May 20, 2004 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

TRANSFORMER ALTERNATORS: The Alternators Silverstreak has arrived and is now available for $24.99 (Pre-Orders will be processed Friday or Monday) More of the Sideswipe Viper are in stock for $19.99 and Smokescreen is available for $16.99. We have also listed new pre-orders for Alternators Tracks - Corvette, and Dead End - Viper - each $23.99 and coming in July.

STAR WARS UNLEASHED: Unleashed Wave 10 and 11 are now available for pre-ordering for $49.99 per set - Figures in these waves include: Aayla Secura, Bossk, Tusken Raider in Wave 10 and IG-88, Stormtrooper, Aurra Sing in Wave 11. Unleashed Waves 8 and 9 have just arrived as well (pre-orders will be processed Friday or Monday) We have limited supply of Luke Skywalker, Darth Sidious, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Princess Leia

BEYBLADE: 3 New 'Engine Gear' type BeyBlades are now in stock. A-89 Dragoon G, A-95 Metal Driger, A-94 Driger G are each available for $8.99. We also have some of the Spinning Spirits, Magnacore, Metal Master and more BeyBlades in Stock.

STAR WARS SAGA BASICS: The lastest wave of Saga figures has arrived. New figures including Executor Meeting: Dengar and Bossk, Admiral Ozzel, and R2-D2 - Jabba's Sail Barge. Back in stock are other recent Saga figures: Fan's #5: Captain Antilles, Dutch Vander - Gold Leader, General Jan Dodonna, Yavin TIE Fighter Pilot, Hoth Attack - Luke Skywalker. All of these figures are price at $7.49 or less. Don't miss out on the Ewok with Battle Glider - available for $11.99

GI JOE: Another cool 12" GI Joe arrival - the Navy Dolphin Handler comes with a quite large plastic dolphin. The dolphin is meant for use in the water and has a few accessories as well. Also in stock are a variety of 40th Anniversary figures and the Francis Pierce Medal of Honor winner figure.

TAKARA ROBOTMASTERS & BINALTECH: We have listed the #10 RobotMasters figure, which is the G1 Prime figure, but this time packaged with a DVD (not sure if it will work on all DVD players) We have also increased our orders in Japan and were able to re-open the RobotMasters G1 Starscream pre-order. Takara has made a minor change to the Binaltech line. They have switched the release dates of the BT-05 and BT-07. The BT-05 is now Dead End (Black Viper)and arrives in July/August and the BT-07 is now the Mazda RX-8 - and comes out around September. We will automatically update your pre-orders, so no need to do anything. For those of you who want the BT-05 Dead End Figure, order now and we'll get them to you July/August

VINTAGE DEPARTMENT: The Vintage Department has listed a variety of GI Joe figures and vehicles this week along with some more loose transformers. A few cool items are the 1/12th scale GI Joe convention exclusives. As always, if you have a collection of Transformers, GI Joe, MOTU, Star Wars, or other types of toys, please contact us! We are especially interested and can pay top price for late G1 complete transformers: Headmasters, Targetmasters, Pretenders, and others from the late 80's.