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AIC NEWS: Final Week of May 2023
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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 final week of May 2023.
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AICNN,
Introduction and Host Banter
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where toy news matters. Welcome to AIC News. Give us a few minutes and we'll give you the goods. I'm the blurry, leaked image of an upcoming McFarland DC multiverse figure you didn't want anyway, and I'm here with a merch stand Cody Rhodes weight belt. Dave and Eric are out.
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Yo Joe June! The
GI Joe June Festivities
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GI Joe team have kicked off their annual June celebration of all things Joe and Cobra with four pre-orders and two reveals. Pre-order the Arctic Bat on Amazon and fan channels, the Cobra Televiper with Trouble Bubble on Hasbro Pulse, and the Python Patrol Crimson Guard and Tiger Force Dusty from Target.
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Look for the Crimson Viper and Grunt figures later this year in GI Joe Classified, and if you're listening to this live on June 5th, don't miss today's Hasbro Pulse GI Joe livestream at 11am Eastern Time on YouTube for even more reveals, including the announcement of the next GI Joe HasLab project.
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Remember
Hasbro and McFarland Announcements
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Thor's big green friend from work? Hasbro announced the re-release of the Gladiator Hulk Build a Figure as a deluxe with a new screaming head sculpt and movie accurate deco. Pre-order the Marvel Legends Deluxe Thor Ragnarok Gladiator Hulk for $40 now on Amazon. Visit adventuresincollectingpodcast.com forward slash links to pre-order.
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Lastly, two huge stories in toy industry contract news broke last week, as McFarland Toys extended their deal with Warner Brothers Discovery through 2025, and Jazzwares signed a deal with Crunchyroll that will see the growing toy company produce plush toys and costumes for 18 anime series, including big hits like My Hero Academia, Spy Family, Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer, and many more.
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Last
Jazzwares Updates on AEW and Anime Merch
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weekend was AEW's Double or Nothing Fan Fest, and that means Jazzwares brought lots of information for future AEW unrivaled and unmatched series figures. We'll lead with some exclusives, as a Target-exclusive Adam Cole went up for pre-order. Amazon also got two exclusive two-packs. One featured the Blackpool Combat Club's Jon Moxley and Bryan Danielson, the other
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Book, and Danhausen. Walmart is getting an upcoming Chris Jericho exclusive and an Eddie Kingston exclusive. Shop AEW already has released a 1 of 3000 Jade Cargill exclusive with the TBS title. Ringside Collectibles also has 4 upcoming exclusives. Coming Soon are a Hook exclusive and a TNT Champion Sammy Guevara exclusive.
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Up for pre-order now is a very nice, very evil Danhausen exclusive as well as the next Blood and Guts figure featuring Wheeler Yuta. You can pre-order those now and use code AIC to save 10%. With the exclusives out of the way, we also saw upcoming updated lineups.
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Unrivaled 14 includes Swerve Strickland, Limitless Keith Lee, Absolute Ricky Starks, Tony Storm, The Acclaimed, and Billy Gunn. Unrivaled 15 includes Samoa Joe, All Ego Ethan Page, Lionheart Chris Jericho, Daniel Garcia, Saraya, and MJF from All Out 2022.
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Unrivaled 16 brings us Orange Cassidy, Kenosuke Takeshita, Matt and Jeff Hardy, Austin and Colton Gunn, and Julia Hart. Finally, we have some unmatched lineups. Unmatched 9 features Ryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, and Claudio Castagnoli of the Blackpool Combat Club. Jamie Hader, Jeff Hardy, and Alex Reynolds are also included.
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Unmatched 10 has Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, Kenny Omega, Nick and Matt Jackson, Brandon Cutler, and an LJN Dr. Britt Baker DMD. Last but not least, we have Unmatched 11. That series includes Sammy Guevara, Ty Mello, Darby Allen, Jungle Boy Jack Perry, MJF, Switchblade J. White, and Illuminaries Blade Runner Sting.
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On
Product Spotlight: BlendJet 2
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