October 4, 2004 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

SPAWN 26: McFarlane's latest series of figures 'The Art of Spawn' is now in stock for $59.99 for the set of 6. The figures included in this wave are based from various works throughout the Spawn comic series. Figures include: Tremor, 2 versions of Spawn, Tiffany, Black Knight and more!

20% OFF VINTAGE MENU ITEMS SALE: All items listed on any of the vintage menus - are now available for 20% off the listed prices! Please be sure to read the sales info sheet on that page that illustrates how the 20% discounts will be applied to your order. This sale ends Monday 10/4 at 10:00 AM Central Time.

HASBRO ENERGON PRE-ORDERS: We've listed a short term pre-order for the next Energon Basic wave - which includes 2 figures from Superion and 2 figures from the Constructicons! The 4 new figures are available as a pre-order set and we also have an 8 figure set which includes doom-lock, command ravage and others. This wave is in transit to us now! The Deluxe Slugslinger, Sharticon, Downshift, Towline and more should be shipping to us from Hasbro this week! So look for them to arrive in under 2 weeks - pre-orders available for all.

STAR WARS: We've received limited stock of the older AT-ST and speeder bike boxed set - available for $59.99. Also available is the Post-OTC set of 5 figures for $49.99. These figures are in transit to us now and should be here in 4 - 8 days, we sold out of them almost instantly last time so here is an opportunity to reserve a set in advance.

TRANSFORMERS: A variety of previously sold out items have been restocked: #00 prime, #01 Jazz, #03 Skids, #07 Sideswipe, #10 Soundwave, #11 Astrotrain, Hasbro Ultra Magnus re-issue, and Heroes of Cybertron Wave 4 sets of 6 (which is at the bottom of the main TF menu). The pricing on these is a bit above our standard pricing because supplies in Japan are very low and we've had to buy from secondary sources, but they are still reasonable and I'm not sure how many more times we'll be able to restock some of them.

TAKARA INSECTICON CLONES: These have just shipped to us from Japan and will be arriving this week - which is surprising fast after the normal Insecticon re-issues (also arriving this week) The Insecticon clone army figures are available for $54.99 per set, or 4 sets for $194.99.

SOUL OF CHOGOKIN: We've restocked the Combattler V and Gaiking repaint in limited numbers. The GX-24 Tetsujin 28 and GX-08 Mazinger Angel Aphrodite will be arriving to us in about 5 - 10 days. Pre-Orders are available on each. The Max Factory Genesic Gao Gai Gar figure has been released domestically by Diamond comics - the domestic price is $169.99 and we have some of those in stock on the S.O.C. menu.

NEW PRE-ORDERS:

- Bandai 1/850 Star Trek Voyager model kit - $81.99 - a fantastic looking ship that comes pre-painted with amazing detail from Bandai

- Little Apple Dolls - A creepy release in the goth/anime genre - these dolls have semi-formed faces and the set of 3 is available for pre-ordering for $74.99