May 4, 2006 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

20% OFF SALE EXTENDED TO FRIDAY: The savings continue at BBTS! Get 20% off everything except 'new' and 'preorder' items until 12:00 Noon Central Time on Friday May 5th!

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1/60 & 1/48 MACROSS: Yamato's new 1/48 Stealth valkyrie with and without the armor sets will be arriving in around 10 days. The awesome 1/60 VF-0S is also arriving. Stock is running low in Japan on these, but we have a nice amount of them in transit and arriving soon - these are some of the better Yamato valks in nearly 2 years - great paint schemes.

STAR WARS VINTAGE SAGA FIGURES: Hasbro just allocated a mountain of these hot items to us, when we fill all existing preorders in our system we'll have open stock for a large number of new orders. We expect these in on or before May 15th so the wait is almost over - get your pens ready to fill out the mail-in offer for the George Lucas Stormtrooper - which is also packed in the vintage style card with protector case.

SPAWN CYBER-UNITS: A nicely repainted set of figures that originally came out waaay back when BBTS first began dealing with McFarlane. Get your Cyber-Units set for just $59.99 and build yourself one big figure.

TAKARA MICROMAN: The next wave of 2006 Micromen - the Assassin figures will be here in around 10 days - we have limited preorders left on the 6 upcoming arrivals and more new preorders for the next wave are posted.

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STREET FIGHTER ROUND 4: Birdie, Fei Long, Akuma, Remy, and Ibuki are now in stock as a set of 5 figures for $54.99. Akuma is available separately and there is also an Akuma variant figure available. There are 20 various other different paint variants available as well.

VINTAGE DEPARTMENT TRANSFORMERS: The vintage department has just listed a large number of Japanese G1, US G1, G2, Exclusives, Beast Wars, JBW, and other more recent Transformers (including 20th Primes). There are some very hard to find figures here, some that we've never had in stock before - check out the recent vintage arrivals list.

NINTENDO DOTS: These looked pretty cool from the initial pictures we had, and upon arrival they are even better. Hefty sets each contain a bunch of extra dots to create not just the two characters pictured on the front of each box simultaneously, but you can also create several alternate characters from each game. Dots sets now in stock are: Mario, Luigi, Zelda, Ice Climber, Balloon Fight, Xevious, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Dig-Dug - starting at only $9.99 each for these imports.

FAMILY GUY WACKY WOBBLERS: For only $9.99 each, these are pretty cool items - your choice of Stewy, Brian, Quagmire or Evil Monkey come in a themed display box.

TRANSFORMERS: The BWR-01 set of Optimus and Megatron has been restocked at $94.99 each - this was a fairly small shipment so they likely won't last too long. As we were about to run out, more #21 Blasters have just arrived - get yours now at $46.99. Twincast is approaching 90% sold out and we won't be able to get any more so don't wait too long on this one. A variety of Galaxy Force figures have also been restocked.

GUNDAM ACTION FIGURES: The new FIX 0029 God & Nobel Gundam set is in stock for $42.99. HCM Pro #25 Hi-Zack just arrived - $17.99. Check out a variety of other Gundam preorders and new arrivals.

BRAVE GOHKIN GOD RAIJIN-OH: Another HUGE release from CMS Corp in Japan. Our shipping fees were nearly $35 per piece to bring this bad boy over (and we get great rates!) Check out all the gadgetry.

SOUL OF CHOGOKIN: The S.O.C. style GE-09 Gamera release is now in stock for $74.99 - a must-have for Gamera fans, its a sweet set. More GX-29 Black Ox, GX-24M Blue Tetsujin, and GX-12MA Venus A figures have arrived.

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GUNDAM - CHOGOKIN HYAKU-SHIKI: This awesome die-cast Gundam has been pretty scarce for the past few years, but Bandai will be producing more of them soon! We have a preorder listed at $57.99 and they are scheduled to arrive in October.

TIE FIGHTER PILOT STATUE - ATTAKUS: The latest release from Attakus' high-end line of collectible statues. We have the TIE Pilot listed $30 under the MSRP at $369.99

MONA LISA STATUE: More quality items from Attakus - the Mona Lisa statues stand around 8 inches tall and there is a painted version and a marble-esque white monochrome version.

12" SPAWN FIGURES: McFarlane has unveiled the next two 12" figures. Mandarin Spawn 2 and Spawn from the cover of issue #7 are each priced at $28.99

SIMPSONS BOXED SET #2 - COUCH GAG: This set is pretty innovative, the figures are all stackable so you can recreate the opening couch scene as you see fit with many different combinations - $19.99 for this set.

X-3 X-MEN MOVIE BUSTS: Pictures of these new busts from Diamond have just surfaced and they look great. Each of the 5 busts is priced at $45.99