August 8, 2004 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: The movie starts in just 6 days and the toys are available now! The set of 5 figures is available for $54.99 and includes: Grid Alien, Battle Alien, Celtic Predator, Scar Predator and Elder Predator. McFarlane continues to release amazingly well detailed figures at reasonable prices!

PRE-ORDER NOTES: I'll be processing pre-orders for all pre-sold items mentioned in this newsletter along with items mentioned in the last newsletter starting later tonight and throughout all of tomorrow. We'll ship everything out as soon as possible, but due to the huge volume of items that have arrived in the past few days we may be a day or two slower than normal - your patience is appreciated!

GI JOE: Wave 5 of the 40th Anniversary figures have arrived and 5 new figures are each available singly for $36.99 each. The Action Pilot Crash Crew figure comes with a very cool fireproof suit and all the other 40th figures have nice accessories as well. Over a dozen other 12" GI Joes have arrived including: Navy Dolphin Handler, Marine Scout Marksman, Special Response Team, Battalion Mortar Marine, Force Recon Marine, Search & Secure and 12" VvV Beachhead. The GI Joe 3-Packs with comics have also arrived.

XEVOZ & STIKFAS: Many new Xevoz items are in stock including Wave 3 Basic and Deluxe figures: Quick Slinger, Sheild Breaker, Sky Grinder, Crypt Curse, The new Battle 2-Pack of Cryo Katana & Preda Crawler is available and the new vehicle set of Transcorcher and Street Punk. We have restocked the Beta Female with Dragon and Alpha male with Motorcycle. New Stikfas will be arriving in mid/late August and pre-orders are available for all of them: Ninja & Baseball players, New G2 body style and the set of 5 different colored alpha males.

TRANSFORMERS UNIVERSE: Extremely new Universe items have just arrived including Deluxe Nemesis Strika and Fireflight. Two new Mega sized Universe figures are also available - the new Autobot Whirl helicopter and Stockade and Magna Stampede - these are repaints of the Tank Drone and Battle Unicorn. We have original Battle Unicrons on the BM Menu for only $7.99!

TRANSFORMERS SUPERLINK & ENERGON: A few new arrivals and restocks for the very popular Superlink line. SC-14 Kicker is back in stock for $12.99, More SD-14 Laserwave have arrived and the new figures are: SC-18 Overdrive, SC-19 Wheeljack, SC-20 Sprung and SD-17 Magma Dinobot. Also on the Energon menu is the new role play hand-held weapons. These weapons are quite large - Optimus Prime Energon Blaster and Megatron Energon Sword, each priced at $25.99.

SHREK 2: Hasbro picked up the license for this blockbuster movie and we have received the first wave of figures. The set of 5 includes Shrek, Donkey, Dragon, Princess Fiona, and Puss In Boots - available for $44.99. Several figures are also available singly.

DUELMASTER SALE: We have reduced the prices on ALL our Duelmaster inventory from the huge Bolshak Dragon down to the mini-figures. Two new Deluxe figures - Gatling Skyterro and Deathliger Lion of Chaos have also arrived and are priced at $12.99

STAR WARS: The Galactic Heroes wave 1 figures have arrived, these nifty figures are designed for the younger collector and have a much different look to them than the normal Star Wars releases. More Unleashed wave 9 Leia and Obi-Wan have arrived. More of the OTC X-Wing and TIE Fighters have also arrived - each priced at $22.99

VINTAGE DEPARTMENT PRICE DROP: The vintage department has lowered prices on items from collection 1 to 100 by 30% to 40%! (These are the oldest listings on our vintage site - the collection number is the first part of the Product ID number: Product Number: "c067"p125 means "Collection 067, Piece 125" as an example) So take another look through and see if any of the items you were looking for have had their prices dropped!

OTHER COOL ITEMS IN STOCK:

GHOSTBUSTERS: Series 1 Sets of 4 are now in stock for $44.99
MASTER REPLICA: Luke FX Sabers are available for $113.99
MACROSS: 1/60 new Armored Parts add-on sets for $48.99

ITEMS ARRIVING WITHIN A WEEK:
Pre-Orders available on all these items:

- TRANSFORMERS: BT-06 Die Cast Tracks Yellow Corvette
- STAR WARS: Unleashed Wave 10 Set of 3 - $49.99
- LORD OF THE RINGS: Gates of Mordor and Coronation Gift Sets
- MARVEL: Fantastic Four & Spider-Man with Sinister Six Gift Sets