Competitive · community notes
Things worth writing down
459 product facts, techniques and pieces of history the community worked out, from mould differences to how a launch is aimed.
- 459notes kept, from 2,131 discussions read
- 149are a fact about a specific product
- 114are about how to launch or play
About this page
The WBO's general board is everything that did not belong on a more specific one: 2,131 discussions. Most of it is chatter, and 867 of it belongs to a board already covered here — a tournament report, a testing thread, a question and its answer. Those were read and set aside rather than written up a second time, which is why 459 is the number and not two thousand.
What is left is the part nothing else records: that Hasbro shipped the same metal wheel in two different moulds, that a launcher's Korean release used a weaker spring, how the community names its launch angles, who Beyblade's creator is and what he made before it. Each note is our own condensation of what that discussion established, never our own knowledge. Read on September 19, 2026; each links to its discussion.
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History of all Beyblade
A member wrote a franchise overview describing Takara's 1999 launch of the original spinning tops with interchangeable attack ring, weight disk, spin gear and blade base parts marketed as the Plastic Generation, the 1999 manga that preceded it, the 2001 anime adaptation centred on a young blader and his friends competing worldwide with creatures called Bit-Beasts, and the two sequel series Beyblade V-Force (2002) and Beyblade G-Revolution (2003).
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Drake Brave
Identifies Drake Brave as a new prize tied to an app promotion that introduces a single new part, Gravity, described as a heavy 70-80 height assist blade with large metal contact points meant to raise its owner's competitive relevance; a reply adds that obtaining it is locked behind the app rather than general retail.
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Thoughts on the new release?
A member posts the parts making up an upcoming CX Expand line release due June 13 from Takara Tomy — a Brachio lock chip, Outer over blade, Whip metal blade, Wheel assist blade, 5-70 ratchet and new Narrow bit — and another predicts the reduced volatility of the wedge-shaped Narrow bit combined with ball-like stamina will make it a strong replacement for Free Ball.
BrachioOuterWhipWheel5-70Narrow
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I'M FINALLY GETTING RED AERO
Notes that the Red Aero Pegasus reissue dropped the price from roughly $400 to $100-200 versus the original Blue Aero, and corrected an unbalanced side that the earlier release had.
Red Aero PegasusBlue Aero Pegasus
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Beyblade Minigame Ideas
Fans proposed original custom stadium hazard concepts, including a Plinko-style obstacle course and a rail hazard that strips stamina on contact, and began attempting to 3D-print a working version of the rail hazard, reporting filament breakage during the build.
Xtreme Rail
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Top 10 Buys for Beginner Bladers
A member ranks ten recommended starter purchases for new bladers by price and value, from the Drop Attack Battle Set through a full X-treme stadium set, naming specific retailers and prices; other members debate the ranking, arguing the Bite Croc Set and Shark Scale Deck Set deserve higher placement than given.
Drop attack battle setPhoenix Wing 9-60GF SetWand Wizard 1-60R StarterPegasus Blast Turbo SetCobalt Dragoon 2-60C SetSamurai Saber 2-70L Set
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If Every Player Uses the Same Build, Is It Still Competition?
A proposal for a two-tier competitive structure laid out dated facts about the current ruleset: WizardRod's dominance led to a temporary ban running April to November 2025, a rotating Hall of Fame system exists to manage overpowered parts, and paint restrictions arriving November 2025 were framed as reducing personalization for fairness; replies argued that using identical builds does not by itself remove competitive skill.
WizardRod
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We need production of unique beyblades.
Explained that a custom-made Beyblade for every fan is impractical for the manufacturer to produce, but that the CX line's interchangeable metal, plastic and centre artwork plus outside 3D-printing services offer a real route to a personalized blade.
CX
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judge test
Posts establish that the WBO runs an online judge-certification test with video components, that students whose school networks block video sites have had to find workarounds such as public libraries to finish it, and that retaking the test is apparently possible despite some confusion over duplicate attempts.
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Alternate/gimmick tournament format thread
A running library of original tournament formats devised by organisers: a limited three-combo variant, a colour-restricted deck-building format with bonus points for win streaks, a team format built around a tag-in mechanic, a point-budget deck system that lets weaker beys balance stronger ones, a hybrid of the counter and veto battle types, and a dual-deck system where each opponent chooses which of the other's two decks gets used.
Beyblade X Limited3on3+FrootloopsTag TeamRatioXCounterVeto
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Regarding Events Designed for Kids
Establishes that the WBO does not permit age-restricted, kids-only tournament brackets or events, a stance staff have stated in discussion but that appears nowhere in the written rulebooks, despite organizer and parent interest in a junior division so children are not matched against much stronger adult bladers.
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Beybracket: A project made by hobbyists for hobbyists
A hobbyist built Beybracket, a free web app for running Beyblade tournaments, automating Swiss-to-top-cut pairing and bracket generation, separating judge scoring permissions from spectator view-only access, showing a live scrolling match ticker, and pairing late arrivals against existing byes; an early tester reports the tournament's configured point cap did not carry through correctly to the live bracket.
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Stadium help
Establishes that the Xtreme rails on Beyblade X stadiums are removable via small underside clips on both Takara Tomy and Hasbro versions (except the Drop Attack and Hasbro Bucket stadiums, which lack them), allowing rail replacement when worn or mixing colors of rails for a custom stadium look.
Xtreme railsDrop Attack stadiumHasbro Bucket stadium
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Beyblade X Scoring Question?
Explains the sequence used to judge a contested pocket finish: a Beyblade entering the ring-out pocket makes the finish 'Pending', leaving the pocket reverses that call, and if the second Beyblade cannot escape the pocket the finish is awarded to the one that stayed out.
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HMS Random Booster Nearly Here - Repro
A community reproduction project lists its confirmed lineup of remade competitive HMS parts and what each does: Jiraiya Blade and Samurai Upper as attack rings, God Ring and Free Defense Ring for stability and hit-absorption, a Defense Ring meant to shield Samurai Upper's underside, Reverse Defenser for scraping-free precession recovery, and a Grip Flat Core Ultimate Version plus two Bearing Core variants covering attack and endurance running cores.
Jiraiya BladeSamurai UpperGod RingFree Defense RingDefense RingReverse Defenser
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Computer vision detecting Beyblade wins automatically - early proof of concept
Announces an early prototype called Axis, a computer-vision tool built to automatically detect the winner of a Beyblade X battle, shared as a short demo video with no further technical detail given.
Axis
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Solving if Hasbro's KM is Worth Your Money
Compares the contents and gameplay-usable parts of Takara Tomy's UX-10 KnightMail set against Hasbro's UX Deck Set version, concluding the Takara Tomy version has more competitively useful parts (Rush bit, Ball bit, TyrannoBeat metal coat) while Hasbro's set swaps in a weaker GhostCircle blade and drops Rush, though replies note Hasbro's set is still reasonable value per part given typical starter pricing.
KnightMailPteraSwingTyrannoBeatHellsHammerGhostCircleBall
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stone mountain.where
Replies establish that Stone Mountain is not an independently released beyblade but a recolor of KnightShield, existing only as an anime-exclusive appearance rather than a retail product.
Stone MountainKnightShield
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Thoughts on an MU Chart Across All Gens?
A member asks whether a community match-up chart, common in other competitive games, could work for Beyblade, and another explains it would be far harder to standardize than in esports because beys are rarely used unmodified and outcomes depend on undecided variables like which stadium and format are assumed.
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Update on Replicas of Rubber Tips
A hobbyist reported finding a 3D-printable TPU material that closely matches the grip of the rubber performance tips used on plastic-generation Beyblades, though the group agreed the result is not licensed for competitive play even once durability is solved.
Rubber tip
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How to Properly Pack Beyblades for Vacation
A traveling player wrote a packing guide for tournament trips and noted that beys bought in Asia carry a QR code under the box flap that can be scanned in the regional Beyblade X app for gacha-style bonus rewards and other point-earning features.
BeyPass
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Kouryaku Ou Issue 22 + Vintage Plastic Gen Tournament Rules Discussion
Transcribes and translates the tournament rules page from a 2002 Takara Kouryaku Ou promotional booklet, documenting the era's launch call, win conditions (ring-out for two points, sleep-out for one, first to three wins), the three-Beyblade knockout match format, and part-modification restrictions such as banning added metal balls.
Kouryaku Ou
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Replicas of Rubber Tips
Describes an ongoing attempt to replicate scarce original Metal Fight rubber performance tips using an alternate material that behaves similarly for attack or defense but is less durable and needs to be broken in by heat and friction before it grips consistently, contrasted with currently available midfake rubber-tip replacements described as inconsistent or poor.
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Beyblade X - Winder Grip Accessories Suggestions
Establishes that 3D-printed grip attachments for string-launcher winders are allowed in competition as long as they don't affect the launcher's function, offered as an alternative to buying pre-made grips.
winder grip
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Reworking My CURB Format
Documents a fan-made Beyblade X tournament format, CURB, extending the community's existing CX/UX/BX line-based CUB format with a fourth 'Remakes' (RX) line, requiring one Attack, Stamina, Defense and Balance bey across the four with no repeated parts, a rock-paper-scissors pick for line order, and Hasbro-only parts excluding Gacha exclusives.
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My new partner. SeraphMeteor 7-60 Rush.
A member shared a custom 3D-printable Beyblade X design intended as an attack-type combo, and discussion covered weight expectations for 3D-printed designs versus genuine Takara Tomy parts (roughly 34g or lower for a TT part, heavier for 3D-printed plastic) and the option of metal filament to add weight, though at significant added cost.
Beyblade X
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A Question for Winder Launcher users
Gives a specific grip-free launch technique for landing a reverse tungsten shot from the X-side, including ripcord placement and launcher tilt.
Winder Launcher
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Suggested Event Modifier: Reversal
Proposes bringing a Keyforge-style 'Reversal' format to Beyblade tournaments, where players hand their build to an opponent each round so the worst combinations get rewarded instead of the best, and it notes such tournaments have already been run in practice.
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Beyblade X launch rules.
Establishes a launch rule: a blader may change their launch position and angle right up until release, as long as they stay within roughly 20 centimetres of the stadium floor and do not interfere with their opponent.
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All MFB Spreadsheet
Announces an in-progress collection-tracking spreadsheet covering every Metal Fight release and recolor, with fields for loose and boxed price estimates and for identifying counterfeit codes.
