August 18, 2006 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

Hi - Here is a another quick update from http://www.bigbadtoystore.com about a new round a preorders that are so cool, we couldn't wait until Monday to tell you about them!

BREAKING NEWS - STAR WARS EXCLUSIVE IMPERIAL BRIEFING ROOM SET: This new exclusive boxed set has just been announced and BBTS is one of the first to get a preorder listed. The Imperial Briefing Room features Darth Vader and all his Imperial officers aboard the Death Star. For $37.99 you'll get Grand Moff Tarkin, Admiral Motti, General Tagge, Chief Bast, Officer Cass, Colonel Wulff Yularen, and Darth Vader himself along with a variety of blasters and Vader's Lightsaber - some cool all new molds in this set!

GENTLE GIANT STAR WARS ANIMATED MAQUETTES: Two new maquettes have just been announced as G.G. extends this wildly popular line. Up for preorder at $71.99 are Luke Skywalker X-Wing Pilot and C-3PO with Jawa Maquettes. The animated style is a fresh new take on these characters and Gentle Giant has done a superb job with the sculpts. Don't miss out on Vader and Leia as well.

HARRY POTTER BUSTS: Gentle Giant brings us the Hagrid and Mad-Eye Moody Mini Busts at $44.99 each. Preorders are available for a variety of other Potter busts as well.

STAR WARS BUSTS - GENTLE GIANT: Jango Fett and Luke Skywalker Jedi join this cool line of collectible busts. Both figures are very well done and Jango looks especially tough with twin blasters crossed in front of him.

HAN SOLO ON TAUNTAUN STATUE: A sister piece to the recent Luke on Tauntaun, this new statue is up for preorder at just $144.99

DISNEY'S DRAGONKIND STATUES: Gentle Giant recently announced the Sleeping Beauty Maleficent Statue and has followed that up with very cool sculps of Elliott from Pete's Dragon, and Musha from Mulan. Each is priced $30 under the MSRP at $269.99 - very colorful and fun statues

UNLEASHED ULTIMATE BATTLE BOXED SETS: Hasbro will be making large boxed sets filled with 2.5" Unleashed figures. Three new sets are up for preorder at $23.99 each including: Battle for Hoth, Battle for Geonosis, and Battle for Kashyyyk. No images on these yet, but they should be filled with at least 8 - 10 figures and likely some new molds

NEW STAR WARS IMAGES: In-package photos of the latest wave of Unleashed Battlepacks have just been listed as well as images of the redeco 3" Star Wars Titanium figures: X-Wing, Star Destroyer, Slave 1, and Clone ARC 170 - some look to have the dirty or battle damaged paint.

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GOONIES - SLOTH ACTION FIGURE: This figure is limited to a mere 400 pieces and was imported from Japan, we have just a few left at $274.99 each. It comes packed in a cool Television style box with a semi-clouded window so it actually looks like Sloth is on the TV. Baby Ruth bar and a few other accessories are also included!

BBTS VINTAGE DEPARTMENT: The vintage department has just listed a batch of new Transformers, Star Wars, and other misc items. Highlights include Japanese G1 items, Japanese Beast Wars D-21 God Neptune, and vintage Return of the Jedi figures.

ATTACK OF THE LIVING DEAD: Both the light and dark versions of Mezco's cool new zombie figures have been restocked - $39.99 per set

STAR TREK ENTERPRISE E: Back in stock for only $32.99

STAR WARS BOUNTY HUNTERS GIFTSET: In stock at a reduced price of only $25.99

Thanks for your interest in www.bigbadtoystore.com - enjoy all the new Star Wars figures, enjoy Snakes on a Plane, and have a great weekend!!

August 17, 2006:

Hi - Here is a quick update from http://www.bigbadtoystore.com about a variety of new arrivals and a bunch of new items just announced by Hasbro today!

