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AIC NEWS: Week of June 1st 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 June 1st, 2025!
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Introduction to AIC Toy News
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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. Let me get you caught up with what you need to know headed into a fresh week of toys. We're going
Hasbro Marvel Legends Pre-orders
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to start things off with our friends Dan and Dwight over on the Hasbro Marvel Legends team.
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as last week they had a quite packed live stream that included a lot of new items with pre-order windows and all sorts of things that you need to know.
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So starting off with what's already live, the MCU Marvel Legends Wave for Fantastic Four First Steps is up for pre-order. It is a mainline release.
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In that first wave, you have six Storm, Reed Richards, The Thing, and two versions of Johnny Storm, both Flame On and and Flame Off, as well as Shalabal, the female silver surfer.
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As I mentioned, this is a mainline release. It is already up for pre-order. You can get it on Amazon. You can get it on Big Bad Toy Store or Entertainment Earth. Wherever you prefer to complete your pre-orders, and you can visit AICpodcast.com forward slash links.
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We have everything all set up for you there. Moving on
Gamerverse June-July Releases
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to what is coming up this week and ahead, we have brand new wave of Gamerverse figures that will span the entire month of June and into July.
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This Gamerverse wave is based off of the classic Marvel versus games in the Capcom universe. So we've got Wolverine and Silver Samurai, which is a fan-mazon exclusive. So that is fan channels and Amazon that goes up at 1 p.m. Eastern on June 5th. That's this week, as well as Psylocke and Thanos. That is a Target exclusive on 6th.
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Then you have Omega Red vs. War Machine, which will be coming to you in July as part of Walmart CollectorCon. We've got Captain America vs. Blue Venom.
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ah That is a mainline release and that will be available on June 12th. And then you've got Shuma Garath, which is a Fanazon exclusive. That will be June eighteenth Juggernaut, another Fanmazon exclusive on June 26th. If you want to see pictures of these in close up, make sure you visit our Instagram feed.
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at AIC underscore podcast.
Yojo June Budo Figure Reveal
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ah This week is also your kickoff for Yojo June. So on June 4th, Emily, Lenny, and Tony will have their Yojo June reveal live stream. But to wet your palette ahead of that, they did reveal Budo, which will be available soon.
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They showed the render reveal, and he looks pretty great. Very kitted out. Looks like you can almost get really two-in-one figure there So definitely keep an eye out for that.
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Moving on
Nacelle Toys Preorder Announcement
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to the biker mice from Mars from our friends at Nacelle Toys. We, of course, saw these back at Toy Fair. This is Wave 2. They are up for preorder now for $35 each. Or wave for $165.
Bandai & Tamashii Nations Exclusives
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You can visit nacellestore.com to get that preorder
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you can you can visit naelto dot com to get that pre-order in from ah From Mars to the planet Namek, we're headed over to our friends at Bandai and Tamashii Nations as they have put up their Namekian Guru and new Krillin figures from that Frieza saga.
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Those are premium Bandai exclusives, SH Figure Arts. ah You can get them now, ah likely through the rest of the month. As with these... i premium Bandai pre-orders, they do have a window.
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um They do not announce when the window will officially close, but typically they last ah about a month.
Monsterpalooza Highlights
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ah This last week was also Monsterpalooza, which ah is is where Mondo shows off a bunch of new things that they're working on.
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We got closer looks at the upcoming Street Sharks Ripster, which is ah currently sold out, but they did show off the urban Aztec King Ghidorah which looks incredible. That is up now for pre-order at MondoShop.com.
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And then they also showed off their upcoming Sofubi Jaws. Bruce the Shark, ah this thing is pretty epic. Comes with a cage, comes with floating canisters, comes with all sorts of accessories, as well as a removable and swappable head that will allow you to get your Jaws 2 scarred look.
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So very cool. Look for that coming in July. ah
Diorama Prince Wave Eight
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Last but not least, we have from our friends at Diorama Prince, wave eight of their backdrops are up.
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ah You've got five new backgrounds to choose from. You can go right now to DioramaPrints.com, save $2 on each release and and get yourself some some refreshed backdrops for your photography and for your toy displays.
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Once again, you can visit AICpodcast.com forward slash links for all of your links. And until next time, this has been your AIC update.
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