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cscramon and others ??
A reply establishes that the retailer Beyblade Premier shut down after Hurricane Helene damaged its warehouse and it never recovered, leaving customers with pending orders to resolve through PayPal chargebacks.
Beyblade Premier
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Beyblade Breakage, how much is too much?
Raises whether minor part damage, such as a small shaft crack or a recurring wing crack on a specific remake part, should always force replacement in competitive play, and proposes judges rule case-by-case on whether cracked parts still meet safety and performance standards.
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Beyblade X Draft Format
Describes a fan-invented draft tournament format for Beyblade X, played either by drafting blades, ratchets and bits in separate rounds or all three at once, which lets players use large collections of underused parts instead of only proven competitive combinations; players who tried it report enjoying it.
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Is now the time for a new X format?
Argues the new CX line's roughly 37-38g weight (versus BX's initial 32.5-35g range) is a sign of ongoing power creep that could sideline lighter, earlier parts, and proposes a lighter-weight tournament format; a reply notes the WBO already hit the 40g threshold shortly after with a new release.
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Assist blade on BX and UX?
A reply confirms the Assist Blade cannot be fitted onto the earlier BX or UX systems.
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Who is the main protagonist of beyblade burst
Establishes the succession of main protagonists across the Beyblade Burst anime's seasons, one lead handing off to the next across five stretches of the story.
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Bey theory
Proposes that DranDagger, DranBuster and DranBrave are not one evolving lineage from DranSword but three separate branching upgrades, each carrying forward one DranSword trait, extreme dash, smash attack, or upper attack, in its own direction.
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Beyblade X Compatibility Issue
A blader reports several Hasbro bits resisting rotation on a Takara-Tomy Knight Lance's 4-80 ratchet; one reply says this is deliberate, since attack- and balance-type bits are built with higher burst resistance that makes the ratchet harder to turn, while two other posters instead call it unusual and suspect a manufacturing defect, leaving the cause contested.
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Does deck or 3on3 require more skill?
Distinguishes what each competitive format tests: 3-on-3 rewards building a generalist trio and adapting to unfavourable matchups, while Deck format rewards piloting builds suited to specific roles; concludes neither format demands more overall skill, just different skills.
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All Metal Series Beyblades
Shares a self-compiled list of every Metal Series release using Takara Tomy naming, deliberately leaving out Zero-G and inviting corrections.
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The Trsal Special Winning Combos
Describes a fan-created 3-on-3 format, the Trsal Special, where each player battles one Beyblade per generation in fixed order (Plastic, then Metal Fight, then Burst), scoring one point for an outspin and two for a burst, separation or knockout up to four points, with the loser choosing the next round's generation order.
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Modified Bey Class System - Beyblade X
A New Zealand tournament organizer's Bey Class System (BCS) for Beyblade X splits blades into A, B and C tiers and requires decks to follow one of four fixed tier compositions with no repeated parts, intended to keep dominant blades like Phoenix Wing and Wizard Rod from being doubled up. A companion community survey gathered opinions on how blades should be tiered under this system.
Beyblade XPhoenix WingWizard Rod
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An Analysis of Beyblade Shapes using ImpactDrake and GhostCircle
An attempt, using impulse and momentum, to explain why angular Beyblade shapes transfer more force on impact than rounder ones, reasoning that gaps and protrusions on an angular profile briefly interrupt the bey's own rotation and convert that lost spin into a stronger push against whatever it hits.
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The predicted stamina of GhostCircle
Uses measured gearchip radius against WizardRod and the rotational-momentum relationship (mass times radius squared times angular velocity) to estimate what mass GhostCircle would need to match WizardRod's stamina, concluding GhostCircle's smaller roughly 187-pixel radius versus WizardRod's 214 pixels would require about 45 grams against WizardRod's known 35 grams.
GhostCircleWizardRod
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[HELP!] Portal0 Missing Cobalt Drake from Takara Tomy Asia?
Documents a real problem with Takara Tomy Asia's app prize-redemption pipeline run through a third party: a code redeemed for a Cobalt Drake prize months earlier never arrived, the app never marked anything crossed out even though the codes were logged as redeemed, and a second poster reports the same shortfall across separate Cobalt Drake redemption codes.
Cobalt DrakePortal0
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Discussion: Set Deck List for WBO Events
Proposes a 'Set Deck' rule requiring players to submit their combos ahead of a stage instead of freely swapping between matches, then reports back after actually running an event under the rule and compares the result to another organization's sideboard system.
Wizard RodPhoenix WingShark Edge
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Any 3d printers/beyblade designers out there?
A request for help 3D printing Beyblade X parts, answered with an account of modelling most bit shapes and several ratchet sizes, plus the print settings needed to keep small printed bits usable: thin layers, full infill, and strong bed adhesion.
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Beyblade x Olympics rumors!
Members debunk a rumor that Beyblade X was headed to the Olympics, explaining it would at most be advertised there, and argue Beyblade does not meet Olympic sport criteria because it is treated as a 'mind game' rather than a physical-skill contest, similar to how chess is recognized as a sport but not an Olympic event.
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Quick rulings question for X
When one Beyblade knocks a second into the Overfinish pocket and is then itself knocked into the same pocket by the first Beyblade regaining the stadium, the point goes to whichever Beyblade is still spinning on the stadium floor once the exchange settles.
Overfinish pocket ruling
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I came up with a new format idea for X battles.
Proposes a fan-made tournament format, the 'Dynamic Deck Format', where each player draws blades, ratchets and bits from a shuffled deck of eight of each, builds combos in secret each round, scores points for out-spins/KOs/bursts/win streaks, and must discard and rebuild after a loss until one player reaches 20 points.
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Recent Surge of Sono Kong Phantom Orions
Flags a wave of cheaply priced Sono Kong Phantom Orion beys, a known counterfeit ('midfake') line, appearing on eBay claiming authenticity, and points to a video examination of one such listing as evidence for buyers to stay skeptical of suspiciously low prices.
Phantom OrionSono Kong
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Beyblade x similarities ruling
Discussing whether Hasbro-exclusive Beyblade X parts that closely resemble existing parts (such as Leon Claw and Steel Samurai) should be restricted, members note the WBO has historically left near-identical parts (Shining and Shadow Amaterios in Burst, Wind and DynaF) unrestricted unless they demonstrably disrupt the competitive meta, and expect the same approach here.
Leon ClawSteel SamuraiPhoenixWingTyrannoRoarShining AmateriosShadow Amaterios
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ScoreX Scoring App
Introduces a fan-built scoring web app made as an alternative to plain notes apps for tracking match results; the builder later confirms no version exists for iOS.
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Is it known which countries will get X products ?
States that Beyblade X products were rolling out to the Americas and Europe while Asia already had them, with other regions unconfirmed as of that date in 2024.
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B4's Limited Part Ruling; What's Our General Opinion?
A regional organiser trialled a rule for a single event, not adopted WBO-wide, giving an opponent one automatic point per restricted part used (the CobaltDrake, PhoenixWing and WizardRod blades, the 9-60 ratchet, and the Ball/Orb bits) in matches played to four points, prompting a divided community debate over whether it is a fairer alternative to banning parts outright or an unnecessary copy of the manufacturer's own restricted-parts approach.
CobaltDrakePhoenixWingWizardRod9-60BallOrb
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Beyblade Logo Creation, Animation, Branding... and then some!
A contributor who worked on the original 2002 Beyblade logo and its animated branding shared and later remastered that early design work, which several long-time members recognized as part of the classic television intro.
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Beyblade X Rankings
Establishes that competitive Beyblade X rankings, unlike the WBO's own ranking system used for Metal Fight and Burst, are tracked through the external bracket platform Challonge.
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Beyblade 25th Anniversary Celeberations
Notes that an independent fan group organized events marking 25 years since Beyblade's debut, including an interview with the voice actor who played Kenny/Chief in the original English dub, with further interviews and updates promised.
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Testing and Winning Combos: Project: LIMBO
Describes a fan-created low-budget competitive format called Metal Fight Limbo, built around a banlist meant to let otherwise unused parts see play, with several local round-robin events run under its rules across 2024.
PiscesMeteo L-DragoIIKiller CygnusEscolpioStorm LacertaCyclone Susanow
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Summit Stadium All-In-One Report Thread
Collects community testing and impressions of the fan-made Summit stadium, a purpose-built remake of the discontinued BB-10 arena for Metal Fight Beyblade play, including early owner reports of build quality and a defect on one unit's centre basement.
Summit StadiumBB-10
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is burst classic popular?
Contributors indicate that Burst Classic tournaments mainly attract veteran players because early dual-layer and God-layer parts have become expensive, and that turnout for such an event would depend heavily on local scene size.
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How does X Dash Works
A member asked how the X Dash acceleration effect works, and the reply explained that a gear strip built into the stadium meshes with a gear on the bit of an X-generation bey, causing it to speed up when the two interlock.
X Dash
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General Speculation: How would they make a Jumping bey in Beyblade X?
Traces the 'jumping' gimmick across generations as background for speculation on Beyblade X: spring-based Jumping Base, Cyber Dragoon and Trygle in the Plastics era, Storm Capricorn's M145 track paired with an off-centre Quake tip in Metal Fight, and Mad Minoboros, Hell Salamander and Savior Valkyrie's Quake, Operate and Shot Drivers in Burst.
Jumping BaseCyber DragoonTrygleStorm CapricornM145Quake
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If you were to make your own Beyblade series what would it be?
Replying to a hypothetical-new-series prompt, a member noted the Plastic generation already tried a magnet-based stadium gimmick called Magnacore.
Magnacore
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Summit Stadium: BB-10 Replacement/Alternative for Competitive Play.
Explains how the fan-made Summit stadium was engineered to correct specific mold flaws in the original BB-10 arena, such as uneven wall shaping and an off-centre bowl, and switches to a more eco-conscious plastic than the original's PVC.
Summit StadiumBB-10
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How to Differentiate Your X Beys With a Little Bit of Paint!
A member explained that painting a bey's blade helps tell identical combinations apart at tournaments, and listed the applicable rules: paint must be cosmetic and non-textured so it cannot affect performance, and it is prohibited on any surface where the blade contacts the ratchet or bit.
DranSword
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Organizer
Explained the path to becoming a WBO tournament organizer: study the organizer's and judge's rulebooks, kept as shareable documents, pass a qualifying quiz, complete an interview, then build up experience by hosting events.
