September 20, 2005 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

PRE-ORDER ITEMS:

PRE-ORDER STIKFAS: Stikfas has just announced 5 new figures scheduled to arrive in November. The largest kit to ever be released is the Alpha Male and Dune Buggy kit priced at $16.99 and also 4 basic kits: Mobster, Delta Boy & Bicycle, and two very fun Dinosaur skeleton kits - Stegosaurus and Pterodactyl all priced at $7.99 each.

PRE-ORDER STAR WARS EVOLUTION: Hasbro has put together a special Evolutions set for their specialty accounts - the Clone Trooper to Stormtrooper #2 set features an attractive set of repaints. Pre-Orders are available for $23.99 each.

PRE-ORDER GUYVER: A pre-order for the next Guyver figure has just been listed, the Gigantic Dark figure is priced at $86.99 and will be arriving in December. We've also just restocked Guyver I and Guyver II.

PRE-ORDER CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: Master Replicas has just announced a nice round of prop replicas based on what looks to be a fantastic movie coming out later this year. Full size Limited Edition replicas of the White Witch's Wand and Peter's Sword are available at $239.99 and a variety of 1/5 and 1/6 scale replicas are priced from $34.99 to $39.99. We also have final images posted for all the Weta Collectible Narnia statues that will be coming out in the next few months - very impressive pieces that should have relatively low production numbers.

TERMINATOR 2 STATUES: 1/6th Scale T2 Endoskeleton Statues from Aoshima are now up for pre-order at $109.99. We have both the normal and battle damaged figures available, they each look nicely detailed.

MASTER REPLICAS: The Anakin FX Saber will be arriving to us in around a week, pre-orders are availalbe for $99.99!

NEW ARRIVALS:

GI JOE: The second series of vintage style packaged ARAH 2005 figures has just arrived, full sets of 6 figures are available for $34.99 and include one each of: Snow Serpent, Range Viper, Footloose, Major Bludd, Barrel Roll, and David 'Salvo' Hasle. The Sigma 6 series 1 set has sold out and a pre-order for our next shipment has been opened at $79.99. Also just in is the Sigma 6 Switchfire Electronic Role Play Blaster - a large gun that has a wide range of different sound effects.

TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON & GALAXY FORCE: The Toys R Us Japanese Exclusive Dark Ligerjack has just arrived and is available for $84.99. We've also received a new wave of Cybertron Scout figures. All 6 of the first figures have been restocked and new Scout figures include Brakedown, Armorhide, and Undermine - each priced at $9.99.

MASTER REPLICAS AT-AT SIGNATURE SERIES: This monstrous replica is now in stock for $1399.99 (the $6.99 flat rate shipping does apply within the US!) This set is limited to only 750 pieces worldwide and truly is an impressive item - the AT-AT comes with snow covered base and a crashed snowspeeder.

STAR WARS EPISODE III: Darth Tater has finally arrived! (All pre-orders
were previously canceled due to Hasbro's lengthy delay in filling our order, so you'll need to re-order now at the new lower price of $8.99) More M-Pire Plush figures have arrived including Anakin, Count Dooku, Queen Amidala, Mace Windu, and a restock of a few other previously sold out plush figures. New Plush Electronic Lightsabers are in stock for $10.99 - fun 18" sabers with electronic sounds. Also in stock are 12" Darth Sidious, Shaak Tii, and Barriss Offee at $24.99 each. More Evolutions sets have arrived and be sure to check out the new Clone Trooper to Stormtrooper #2 repaint set pre-order.

BINALTECH SALE & MORE TRANSFORMERS: The OTFCC 2004 Exclusive Megazarak is back in stock in limited quantities for $52.99 each. We were able to take advantage of special pricing in Japan on some older Binaltech figures. The BT-05 Dead End, BT-06 Blue Tracks and BT-06 Yellow Tracks are now each available for the attractive price of $35.99 each. The Transformers History of Music 1984 - 1990 CD set has just been listed at $119.99 - this set of 5 CD's contains over 100 songs!

NEW SIDESHOW ARRIVALS: The Thing Maquette is now in stock for $169.99 and three new 12" figures have just been listed at $36.99 each: X-Files Autopsy Scully, Roger Moore as James Bond in Moonraker, and Subway Spike from Buffy. Tons of other Sideshow items are currently in stock as well.

ALIEN: Palisades has just released another fun plush figure, the Dog Alien Chestburster is in stock for $27.99. We have a variety of other plush figures plus many statues and busts in stock for Alien, AvP, and Predator

MEZCO - HELLBOY: The 18" Comic Version Hellboy has just arrived, they did an extremely nice job with this figure, very impressive for the low price point of $44.99.

