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AIC NEWS: Week of June 3, 2024
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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 toy industry news from the week of June 3, 2024.
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Transcript
Introduction to AICNN and Hosts
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AICNN, where toy news matters. Welcome to AIC News. Give us a few minutes and we'll give you the goods. I'm Eric and I'm here with my brother Dave to give you a rundown of what you need to know for the upcoming week in toys. The guest correspondents get the week off.
Bandai Namco Toys Store Opening Discussion
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Starting off with a store opening from last week, Dave and I were invited out to the American Dream Mall for the Bandai Namco Toys and Collectibles America store opening at American Dream. It is their first North American retail store. It is located by Toys R Us and kind of by the Nickelodeon theme park across from the Gashapon store in the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It is amazing. You can check out our YouTube
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ribbon cutting walkthrough of the store, our vlog on our YouTube channel. So you can visit adventuresandcollectingpodcast.com to get to our YouTube channel, subscribe, watch that video. The store is now open and they have all kinds of good stuff across the Bandai brands, including Hobby and Tamashi Nations and the
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six-inch anime heroes, dragon stars, line, the Dragon Ball evolution, Tamagotchi, model kits, Pokemon, Gundam. It's all in there. So if you are in the area, we cannot recommend the store enough.
Toy Pre-orders and Collectibles Highlights
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In Marvel Legends news, friend of the pod Dan Yun shared that the next pre-order for the ongoing Marvel Legends Marvel 85th anniversary program, Scar,
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Big Fig, Hulk's son, he is going up for pre-order on fan channels in the US this week. So stay tuned for that actual date. And of course, visit adventuresandcollecting.com forward slash links for the link when the pre-order goes live.
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Our friends at NECA wrapped their Monster Mayhem program with the reveal of the four-pack of Toony Terrors inspired by Universal Monsters. So finally, coming to the Toony Terrors line, we have Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy, and the Wolfman, and...
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They're available to order right now at the neck a store.com. And if you order from there, you will receive them before everyone else does, you will get free domestic shipping, and you'll get a bonus kid robot Dracula funny plush. So again, that's the neck a store.com for that preorder.
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And lastly, before I kick it over to Dave, on the topic of popcorn buckets, everyone is excited for Deadpool and Wolverine to come out later this summer in July. And as promised, Ryan Reynolds revealed the salacious Wolverine popcorn collectible bucket that will be available. You can torture your mind, torture your soul and torture
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or pleasure Wolverine's mouth in this exclusive popcorn bucket. So if you want to get a closer look at that bucket, head on over to our Instagram at AIC underscore podcast and take a look at the popcorn bucket that everyone is talking about. Dave, over to you. Hot off the heels of McFarland toys, amazing Batman and Robin build a figure wave comes the pre-order date for the Batman forever wave.
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On June 7th, this Friday, the figures from Joel Schumacher's first Batman film can be ordered. Batman, Robin, the Riddler, and Two-Face all include pieces to build the Nightmare Bat, so get those pre-order fingers nimble and apps updated and ready to go for this Friday. Same pre-order time, same pre-order channel.
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Speaking of pre-orders, the latest wave of big rubber guys from our Friends of the Pod at Major Bendy's are up for pre-order at majorbendys.com. All Ego Ethan Page and Broken Matt Hardy can be pre-ordered individually for $49.99 each. The Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal, can be pre-ordered together for $99.95. If you want to pre-order all of Series 8 together
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You can do that for $199.85. The pre-order is available until June 30th. And remember, as they say, the pre-order is the order.
Conclusion and AIC News Brief
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On behalf of the entire AICNN team, this has been your AIC News Brief.
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