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AIC NEWS: Week of January 26, 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 Jan 26, 2026!
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Introduction and Giveaways
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AICNN, where toy news matters.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to AIC News. Give us a few minutes and we'll give you the goods. Before we hit you with the latest toy news that you need to know headed into this coming week, let's first take care of a little bit of housekeeping. So, of course, it is still January. In fact, it is January 26th. If you are listening to this one, it is brand new, which means that there is still one week left for you to enter to win in our two giveaways. So first up, of course, is our giveaway with our friends at Chubsy-Websy Toys out of Little Flaws, New Jersey. We are giving away a set of Super 7 Reaction Tribe Called Quest Reaction. figures. These three and three quarter inch retro style figures bring the iconic hip hop faction to your shelves from the people's instinctive travels and the paths of rhythm album.
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So can you kick it? Yes, you can. Head on over to at AIC underscore podcast on Instagram. Look for the pin post and follow the instructions to enter yourselves to win that set. and while you're there, take a look at the other pinned post for our other giveaway with our friends over at Power of X-Men. This is an x exciting giveaway to start off the year. It allows you to enter to win a Marvel Legends X-Men 97 made to order Sentinel
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A giant size X-Men number one Banshee figure with the mini comic and then a ah T-shirt from Gold and White Industries ah or White Gold Industries. Excuse me. featuring artwork from X-Men number 28. It is a size medium shirt. So again, you can look for those two pinned posts over at AIC underscore podcast ah on
Merch Store Launch
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Instagram. Follow the instructions individually to win, enter yourselves to win those prizes. last but not least, ah the other
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pinned post over on Instagram is our new merch store. So you can visit AICpodcast.dashery.com to shop our collection of ah of t-shirts.
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So not only can you wear the Adventures in Collecting logo, Archie, i you can also pick up one of the other shirts inspired by things that go on in this community. So we've got stuff that...
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parodies plays off of some popular ah t-shirt designs over the years as well as just some cool stuff that you can wear on your next toy hunt or to your next convention or just in general, throw it in your wardrobe, classy stuff. Uh, so please take a look at AIC podcast, uh, dashery.com and, uh, shout to the folks over at T public for, uh, for power in our store and keep an eye there. Cause we're going to constantly add, um, new designs as we think of them.
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So with that, let's head into a week of toy
Superman and TNA Figure Releases
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news. So let's start off with a third party, uh, listing that is live over at big bad toy store. So we'll One of the big third-party superhero darling releases of 2025 was the Gong Studios Batman. i Well, now you can get the Gong Studios Superman.
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So the this 112 scale figure, of course, features the soft goods that you love from Gong Studios. This is Hush Superman. So he's got ah the Poison Ivy Vines, the Angry Mug, all the good stuff that you would expect.
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from a hush superman so that is available at big bad toy store i'm gonna get this out of the way now any of the pre-orders that i mention uh links to those pre-orders will be either on our instagram which i mentioned at aic underscore podcast or in our link tree. So you can visit us at AICpodcast.com forward slash links to pre-order the things that we're talking about. um So moving on from i from third parties, let's ah take a look at Ringside Collectibles. So you say his name and he appears, Joe Hendry, the latest edition of Joe Hendry featuring his TNA title win, is available at ringside. So this is part of their new unsanctioned line, modern action figure scale line. Think AEW Jazzwares. They are designed very, very similarly. They scale very well with all of your modern stuff. You can pre-order Joe with that TNA title. He also comes with an exclusive t-shirt as well as his iconic microphone. um You can save 10% over at ringside with code AIC at checkout.
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So any of your ringside orders, feel free to use that code. Save yourself some dough.
Dragon Ball Celebration
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We're going to close out here with ah some anime news as we are amidst the celebration of 40 years of Dragon Ball. Hard to believe.
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So the folks over at Dragon Ball and ah Toy and and ah Animation released an amazing ah like four or five minute video Celebrating the 40 years, bringing some of Akira Toriyama's iconic art to life with a exclusive score from Hans Zimmer. a Really, really cool video. And of course, that comes with the announcement that Dragon Ball, the anime, is continuing with the Galactic Patrol. So Dragon Ball Super Galactic Patrol.
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coming soon to to your TV. And with that, our friends at Bondi and Tamashi Nations are taking Dragon Ball on tour. That's right. A pop-up tour is coming to some key cities throughout February and March.
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So they are coming to Illinois, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, and California um with stops, multi-day stops at all of those cities at ah some some large,
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areas. So in ah in New Jersey, they will be at the American Dream Mall. There are exclusive retail opportunities, including an absolutely gorgeous SH Figure Arts Super Saiyan, Son Goku Legendary Super Saiyan. It is based on the manga art. It is absolutely stunning, um as well as they are bringing out the Son Goku and Dragon 40th Anniversary Edition that was available at New York Comic Con in limited amounts, and it is it is back, so you get another crack at it in case you missed it there.
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So again, head on over to our Instagram where we have a link to the actual event page where you can find all the details. There's just giveaways, there's activities, all kinds of fun stuff, um and if you are listening and you're in the New Jersey area, It will be at American Dream Mall February 20th through the 22nd. So we will definitely try to make our way over there during that period. um Lots and lots of exciting stuff happening with happening in February.
Marvel Legends Pre-orders
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um And I lied, there's one more thing. So last but not least, ah Marvel Legends news. So the abomination pre-order of the new kind of like Hulk capsule that they are doing this year, the first in the Harry Moore designed retro packaging,
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that ah That Abomination is up for pre-order at your retailer of choice, so whether that's Pulse, Amazon, Big Bad Toy Store, Entertainment Earth. It was in stock over at Hasbro Pulse, and it is showing up apparently at some...
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GameStops. So keep your eyes out for that release. And the next Marvel Legends release that's coming pretty quickly on the heels of that will be Marvel Legends Ghost Rider. This is the original colorway of Ghost Rider with the all red bike, the blue outfit.
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That pre-order is going to launch February fifth ah at 1 p.m. Eastern time. So again, we'll have links as soon as that is live, but that is going to be the next Marvel Legends release.
Conclusion
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And with that, on behalf of myself and the entire AICNN team, this has been your AIC News Brief.
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