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A Question About Weight Distribution
Lays out how centralized, outward, inward and focused weight distributions trade stamina, speed, attack power, defense and burst resistance off against each other.
Xcalius
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Brining Beyblade to America (From Hasbro's lips)
A podcast featuring people who worked on the original series' early North American licensing recounted the early, rocky development of the Plastic Gen line from 2001 to 2007 and the founding of the BBA, though the episode did not cover everything.
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Just started watching surge
States the ages of the two new protagonists introduced in the Beyblade Surge series: Hikaru is 12 and Hyuga is 11.
HikaruHyuga
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Will tt launch beyblade x in North America
Establishes that, as reported in mid-2023, Beyblade X's western release was expected to be manufactured by Takara Tomy with Hasbro acting only as distributor rather than co-manufacturer, unlike the dual-branded Pro Series line, with the North American product described as the same line simply localized.
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The X Over Project
Tracks Takara Tomy's X Over/Crossover Project, a 25th-anniversary initiative remaking classic Beyblades from the Plastic, Metal Fight and Burst generations as Beyblade X toys, including a reader vote among finalists, confirmed development of a Driger Slash reprint, and the BX-00 anniversary set carrying X versions of Storm Pegasus, Victory Valkyrie and Dran Sword.
Storm PegasusVictory ValkyrieDran SwordDriger SlashTrypioDragoon Storm
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would a 360-degree stadium be cool at all?
Replies recall that the Zero-G stadium, a roughly half-sphere design around 170 degrees of curvature, worked well, while an MFB attempt at a fuller spherical stadium played poorly and led to battles lasting only a few seconds.
Zero-G
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Beyblade (Live Action Movie)
As of March 2023, a live-action Beyblade film was in development at Paramount with a named producer and two credited writers attached, though no release date or story details had been announced.
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Takara Tomy Beyblade X - Upcoming Release & Rumor Thread
Explains the X Dash mechanic introduced with Beyblade X, where a rail built into the redesigned stadium engages a gear on the spinning top's axis to produce a burst of acceleration, alongside early impressions of upcoming releases like Hell Scythe and DranSword.
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PNW Title Matches and Challenges Thread
A regional community set up its own recurring title system, the Supreme 4, awarded to the top four finishers of a biannual regional invitational and defendable through open challenge matches, with title-holders guaranteed re-entry to the next invitational regardless of qualifying results.
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3d Printed Beyblade Format
Proposes a rules framework for a 3D-printed beyblade format, including a weight cap, a limit on metal content, required screw-in teeth and breakage disqualification, and records a real regional organizer's interest in building a post-pandemic league around the idea.
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Should bending parts by hand count as illegal modification?
Questions whether the rulebook's exemption for hand-adjusting parts should still stand, since it is understood to let one part be bent to raise its burst resistance beyond stock; lists several other parts the same trick could apply to and weighs whether the advantage is unfair to players who don't know the technique.
Vanguard
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Stadium mod legality
Establishes a suggested method of reducing stadium sliding during battle by placing the stadium on rubber drawer liner inside a cardboard box, deemed acceptable as long as it does not alter the play surface itself.
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Should Every Nexus "Evolution" Be Considered A Different Part?
Debates whether a disc's variant attachments should count as separate parts for deckbuilding limits, weighing the case that the base disc stays the same against the case that the added gear changes how it performs; raised because of a shortage of distinct low-mode disc options at the time.
Nexus
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Auldey's "counterfeit" Beyblades?
Collectors examine reproduction classic-series Beyblades made by Auldey and, from unlicensed-looking packaging, an unfamiliar blade-base shape, and softer, flaking parts, conclude they are unlicensed reproductions rather than a tie-in product, distinct from Auldey's separately branded lines like King of Warrior and Infinity Nado; one poster dates a shift from these reproductions to Auldey's own branded knockoffs to around 2005.
AmphilyonWolborgSeaborg 2DranzerDragoon SKing of Warrior
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Reviving Original Beyblade/Petition to continue Beyblade Rising
Reports that 'Beyblade Rising,' a continuation of the original manga written by original creator Takao Aoki, ran for around 17 chapters years after the original anime ended before stalling, and that a wave of fan interest years later, largely from people unaware it existed, led to talk of organizing a petition for its revival.
Beyblade Rising
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Let's Get Rid Of Ranked And Unranked Tournaments And Replace Them With...
Proposes reclassifying the WBO's ranked and unranked tournament split into Professional and Amateur tiers so unconventional-format events, such as Hypersphere-only or wide-stadium-only, could still carry a ranking; debated at length without the community reaching a resolution.
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Weak superking chips
Several owners separately reported Superking and GT chips snapping at their teeth or posts, naming a Lucifer2 chip, a dragon-line chip, Wyvern, Solomon and a Helios2 chip as ones that broke, pointing to a fragile joint design rather than a single bad copy.
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Printing DB core locks
3D-printed replacement locks for a DB core wear out quickly and shred within a few battles, so bladers are advised to salvage the screws and clips from an existing core instead, with polycarbonate filament suggested as the more durable option if printing is attempted anyway.
DB core
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Places to buy TT beys in North Carolina
In answering where to buy Takara-Tomy Beyblades in North Carolina, a member stated that Takara-Tomy Beyblades have never been sold through American retail stores, unlike Hasbro's line.
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Question?
Whether Greatest Raphael's halo armour rises during a battle has no bearing on whether the outcome counts, since no Beyblade's gimmick is required to activate for a battle to be valid; gimmicks that do activate, such as the halo, simply need to be reset before the next battle.
Greatest Raphael
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How to launch a Never driver (worn) properly?
Describes a specific launch technique for a worn Never driver: aiming the launch so the Beyblade hits the stadium wall first, said to work better on partially worn than fully domed copies of the part.
Never
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Best Light L/R Ripcord Launchers?
Answering a question about a specific ripcord launcher's durability, a poster recommends string-pull launchers over ripcord types generally, calling ripcords outclassed, and names a specific bundled launcher as a way to get a durable string launcher.
B-112 LauncherSpriggan RequiemSavior ValkyriePower Gear DB Launcher
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0 star 00 ?
Explains that a disc showing zero stars has the same base shape as a four-star disc but is left unmilled on every side, making it heavier while keeping the weight evenly balanced, at a small cost to burst resistance.
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Newboy beys
Members explained that a Middle Eastern distributor repackaged genuine Takara-Tomy products for regional release, and in at least one case relabelled a Hasbro-exclusive set by covering the original branding with stickers, rather than producing unlicensed beys of its own.
Newboy
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What are everyone's opinions on the XTS Beyblades, as well as Beywheelz?
Community discussion establishes that Hasbro's XTS line served as an outlet for gimmick technology such as Electro Battlers with a real-time RPM readout and IR Control, kept separate from the main Beyblade toy line, while Beywheelz is remembered as a distinct, highly durable racing-and-battling spin-off whose gameplay was weak but which was fun to use outside conventional play, such as launching them across floors or racing them outdoors.
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Where Is Bellfire In any of the newest beyblade anime
Establishes that Destruction Belfyre, also called Dynamite Belial, only appears from the anime's Dynamite Battle/QuadDrive season onward, since that is when its owning character was introduced, which is why it is absent from the preceding Rise, Turbo and Surge seasons.
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Should Unbranded Grips be allowed in WBO events?
Proposes allowing cheaper unbranded launcher grips in sanctioned play, arguing a grip alone gives no competitive edge; the main objection raised is that permitting them could be read as endorsing the counterfeit shops suspected of also selling untested, potentially unsafe Beyblade parts.
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discussing the possible new remakes (the rest of the v2s, g, wolborg 2)
Contributors report that the manga artist behind the remake chapters said they were discontinued due to low sales, ending speculation over which new drivers parts like Wolborg 2, Dragoon GT and Draciel G would have received.
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DB Launcher Problem
Explains that a DB Launcher failing to retract in right-spin mode is usually a lubrication or reassembly issue, fixed by disassembling it and lightly oiling the internal gear with synthetic lubricant or white lithium grease rather than petroleum-based oil, which gums up with debris over time; cites the WBO rule that launcher lubrication is one of the few explicitly permitted equipment modifications.
DB Launcher
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Flick-String Launching Should Be Illegal
A proposal to ban flick-string launching (releasing the string with a wrist/elbow flick) over tangling and minor-injury risk draws sustained pushback; the consensus among long-time players is that the technique is legal, gives no competitive advantage, and has even extended the working life of some string launchers.
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Beyblade Burst App Update: Beybits
Reports that a paid in-app store was added to the Beyblade Burst companion app for cosmetic skins and effects, and records the community split between calling it an unwelcome monetization move and shrugging it off as optional and harmless.
Beyblade Burst appBeybits
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Battle Royale / Large Stadium Ideas
Answering a question about building a home battle-royale setup, a poster recommends a large hobby stadium and notes its surface starts out rough enough that wetting it with a towel a few times smooths play until it wears in naturally.
DECAGONE Stadium
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A Change to Metal Drivers?!
Traces a manufacturing problem in Superking-era Metal drivers, where the metal cap's tabs cracked the plastic teeth on layers, chips and chassis, and reports that Takara Tomy rounded and shortened those tabs starting with the Metal Drift and Metal Universe releases, resolving the breakage.
Metal SurviveMetal DestroyMetal XtremeMetal DriftMetal Universe
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Belial II DB Core Burst Stopper Difficulty? Malfunction? Broken? How to fix
A poster's core burst stopper became increasingly difficult to push in and was eventually diagnosed by other posters as physically broken from being pressed the wrong way; the correct method is rotating the layer counterclockwise while turning the disc clockwise rather than pushing down on the stopper directly.
Belial II
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Beyblade Collection Web App
A pair of fans began building a free web app to track a personal Beyblade collection and wishlist, with an early working version letting users mark owned parts, view stats, and move items between a collection and wishlist tab.
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What happened to Slingshock wave 8
Establishes that a purported Hasbro Slingshock wave 8, said to include Driger F, Wolborg, a green Spiral Treptune, and a blue Balar, has never actually been found by collectors despite a Hasbro claim that it existed, leaving it an unresolved release mystery.
