December 16, 2005 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

HOLIDAY SHIPPING - 12/23 DELIVERIES AVAILABLE BY UPS GROUND! Our warehouse will be operating this weekend to get weekend orders out on Monday. Please check the map located on the opening page of our site for UPS ground shipping deadlines to your area. Nearly the entire country can order through Sunday for delivery on 12/23 and the closer you live to our warehouse in Wisconsin, the later you can order by UPS ground and still receive items in time for Christmas.

NEW ARRIVALS:

SPORTS PICKS - NBA 9 & NHL 10: We have all of the normal figures and a variety of regular figures in stock now! Most standard figures are $10.49 and variants vary in price. NBA 9 figures include Stoudemire, Okefor, Hill, Bryant and more. NHL 10 figures include Aebischer, Jagr, Modano, Nash, Lang and more.

RESIDENT EVIL 4: A brand new set of figures from NECA - sets of 4 include one each of Ada Wong, Leon Kennedy, Verdugo and Chainsaw Gadano and are priced at $47.99. We also have singles of all the figures starting at $11.99 each. NECA will be producing a second series of figures and we'll get a preorder up soon for those.

CYBERTRON MINI-CONS: The second wave of mini-cons has just arrived and each of the three new arrivals is available for $5.99 each. Sets include Kobushi vs. Landslide, Payload vs. Ascentor, and Scattorbrain vs. Monocle. We also have all three of the first wave mini-cons in stock as well as many other Cybertron figures.

G-TASTE: The third wave of scantily clad G-taste models has just arrived and each is priced at $23.99, your mother will not approve of these (mine doesn't either)

REAL ACTION HEROES: Medicom's cool RAH Spiderman has just arrived and more of the RAH Stormtrooper are also in stock. Each is priced at
$174.99, the figures are highly poseable and high quality, imported from Japan.

X-FILE PALZ: Series 2 Palz are blind-boxed - display boxes of 16 are available for $89.99 each - this should contain nearly the full set.

DC DIRECT ELSEWORLDS: The set of 5 is nearly sold out, but we do have Red Son Superman stocked fairly heavily.

EUREKA SEVEN: Two more cool new arrivals priced at $32.99 each

GI JOE SIGMA 6: Snake Eyes vs Stormshadow with DVD - $21.99

GALAXY FORCE - THS-01 CONVOY: A small restock of the first Hybrid Style

MACROSS: 1/48 Ichijo Hikaru Valkyrie is back in stock for $169.99

DELUXE SUPERMAN: The 13" Deluxe Superman is back in limited quantities.

VOTOMS: The Blue Knight mini Votoms figure from CMS in Japan has arrived.

GRAVION: Mini pvc style figures made by Studio Halfeye in Japan

BUFFY: The Vampire Book prop replica is now in stock for $116.99

CORPSE BRIDE PLUSH: Very cool plush figures from McFarlane - great quality for items of this type and a good value at $5.99 to $7.99

IKKI TOUSEN: SRDX Ikki Tousen Tenni Figure - Previews Exclusive - $19.99

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HASBRO CINEMASCAPE 17" DARTH VADER STATUE: Hasbro breaks into the collectible statue genre with an awesome statue at an extremely competitive price. This 17" statue of Vader in the lava world of Mustafar is priced at just $99.99 - This item won't be availble at the big box stores and is similar to the Wedge Antilles 'Internet Exclusive' program for distribution. An exciting product and hopefully the first of more statues.

SIDESHOW 12" ANAKIN SKYWALKER: Sideshow won't be making an abundant number of their 12" Star Wars figures and many of them are destined for their European warehouse, so we are not able to order too many of them. Anakin is up for preorder at $53.99. Our Luke Jedi preorder sold out in a few days so don't miss out on this one.

JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED: Our first shipment of these fun 3-packs sold out in hours, we've put a new order in with Mattel and opened up a backorder so you can reserve them now. We'll be carrying the rest of the JL Unlimited figures soon as well.

STAR WARS TRANSFORMERS: We just received hi-res images from Hasbro and have listed nice pictures of the new Anakin Starfighter, Darth Maul Sith Infilatrator, and Boba Fett Slave 1 figures. These are all available to preorder at $16.99 along with the first 4 figures that were announced.

MATTEL'S DC SUPERHEROES: We've received more case assortment info from Mattel and have just listed the DC Superhero waves 3, 4 and 5! We have sets and singles up for preorder, this looks to be a great series with waves 3 & 4 being themed around Batman characters and Superman characters for wave 5.

SPIKE SPEAGLE: Yamato's new 8" Spike Speagle PVC Statue is now up for preorder at $36.99 each.

VOTOMS - SCOPEDOG ROUND MOVER: A new equipment set from Yamato for your 1:12 Scale Scopedog