August 4, 2005 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

PRE-ORDER STAR WARS: We'll be carrying the Diamond Comics exclusive 'Bounty Hunter Gift Set' at $32.99 ($2 below the MSRP). This set will be packaged in an Original Trilogy Collection box and includes Darth Vader and 5 bounty hunters - Bossk, Boba Fett, Zuckuss, 4-LOM, Dengar, and IG-88.

PRE-ORDER TRANSFORMER STATUES: Palisades will be producing a 12" Devastator Statue as well as a 3" Ravage Statue. Devastator is available at $179.99 and Ravage at $28.99. The Devastator piece looks like one of the best statues they have made so far.

NEW ITEMS IN STOCK:

LORD OF THE RINGS: Two Towers Wave 5 has just arrived and we've listed each of the figures for sale individually. This wave includes Balrog Battle Gandalf (with an amazingly loud sound chip from the bridge scene), Battle Action Aragorn, Battle Cry Uruk-Hai, and the very cool Possessed King Theoden. We have also listed the Return of the King wave 5 figures separately. New RotK5 single figure listings include: Eye of Sauron, Gothmog, and Mount Doom Sam. Fellowship 5 sets and singles are also in stock!

TRANSFORMERS GALAXY FORCE: The new GC-22 Sonic Bomber and GD-13 Ramble have arrived. Ramble is available in Blue, Red or Yellow and the Sonic Bomber is a very cool A-10 Warthog. We've received more GC-18 Live Convoy, GC-19 Exigeyser, GC-20 Backgild, GC-21 First Gunner, GD-11 Chromia, and GD-12 Road Storm. A variety of other Galaxy Force are in stock as well as nearly all of the US version Cybertron figures.

GODZILLA: The new 2005 Godzilla figures have just arrived. Bandai has basically repainted all the figures they have previously released and added a new pink colored product tag to each figure. Most of the paint versions are similar to the old figures, but do have some minor changes, overall its a nice looking group of vinyl figures. They are priced from $9.99 to $19.99 and figures include: 3 styles of Godzilla, 2 styles King Ghidora, Rodan, Mothra, Gigan, Angirasu, and Space Godzilla.

GUNDAM FIGURES & KITS: Bandai's latest Master Grade assortment has arrived, these cases contained the brand new MSM-02 Acguy figure - an awesome undersea armored kit and a variety of other recent kits have been restocked. A few new MSIA figures have arrived as well, the Seed Strike Freedom Gundam is available for $20.99 and the GuAIZ is $19.99.

TRANSFORMERS: The BT-15 Prowl Integras have just arrived. This figure is available in the Blue Street Version for $53.99 and the nearly sold out Police version for $57.99. More of the imported Binaltech and G1 books are available as well as more TransManuals #1 and #2. We've restocked the Palisades Shockwave Statue, and have a few more of the HTM-01 model kits that require extensive prepping and assembly.

MICROMAN: The Batman Begins Ras'Al Ghul figure is now in stock for $15.99 along with limited stock of the Batman figure (we are working on getting more). More of the older Comic Style and Flight Suit Batman figures are also in stock. The Alien & Predator Micromen continue to sell well and we also still have some of the Road Spartan sets.

STREET FIGHTER: We have a small restock of the Street Fighter 2 sets of 5 in stock for $59.99, the repainted exclusive sets are also in stock for
$59.99. Pre-Orders for Series 3 and Series 4 sets of 5 are available and we have a new high quality picture uploaded for Series 4.

FANTASTIC 4 & MARVEL LEGENDS: A few new Fantastic Four items have arrived - the 12" Super Stretch Mr. Fantastic weighs a hefty 3.5 pounds and is a gel/rubber figure that will stretch out to 3 times his original size! The Thing Dress-Up set has also arrived. We have sets of Marvel Legends 9 in stock for $59.99.

MEGA LOG: From Ren and Stimpy & Palisades we have another strange product - the Mega Log is about 8 inches tall and has 0 points of articulation... Priced at $19.99

STAR WARS MODEL KITS: We've imported a variety of high quality snap together model kits that I believe are not normally availalbe in the USA. These are the Revell 'Easy Kits' and they are now in stock for $23.99 to $67.99 - Anakin's Jedi Starfighter, Droid Tri-Fighter, Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter, ARC-170 Fighter, AT-RT, and Republic Star Destroyer.