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Poll: WBO Driver Variant Rule
The WBO adopts a rule limiting deck-format decks to only one version of a given Driver (regular, Dash, SlingShock, Hypersphere, Metal, High, and so on), after debate over whether variant parts should be restricted at all. A later post compiles Standard Format tournament results since the rule took effect, showing stamina Drivers largely unchanged in usage while few attack Drivers besides Guilty and Ultimate see real competitive play.
Driver variant ruleMDrBr'Zn'+ZGuiltyUltimate
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Prominence Phoenix mode change?
A ruling clarifies that Prominence Phoenix's armour swap between its two modes counts as a mode change without disassembly, so it can be changed at any point before a match begins or between rounds, unlike parts whose mode change requires taking the Beyblade apart, which must instead be set before inspection and can only be changed once for the rest of the match.
Prominence Phoenix
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Are All Beyblade Retailers Honest With Their Blind Boosters?
An account of opening nine Vol. 26 blind boosters without landing the prize bey, raising concern that large retailers could weigh boxes to pull out prize-containing ones before selling the rest at full price; replies countered with a box-weight comparison across fourteen Vol. 25 boosters showing only about a two-gram spread, and a way to spot re-taped boxes as a sign a booster had already been opened and resealed.
Blind Booster Vol. 25Blind Booster Vol. 26Roar BahamutCyclone RagnarukDynamite ValkyrieDevil Belial
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Is this Jolt Driver Fake?
A driver colorway that looked suspicious was traced by the community to a specific Takara Tomy set, the BA-03 Cho-Z Battle Set (bundled with Bloody Longinus 13 Jolt White, Z Achilles 11 Xtend Purple, two light launchers and a black standard stadium), confirming it as genuine rather than counterfeit.
Jolt'Bloody LonginusZ Achilles
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Dear WBO Staff
A community member urges organization leadership to bring active organizers and top competitors into decisions about competitive formats, citing recent debate over 3v3, P3C1 and stadium testing; staff respond that a ranked test event and consolidating on one standardized stadium are both under consideration.
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Should we ban the Karma disc?
Raises a breakage concern about one disc's alternating, wide, exposed spikes after a video showed it cracking an opponent's part, arguing its shape and weight make it more likely to cause damage than a similar older disc; a deliberately worst-case follow-up test against a soft target produced only minor marking rather than a break.
Karma disc
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WBO First Stage 3v3 Deck Format with built in solution for the consecutive draws
Proposed a 3v3 deck-ordering format with a reshuffle mechanic to resolve repeated draws in first-stage matches, then recorded participant and judge feedback from an actual event finding the ruleset workable but confusing to officiate and less strategic in practice than intended.
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Has Driver/Part Awakening Gone to Far?
Debates where legitimate part 'awakening' through wear ends and illegal damage begins, landing on the idea that wear is fine only until surfaces never meant to touch start making contact, citing a driver worn down until its free-spinning tip sits at ground level and another worn flat enough to lose its centre tip while staying just inside the legal minimum.
JustDriftEvolutionQuest
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Beyblade Burst GT Format Voting (BGT)
Documents a community-proposed competitive ruleset built on an existing banlist with Hasbro parts explicitly included, and records members beginning to test and refine it before any organizer adopted it formally.
Burst GT Format (BGT)
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Place to help each other find certain products
Members traded leads on finding hard-to-source Takara-Tomy releases like Random Booster Vol. 7 and Acid Anubis, naming a handful of import-friendly retailers as more trustworthy for newcomers than larger marketplaces where counterfeits are more of a risk.
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Metal saga preservation and recreation
A member proposed documenting Metal Saga part measurements and 3D-model files on the Beyblade wiki so fans could print replicas of discontinued parts; other members clarified that 3D-printed and other fake parts are not permitted in WBO tournament play, though they remain fine for casual, non-WBO battles.
Metal Saga parts
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Freestyle Blading
A proposal for a single tournament spanning every Beyblade generation is judged unworkable by longtime members, who argue Metal Fight's spin times and defense outclass Plastics and HMS, and that Beyblades able to burst are inherently disadvantaged against ones that cannot, making cross-generation matches fundamentally unbalanced.
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Making a 3D printable Rev Up Launcher
A design engineer sets out to digitize and 3D-print the discontinued Rev Up Launcher before the design is lost, seeking an original unit to scan; another poster points to a hobbyist group that had already filmed repairing one and modifying it to work with Burst-generation parts.
Rev Up Launcher
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THE RETURN OF BAKUTEN/PLASTICS
Describes an independent fan effort using 3D printing and stainless-steel weight discs to physically produce Plastics-generation Beyblade designs that appeared in the anime but were never actually released as toys.
UnicolyonTortoise Grenade
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Beyblade Burst Battle Zero
Explains that unlocking the final Variable driver variants in a mobile battle game takes heavy repeated use of the base driver to reach a first awoken stage, then further use to reach the final stage, with each new variant leveling up again from scratch.
Beyblade Burst Battle ZeroVariable
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Thoughts on this HyperSphere Format Ruleset?
A member proposes a ruleset for HyperSphere-stadium-only tournaments that bans non-Hasbro layers and post-Hasbro discs, and members debate the idea, note which Hasbro-version discs like Hurricane, Python, Lore and Swipe behave differently from their Takara-Tomy counterparts, and separately compare which layer-driver combinations best resist bursting in HyperSphere stadiums.
HyperSphereHurricanePythonLoreSwipeAir Knight k5
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Planning on creating Hasbro Only Tournaments
In discussing a proposed Hasbro-only event, members noted Hasbro-only play already exists as an established tournament format with a history of past events, and that it shares the same ranking pool as the other Burst formats rather than getting a separate leaderboard.
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Tips for getting the best launches (and types of shooting techniques)
Members compare launch techniques, describing a standard flat launch and a self-invented vertical launch that tilts the launcher for attack types, and another argues only a stable flat launch and the Sliding Shoot are really needed since more elaborate techniques tend to fail.
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Favorite Launcher As of Now
Ranks current Burst launchers from hands-on use: the Dynamite Battle L/R launcher is favoured for its strong gear-driven torque and durability, the Master Diabolos and Sparking launchers are named as reliable predecessors, and ripcord launchers are said to wear out under strong or aggressive pulls.
Dynamite Battle LauncherMaster DiabolosSparking LauncherDigital Sword Launcher
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Should the legal stadiums change as the size of Beyblades change?
Weighs whether the long-standing standard stadium is now too small for the larger parts of the newest line, comparing it against a redesigned stadium with a deeper middle ring, one fewer pocket, and more open space near the walls, and calls for organized side-by-side launch testing before any change to tournament equipment.
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Standardized rule set for custom Beys
Proposes a hypothetical rule set for home-made or 3D-printed custom Beyblade parts (an 80mm size limit, a maximum of three tool-free-removable components, launchability from a standard launcher), but replies conclude the WBO does not run custom-part tournaments because enforcing such rules (what counts as one part versus several, how to treat breakages) is too difficult to standardize in practice.
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Thoughts and concerns on Single Bey Format?
A member lays out three alternative first-stage tournament formats to the standard Single Bey Format — Pick 3 Choose 1, a full WBO Deck format, and Hasbro's WBBA 3v3 — arguing Single Bey rewards scouting opponents' combos and guessing over skill, and other members weigh the fairness and complexity trade-offs of each alternative.
Single Bey FormatPick 3 Choose 1WBO DeckWBBA 3v3
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Difference between Hasbro and TT parts (disks and drivers) Please read
Compares how the licensee's parts diverge from the original manufacturer's across the line's history: softer plastic and altered slopes in the early single/double-layer era, dropped god chips at the next stage, then progressively removed chassis and chip-core systems and reshaped, more aggressive performance tips moving toward the most recent generation.
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Questions/Comments about the Crunchyroll video on Beyblade
A streaming service's history-of-Beyblade video used footage from a WBO member's own channel after a producer contact asked to reuse it, which explains why that member is credited at the end of the video.
Crunchyroll Beyblade retrospective video
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Strongest Bey
Opinions on the strongest Beyblade by type at the time (Blitz Striker for attack, Phantom Orion for stamina, Death Quetzalcoatl or Twisted Tempo for defense, Diablo Nemesis for balance), alongside a discussion noting Judgement's stock combo is held back by its core disc's poor recoil handling despite the layer itself being considered very good.
Blitz StrikerPhantom OrionDeath QuetzalcoatlTwisted TempoDiablo NemesisJudgement
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Transitioning from MFB to Burst
A returning MFB fan asks what to buy getting into Burst, and a member who moved between both eras explains the two brands are incompatible, that later Burst releases feel cheaper and looser than MFB, and that later Burst series rarely burst at all, undercutting the generation's core gimmick, while a third adds that the LR String launcher is a strong, affordable option.
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Important minor changes to the Takara Tomy Original Codes Metal Series
Explains how to decode the manufacturing date codes printed on Metal Fight Beyblade packaging, a letter for the month plus two digits each for day and year, and lists many specific dated codes for named Metal Fight releases, plus a note that mis-produced Taiwan-made units with different alloys carried similar codes.
Storm PegasusLightning L-DragoEarth EagleDiablo Nemesis
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When not to 'Dash' Driver
Explains that WBO and WBBA deck rules treat the dash and standard versions of the same driver as different parts, so both can sit in one deck, and recommends putting non-dash drivers on double-chassis Beyblades, which already resist bursting, so the dash version stays free for a Beyblade that needs the extra burst protection more.
Dash driverDestroy driverQuick driverAnchor driverRage Longinus Ds 3AImperial Dragon 00 Expand Ds'
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do you like TT or hasbro better?
Contributors compare Takara Tomy and Hasbro releases, arguing Takara Tomy generally has the stronger build and look while Hasbro's identically priced-in-Japan items get marked up overseas through shipping and margin, alongside an ongoing disagreement over whether power creep in new releases is healthy or just makes older top parts irreplaceable.
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Beyblade experiments to try at home
Catalogues home experiments with Beyblade stadiums: launching into a flour-lined stadium to visualize spin patterns, using metal woks or pan lids as makeshift stadiums (with posters warning that steep curves raise the risk of self-knockouts and that a broken wok is an expensive loss), and launching into water for the visual effect.
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The "Metal" drivers
Explains community concern over drivers with metal tab tops introduced alongside Death Solomon: because they run tighter than dash drivers while wearing against chassis teeth made for softer contact, several posters report teeth damage even on older, low-tier drivers reclassified into this metal group.
