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

10% OFF 'INSTOCK' ORDERS OVER $75 - We are running a 10% off sale on orders $75 or more of 'in-stock' items! Pre-Order items are not included in this sale, but every normal in-stock store item and every item on the vintage menus is eligible for the sale. Please see the sale details on this page - http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/10.asp - this is a good opportunity to save 10% on a huge variety of cool figures.

NEW ENERGON FIGURES ARRIVING SOON: We have set up a short term pre-order for some new and popular older Energon figures including mega sized: Cliffjumper, Shockblast, the new Hound and Dreadwing figures and also a set of 5 new Deluxe figures including: Slugslinger, Sharkticon, Tow-Line, Energon Hot Shot and Downshift. These will all be arriving to us in about 10 days and pre-orders will be processed at the time orders are placed and shipped out in about 10 days.

INCOMING TAKARA TRANSFORMERS: All these great items will be arriving to us in roughly 12 - 14 days and we'll be processing pre-orders shortly so everything is ready to begin shipping once they arrive:

-- BINALTECH BT-08 MEISTER - Sets of Red and White Mazda RX-8 figures are available for $107.99 and single figures for $54.99

-- #16 INSECTICONS - Kickback, Shrapnel & Bombshell are available for $39.99 per set and come packaged in the Dreamwave collector box.

-- SMALLEST TRANSFORMERS - The CVS 'Wave 2.5' set is finally going to arrive and includes the new Hot Rod figure along with favorites from wave 1 and 2
-- SUPERLINK - A variety of new Superlink figures will be arriving including the awesome SC-26 Superion combiner set and probably also the SD-21 Bruticus set (we are waiting for final confirmation on the SD-21)

OTHER PRE-ORDERS ARRIVING SOON:

MICROMAN: The Catwoman and Batman & Batgirl microman sets will be arriving in early October. We have listed photos of all these figures and they are very impressive.

STREET FIGHTER: Sota Toys has confirmed Street Fighter series 1 will be shipping out to us in early October. There will be a few paint variants in this wave so if you order 2 sets we will send you a full case worth of figures including one of each of the normal paint variants.

STIKFAS: Stikfas Lite sets are on the way to us now - both the Ninja and Baseball player figures are still available for pre-order and will be arriving next week.

A few other noteable items:

NEW UNLEASHED: We've listed a pre-order for $49.99 for the set of Stormtrooper, Aurra Sing, and IG-88 - Hasbro continues to release good looking figures for this series!

ROBOTMASTERS: We've restocked the #12 Starscream figure and now have all 12 of the different Robotmasters figures in stock (some in low quantity)