March 1, 2005 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

ENERGON & UNIVERSE: We've received the first half of our Energon Mega shipment including Grimlock & Swoop, Alpha Quintesson, Wingsaber, and Sixshot. Many Pre-Orders have been filled and the remaining pre-orders will ship when the rest of our shipment arrives around Monday. Wingsaber and Sixshot are available now so any new order for those will ship immediately, new Grimlock & Swoop and Alpha Quintesson orders will ship in about a week. The new Universe Frostbite and Longhorn deluxe sized figures are now in stock as well.

AMERICAN CHOPPER: The first series of electronic talking action figures from Joyride Studios based on the Orange County Chopper company has just arrived. The set of 3 figures includes two Paul Sr. figures and one Paulie figure - each speaks 3 phrases from the show. The set is available on the 'various figures' menu for $34.99.

SIDESHOW - BUFFY: Another new Buffy TVS figure has just arrived - Vampire Spike is available for $34.99. The first Spike figure sold out immediately and Sideshow has only produced about 6000 pieces of this figure. Willow, Vampire Willow, and The Master are all also in stock for $34.99 each.

POWER RANGERS: Our supplier in Japan was able to come up with a few last cases of the DekaRangers Deka Base Robo. This huge figure is priced at $139.99 and we have a limited amount in stock

TAKARA RE-ISSUE TRANSFORMERS: #17 Blitzwing, #11 Astrotrain, #12 Minicars, and #13 Targetmaster Hot Rod are all back in stock! Our secondary supplier was able to find more #11 through #13, but this is the end of his supply - limited stock available. We've opened a pre-order for the #16 Insecticon sets - more figures will be arriving in mid to late March.

STAR WARS GALACTIC HEROES & MORE: The very cool Galactic Heroes versions of the Millenium Falcon and X-Wing Fighter are now in stock for $35.99 and $24.99 respectively. The older Obi-Wan vs. Darth Vader Final Duel 2-pack is now in stock for $14.99 and many other Star Wars items including the latest Unleashed figures are in stock.

MACROSS: We've restocked Bandai's VF-1J and VF-1A Ichijo Hikaru 1/55 Scale figures. They are available for $69.99 and $64.99 respectively - which is at or below the original MSRP when they were first released about 3 years ago! The Transformers G1 Jetfire figure was a repainted version of the 1980's version of these figures.

OTHER COOL ITEMS IN STOCK:

JAPANESE BEAST WARS: C-41 Silverbolt, Versus 40 and Versus 41
KILL BILL: Exclusive Quentin Tarantino 'Crazy 88 Director' (various menu)
X-FILES: 15" Alien Statue - (various items menu)
TRANSFORMERS BINALTECH: BT-01 #7 and #8, White Bt-08 Meister in stock
JAPANESE ARMADA: MD-01 Megatron, MD-09 Thundercracker in stock
TRANSFORMERS: Transmetal 2 Blackarachnia and TF-KT mini busts are back
SOUL OF CHOGOKIN: Zambot 3 and GX-18 are back in stock
ARCADIA: The 'outside' version (battle damaged) Arcadia ship is back in stock for $139.99 - on 'Chogokin & Robots' menu.

February 18, 2005:

NEW PRE-ORDERS:

FROM NECA:

- SIN CITY: Series 1 Set of 6 Black and White Figures, 18" Marv Action Figure, 13" Marv Statue, Prop Replica Grenades and Prop Replica Badge Set.

- HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: Series 1 Set of 5 figures from this fun looking summer release is available to pre-order for $59.99. Many other Hitchhiker items are also available including: 3" Figures, Hitchhiker's kit with ring, fish and towel, 10" Rotocast Marvin, Marvin's Gun, and oversized prop replicas for the Vogon Mug, Stapler, and Pen

- MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: The Tri-Klops Statue and Hordak Mini-Bust are up for pre-order

- IRON MAIDEN, POTC: 7" set of Eddie figures and 2 new mini-busts from Pirates of the Caribbean.

SIDESHOW LORD OF THE RINGS: 8 new LotR pre-orders including Legolas & Gimli on Arod Statue, Aragorn at the Black Gate Statue, Flight from Isengard Plaque and a variety of helms including King of the Dead, Mouth of Sauron and the awesome War Mask of the Morgul Lord.

SIDESHOW 12" FIGURES & STATUES - tons of new 'Toy Fair' announcements!