Death Solomon
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Takara Tomy Original Codes Metal Series 09.01.21
Lists genuine production codes for several Metal Series Beyblades alongside separate codes seen on copies with alloy or quality differences, and explains how to read a code's factory letter, production week and year to help judge whether a copy looks genuine.
Scythe KronosBig Bang PegasusGravity PerseusRay StrikerDeath QuetzalcoatlDiablo Nemesis
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Beyblade Launching Physics, Adults vs Children
Members reasoned through why children and adults can launch competitively, noting that rpm gains require quadrupling energy for each doubling (narrowing any strength advantage) and that launcher type, string versus ripcord, affects consistency more than raw power.
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Midfake Beyblade Discussion and Information
Members compiled identifying traits of counterfeit 'midfake' Beyblades sold in genuine-looking Takara Tomy packaging during the Metal Fight era: a faded box finish, a distinctive box-bottom code, jagged fusion-wheel edges, and stamped codes on the underside of the fusion wheel rather than in the usual prong location on legitimate copies. Replies also decoded the box manufacturing-plant/week/year code format and cross-referenced it against genuine Takara Tomy product codes for several releases.
Gravity PerseusRay StrikerRock Zurafa
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Beyblade Promotionals (Resturants, Etc.)
Beyblade has had food-chain promotional tie-ins across more than one generation: Burger King ran a promotion during the Metal Fight Beyblade era and McDonald's ran one for Beyblade Burst Evolution, and a poster also notes a dedicated Beyblade Bar exists in Japan.
Burger King promoMcDonald's promoBeyblade Bar
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Eternal Driver Weardown
Compares driver durability for competitive use: Orbit, Atomic and Bearing barely wear because their contact point keeps rolling or free-spinning, Massive wears very slowly despite its dome shape, and Eternal is described as behaving like Low, growing more stable as it wears down.
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flame. (this is a rant)
Members describe Flame as a counterfeit/knock-off Beyblade brand that online lead tests reportedly flagged as containing lead, prompting one buyer to switch to genuine tops from other sellers, while other posters pushed back that no one has been confirmed harmed by Flame products.
Flame
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Warning for all Helios Volcano Owners
Explained that a Volcano-gimmick layer's spring wears from being over-extended each time it is left in its pre-activation position, and that leaving it relaxed when not in use slows that wear; follow-up replies added that spring wear from repeated compression is a general trait of gimmick layers, not unique to this one.
Helios Volcano
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Beyblade strategies
Members describe the 'gatayaki'/sniping technique of trying to land directly on an opponent's Beyblade, and clarify that WBO tournament rules still require both players to launch at the same time, so the technique works by predicting the opponent's trajectory rather than by launching late.
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Hasbro pro teeth wear
A member documented that Hasbro's Pro Series Burst parts are inconsistent even against copies of themselves, and other posters reported the driver teeth wear down to noticeably weaker after roughly ten battles; one poster also noted Pro Series parts fit counterfeit drivers just as easily as genuine ones, taken as a mark against the product's build tolerances.
Pro Series
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Beyblade dead in the UK
Traces the retail decline of Beyblade Burst in the UK, naming which chains, including Toys R Us, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Smyths and Hamleys, carried which parts of the line and roughly when each stopped stocking it, with posters attributing the drop-off to high booster prices (up to fourteen pounds) and thin marketing rather than lack of interest.
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Pro Series beys in Hasbro only format and in customization
Hasbro's Pro Series Beyblades are heavier than the rest of Hasbro's Burst line and use the same teeth-based drive system as Takara Tomy parts, making them incompatible with standard Hasbro-only combinations. Whether they belong in the cross-compatible standard format or need their own is debated without resolution, with one side arguing they are not yet competitive enough for it to matter.
Pro Series (Hasbro)
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New Stadium design
A member building a large custom wooden battle stadium worked through slope and surface choices with others who had attempted similar builds, settling on steepening the incline further from the centre to keep beys from wandering out, and weighing 3D-printed parts against epoxy coating for the surface.
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Disc Weight Average weight
Reports an ongoing project measuring disc and chassis weights to test whether a part's star marking correlates with its mass, finding no such correlation in the data gathered so far.
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Beyblade Burst Dynamite Battle Discussion and News
Introduces the Dynamite Battle season and its Odyssey System parts structure, chip, wheel, ring and core layer pieces plus a returning chassis layer, alongside the season's returning and new characters and beys.
Dynamite BattleOdyssey System
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Beyblade Named Rule
Citing a Takara-Tomy naming announcement, members worked out the standardized short-form notation for writing a full Beyblade combo name, covering how layer, disk, driver, and sparking chip names are abbreviated and how armored versus non-armored chassis variants are distinguished.
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[PBA] Info regarding the Phenomenon called "Draciel Syndrome"
A member coined "Draciel Syndrome" for a recoil-damage pattern in Beyblades with many exposed, thinly-supported points -- most visible on Draciel-line pieces -- where an opponent's bey catches in the gaps and causes heavy recoil or breakage; other posters noted the same shape issue in later-era wheels like Leone/Counter, Divine, and Poison, though tougher materials and Burst's rotating layers reduce the effect.
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Beyblade Election
In 2020, Corocoro ran a postcard vote letting readers pick which existing Beyblade character line would receive a further upgrade, and members debated which established lines were included in or excluded from the ballot.
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Cleaning beyblades
Explains that the zinc-based metal on Beyblades naturally tarnishes rather than getting dirty, and that polishing (commercial metal polish, automotive rubbing compound, or a foil-salt-vinegar soak) scrapes away the oxidized layer to restore shine, while stored silica gel packets slow further oxidation.
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How does a Beyblade Burst fall apart during battle?
A student researching Beyblade for a physics project asked how the Burst mechanism works, and replies explained that a hit stops the outer layer while the disc and driver beneath keep turning, advancing a spring-loaded tooth mechanism until it passes a locking point and the parts separate; harder launches were said to raise burst risk mainly from wall impacts in same-spin battles.
Drain FafnirBlast JinniusGuardian Kerbeus Wheel Bear
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How to make a defense beyblade aggressive and spin steal.
Documents a putty modification (applied to the energy layer's contact points) meant to make a defense-type spin-steal, along with the pushback it drew: that the mod was already known, that it causes excessive friction bursting nicknamed 'Judgement' syndrome, and that it only really works against left-spin opponents.
Unlock Unicorn.D.N
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List 2B Layer ModesAttack/Defense/Both
Documents which SuperKing energy layers lock into a fixed Attack mode versus a free-spinning Defense mode when paired with the 2B chassis, based on whether the layer carries a Sword Ring (locked) or Shield Ring (free-spin), sourced to a translated developer social-media post explaining the mechanic.
Infinity Achilles
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WBBA Rule Update 09/2020
A translated September 2020 rule update simplified the ring-out definition to contact with the ground outside the stadium and required parts that deform on impact to be restored to their original shape before the next launch.
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Resell of Corocoro Mail Order Bey
Reports that Takara Tomy resold several beys originally exclusive to past CoroCoro magazine mail orders, including Gold God Bey, Legend God Bey, Shadow Orichalcum and Cho Z Loyal King Spriggan, through a QR-code order system starting mid-September 2020, and that buyers outside Japan needed a third-party proxy shipping service such as ZenMarket to receive them.
Gold God BeyLegend God BeyShadow OrichalcumCho Z Loyal King Spriggan
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Sparking Launchers are durable?
Reports mixed, apparently random durability of Takara Tomy's Sparking-generation string launchers, with some breaking after a single pull and others lasting years of regular use; consensus is that a straight, moderate pull rather than hard or angled yanking extends launcher life, and the cZA or Master Diabolos launchers are suggested as sturdier alternatives.
Sparking LaunchercZA launcherMaster Diabolos launcher
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The Friction Experiment
Documents a video experiment using a custom all-rubber 'Perfect Friction' driver to isolate how much of the Flower Pattern/Rush Launch and Tornado Stalling/Flash Shot launch techniques depends on tip friction versus launch power, running twenty timed launches per technique at two power levels.
Rush LaunchFlash Shot
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Home play formats?
A parent described several home formats devised to keep casual play engaging over time: a rotating family league with drafted teams, a King of the Hill format awarding a point for three straight wins, skill challenges like counting laps completed on one launch, and an outdoor two-bey catch game aimed at bursting the opponent's top in mid-air, plus an untested idea for a hero-versus-team elimination format.
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I found S5 and R5 Dual Pack
Reports finding the Hasbro Lord Spryzen S5 and Roktavor R5 dual-spin pack in stores, with posters noting Roktavor's stamina can beat Spryzen's, and explaining that Hasbro likely gave Spryzen a switchable-direction base while Devolos D5 needed two separate fixed-direction bases instead because of how each toy's mechanism was built.
Lord Spryzen S5Roktavor R5Devolos D5
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Worst Fails In Beyblade Over The Years!
Establishes that Takara Tomy widened Xcalibur's teeth in a production change never carried over to the basic layers released after it, and frames Zero-G's Synchrome pairs as a way to encourage buying two Beyblades to match the prior generation's power level, with the decision to make Hasbro and Takara Tomy parts incompatible named as one of the franchise's biggest missteps.
XcaliburSynchromeZero-G
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Japanese bladers approach to blading compared to everyone else
Explains that the WBO's decklist rules differ structurally from Japan's WBBA rules: WBBA fixes each side's bey order in advance (first-bey-vs-first-bey and so on) while the WBO allows counterpicking mid-match, and WBBA scores knockouts as worth two points, which together explain why the two regions' popular tournament combos diverge.
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Takara tomy vs Hasbro beyblades - Why they are so different
Lays out a business case for why Takara Tomy beys and events stay largely confined to Asia while Hasbro serves the rest of the world, arguing it comes down to Takara Tomy treating Beyblade as one line among many toys rather than building around it, leaving international demand mostly to resellers.
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Measuring Beyblade Moment of Inertia
A mechanical engineer builds a twisting pendulum rig to physically measure a part's moment of inertia rather than estimate it from mass alone, and the community works through what the resulting numbers do and do not predict about spin endurance.
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NIB Wholesale Beyblade Quality Theory
Multiple members reported consistent, specific manufacturing defects (flattened rubber tips lacking the normal dimple, a differently shaped Storm wheel mold, crooked or excess plastic on 4D parts) from a handful of named wholesale sellers offering seemingly endless stock of long-discontinued Metal Fight Beyblades, leading to a theory that an unauthorized factory was producing unlicensed Beyblades using Takara Tomy's molds and branding; a later update reported negative lab results for lead in painted parts tested from several of these wholesale purchases.
