May 5, 2003 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

SHORT TERM PRE-ORDERS: The following great items will be arriving in roughly a week. Pre-Orders are available for all these items:
Re-Issue Optimus Prime #0 and Sideswipe #07
Gundam Fix 0010
Soul of Chogokin GX-13 Dancouga
Gundam 1/60 Rik Dom
Bandai's Snap Together Enterprise Model Kit
Metal Material Chogokin Gundam

TRANSFORMERS: We have received some new items including: Yellow 'Tiger' Sideswipe, Clamp Down & Deep Cover, MyClone Series 2 Box of 12, Change Micron Minicons set of 6 by Kabaya - which have a different paint scheme than the US Armada version. These items have been restocked: Takara Spychangers Box of 12, Hasbro re-issue Optimus Prime, Tracks and Sixshot.

GUNDAM: New Figures and more kits are in stock including Perfect Grade Zeta and RX-178 Titan. The Devil Gundam Final Mode, Advanced MSIA Buster and Aegis Gundam action figures have arrived and all 7 of the Endless Waltz high grade kits have been restocked including Tallgeese III and D-Hell Custom. NU and Zeta Plus Master Grade kits have been restocked as well as the huge 1/60 Striker Weapons System.

MACROSS: The cool new YF-21 Fast Pack version has arrived and many other Macross items are on sale.

MACHINE ROBO: Set #6 Disaster has just arrived and we have 7 other Machine Robo items in stock (On the top part of the transformers menu)

NEW PRE-ORDERS: Palisades Alien Warrior & GI Joe General Hawk statues, Dreams & Visions Enemy Ace, Miss Fear and Mademoiselle Marie single figure are now available for pre-order. Also the Botcon 2003 Sets - Limited Stock available.

DREAMWAVE: New comics are now available including Transformers Volume #2 issue #1 and More Than Meets the Eye #1. The Shockwave Litho is on sale for $21

MCFARLANE: Spawn 23 Reborn and Movie Maniacs 6 - we have some extra figures after filling pre-orders for these items. Not all figures are available, but about 1/2 of them are now up for sale. We will list the rest of them once the rest of our shipment arrives from McFarlane

SIDESHOW: License to Kill Bond & Sanchez, Brotherhood of Arms Series 4, Hogans Heroes, Warhammer 40K Statues, Star Trek Busts, and Platoon figures are all now in stock.

LORD OF THE RINGS: 12" Figures have been restocked and we still have a variety of other figures including Sauron.

BLUE BOX: Richard Marcinko Land Warrior figure has arrived - limited to only 888 pieces worldwide.

HURRICANE RANGERS: We have restocked Karakuri balls #1 and #2. Don't miss out on the Revolver Mammoth - on sale for $99.99