October 11, 2005 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer BigBadToyStore.com has several new items of interest to collectors:

PRE-ORDER ALTERNATORS: Hasbro has just announced the next case assortment of Alternators and its a great one! These figures will all be packaged in an all new 'fishbowl' style bubble that better showcases the figures in vehicle mode. Up for pre-order at $24.99 each are the all new Sunstreaker Dodge Viper, Skids Dodge Scion bB, Prowl police Integra, and the older and very hard to find Blue Tracks Corvette! These are also listed as a set of 4 for $92.99.

PRE-ORDER BEAST WARS 10TH ANNIVERSARY: Amazingly its already the 10th Anniversary of Beast Wars, the time has flown by. Hasbro has a new line coming in early 2006 that will reissue the figures with improvements to make them more show accurate. The first set of 3 figures includes Waspinator, Cheetor, and Rhinox - each comes with a Beast Wars episode on DVD, the set of 3 is priced at $46.99.

PRE-ORDER LEGENDS OF CYBERTRON: The wave 3 set of 4 figures is now available to pre-order for $19.99 - this set includes Soundwave, Vector Prime, Galvatron and Red Alert miniature transformable figures.

PRE-ORDER MINI UNLEASHED: Hasbro has added miniaturized 2" Unleashed figures to their 2006 lineup. These figures will come in battle 4-packs and we have the first set of 16 figures available to pre-order for for $44.99

NEW ITEMS IN STOCK:

GUYVER: Four more Guyver items has been listed and we'll continue to try to find more figures. New arrivals include the just released Zoalord Gyout - one of the larger figures released so far with a ton of detail. Also in stock is Guyver III and several of the Biofighter Wars 2-packs.

NAPOLEON DYNAMITE: Its hard not to smile each time you hear one of the sound clips from these fun figures. We have 6" and 12" talking plush figures in stock for between $6.99 and $15.99. The 6" figures include Pedro, Kip, and Napoleon - each have 6 soundclips. The 12" Napoleons feature 12 clips and Napoleon comes in 3 varieties: Vote for Pedro, Gym Clothes, and Brown Tuxedo - tasty bass not included.

BANDAI JAPAN GUNDAM: Another nice wave of Gundam figures and kits:

Model Kits:

The awesome Hyakushiki and Ballute System has just arrived.

Master Grade Freedom Gundam - Extra Finish Version

Force Impulse Gundam + Sword Silhouette - Extra Finish Version

1/144 Strike Freedom Gundam

1/400 Meteor Unit (the 1/144 giant meteor unit is also available here)

Figures:

HCM Pro #18 Destiny Gundam

MSIA Seed:
Gaia Gundam - Red

Blaze Zaku Phantom - Black

Infinite Justice Gundam

SPORTS PICKS NFL SERIES 11: We have these non-variants listed at $10.99 each: Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Willis McGahee, Willie Roaf, Tiki Barber, and Randy Moss. The only variant we received was retro jersey Julius Jones listed at $37.99 each

TRANSFORMERS: The Galaxy Force Dark Ligerjack is back in stock at $84.99 each. A new book from Jive called Galaxy Force: Phase Ignition has just arrived and is priced at $29.99 - this book features many photos and drawings of the toys and characters but all the text is in Japanese. We were able to find a few GX-01 Noisemaze above retail in Japan, new price is $39.99. The Binaltech BT-08 White Meister is back in stock at $72.99. Star Convoy and the new Binaltech BTA-01 and BTA-02 continue to sell well, be sure to consider them for your collection. Robotmasters RM14 Gigant Bomb, RM20 jet set, RM-21 Burning Convoy, and RM-23 Metallic Leo Convoy with DVD have all been restocked.

EXCLUSIVE MICROMAN: Five more limited edition exclusive Microman sets have been listed at $41.99 each. These are all E-hobby Japan exclusives made by Takara

GI JOE SIGMA 6: Our first shipment of Sigma 6 sold out in days and we finally have been able to get more of them. The set of 5 is available at $79.99 and includes Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Duke, Heavy Duty, and Spirit. These 8 inch figures come with a variety of weapons and a cool weapons carrying case.

OTHER COOL ITEMS:

STAR WARS SPUDTROOPER: The 2nd Mr. Potatohead release from Hasbro - the Spudtrooper comes with a potato masher instead of a blaster and is a nice companion piece to Darth Tater.

STAR WARS CLONE TROOPERS: More full sets of 16 Clone Trooper exclusives have arrived - priced at $119.99

KONG: The Supreme Kong figure with electronic sounds has just arrived and is priced at $32.99 - Kong stands at around 14" tall

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: Volume 2 Trading Figure sets of 4 are in stock at $21.99 each.

INUYASHA PVC STATUE SET: The set of Inuyasha & Kagome PVC Statues is now available for $39.99

X-FILES: Mulder from the "Home" Episode is in stock for $34.99

PLANET OF THE APES: Mutant Leader has just arrived - $39.99