Storm PegasusWing Pegasus4D Beyblades
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Hey Parents! Answers to your WBO Tournament questions!
A staff-compiled parent FAQ establishes several WBO policy facts: there are no age divisions and young children have reached top-8 finals, judges and organizers are unpaid volunteers who may also compete, entry costs vary by venue and are posted per tournament thread, and standings run on an Elo-style BeyRank system where beating a lower-ranked opponent earns only a few points.
BeyRank
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B-165 and B-166 New Launchers
New string launcher sets are reported to deliver noticeably more launch power with less pulling effort than existing L/R string launchers, though they retract more slowly; posters explain the launchers' clicking ratchet mechanism intentionally caps launch force and RPM to keep competitive launches even and protect layers from breakage, at the cost of wearing down over time.
B-165B-166Cho-Z AchillesMaster Diabolos
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Strageties For Left Spin Beys
Establishes that left-spin Beyblades can spin-steal from right-spin opponents just as right-spin Beyblades can spin-steal from left-spin ones (illustrated by two opposite-spin Lord Spriggan combos with identical parts stopping at the same time), countering a belief that only one spin direction could do it; no rotation direction is considered inherently superior, with outcomes instead coming down to part quality and manufacturing variance.
Lord Spriggan
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New WBBA rules - 5G Battle Format
Members worked out the specifics of a newly announced battle format: three-point matches using five combos per player, revised point values for bursts, knockouts and spin-outs, level chips usable more than once per battle, and a limit of one spin-direction-changing part per player with no other part repeats allowed.
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Next generation of Beyblade?
Members traced which generations carried a named secondary system alongside the core toy line, Plastics with its magnet-based system and Metal Fight with Zero-G, and noted that Burst was the only generation without one, relying instead on end-of-season character gimmicks.
MagnacoreZero-GBurst StoppersInfinite Lock System
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what do you do with fake beyblades
A long, repetitive argument over counterfeit beyblades never reaches agreement: one side claims fakes carry excess lead in the metal and paint that battling can release as airborne particles, while the other counters that a bey tip is not strong enough to chip and scatter it that way, leaving the safety question contested rather than settled.
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Petition to make Hasbro's Beyblade Burst World Championship 2019 better
The WBO's founder explained that the organization exists because past petitioning of Hasbro over tournament age limits and stadium quality drew responses but no real action, so pressure campaigns aimed at the publisher were judged to accomplish little on their own.
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i have some issues in the beyblade community in the philippines
Contributors explain that the WBO mainly fills gaps in regions where Takara Tomy's own regional distributor-run tournament body is weak, that it holds less appeal where that body already has a strong presence such as Japan and Singapore, and that many Filipino bladers who attend local distributor-run events know about that body but not about the WBO, whose value there is mainly informational rather than event-organizing.
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No Beys in Slovakia and Czech Republic
Members from several Central and Eastern European countries confirmed that Beyblade Burst never had a licensed release there, including Poland despite the earlier Metal Saga generation having been popular in the region.
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Awakened Volcanic?
Posters describe 'awakening' the Volcanic driver by launching it repeatedly, sometimes 150 to well over 1,000 times depending on the mould and surface, until full-power flat launches stop self-knockouts, bank launches settle quickly in the centre, and the driver stays upright as it runs down.
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Homemade Xtend+
A member built their own version of the Xtend+ driver by modifying a standard driver after their original Z Achilles was damaged in use; replies distinguished the build as a modification rather than a legitimate stock combination, which is why it was moved out of the customization board.
Xtend+Z Achilles
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Kerbeus GT Upgrade
Clarifies that Kerbeus's on-screen owner changed from Ken (King Kerbeus) to Kyle (Hazard Kerbeus), and that there is no further GT-era Kerbeus upgrade; the equivalent GT character instead became Bushin Ashura.
King KerbeusHazard KerbeusBushin Ashura
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Spriggan requiem's teeth.
Establishes that Spriggan Requiem's driver teeth were widely believed to wear down quickly, but replies say this was overblown: the part does not meaningfully wear from ordinary teeth loss the way people feared from its layered-rubber gimmick, and that owners wanting mint condition should keep a separate display copy since all Beyblade parts wear with battle use regardless.
Spriggan Requiem
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Attack Bey launch strategy
Contributors lay out named launch techniques for attack types: bank shooting (angling the launcher's top away from the body while tracing the stadium's outer edge to repeatedly clip the centre in a flower pattern), flat shooting against a mobile opponent, weak shooting against a harder-launching opposite-spin opponent, and reduced-power launches to avoid self-knockout with aggressive drivers like Destroy and Xtreme'.
Xtreme'Quick'DestroySpiral'Cho-Z Valkyrie
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[Product] BA-04 Asia Limited Cho-Z Achilles White Knight Ver.
The BA-04 Asia Limited Cho-Z Achilles White Knight Ver. set, limited to Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan, includes a white-and-blue Cho-Z Achilles layer, a blue 00 disc and a Platinum Dimension driver, priced at 29000 won in Korea and slightly less at an Asia Championships store.
BA-04 Asia Limited Cho-Z Achilles White Knight Ver.Cho-Z Achilles
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Purchase Advice TT Stadium
A genuine Takara Tomy stadium has the word engraved into the top of all three exits, a detail buyers are told to check for alongside suspiciously low prices when judging whether a listed stadium is real.
TT Beystadium B-33TT Beystadium B-09
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Concept for Beyblades after GT
Proposes reviving MFB-style height-adjustable driver tracks for the Burst/GT era, but a reply argues this works against Burst's design because Burst combos rely on direct layer-on-layer contact to cause bursts, making height changes far less consequential than they were in the older, stamina-focused systems.
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Beyblade toys at burgerking 2019
Burger King gave out small Beyblade spinner toys with kids' meals in the UK in 2019, and members confirm the same promotion later reached US locations.
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How to always get a prize bey in a Random booster? booster
Members discussed identifying the rarer prize bey inside Random Booster packaging, explaining that Takara Tomy once printed a distinguishing engraving near the barcode on the box but discontinued it and began evening out box weights during the God Layer era, leaving a full 24-unit case, guaranteed to hold three complete sets, as the only certain way to get one.
Random BoosterBlack Spriggan Requiem
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Making Beyblade Accessible to Everyone (or at least try to) (Read The First Post)
A poster raises the problem that a standard launcher needs two working hands, and replies work through concrete fixes: a second person holding the launcher as a team effort, or a weighted, rubber-footed stand that lets one free hand pull the cord alone.
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Beyhunting in Taipei, Taiwan
A visitor's shopping guide to Taipei names department store chains that stocked recent Beyblade releases at fixed MSRP, notes that hobby shops carry older or exclusive releases at marked-up prices, and reports that specific store branches enforced per-person purchase limits (two Wizard Fafnir, eight Random Booster 15) and kept RB15 boxes behind the counter to stop pre-opening.
Wizard FafnirRandom Booster 15
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The Differences Between WBO WBBA (Meta Wise and Tournament Style)
Lays out how WBBA tournaments in Asia differ structurally from WBO events: mid-air knockouts and burst count differently, last-spin ties are judged more strictly, and events are graded G1 through G4 by scale, with G1 serving as qualification for regional and world championships; deck format there requires three Beyblades battled in a fixed box order.
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Customisable in the Layer- GT LAYER Weight
Discusses the then-new GT Layer Weight 'Gachi Chip' system, where a small interchangeable chip sandwiches between the upper and lower halves of a Layer, and notes the WBO ruled that swapping chips counts as a mode change requiring disassembly under tournament rules.
Gachi ChipDranzer F
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FREE THE 12!!!
Recounts why the 12 disc was pulled: its near-weightless design let combos reach very high speed but also let them shatter opponents' parts on contact, and posters argue that risking expensive layers every match makes it unsuitable outside a frame-restricted or casual setting.
12
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Anime Moves in real life...
A running technique-analysis series working out which anime-inspired moves hold up in real play: it traces the Geist counter to the Absorb driver's wide, free-spinning tilt tolerance combined with Geist Fafnir's rubber-covered layer stealing spin on contact, and separately breaks down the Perfect Ricochet, an intentional bank off the stadium wall used to redirect a stationary bey into an attack line, noting it fell out of favour once Burst-era self-bursting made the risk too high.
Geist counterAbsorb driverGeist FafnirPerfect Ricochet
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[Product] BA-03 Asia Limited Cho-Z Battle Set
The BA-03 Asia Limited Cho-Z Battle Set, sold only in Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan, pairs a purple-coloured Z Achilles with a white-coloured Bloody Longinus, a purple right-spin light launcher and a white left-spin light launcher, plus a black standard stadium, retailing for roughly 45 US dollars in Hong Kong.
BA-03 Asia Limited Cho-Z Battle SetZ AchillesBloody Longinus
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Possible Defects with Young Toys (Korean) B-88 Beylauncher LR
A Korean-market version of the B-88 LR launcher is reported to use a noticeably weaker spring than the Japanese release and to ship with Beycodes that do not register in the companion app, a fault other owners confirm and trace to a skipping problem shown on video. It was also settled that a skipping launch entitles a player to a relaunch under the rules at the time, whether the launcher is old or newly defective.
B-88 Beylauncher LR
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Beytuber world championship
Describes the November 2018 BeyTuber World Championship, a Hasbro-sponsored exhibition event held at Kidexpo in Paris and organized with a French YouTuber, that invited prominent Beyblade YouTubers to compete using Hasbro-only parts and equipment.
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Extend plus: zA driver upgrade
Describes a secret Xtend Plus driver mod that removes plastic around the stock Xtend driver to expose a hidden sharp tip across three modes, said to give Achilles more stamina; posters debate whether the modes would actually beat Atomic or Xtreme in real play.
XtendAchilles
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B-123 Long BeyLauncher Set & B-124 Long BeyLauncher L Set
Owners of the newly released B-123 and B-124 Long BeyLauncher sets report noticeably more powerful, quieter launches than earlier launchers, offset by a longer string that is harder for young kids to use, plus early-run quality complaints for some units.
