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Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) are key drivers of space weather throughout the heliosphere and the better understanding of these phenomena can ultimately help in improving space weather forecasting. The launch of Parker Solar Probe and the imminent launch of Solar Orbiter will provide new observations of the solar high-latitudes in the coming years associated with the end of solar cycle 24 and rise of solar cycle 25. The forward-reverse shock pairs associated with the over-expansion of ICMEs are uniquely observed at high heliospheric latitudes, related to the fast speed streams from solar polar coronal holes. Whilst the distribution of high-latitude ICMEs is solar cycle dependant and this special class of ICMEs has been more frequently observed near solar minimum some have been observed near solar maximum. Thus these missions provide a new and unique opportunity to further explore the dynamic and plasma properties of these phenomena. We present preliminary observations of high-latitude ICMEs using the complementaries of available multi-spacecraft observations, and in preparation for the new missions.