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AIC NEWS: Final News Brief of 2022
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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 December 12th, 2022.
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Introduction to Zencaster and its Features
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Dave, you know why I love using Zencaster? Is it because the recording quality is better than other methods of recording a podcast virtually? Nope. Is it because they offer a free version for hobbyists just getting started? No, not that. Is it because it's super easy to use for everyone and none of our guests have ever had an issue using it? That's not it. Is it because they offer automatic post-production and transcription services? Negative.
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Stop burying the lead. Why do you love Zencaster? It's because Zencaster is all of the things you just said, Dave. Well, and they sponsor this pod. That's right. Adventures in Collecting is powered by Zencaster. How about your pod? Get started now with Zencaster and use our code to start podcasting today. Visit zencaster.com slash pricing and use promo code AICpod
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AIC News: Archie Award Toy Line Finals
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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. I'm Eric and I'm here with my brother Dave once again for the final AIC News Brief of 2022 to bring you the latest news as well as an update on our 2022 Archie Award Best Toy Line of the Year Award. As of the airing of this episode of AIC News,
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we will have the finals for the Archie Award live on our Instagram page. So we just came out of a really contentious semi-final round, which saw a back and forth battle between Hasbro's Transformers and GI Joe Classified line. The lead switched several times between both brands, but ultimately with 57% of the vote,
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GI Joe classified is advancing for the second year in a row to the finals. And then the other matchup in our final four was Medi-Com, Toys, Mafex line against Hasbro's Marvel Legends and Hasbro Marvel Legends absolutely trounced Mafex with 81% of the vote. So for the second year in a row, we have a final that brings us GI Joe classified in Marvel Legends.
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Again, as of the airing of this episode on Monday, December 19th, a figure somewhere in the early morning. If you're listening to this at 5 a.m. Eastern when it airs, first of all, good morning. Second of all, the poll will be up on our Instagram feed at AIC underscore podcast around, let's say, 10 o'clock in the morning Eastern time. And the voting will be open for 24 hours.
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So you have a chance to vote for either the G.I. Joe Classified Series or the Marvel Legends brand. And once again, an amazing tournament, 64 different toy lines. We are down to our final two and made the best toy line.
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win.
New Toy Releases and Pre-orders
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Before I toss it over to Dave one other thing I wanted to just shout out from the folks at Bandai and Tamashi Nations the latest premium Bandai offering is up for pre-order now and that is Broly and it is the Dragon Ball Super superhero Broly that was featured in the film so he is he is depowered he is just a norm in his normal Broly form he comes with the the amazing crying face
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So you can have him sit crisscross applesauce and cry over the beauty of Goku and Vegeta fighting. And much like the other premium Bandai, Dragon Ball Super superhero releases, he comes with an additional effect piece for the superhero Gohan, and this time it is some windswept hair. So you can find the links to him on our Instagram page, as well as our website.
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Under the links category. So with that I'm gonna toss it over to Dave and Yeah, make sure you stay tuned to this feed for episode 100 Our annual Christmas special coming at you hot next week. So Dave over to you
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Friend of the Pod, ZombieSailor, has begun the timed pre-order for the Wrestling Heels and Faces Johnny Gargano figure. This one-time release made to order figure comes in Iron Man themed gear with a removable vest. Johnny Wrestling also has a chase card variant, costs $42.99 and ships this summer. You can pre-order the figure until December 31st at ZombieSailor.com.
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McFarlane Toys is bringing Calabac to the DC Multiverse line. This mega-fig is coming soon with pre-order info forthcoming. Calabac's look for this new figure represents the Dark Seed War. NECA has some new pre-orders forthcoming. You can get new Ultimate Figures from the Universal Monster classic The Phantom of the Opera. You can get Elton John.
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as well as the Misfits Fiend. Check out those pre-orders in the usual outlets.
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Creative Commons License Explanation
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