B-123 Long BeyLauncher SetB-124 Long BeyLauncher L SetFafnir
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Launch Technique Discussion (Not Anime)
Catalogues and defines distinct Beyblade Burst launch techniques, including banking, catapult, flower pattern, standard launch and crux boost, by their physical execution and effect on the Beyblade's movement, an attempt to build a shared vocabulary the community lacked.
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Best uses for Unite performance tip
A poster explains that the Unite performance tip behaves as two different tip types depending on launch angle: a flat, centred launch keeps its sharp plastic point in contact for low-friction, stamina-like play, while an off-balance or angled launch brings its rubber outer ring into contact for more attack-like grip, and other posters add that it performs well on certain builds when paired with a specific weight system.
Unite Performance Tip
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Let's introduce beigoma to the world (gauging interest)
Introduces beigoma, the traditional Japanese spinning-top game that predates and inspired Beyblade, describing active Tokyo-area clubs, an annual national competition, and low prices for the tops in Japan versus high import costs abroad, while gauging interest in starting beigoma communities outside Japan.
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Hasbro Avatar Attack Beystadium opinions
Owners of Hasbro's Avatar Attack Beystadium described its claw-and-sword lid as impractical (parts scatter once removed), its floor shape as defeating flower-pattern attack lines, and its centre bump as weakening stamina and defense types, concluding it performed worse than genuine Takara Tomy stadiums.
Avatar Attack BeystadiumB-09B-33
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Which TT Beyblade standard shape Stadium has the largest ridge ring diameter?
Establishes that among round Takara-Tomy stadiums, the B-33 has the largest centre ridge-ring diameter, larger than the B-09, B-00 and B-107.
B-33B-09B-00B-107
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Beyblade Burst ChouZ Guide international preorder
Explains that TakaraTomy's CoroCoro magazine guide books typically bundle imagery-heavy Beyblade coverage with an included physical part and sometimes a manga chapter, and gives the international preorder deadline and bundled recolor part for one specific guide edition.
Beyblade Burst ChouZ Guide
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Beyblade Plastic Gen
A left-spin launcher stopped working; a reply explains that when a launcher's internal plastic gears are broken there is no fix, only replacement.
left spin launcher
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New Beyblade Dudes Asking About Beyblade Breakages
Owners reported which Burst energy layers are prone to breaking, naming Doomscizor D2's thin connective parts and Guardian Kerbeus's shock-absorbing side pieces as especially failure-prone, while several other named layers were described as durable by comparison.
Doomscizor D2Guardian KerbeusKerbeus K1Kerbeus K2Horusood H2Wyvron W3
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3D printing own beyblade design
Documents one member's process of getting an original beyblade layer design, Saber Trazoon, successfully 3D printed through a print-on-demand service after an earlier design was rejected for overly thin walls, followed by a second version named Frenzy Trazoon.
Saber TrazoonFrenzy Trazoon
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Nightmare Longinus Molds?
Owners of multiple copies of Nightmare Longinus reported that manufacturing variance between molds affects how tightly its dragon heads catch during a burst rotation, with better copies noticeably harder to burst and the difference detectable by hand.
Nightmare Longinus
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King Karken, 3D Printable Layer
A fan describes designing and sharing a 3D-printable custom left-spin attack layer, made of multiple parts so it can be printed and painted separately, explicitly built to fix a fragile-contact-point flaw from an earlier design of theirs.
King Karken
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Million Megalados, 3D Printable Layer
A member designed and 3D-modelled an original custom Beyblade Burst energy layer built from a free template using FreeCAD, showing progress photos and discussing the cost of having it professionally 3D-printed and the challenge of producing thin fin details durably.
Million Megalados
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Scorch Basilisk 3D printable layer
Documents a fan-designed, 3D-printable custom layer built around a dragon motif, worked through concerns about launcher clearance and exposed metal edges, and corrected after release when the first print was found to have the teeth cut for the wrong spin direction.
Scorch Basilisk
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New to BeyBlades- Question about the new Super Z beys
Members explained that the Super Z layer system's forge discs are deliberately loose rather than defective, that a specific rubber driver's jagged design trades stamina for speed, and that a level chip tightens the disc for a small boost but is normally obtainable only as a limited tournament prize rather than by purchase.
Winning ValkyrieBloody LonginusJolt driver
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Storing Beyblade Burst: Assembled or Disassembled?
Establishes a community consensus that storing Beyblade Burst combos disassembled is safer for long-term spring tension in the driver, based on one member's side-by-side comparison showing a driver left assembled for three to four weeks measured noticeably weaker than a same-model driver kept apart; replies add that heavy core discs compress the layer stack tighter than other discs, and that keeping burst-damaged combos disassembled specifically helps preserve layer and driver teeth.
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Hasbro and TT Truly Incompatible?
Despite one member finding mixed Hasbro/Takara Tomy Burst parts physically fit and spin fine, others cited the WBO organizer's guide ruling that the two brands' Layers and Drivers have never been sanctioned for mixing, explaining that Hasbro's weaker driver springs burst too easily against Takara Tomy Layers while Takara Tomy's tighter driver springs eventually gouge and damage Hasbro Layers.
Burst LayersBurst Drivers
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Hasbro Defense Tip vs TT Defense Tip, & Heavy Forge Disk - modern day usage
A reply confirms that Hasbro Defense drivers and Takara Tomy Layers (or vice versa) cannot be legally mixed in sanctioned WBO events, without detailing the underlying performance gap the original question asked about.
Defense driverHeavy Forge Disk
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Can someone logically explain to Mr Mack how Beyblade requires skill?
Members argued that Beyblade's skill comes mainly from pre-battle knowledge -- part and weight combinations, launch technique, and reading an opponent's likely strategy -- rather than from any hands-on control once a Beyblade is launched.
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Strongest driver spring lock
Establishes a rough ranking of Beyblade Burst driver spring-lock strength: Orbit rated stronger-locking than Atomic, Bearing considered one of the weakest, and Revolve and Merge cited from personal experience as having particularly strong springs.
OrbitAtomicBearingRevolveMerge
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Beyblade Cafe in Hong Kong (Starting from 09th May)
A limited-time Beyblade-themed cafe operated in Hong Kong starting May 2018, offering a themed menu, collectible stickers with each special drink ordered, and a battle-card badge earned by beating other attendees.
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Reforming beystadium cover?
Describes fixing a crushed plastic Beyblade Burst stadium cover by heating the damaged section with a hairdryer or soaking it in hot bathtub water, then pushing it back into shape by hand or with a tool such as a wooden spoon.
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Tier lists for MFB limited and Burst?
In response to a tier list request, a member lists which metal wheels are banned in the MFB Limited format — all 4D metals, Basalt, Hades, Libra, BD145, SA165, E230 and SP230 — and recommends Flame Orion GB145 WB as a well-rounded build for someone returning to the format.
4DBasaltHadesLibraBD145SA165
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Beyblade Theory: Hasbro's Treptune = TT's Screw Trident?!
A theory that Hasbro's Treptune is the single-layer equivalent of Takara-Tomy's Screw Trident is confirmed by other posters: Treptune functions as Hasbro's name for Trident just as Caynox does for Chaos, and neither pair got a dual-layer release, jumping straight from single layer to God layer.
TreptuneScrew TridentCaynoxChaos
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Beyblade driver mod
Describes a mod that attaches a fidget-spinner cap to a Survive driver, reported to trade away stamina for a more aggressive, higher-speed launch.
Survive driver
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How to start again...
Orients a returning player to the Cho-Z era: recommends the B-98 God Customize Set as a starting box, explains that God Layer System parts introduced a two-piece disc (an inner core disc plus a plastic frame cover) and that BeyTickets and tournament placement award Level Chips.
B-98 God Customize SetSpriggan RequiemB-100
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Which Stadium looks legitimate?
Establishes that Young Toys is the genuine South Korean distributor for Takara-Tomy Beyblade gear, so a Young Toys-branded listing deserves the same scrutiny as a Takara-Tomy one, and that packaging text or imagery inconsistent with the claimed distributor is a sign a listed stadium is not genuine.
B-09 stadiumB-107 stadium
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Backlighted B-09 Beystadium
A poster documents converting a B-09 Beystadium into a colour-changing, sound-reactive stadium using an off-the-shelf WiFi LED strip controller taped inside the bowl, and a replying poster warns that some LED strips run hot enough to warp stadium plastic if left on too long.
B-09 Beystadium
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gK break
Members investigate why a Guardian Kerbeus driver's chain mechanism snapped during testing, concluding through discussion that the chain uses a thinner, non-POM plastic that flexes to cut recoil but is consequently more fragile than the thicker material used in the Yielding driver.
Guardian KerbeusYielding
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Things you should know about spin stealing beyblades
Explains how spin-stealing combos work from Metal Fight through Burst generations: sufficient weight keeps them from being pushed around by attackers, height must roughly match the opponent's Beyblade for exposed rubber to make contact, and too little or too much exposed rubber respectively wastes or overwhelms the effect; it also notes the community later favoured the term 'Spin Equalizer' since spin is shared rather than taken.
Meteo L-DragoDrain FafnirSpriggan Requiem
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Build a Better String Launcher
Members discussed building an improved String Launcher, including an estimate that a prior fan-built super string launcher used roughly a 4:1 gear ratio between its small and large gears.
String Launcher
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Hard Launch vs Light Launch
Lays out a practical method for judging launch strength by the sound a launcher makes, and a decision framework combining a Beyblade's own burst resistance, an opponent's attack strength, and same-versus-opposite spin direction to choose a softer or harder pull.
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Hasbro v2's average weight
A member who weighed three copies of Hasbro's Valtryek V2 layer found measurable variation (8.40-8.70 grams) even within genuine Hasbro production, which another poster attributed to Hasbro using multiple mold variations for the same part.
Valtryek V2
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Self Destructing Beys upon left hand spin
Reports that hand-spinning two specific Hasbro Beyblades in the reverse direction causes them to burst apart immediately, and attributes it to the performance tip's spring lock not being built to hold against that reversed force.
WyvronBetromoth
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beyblade & physics
Explains why a spinning Beyblade travels the stadium opposite to its own spin direction: the performance tip's contact ridge sits on the side facing away from the stadium's center, so the tip effectively rolls the Beyblade around in the reverse direction until the spin slows.
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lol i got black spriggan requiem
A member reports pulling a rare black recolor of Spriggan Requiem, with others asking for proof before accepting the claim, establishing that a black colorway variant of the part exists as an occasional random pull.
