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um Last week, a slew of toy announcements and events and things happened.
CollectorCon Exclusives & Hall-a-Thon
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Dave will cover off on the big wrestling reveal from the Mattel Creations revealed, but I'm going to run down some other highlights.
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The friend of the community, friend to all, Pixel Dan helped reveal Laser Power He-Man, of course, based on the very hard to find, I believe it is a 1986 release of Laser Power He-Man, um now available in the Origins line. So you can get that at MattelCreations.com.
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as well as Skeletor themed Monster High doll. So super cool design. The next iteration in their their crossovers as they blend their IPs into one um great amalgam.
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We also had two days of CollectorCon over at Walmart. We had exclusives in the Vintage Collection. We had new Street Fighter WWE crossover releases, as well as some G.I. Joe exclusives.
00:05:00
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Again, over at Walmart, including the America 250th birthday Duke. So if that's, again, your cup of tea, you can find those at ah at Walmart. Along with CollectorCon ah Day 1, Day 2 brought us some additional exclusives, including some Transformers for the upcoming, again, 250th anniversary of the United States, as well as the upcoming World Cup. We've got a transformer that turns into a soccer ball.
00:05:29
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So pretty cool. Reppin' Team us s USA. We also got the golden WWE Elite Rock statue figure? Statue figure?
00:05:41
Speaker
It's a fully articulated figure, but it looks like a bronze statue or a gold statue of ah of the rock. Almost like a little Oscar. which is, which is kind of cool. So, um, the, uh, the other thing that was revealed at Mattel creations, again, uh, these are not up for pre-order yet, but they hinted at a potential new, uh, Penta figure. Looks like it might be an ultimate. Looks like it might be representing WrestleMania 41 based on the black white and green color scheme that they showed and then there's also some sort of four pack situation or maybe it's a legends wave not entirely sure um but it's got uh jay usso hillbilly jim uh hulk hogan and cm punk in in forms of saturday night's main event look um some notable call outs on this set of course hillbilly jim back back on the table which is really great it's been a long time since we've gotten a figure of him ah The Hulkster's wearing ah a nice Saturday Night's Main Event retro cutoff.
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And CM Punk, though the picture is blurry and it's kind of hard to tell, looks like he might have two tattoos on his legs slightly above his knees that ah we have not yet seen before in action figure form. So stay tuned more on that as we get better looks at that as well.
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um also week one of Hall-a-Thon over at Target, so this will be going on every Friday at 9 a.m. m New drops online in case your Target is not carrying the Hall-a-Thon items in store. Week one was the Usagi Yojimbo Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. These are the Stan Sakai-designed turtles um in those beautiful pastel colors.
00:07:17
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So it was Usagi as well as the four brothers, along with ah a nice little Hello Kitty plush. So ah you can look for those hitting your your local Target or check it out online.
New Releases & Special Announcements
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um Lastly, before I kick it over to Dave, is news coming from McDonald's.
00:07:37
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So the latest Happy Meal toys will feature the characters from Super Mario Galaxy, including different versions of Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Bowser, Bowser Jr., Toad, wrote rosal ah Rosalita, um or Rosalina, excuse me Princess Peach, and Birdo, and Star. there's There's all kinds of of fun surprises. So um we've got a picture of it up on our social media, but those start hitting on...
00:08:06
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This week? Yeah, just in a couple days. So on March 26th. And then on March 27th, the latest capsule drops from ah from our friends over at Bull Airs. And this time it is all themed around Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. So there are sneakers, there's a jacket, there's two different types of shirts. Again, you can look at pictures for all of this on our Instagram or just head on over to Bullairs.com. With that, i'm going to kick it over to Dave to cover off on a very special and timely and maybe even slightly predicted WWE wwe release from Mattel.
00:08:40
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Dave? It made our Stone Cold Steve Austin wish lists and now it's reality. As revealed during the Mattel Creations Revealed show, Stone Cold Steve Austin from King of the Ring 1996 is coming to the WWE wwe Elite line.
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This Mattel Creations exclusive celebrates the 30th anniversary of not just Stone Cold Steve Austin himself, but the 30th anniversary of the King of the Ring 1996 victory, where Stone Cold gave his famous star-making Austin 316 promo upon winning the King of the Ring tournament.
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This figure comes with interchangeable hands, a removable softgoods shirt, a throne, a King of the Ring crown, and a table for said crown.
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It also includes premium packaging and will go great with your Royal Rumble Build-A-Figure Doc Hendricks. The Doc Hendricks, of course, is not included. This figure is $35 and is available now at MattelCreations.com.
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On behalf of the entire AICNN News Team, this has been your AIC News Brief. Go vote in Marvel Legends March Madness.
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