July 30, 2004 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

Hi - Here is a quick update from http://www.bigbadtoystore.com before we leave for the OTFCC Transformers show! Please Note: I'll be at OTFCC about 12 hours a day at our tables so will not be able to process new orders and reply to emails as quickly as normal.

20% OFF VINTAGE SALE: All vintage items are now on sale for 20% off their current listed prices. Please read the full sale details for how the sale works and be sure to check through the thousands of items on our vintage menus - there are some great items hidden away in there! (discounts will show up only on the 'your order is shipping' email - neither the checkout total or first confirmation email will show it) Sale ends Monday August 2nd at 4:00 PM

SPORTS PICKS - NFL 8 & COOPERSTOWN 1: More great releases from McFarlane. Cooperstown series 1 features all time greats from a variety of decades. Figures include: Yogi Berra, Reggie Jackson, Nolan Ryan, Brooks Robinson, Bob Gibson and Tom Seaver. NFL 8 includes: Ahman Green, Tim Brown, Jamal Lewis, Torry Holt, Steve McNair and Peyton Manning. We have a relatively small supply of 5 different variant chase figures from the 2 lines.

BBTS AT OTFCC: Pre-Orders for Megazarak and Sentinel Maximus are still available! We'll be leaving in about 6 short hours for our trip to Chicago for OTFCC. For those of you attending - we have a small mountain of product and nearly 1000 different individual items - some in huge quantities and some in single quantities. We've also UPS overnighted a batch of #14 Re-Issue Hounds from Japan and will have them at the convention! Be sure to visit our tables first to pick one up!! (Price not yet determined - we don't know how bad the Overnight shipping fees are yet, but it should be $40 to $45 at the show) Our normal shipment of #14 hound arrives in about a week and we'll fill pre-orders out of that.

MICROMAN - The Takara Microman 'Lady' set of 4 is finally in stock! Each set is available for $59.99 and features an exciting base mold with many cool add on parts and weapons. The Masterforce and Acroyear sets of 4 are also available.

GUNDAM - We have received a small restock of items from Bandai USA and I'm checking in with them at least once a week trying to get more new releases. Back in stock are: Blue and Red Astray, Duel Gundam, Aile Strike and Sky Grassper Boxed Set, and 7.5" Launcher Strike Gundam.

NEW PICTURES FOR BT-09, BT-10, PREDAKING: Takara has released official images of these upcoming Transformer releases. Swindle is a Yellow Jeep Wrangler, Predaking looks amazing (still not sure if there will be die cast parts or not) and the BT-10 Grimlock is a Silver Ford Mustang with the G1 style Grimlock head and a G1 inspired color scheme.

OTHER COOL ITEMS IN STOCK:

TRANSFORMERS: BT-01 Smokescreen & Smallest TF Wave 2 Master Case
SPIDERMAN 2: Movie figures including Doc Ock & SM Scooter Figure
STIKFAS: A few stragglers have been relisted - most are substandard grade
MARVEL LEGENDS: Namor, Silver Surfer, Sabretooth and a few others
ROBOTS IN DISGUISE: Prowl, Sideburn, and Sky Byte back in stock
GHOSTBUSTERS: Series 1 Slimer and Gozer - on the 'other' menu

Thanks for your interest in www.bigbadtoystore.com and be sure to check out the vintage menu sale and all the new items. Again - I'll be a bit slower than normal with processing orders and replying to emails, but will do my best while still trying to get some sleep.