June 29, 2005 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

PRE-ORDER MEDICOM REAL ACTION HEROES: We've listed five exciting new pre-orders from the Medicom RAH Line - licensed figures from Star Wars, DC, and Marvel. The figures in this series are in the 13" to 14" (30cm) range and each has a lot of articulation and is high quality all the way around. Now listed for $199.99 each are Batman Begins, Spider-Man, Cyclops, Carnage, and a Stormtrooper from Star Wars. We also have a few pre-order spaces remaining for the RAH Darth Vader at $239.99 each.

TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON: The Deluxe and Ultra figures have just arrived! Deluxe figures include Hot Shot, Thundercracker, Dirt Boss, and Landmine. Ultra Figures include Jetfire - an awesome tanker plane, and the Scourge dragon figure. Deluxe figures are each priced at $11.99 and Ultra figures start at $29.99.

STAR WARS: Three new EpIII Force Battler figures have arrived - Chewbacca, Clone Trooper and Mace Windu are each available for $11.99 to $12.99. More of the ArtFX 1/7 Scale model kits have arrived - we are now buying these from a domestic source rather than importing them so most kits are now priced around $90 each! Kits now in stock include: Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Sand Trooper, Clone Trooper, and Yoda.

SIDESHOW COLLECTIBLES: The new 1/4 Scale Freddy Krueger figure has arrived and is priced well below the MSRP at $199.99. The 1/4 Scale Alien Queen bust has also just arrived and is priced at $849.99. We have a variety of other 1/4 Scale items in stock as well as many 12" figures.

NECA 18" T2 ENDOSKELETON: Another pallet of this very popular item has just arrived. The 18" Endoskeleton has great articulation, motion activated light-up eyes and it comes with a rifle - now in stock for $39.99

KOREAN BEAST WARS AND CAR ROBOTS: We've received a restock for a number of older and previously sold out items. From the Takara Car Robots/TF2000 line - Ultra Magnus and Black Convoy are back in stock for $34.99 each. From the Korean 'Japanese' Beast Wars line (same figures - only packaged in Korean boxes) we have Big Convoy, Longrack & Guiledart, Megastorm, Magnaboss, and Starscream and BB. All priced very attractively

TRANSFORMERS ENERGON: Wing Saber is back in stock in limited quantities for $29.99 each and we've also restocked the last wave of Deluxe figures. Back in stock are Barricade, Storm Jet, Steamhammer, Kicker, Starscream and Roadblock.

June 23, 2005

GENTLE GIANT PRE-ORDERS: Star Wars Barriss Offee & Luminara Undula Animated Maquette - Now up for pre-order at $85.99 Also from Gentle Giant is the 12" Willy Wonka - Johnny Depp action figure.

MASTER REPLICAS & CODE 3: The new AT-AT Signature Edition set with crashed snowspeeder is now up for pre-order with final images from Master Replicas - this set is limited to just 750 pieces worldwide and we have it listed at $1329.99. The Darth Sidious Limited Edition Saber and .45 Scaled sabers have each arrived and are in stock for $351.99 and $34.99 respectively. New from Code 3 Collectibles is the Die Cast 12" At-ST replica - this high quality piece is limited to 1550 pieces and is available for $324.99

SIDESHOW 1/4 SCALE ALIEN QUEEN: This monstrous bust will be arriving to us early next week, Sideshow has made only 1500 pieces of this item and we have it listed $95 under the MSRP at $849.99. Place your order now and we'll ship early next week after they arrive - the bust is nearly 22" x 24" x 24" so its a huge and very detailed high quality item.

BANDAI JAPAN GUNDAM:

- FIGURES: The new FIX 0025 Gundam has just arrived and is priced at $69.99 - this item is becoming very hard to find in Japan and Bandai has sold out of them. The huge FIX 0013 Deep Striker is finally back in stock after being sold out for nearly two years. This figure comes in a large cube shaped box with tons of accessories and is priced at $119.99. The MSIA Gabaldy Beta has also just arrived - $19.99

- MODELS: The Perfect Grade 1/60 Skygrasper & Aile Striker set is now in stock for $74.99. This kit can function as a stand-alone item or it can also be combined with the 1/60 Perfect Grade Strike Gundam (which we've just restocked in small quantities) A few other Perfect Grade kits are back in stock in small quantities as well.

PALISADES - BUFFY PALZ 2: The second series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Palz is now in stock - most figures are $7.99 and each is available individually including: Buffy Summers, Drusilla, Jenny Calendar, Spike, Oz, and Cordelia. A vareity of series 1 Buffy Palz are also in stock for $7.99 each.

TAKARA TRANSFORMERS: More #19 Perceptor have arrived and we've also restocked RM-23 Lio Convoy with DVD, BT-05 Dead End, BT-07 Version #1 and #2, BT-08 Meister - both red & white versions. The Galaxy Force GC-17 Autovolt has also arrived and is available for $25.99

YAMATO MACROSS: We've received a small restock of the 1/48 Super Max and the 1/60 YF-21 Fastpack. They are priced at $204.99 and $87.99 respectively. We have a few various other Macross items in stock and a pre-order up for the latest 1/48 release.

NINJA GAIDEN: We've just received the 3rd 1/6 vinyl statue from this immensely popular series of figures. Kureha is available for $34.99 and we've opened short term pre-orders on Ryu and Ayane - more will be arriving in July

OTHER ITEMS IN STOCK:

MARVEL SELECT: The new Symbiote Spider-Man figure - now called Web of Spider-Man is now in stock for $17.99

LITTLE APPLE DOLLS: Series 2 sets of 4 are now in stock for $119.99

IRON MAIDEN: More of NECA's popular Somewhere in Time Eddie and Piece of Mind Eddie are in stock for $14.99 each.

KAMEN RIDER: The latest Disk Animal has arrived - #08 Green Frog is back in stock and we also have the other 7 figures in stock.

HUGE HASBRO SHIPMENTS - STAR WARS & TRANSFORMERS: Hasbro has just shipped out our highest ever 1-week volume of new items, so be ready for literally TONS of great new items arriving in the next 3 - 10 days including:

- TRANSFORMERS: Cybertron Deluxe, Cybertron Mega, Cybertron Ultra, Cybertron Leader - Prime & Megatron, and new Alternators.

- STAR WARS: 500th Darth Vader, New Ep3 basic assortments, Galactic Heroes, Evolution Figures, M-Pire figures, Ep3 deluxe assortments, Ep3 vehicles & More.