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STAR WARS EXPANDED UNIVERSE: We don't have any images of these new figures yet, but Hasbro has branded this the 'Expanded Universe' line and there are currently three different 2-packs up for preorder. Figure sets include: #1 - Darth Vader & Rebel Fleet Trooper, #2 - Stormtrooper with red eyes & Grand Moff Tarkin, and #3 - Han Solo in Stormtrooper Gear & Prisoner Chewbacca. Sets of 3 are up for preorder at $34.99 - Images will be posted as soon as they are released

GI JOE PLAGUE TROOPERS VS STEEL BRIGADE: A brand new 6-pack is up for preorder at $21.99. This cool set features three cool Plague Troopers battling 3 members of the Steel Brigade - nice images have been uploaded

TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON: A new wave of Scout and Deluxe class figures is now available. Hasbro has packaged the new figures very lighly in the upcoming cases, so in order to carry these we have to mark them up a bit more than I'd like too due to all the 'old' figures also included in the cases. With that being said, the new items include Scout class Hightail and Shadow Recon Mini-Con Team. Deluxe figures include redeco versions of the Beast Wars 10th Optimus Prime Ape and Megatron T-rex - packaged in Cybertron packaging as well as the awesome Smokescreen repaint.

STAR WARS & BATTLESTAR TITANIUM: Another big batch of new Titanium figures including a new round of cool repaints and more new figures! 3" figures include: X-Wing, AT-AT, Slave 1, Star Destroyer, and Clone ARC 170, Anakin's Modified Starfighter, Senator Amidala's Ship, General Grievous Fighter. New 3.75" figures include Darth Maul, Luke X-Wing, and the Cylon Warrior from Battlestar! Images coming soon on all these.

GI JOE SIGMA 6: The commando wave 5 set has just been listed, we have images of 4 of the 5 figures and they look great - characters include Snake Eyes with Timber, Zartan, new versions of Cobra Commander and Storm Shadow, and also Lt. Stone. The 2nd wave of 2.5" action sets is up for preorder at $44.99 as well.

STAR WARS GALACTIC HEROES: Another new wave of figures brings us 6 new 2-packs including: Lando & Luke - Bespin, Leia & Vader Bespin, Snow Trooper & Hoth Rebel Trooper, Chewbacca and C-3PO in backpack-net, Luke & Gammorean Guard, Lando & Skiff Guard.

TRANSFORMER CLASSICS: Jetfire has been added to the Voyager class of figures, this is currently being sold only as a set of 3 along with Optimus and Megatron due to its 1 per case ratio. No image yet...

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LORD OF THE RINGS - GIANT BALROG: NECA did a fantastic job on this figure, very high quality figure with super paint and nice detail - we were very impressed with this one after unearthing it from the complex and protective packing box (this is packed in a brown box only - no display packaging) They are going very quickly and your Gandalf figure needs a worthy opponent on the shelf, and probably a larger shelf too.

VARIOUS TRANSFORMERS: A variety of TF items have been restocked in small quantities including: #18 Sound Blaster, MP-02, Hasbro Astrotrain, Jazz, Rodimus Prime & Hoist, #14 Hound, BT-08, BT-15, RM-11, Sixturbo, and Mega PVC Megatron Exclusive.

GUNBUSTER ACTION FIGURE: We found a great deal on this cool little figure from Kaiyodo, now just $9.99 instead of the original $17.99

FINAL FANTASY STATUES: A few statues are now back in stock including the High Wind for only $89.99

MARVEL SELECT: The exclusive She-Hulk is back in stock along with more Spider-Woman and The Watcher. Even more Select figures are available here

DRAGON QUEST VII: This set of four is now up for sale well under the MSRP - we have the full set listed at $54.99 instead of $79.99 - check it out

AFA GRADED MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: We have a couple Ebay Auctions starting tonight for some fairly high-grade hard to find MOTU figures. AFA 75 Scare Glow and AFA 80 Faker auctions are scheduled to start later tonight and the auctions will end Sunday night. Just search for AFA MOTU or search by our seller ID - www.bigbadtoystore.com in a few hours.

Thanks for your interest in www.bigbadtoystore.com and be sure to check out some of the many new preorders (more images coming soon) as well as the new arrivals.