- MARVEL: The Thing Maquette & Wolverine vs. Sabertooth Diorama
- BUFFY: Oz, Origins Angel, Vampire Buffy
- PLANET OF THE APES: Mutant Leader, Caesar, Gen. Ursus, Brent & More
- JOHN WAYNE: John Wayne as a Pacific Marine - a new Sideshow License
- MILITARY: Washington, Custer, Rickenbacher, French Legionnaire
- HIGHLANDER: Connor and Duncan MacLeod
- SCARFACE: 1/4 Scale and 12" Al Pacino Scarface figures
- X-FILES: Autopsy Dana Scully and "Home" Episode Fox Mulder
- FRIDAY THE 13TH: New Blood Part 7 Jason Vorhees
- JAMES BOND: 1/4 Brosnan Bond and Roger Moore Moonraker

ROBOTECH: We've restocked the Alpha Bookend Pre-Order at $174.99

NEW ARRIVALS:

SIDESHOW: The new Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Willow figure has arrived - complete with cheesy outfit and rat. The new James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies Wai Lin figure is also in stock. Each figure is $34.99

SPORTS PICKS - NBA 8: The latest NBA wave has just arrived - the normal figures are each available for $10.99 - including Carmelo Anthony, Shaq, Iverson, Odom, Marbury, Marion, and Kidd. We have variants of Shaq, Odom, Anthony and Marbury in stock in limited quantities.

TRANSFORMERS: The awesome Lazerbeak Statue from Palisades is back in stock for $20.99. We have a few of the companion piece Soundwave Statue in stock as well. A few more OTFCC 2004 Exlusive Megazarak have arrived and we've opened short term pre-orders on these items: #11 Astrotrain, #12 Minicars, #17 Blitzwing, and the First Series Complete Transformers Book - all these short term pre-order items will be here in 7 - 10 days.

STAR WARS MODEL KITS: A variety of Star Wars model kits from AMT Ertl have just arrived. These kits all require glue for completion and paint for true completion. They are priced between $11.99 and $21.99 and there are a number of cool kits including the Star Destroyer, AT-AT, Vader's TIE and more.

SCI-FI MODEL KITS: A few plastic model kits from AMT Ertl have been listed on the 'various figures' menu including 2 Star Trek ships, Seaview from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and the spaceship from Land of the Giants.

ARRIVING SOON:

ENERGON MEGA: Hasbro has just shipped a huge order of the latest Energon Mega wave to us and the figures should be arriving in 5 - 7 days. This wave includes Sixshot (repaint of the hard to find ShockBlast) Grimlock & Swoop, Wing Saber, and the new Alpha Quintesson figure. We have limited pre-orders remaining on several of these figures and we'll be processing pre-orders shortly to prepare all the invoices for quick shipment once they do arrive.

BT-11 RAVAGE: Our BT-11 shipment leaves Japan in a few days and we expect them in around next Friday - pre-orders are still available for $54.99 on this figure

February 18, 2005:

TRANSFORMERS: We've received new Energon Deluxe figures including: Starscream, Roadblock, Kicker, Barricade, Steamhammer and Storm Jet. More Alternators Grimlock and Swindle are also back in stock.

GI JOE: The VVV Ninja Battles 5-pack with DVD and Comic has arrived and is available for $19.99. More VVV wave 5 single figures have arrived and a few more 12" figures have been listed as well.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: The 7" set of figures from NECA has been listed on the 'various figures' menu for $45.99 and single Jack Sparrows are also available.

KING OF THE DEAD STATUE: We've put Sideshow's latest LotR statue up for pre-order. The King of the Dead Statue is priced at $179.99 and looks to be one of the better pieces released lately!

LEGENDS OF CYBERTRON PVC: New pre-orders for the upcoming Legends of Cybertron PVC figures have just been listed. These follow in the steps of the Heroes of Cybertron PVC line, but the figures are all based on the new Transformers: Cybertron characters instead of the G1 characters. Series 1 Sets of 4 are available for $19.99 and Series 2 sets of 8 for $34.99

THE MASK OF JASON VORHEES: In stock now for $39.99 on the 'various figure' menu - this mask is 1:1 scale and can be worn as an actual functional mask.

BLUE BOX: The new USSOCOM 'Bobcat' figure has just arrived - a ton of detailed weapons are included and the figure is priced at $44.99

EVANGELION: The Black EVA-03 action figure is back in stock and listed on the 'various figures' menu.

LORD OF THE RINGS, ARMADA, SPIDER-MAN: We've restocked about 50 previously sold out listings after completing an inventory count of our stock from these lines, so take a look at the menu and some items you've been looking for may be back in stock - limited quantities on most.