The 1/4 Scale Sideshow Hellboy is also back in stock.

September 15, 2005

PRE-ORDER ITEMS:

PRE-ORDER STAR WARS:

-- Master Replicas AT-AT Signature Edition & Vader LE - our shipment of the huge AT-AT will be arriving early next week, we have limited pre-orders remaining from the first shipment at the lowest price M.R. will allow - $1329.99 - the $6.99 shipping does apply within the US! The Vader LE Saber will also be arriving in around 7 days - pre-orders are available at $351.99

-- Kotobukiya 1/7 Snowtrooper Model Kit - The latest kit has just been listed at $87.99, 1/7 Scale Stormtrooper Kit will be arriving next week!

-- Medicom - Real Action Hero EpIII Darth Vader - Medicom will update & upgrade the recent RAH Vader and give it the EpIII treatment. We have pre-orders listed at $194.99

PRE-ORDER TRANSFORMER: The E-Hobby exclusive Gray Galvatron pre-order has just been opened for $94.99. This version of Galvatron will be close to the US G1 release, but with some gold trim added to his head and chest.
The regular Takara reissue Galvatron will now be mainly purple to better match his cartoon coloring.

PRE-ORDER MACROSS: Yamato will produce an Armored Parts Set for the 1/48 VF-1 Valkyries, this hefty set is priced at $109.99 and will be arriving this winter. Other 1/48 Pre-Orders are also available.

SIDESHOW PRE-ORDERS RE-OPENED: We were able to increase our orders with Sideshow for a variety of previously sold out pre-orders. Now available again are:

Lord of the Rings: SAURON Statue - amazing 24" Statue
Lord of the Rings: Mumak of Harad
Lord of the Rings: Peter Jackson Corsair
Star Wars: Premium Format Obi-Wan Figure

NEW ITEMS IN STOCK:

1/4 SCALE GREEN GOBLIN - SIDESHOW: This huge figure is limited to only 1200 pieces worldwide and Sideshow has already sold out of them. We have it listed at $30 under the MSRP at $279.99 plus our $6.99 flat rate shipping does apply to this huge item!

MASTER REPLICAS - VADER FX: Another shipment of the Darth Vader EpV FX Saber has just arrived. These are priced at $99.99 each and never last long so be sure not to miss out on them.

TRANSFORMERS: A small restock of the first Alternator - Smokescreen has just arrived, they are priced at $25.99 each. Also back in stock in very limited quantities are Magnificus and Gamede E-Hobby exclusive. We also have a limited number of Robotmasters Skywarp & Thundercracker remaining.

BERSERK: Two new Berserk statues from Yamato USA have just arrived. The Armored Berserk Statue and very cool winged Zodd Statue are priced at $69.99 and $84.99 respectively

EXTREME HEADKNOCKERS: New items just in from NECA - the Alien Facehugger and Predator 2 Headknockers are each available for $14.99 - these figures are a bit more realistic and detailed than typical bobblehead type figures and very well done for the price.

SOUL OF CHOGOKIN: The GX-05R Daiku Maryu Gaiking repaint is back in stock for $159.99

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: All three of the recently released figures are now in stock for $16.99 to $17.99 each. Figures include #1 Edward Elric, #2 Alphonse Elric, and #3 Winry Rockbell.

BOTCON CONVENTION UPDATE:

I've just finished sorting through and selecting thousands of our best items to bring to the Botcon Transformers Convention being held next weekend in Dallas Texas. (www.botcon.com) The majority of items we will be bringing down are not currently available on our website so there will be a TON of surprises from Diaclone & G1 items up through recent arrivals with everything in between also represented. These are just a portion of the items we will be listing on the next version of our website which is nearing completion and the new site be a huge improvement over our current site in nearly every way. (The new system will allow us to efficiently handle a huge number of new high volume items as well as low quantity older items, so you can look forward to an enormous expansion of our selection - especially of older items currently sold out at retail and other internet stores. We can't wait to finish up the site and go live, stay tuned for that!)

If you've already scheduled a trip to the show we look forward to seeing you there, if you are still undecided I honestly think this is going to be a great show, the new organizers have a big and busy show scheduled and there are sure to be a ton of people there. I was able to book a flight just 3 days ago for only $165 roundtrip Dallas (DFW), so if the show sounds like fun, check for some cheap flights and register at the door when you get there. We'll have our banner flying above our 50 foot display of items, please be sure to stop by and take a look at the selection, it will be the most impressive variety of items we've ever brought to the show.