April 12, 2005 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

15% OFF ALL 'IN STOCK' ITEMS! Here is a great chance to save 15% on orders of $60 or more of non-pre-order items. We wanted to give you a chance to have some fun with your money before the dreaded April 15th Tax Deadline. Please read the important sales details on this page - http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/10.asp - it contains info on how the discounts are applied to your order. Please note that a handful of recent releases have had their prices raised, so while they are included in the sale, the net sales price after discount will be about the same as our previous regular price.

XEVOZ: We've received a nice shipment of Xevoz from overseas and were able to restock a variety of long sold-out figures. These Xevoz are back in stock: Sky Grinder, Crypt Curse, Inferno Fury, Sledge Trooper, Transchorcher & Street Punk, Tomb Wraith, Shield Breaker, Quick Slinger, Shock Berserker, Razorclaw, Alpha Ranger & Skull Jack. Please note that they have small removeable Asian market stickers on the packages.

DC, MARVEL, DIAMOND PRE-ORDERS: We've listed a new round of pre-orders from these great companies. New DC items include: Identity Crisis 1 - Set of 5, Batman - The Long Halloween Set of 5, JLA Action Figure Gift Set, Alex Ross Justice League Series 2 - Set of 5. From Marvel we've listed the Marvel Select Carnage figure for $18.99, and from Diamond Select Toys - cool Transformer & GI Joe wall plaques including: Snake Eyes Wall Statue, Autobot Logo Wall Plaque, Cobra Logo Wall Plaque. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer we've listed: Deluxe Buffy & Faith exclusive and the "Once More With Feeling" Buffy exclusive.

NHL LEGENDS 2: The latest Sports Picks have just arrived from McFarlane. NHL Legends 2 features Mike Bossy, Jean Beliveau, Grant Fuhr, Wayne Gretzky - Oilers, Wayne Gretzke - Kings and Phil Esposito. Most figures are priced at $10.99 and we have the Mike Bossy Blue Jersey Variant in stock.

TRANSFORMERS: #18 Soundblaster has sold out, but we've reopened a pre-order for a new shipment coming in around 2 weeks. We've also restocked a variety of older items including: Superlink Buildtron Exclusive, Mega PVC Starscream, the hard to find RID Cryotek exclusive, C-29 Longrack, C-8 Tigatron. We still have some MP-02 Ultra Magnus, BT-12, Cobalt Sentry, Black Victory Saber and BT-11 in stock along with tons of other TF's.

STAR WARS: A variety of older figures have been restocked. 12" Wedge Antilles and Biggs Darklighter set - $49.99, Freeze Frame Darth Vader - both with and without helmet, OTC Y-Wing, Star Tours G2-4T, Ep1 Darth Maul with bonus Battle Droid, Freeze Frame Stormtrooper, Luke in Stormtrooper Disguise.

MACROSS: The Yamato 1/60 Battle Suit Queadluun Ra - Millia is back in stock for $119.99 before the 15% discount! We still have some Koenig Monsters as well as a variety of Toynami Robotech figures

OTHER OLDER ITEMS BACK IN STOCK:

GI JOE: Sky Sharc - Chinese Box
GI JOE: Fang II - Chinese Box
LOTR: 12" Frodo
LOTR: Merry, Pippen & Orc Pack

Thanks for your interest in www.bigbadtoystore.com - please be sure to take advantage of the 15% off sale - it ends in just 2 days on Thursday 4/14 at 7:00 PM Central Time.

April 9, 2005

TAKARA TRANSFORMERS: The exclusive Cobalt Sentry Cassettes and Black RobotMasters Victory Saber figures have both arrived. The Cobalt Sentry set includes dark blue repaints of Ravage and Lazerbeak and we have very limited stock remaining. The BT-13 Shockwave and GD-07 Flame Convoy figures will be arriving in about 10 days from Japan. We've also listed the God Ginrai add-on parts set separately so you do not need to purchase the figure along with the parts set.

18" NECA & SIN CITY: Three new 18" figures have just arrived - Marv from Sin City, The Bride from Kill Bill and Somewhere in Time Eddie from Iron Maiden. Each figure features either motion activated sound or other electronics. We have listed new pre-orders for the Sin City Black and White set and also the Color Set (which will be shipping within a month when the rest of our order arrives) We currently have the black and white versions of Marv and Hartigan available for $12.99 each.

STIKFAS: The Stikfas Pirate & Skeleton figure has been restocked and we've added 3 new pre-orders. The 14" Skeleton, Red Chinese Warrior Monk and very cool Beta Female Nurse (with standard nursing equipment and also some much less humane equipment) are all available for pre-order. Stikfas has alerted us that the following items will be arriving in about 1 - 2 weeks: Yellow Mechana Robot, Pastel Beta Female sets, Alpha Male K-9 Set, and Knight with Stallion set. Pre-Orders are available for all of these sets.

OTHER GREAT ITEMS IN STOCK:

MOTU - SHE-RA EXCLUSIVE: A final restock of this hard to find figure - She-Ra is now available for $25.99

STREET FIGHTER 2: We've received a small restock of this hugely popular set

HALO 2: Sets of Halo 2 Series 2 are now available for $49.99

GI JOE STATUES: Flint Bust, Hawk Statue, 1:1 Snake Eyes Bust, Crimson Guard Statue, Python Patrol Crimson Guard Statue, Serpentor Bust - all now in stock

NINJA GAIDEN: The Ayane vinyl statue from Ninja Gaiden has just arrived and is priced at $36.99

DC DIRECT - JLA 1: More of the first JLA series sets of 5 have arrived from DC

ENERGON: Limited stock of Megatron, Deluxe Starscream and Roadblock are back in stock. Basic Combiners also available

SIDESHOW 1/4 SCALE: The new London After Midnight figure is in stock for $214.99

STAR WARS MODELS: Speeder Bike and Death Star Model Kits have arrived, we'll be restocking all the rest fairly soon.

TRANSMANUALS: The handy Transformer guide-books are back in stock.
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