December 8, 2003 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

TAKARA 20TH PRIME, BT-02, ASTROTRAIN: Our suppliers have confirmed that we will be receiving 100% of our orders on these items and we can confirm that we will be able to fill ALL existing and newly placed pre-orders for these items. All items will be arriving to us in 3 mixed shipments from mid to late December. We will notify you when your pre-orders ship and for those of you who have not pre-ordered - we have plenty of stock coming throughout December so feel free to order.

STAR WARS KUBRICKS: The first series of SW Kubricks was very hard to find on the wholesale level. We were lucky to receive a large quantity of the Series 2 release. We are offering sealed boxes of 12 for $94.99 (buy 4 boxes and we'll send a sealed master case of 48) Opened sets of 6 for $49.99, and opened Sets of 8 with the rare Indiana Jones 'Hidden' figure and Stormtrooper 'Hidden' figure included. The normal set of 6 includes: Sandtrooper, Han Solo, Greedo, Obi-Wan, Cantian Band Member and Tusken Raider. Available on the new Kubrick Menu. Sealed Master Cases guarantee the 'Hidden' Indiana Jones Figure.

GODZILLA: More great imported Godzilla items have arrived - the GD-56 Die Cast Metal - Mecha Godzilla, DX Boxed 12" Godzilla and Mecha Godzilla, Rotocast 15" Mothra, 10" Mothra Worm, 9" Godzilla & 9" Mecha Godzilla and many 6" figures are also in stock. A new Godzilla menu has been created under the 'Bandai Japan' heading.

ALIEN & PREDATOR: The huge Life Sized Alien Face Hugger Bust is now in stock for $359.99 - $40 less than the suggested price and still only $4.99 domestic shipping. The nicely done Predator Defeated bust has also arrived and is in stock for $54.99

MUPPETS: Palisades latest releases - Pigs in Space playset and Series 6 Muppets are in stock. Series 6 includes Clifford (both variations) Waldorf & Statler, and Fozzie Patrol Bear. Pre-Orders will be processed shortly. The Series 4 Sideshow Muppets Busts are now in stock on the Sideshow Menu.

MUSIC FIGURES FROM STEVENSON: A large batch of items including the new Pink Floyd figures and boxed set (both for mature audiences) have been listed on the 'Other Menu' New Metallica Bobbleheads, Less Than Jake - Evolution Kid, SMITI minifigures of No Doubt, Kiss, and Ozzy are all in stock. Also from Stevenson is the AFI set of 3 - Heart Bat, Art and Articia

TAKARA BINALTECH BT-01 SMOKESCREEN: We have finally filled all our pre-orders (the rest ship monday) and have extra stock for normal store sales. the BT-01 Subaru WRX has been immensely popular and is available in two versions - the #7 car and #8 car - each $54.99. The BT-02 1/24 Scale Dodge Viper Sideswipe will be here by the end of the month - pre-orders available.

OTHER COOL ITEMS:
--- LOTR Galadhrim Archer Statue - many more in stock - $99.99
--- Blue Box 1/18 Scale Apache Helicopter and M1A1 Abrams Tank
--- Saint Seiya - Changing Cloth Sagittarius - on the 'other' menu
--- Dreamwave: MTMTE #8, Megaman #3, GI Joe & Transformers #3
--- Pink Panther Series 1 - New Pre-Order by Palisades - awesome figures
--- Hellraiser 2 - Our shipment is on the way - pre-orders available
--- Star Wars AT-ST & Speeder Bike - $49.99
--- Botcon Glyph & Comic - Restocked for $13.99

MORE VINTAGE ITEMS: Hundreds more vintage and single quantity items were listed on the vintage page - comic, tv, movie, anime, horror, monster, sci-fi, tin & more.

INCOMING HASBRO ITEMS: We have a huge shipment of Hasbro Items arriving on Tues. or Wed. - Energon Optimus, Basics, Megas, 5 different Star Wars Case assortments, New 12" GI Joes, New BeyBlades, GI Joe Venom vs. Valor & More. Pre-Orders still available on Energon & Venom vs. Valor.

HOLIDAY SHIPPING: No worries yet on Holiday shipping - Still plenty of time!

