August 20, 2004 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

10% OFF ORDERS $75 AND OVER: We are having a 10% off all 'non-pre-order' items to clear out some inventory before the next big wave of items hits! The sale ends Sunday 8/22 at 10:00AM Central Time. If you order over $75.00 of non-pre-order items we'll give you a 10% discount when we process the order. (Please see all the order details on our site and please note that the discount is not shown during order checkout or on your first confirmation email) All vintage menu items are also included in this sale.

TRANSFORMERS ENERGON: Cliffjumper and Mirage are back in stock and we have also received the first 'Powerlinx Battles' packaging style of the new Energon basic figures. Figures included in the first Powerlinx Battles wave are: Offshoot, Insecticon, Arcee, Command Ravage, Energon Strongarm and more. More Omega Supreme have arrived as well!

MARVEL ITEMS: Marvel Minimates Wave 6 have just arrived and are listed on the main Marvel/LotR menu. The variant figure set is available in a set of 8 figures and the other figures are each available for $6.99 per two-pack. Spider-Man Classic Wave 10 has arrived and each of the figures is available individually. We've listed a few sets of Marvel Legends 6 and a few more Juggernauts after completing an inventory count on our remaining stock.

HALO: The fifth wave of Halo figures has just arrived. This wave comes with a Black Master Chief with rocket launcher and a few other weapons, Carrier Form Flood - which is really a strange looking figure, Red Covenant Grunt and Gold Covenant Elite. We still have limited stock of Series 3 and Series 4 Halo figure sets and single figures.

ITEMS ARRIVING SOON: Our suppliers in Japan have given us preliminary info that these items will be delivered to us in early September: #15 Takara Re-Issue Stepper, Robotmasters #11 Primal Ape, Robotmasters #12 G1 Starscream, BT-07 Smokescreen updated 2004 Suburau, Smallest Transformers CVS (Convenience Store Wave), Macross Queadluun Rau - Max, Gundam FIX 0021, Evangelion GX-14, Microman BM Machine Set of 4. We still have pre-orders available on all these items and we'll process pre-orders shortly before the items arrive to us.

VINTAGE DEPARTMENT: The vintage department has listed a large variety of Japanese and US Gundam action figures - both loose and boxed/carded. The vintage dept. has also reduced the price of our AFA (Action Figure Authority) Graded Japanese Predaking Set to $1699. This rare set graded out at AFA-85 so its in top condition and the sealed boxes are all sealed in very nice AFA display cases. We plan to list this item on ebay shortly if it does not sell on the site.

OTHER COOL ITEMS:

- HELLBOY: Sideshow's 12" Abe Sapien figure
- ROBOTECH: Limited stock of Masterpiece Alpha #01 Scott Bernard
- MASTER REPLICA: .45 Scaled Luke Skywalker Mini Saber
- SIDESHOW-WETA: Nazgul Steed Busts, Golden Hall & Helm's Deep Environment
- GODZILLA: 6" Titanozaurus is back in stock
- FIST OF NORTH STAR: Kenshiro & Roah (towards bottom of 'Other' Menu')
- REN & STIMPY: Ask Dr. Stupid Micro Bust (on Palisades Menu)