June 24, 2004 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

NEW PRE-ORDERS:

-- STAR WARS: Vintage figures Wave 2 and Wave 3 have now been listed. Wave 2 is the full of the first 8 figures released: Luke, Han, Obi-Wan, Leia, Darth, Yoda, Lando, C3P0. We are offering Wave 3 as a set of 6 including: Stormtrooper, Chewbacca, R2-D2, Boba Fett, Lando & Darth Vader. Unleashed Wave 11 has been announced and updated to include these figures: Count Dooku, Mace Windu, Darth Vader. Don't miss out on the other SW pre-orders we have listed including the Sandcrawler!

-- GI JOE: Venom vs. Valor Wave 4 set of 7 and Wave 5 Set of 7 have each been listed for $59.99 for the full set!

-- MICROMAN LADY FIGURE SET: We have secured more stock that will be arriving in early July - Pre-Orders are now available again for this hugely popular set!

-- ENERGON: Our first shipment of Omega Supreme has arrived and is 95% sold out - We have placed a 2nd order with Hasbro and re-opened our pre-order for that 2nd shipment - arriving in early to mid July

NEW INSTOCK ITEMS:

PERFECT GRADE & MASTER GRADE GUNDAM: The 1/60 Perfect Grade: Zeta, Wing Zero Custom, MKII AEUG and MKII Titans kits are all back in stock. More Master grade kits have arrived including Rick Dias, Quebely, Super Gundam, ZZ Gundam, AEUG & Titans, RX-78-4 and -5 and many more!

GUNDAM SEED: The 1/100 High Grade kits #1 through #11 are all in stock including the brand new #11 Providence Gundam. Also in stock are a variety of 1/144 HG Seed kits including the new Strike Rouge + IWSP, the Gundam Cgue, and Miguel's Ginn

GUNDAM ACTION FIGURES: 1/200 HCM Pro (High Complete Model Progressive) figures are now in stock! $17.99 each for these nicely detailed figures that are substantially nicer than MSIA figures and come in an attractive new packaging style.

DC DIRECT & MARVEL SELECT: The brand new DC First Appearances set of 4 has just arrived. These four figures are based on the classic comic art from when they first debuted in the vintage comics - figures include: Shazam, Batman, Wonder Woman, and The Flash. Also in stock is the Marvel Select Ultimate Thor figure.

MACROSS: We've received the 1/60 Armored VF-1J - the armor sets alone have already sold out so here is a chance to pick up this very popular valkyrie and armor set.

MACHINE ROBO RESCUE MUGENBINE: These nifty new MRR items are located on the bottom of the Soul of Chogokin menu along with many other cool Bandai items. Bandai very much improved the design of this years MRR items.
They transform from a robot to variety of other machines or animals and also can gestault into one large robot. Very cool items for $17.99 each!

SOUL OF CHOGOKIN AND GAO GAI GAR: More of the very popular GX-23 Zambots have arrived and are available for $207.99 - Also more Dancougars and Gaiking Repaints have been restocked. The awesome Max Factory Genesic Gao Gai Gar is available on the SOC Menu for $209.99 - it features very nice die cast and plastic construction and a variety of cool weapons, all packed in a carrying case style box.

GI JOE: Valor vs. Venom Wave 3 has arrived. We are offering the full set of 6 new figures for $53.99 as well as a set of 6 that includes one previously released set for $39.99 Palisades Serpentor Bust has also arrived as well as more Flint Busts.

DEKARANGERS: We've received a few more Dekaranger items including the very large Deka Robo Base, the Deka Robo Ranger, Deka Machine Set, Handy Deka Ranger Robo. And more of the AbaRanger Max Ouja's have arrived

TRANSFORMERS: More #11 Astrotrain, #12 Minicars, #13 Targetmaster Hotrods and Takara Masterpiece Primes have arrived. Also in stock is the Takara Grand Convoy Model Kit for $11.99 and we have a large variety of other transformers in stock.

UPCOMING TRANSFORMER ARRIVALS: BT-05 Dead End Viper and the Robotmasters line will be arriving towards the end of July, #14 Re-Issue Hound in early August, and #15 Stepper in very early September. Be sure to get pre-orders in on these items in case we sell out quickly once they arrive!

SPORTS PICKS: MLB Series 10 has arrived - we are offering the full set of 9 figures for $84.99 and single figures are all available for $9.99 each and one player's variant figure is also available.

VINTAGE DEPARTMENT: The vintage departmant has listed some cool transformer items this week including boxed Jetfires, boxed predacons, a MISB Japanese Terrorcon set, and a variety of loose G1 items. More GI Joe items and many other misc items have also been listed.

OTHER COOL ITEMS NOW IN STOCK:

SUPERLINK: More SD-07 Galvatrons are in stock - $49.99
NECA: 18" Jason Vorhees and Freddy Krueger are in stock - 'other menu'
HARD HERO: 9" Rhinox Statue - a great looking piece!
BANDAI STAR TREK: More Enterprise E kits have arrived
GODZILLA: More GD-45 Boxed Mecha Godzillas are in stock
HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES: Sets of 4 along with single figures - 'other menu'
KISS ALIVE: The fairly old boxed set - on the spawn menu
PINK FLOYD: The boxed gift set - on the 'other menu'