December 4, 2003

TAKARA TRANSFORMER PRE-ORDER RELEASE SCHEDULE: Takara will be releasing the Masterpiece Prime, BT-02 Sideswipe, and #11 Astrotrain in a little over a week. We will begin to process these pre-orders over the weekend.

Our suppliers have confirmed that we will receive 100% of BT-02 & Astrotrain we ordered, and at this point will receive about 70% of our Masterpiece Prime Order (They are working on the final 30% as well). We have more Masterpiece Primes on order with other suppliers and do not yet know how many we will be receiving in total, but we anticipate we will be able to fill current pre-orders with little or no delay. This is all the information we currently have and would greatly appreciate anyone with pre-orders for MP Prime refraining from inquiring about more specific info (due to an already huge workload during the holiday rush and these items on top of that) We will email you with specific info on your pre-order when we have specifics from our suppliers (Thanks for your patience!) We do not anticipate pre-Christmas delivery of these items to customers, but we will do our best to get them in, processed, and out the door in time to give them a fighting chance.

HASBRO USA 20TH ANNIVERSARY PRIME: We will be receiving these right at the end of December and anticipate being the first store in the country to have the US 20th Prime available in quantity! (because we are air shipping our entire shipment over instead of waiting the 4 - 5 weeks needed for a sea shipment) So place your pre-orders with confidence that we'll get them to you before anyone else - Pre-orders available for $74.99!

NEW TRANSFORMER PRE-ORDERS: We have listed the new Hasbro USA Alternator Hound for $24.99 - an awesome new rendition of Hound as a Jeep Wrangler. We anticipate Takara will release Hound as part of their BinalTech (BT) Line with die cast metal parts, but they have not announced it yet - as soon as they do a pre-order will go up for an estimated $54.99 The new exclusive set of 6 repainted mini-cars has been listed for $49.99. The very cool Palisades 12" Megatron Statue is available for pre-order for $124.99. The Exclusive Sunstorm and Hauler sets have been restocked.

MACROSS & ROBOTECH: The VF-1J Ichijo Hikaru has arrived and is in stock for $144.99. More 1/48 Armor sets have arrived and we have restocked the Toynami Masterpiece #5 as well as the Toynami Armor sets A, B, and C. Also back in stock is the YF-21 Fast Pack version.

MARVEL AND DC: Kingdom Come Series 2 has been restocked - sets of four available for $49.99. Marvel Select Ultimate Venom is in stock for $15.99 and Mattel's Barbie as Catwoman is available for $39.99. All these cool items are on the 'Other Menu'

BANDAI JAPAN:
--- GUNDAM ZEONOGRAPHY - 2 highly detailed Zaku II figures in a spin-off
line from the great FIX series of figures. Same detail and similar
packaging, the #3001a and #3001b are each $39.99
--- 1/850 NX-01 ENTERPRISE - The third pre-painted snap together Enterprise kit from Bandai.
--- GX-18 GETTER DRAGON - The latest release from the popular Soul of Chogokin line - fully die cast with a cool paint scheme
--- MACHINE ROBO VARIANTS - 2 new 'Variant' sets with extra robots to form even cooler larger sets - $39.99 each.
--- GX-14 EVANGELION - Another small shipment of the hard to find GX-14

DREAMS & VISIONS GI JOE: We have restocked the Men of Easy Co. Set of 5, Mademoiselle Marie and Miss Fear boxed sets. All very cool items in very well designed collector boxes.

HUGE VARIETY OF VINTAGE: We recently bought up a 3000+ piece store stock collection and have so far listed about 10% of it. A huge variety of comic, tv, anime, cartoon, movie & hero based figures have been listed on the vintage menu. Our vintage department will be listing the remaining 2700 figures in the coming week or two so be sure to check back for a lot of very cool items mainly from the 90's, but from the 80's and 2000 as well.

KUBRICKS: We have received the Matrix Reloaded Kubricks - awesome miniature versions of Neo, Trinity, and all your other favorites from Reloaded. Other Kubrick and Mini-Figures have also been listed on the new Kubrick Menu.

A couple other cool items: Freeze Frame Darth Vader with Removeable Helmet is back in stock and the new Onegai Teacher Swimsuit Statue is in stock on the 'Other Menu'