March 17, 2004 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

TAKARA BT-07 - Takara continues the Binaltech line with its first Decepticon! BT-07 Dead End is a black Dodge Viper with a mean paint job, red tinted windows and a large spoiler on the back. Available for pre-order for $54.99

BIG SALE - ENDS SUNDAY - We have reduced prices on a large variety of great items. Many of the items are on sale only until Sunday and prices will be marked back up to normal then. We've also further reduced prices on a variety of items that were already on sale, so be sure to check out the entire sale list. Some highlights of the Sale include: Re-Issue Transformers, FIX Gundam, GI Joe, Superlink, HALO, Marvel Legends, Beast Machines - $8.99 Battle Unicorns!, Alien, Lord of the Rings, Power Rangers, Sports Picks, Spider-Man, $3.99 Armada Minicons, and much much more! Check out the Sale Menu Here: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/5day.asp

SOTA TOYS - STREET FIGHTER - The first new Street Fighter figures to come out for quite a while will be worth the wait! SOTA Toys has designed a great looking set of 5 figures. The set is available for pre-order now for $54.99. Chun-Li, Sagat, Ryu, Bison and Sodom are all very well done and on the pre-order menu.

VINTAGE MENU - The vintage department has been busy adding more great new items. Some recent items added include: Loose GI Joe figures - Complete figures with filecards or full cardbacks - almost every figure from 1982 to 1986 is now available. A variety of Japanese re-issues and exclusive re-issue repaints has been listed including Black G1 Optimus, many Jets and re-issue car sets. Loose G1 Transformers, Packaged G2 Transformers, Sports Picks Variants, Commemorative Masters of the Universe, and carded Vintage Star Wars along with recent packaged Star Wars items.

SOUL OF CHOGOKIN - We've restocked a variety of items after completing an
inventory count of what we had left. Now Available (some in limited quantities) are: GX-12 Venus, Combattler V, GX-18 and GX-20, Metallic Getter Robo, GX-02R. Pre-orders are also available on the GX-13 Dancougar and a variety of other upcoming Chogokin items.

OTHER ITEMS BACK IN STOCK:

XEVOZ - 2-Pack of Shadow Blade & Bone Cutter
BANPRESTO MACROSS - miniature transformer valks - 3 versions in stock
SPYTROOPS - Mission Disks series 1 and 2
TINY TINS TF'S - Spychangers set of 8
BEAST MACHINES - Ultra Jetfire, Hammerstrike

ITEMS ARRIVING SOON:

SOUL OF CHOGOKIN: GX13, GX21, GX22
TRANSFORMERS: Smallest TF's wave 2, 20th Prime, BT-03, BT-04 Hound
GI JOE: Valor vs Venom Wave 2
A variety of other GI Joe, Star Wars, Energon, Beyblade, Stikfas and more
are in transit to us from Hasbro as well!