Spriggan Requiem
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I GOT THE REAL BLACK SPRIGGAN REQUIEM!!! (1 in 72 chance)
Documents that Spriggan Requiem shipped with a rare black color-variant chase item alongside the standard color, seeded randomly enough that some buyers of many units reported pulling none while this buyer got one on a single purchase.
Spriggan Requiem
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Aqua Poseidous 8Flow .An Concept Art
A member's original concept design for a custom bey called Aqua Poseidous, combining a spike-triggering layer inspired by existing Burst parts, an 8Flow-style disc, and a fan-made driver concept named Anchor with a free-spinning weighted core; feedback pointed out a driver named Anchor already exists on Shining Amaterios Aero' Angle Anchor, and raised durability concerns about metal points on Cho-Z-era layers.
Aqua Poseidous8FlowAnchorShining Amaterios Aero' Angle AnchorSurge Xcalius X3Krusher Doomscizor D3
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Best way to obtain a unique bey?
A poster identifies a rare plastic-generation attack ring sourced from an early-2000s cereal box promotion rather than a normal retail release, and names it Tigron X, establishing the origin of an unusual promotional part.
Tigron X
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Is it time we created a limited Burst format?
A blader proposes a new tournament format banning all Cho-Z and God/Switchstrike layers (with named exceptions) plus certain heavy discs, to give older collections a fair shot; replies debate whether a Smogon-style tiering system would work better and note the difficulty of measuring usage data.
Shelter RegalusShadow Orichalcum
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Help
A player asked how to angle a sideways sword launcher for a banking shot, and the answer was to tilt the launcher to match the slope of the stadium floor, the same technique regardless of launcher type.
sword launcher
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Hasbro burst stadium vs TT bb-10
Members listed concrete physical differences between Hasbro's pocketed Epic Rivals-style stadiums and Takara Tomy's BB-10: the Takara Tomy version is bigger, has no pockets, more launch room and a covered top, while Hasbro's smaller, pocketed, uncovered stadiums favor defense and stamina types over attack and pose a minor injury risk from flying parts.
Epic Rivals StadiumBB-10 Stadium
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BA-02 Guardian Kerbeus Red Ver.
The BA-02 Guardian Kerbeus Red Ver. starter, a Year-of-the-Dog release sold mainly in Taiwan among markets outside Japan, is reported to reuse the same gold Heavy disc included with the earlier B-90 Guardian Kerbeus.
Guardian KerbeusBA-02
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What the loss of Toys R Us has brought
Members reflected on Toys R Us's 2018 bankruptcy and closure as a major Beyblade retail channel, citing that the chain closed or sold all 735 US stores and laid off about 31,000 workers amid competition from big-box stores and online retail, alongside personal memories of buying their first Beyblade there.
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how to disassemble driver?
Replies describe two ways to open a sealed driver to swap a worn tip: using a screw extractor on the internal screws, or, as one video reportedly showed, melting the metal fasteners with a thin soldering iron, both cautioned as risky to the surrounding plastic, and noted that only counterfeit drivers use plain removable screws.
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where can i find a bnib blitz striker?
Replies note that the Takara Tomy Blitz Striker version had gone hard to find and that the Hasbro release, despite being lighter, is molded as a single piece rather than hollow, so it holds up to breakage better even though it was intentionally skipped by some for being weaker.
Blitz StrikerBlitz Unicorno
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Wear, friction and gameplay in the giant stadiums
Discussed building oversized stadiums from satellite dishes, with replies recommending vacuum-sealed or sprayed plastic or rubber coating over the metal surface to control tip wear and approximate genuine stadium friction.
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weight in grams: photos of layers, discs, frames, & drivers
A member posts photo albums weighing layers, discs, frames and drivers in grams, and a reply flags that some layer weights are skewed by god chips or metal god chips still attached, so a naked layer gives the more accurate figure.
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Korean Spriggan Requiem
Establishes that Takara Tomy's Korean-market releases are identical products to the Japanese versions, differing only in language and minor packaging details, and that Korean boxes can be identified by the web address printed on the box and an image of the Beyblade's anime owner on the side flap.
Spriggan Requiem
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Email translation from wbba
A translated WBBA newsletter lists the Beyblade Burst Ultra Z (Cho-Z) lineup releasing March 17: Starter Winning Valkyrie, Starter Zet Achilles, Booster Emperor Fornus, a Super Z Battle Set, and two launcher accessories, alongside a bay-point double campaign and a Japan Best Battle & Asian Championship event in Ikebukuro.
Winning ValkyrieZet AchillesEmperor Fornus
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Is There A Want Or Need For Beyblade Burst Barcodes (US)?
A blader recreated UPC barcodes for US Beyblade Burst packaging and compiled them in a shared document, explaining that scanning a barcode in-store can reveal back-stock a clerk's listing says isn't there; the barcode format differs by country (UPC-A in the US, EAN-13 in the UK).
Gaianon G2Doomscizor Dual PackLegend Spryzen S3Jormuntor J2Fengriff F2
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Burst Sense
Several members described an informal technique of listening for a rising clicking sound to predict when a Beyblade is about to burst, reporting it worked for them in practice even though it is hard to verify.
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bringing anime to real life(tournament style arena)
Recommends building oversized practice stadiums at roughly 60cm across, about twice the diameter of the sanctioned Burst stadium, based on the observation that fully anime-scaled arenas built by other fans produced too few clashes and mostly ended in survivor finishes.
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Edge driver real purpose
Works through the intended function of the Edge driver, concluding it narrows the tip's contact area with the stadium floor to cut friction and extend spin time, distinct from the Wedge on Screw Trident, which uses a lower-friction metal to the same end.
EdgeScrew Trident
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Real Life Anime Stadiums legal for WBO Tournaments?
Proposes sanctioning oversized, anime-scale stadiums as a separate WBO tournament format, arguing they give attack types more room, cause more bursts and reward launch skill, while replies counter that giant stadiums favour experienced players too heavily and that no standard size or shape yet exists to make legal, so the idea is judged premature for competitive play though fine for casual meetups.
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What is the point of single layers?
Establishes that single-layer Beyblade Burst releases functioned as an early production and market test run, appearing in the manga first, before the dual-layer system became the anime's main line, which is why some single-layer-only beys such as Evipero never received dual-layer versions.
Evipero
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Hasbro Bluetooth beys
Hasbro previewed a Bluetooth-connected Beyblade line that posters who saw footage judged poorly designed: too big and heavy to spin effectively, and reliant on awkward phone swiping rather than the voice-controlled special moves they felt would have made it worthwhile.
Bluetooth beys
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Indian Beyblade Burst Release Thread:- Information (List) and News
A running tracker of Funskool's Indian Beyblade Burst releases, kept separate from Hasbro's own thread, listing product codes, names and rupee prices wave by wave for starters, boosters, an evolution wave, a stadium and a launcher.
Victory ValtryekStorm SpryzenGenesis ValtryekDrain Fafnir
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Will there ever be a burst world championship?
Establishes that, as of early 2018, no unified Burst World Championship existed, unlike the Metal Fight generation's 2012 championship; national events such as a French championship ran under Hasbro and Nelvana rules with an age cap, and posters flagged that Hasbro's sloped layers versus Takara Tomy's toothed layers could complicate any future international event.
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Beyblade Tips/General That You Never Hear Anyone Talk About?
Discusses a disputed launch technique of deliberately launching slightly after an opponent so a Beyblade lands on top of theirs; posters disagree on whether this counts as cheating, with one citing the Beyblade Burst rules as prohibiting it unless the bey bounces off the stadium first.
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Beyblader Burst Evolution Switchstrike Waves 1-3 total of 12 with pictures and links
Tracks the 2018 Hasbro retail rollout of Beyblade Burst Evolution SwitchStrike across three waves totalling 12 pieces, naming the retailers carrying each wave and noting Hasbro confirmed Wave 3's mid-March availability directly to a member by phone.
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Legend Spryzen S3 Sustained Heavy Damage
Establishes that Hasbro's Beyblade Burst plastic is softer than Takara Tomy's, making Legend Spryzen's S3 layer prone to visible stress marks and chipping at its clear contact points, and that left-spin S3 carries a much higher self-burst and recoil risk than right-spin use.
Legend Spryzen S3
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Non-Anime beys
Members explained that most Hasbro-exclusive and prize beys are absent from the anime because they were produced as standalone products rather than tied to a story character, citing one prize bey as the rare exception that appeared on screen with backstory but was never shown in a battle.
AmateriosBaldur
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Pop Max are they actually going to complete a run of Beyblade Burst to the end?
A UK broadcaster repeatedly aired Beyblade Burst without finishing the season, cutting off around episode 46 to 49 across more than one run and never picking the remaining episodes or the following series back up.
Beyblade Burst (television broadcast)
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Beyblading Basics by Bersilus
Lays out the basic logic behind Beyblade type matchups: stamina types rely on low friction to conserve spin, attack types use aggressive drivers and layer impact points to overcome recoil, and defense types deflect hits while staying centred; this is offered as why attack types tend to beat stamina types (high impact overcomes their low friction) while stamina types tend to beat defense types (defense needs friction to resist knockouts, which costs it spin endurance).
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Beyblade Burst in the UK
Beyblade Burst launched with very limited stock in the United Kingdom in early 2018, with members reporting spotty availability at Toys R Us, Sainsbury's, Tesco Extra, Hamleys and The Range, and prices as high as £30 for a double pack.
Beyblade Burst EvolutionOrpherus O2
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Does Launch techniques work?
Breaks launch technique into deliberate choices -- varying the launch angle to change the bey's path around the stadium, and aiming contact at an opponent's top versus its disc to cause or avoid burst damage -- as the mechanism behind why launch style changes a match's outcome.
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griffolyon Takara vs griffolyon 2 hasbro
A reply establishes that Hasbro's version of the part has poles that break easily and add recoil, making it worse for competitive play than the Takara Tomy original, giving a concrete quality difference between the two manufacturers' releases of the same part.
GriffolyonGriffolyon 2
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seaborg clear blue: too fragile?
Longtime owners compare the clear-blue Seaborg base to the standard Takara and Hasbro Phantom Force versions, judging the clear-plastic Phantom Force parts more brittle than solid releases and singling out Wide Weight Discs and Whale Crusher/Whale Attacker as especially prone to breaking with regular use.
SeaborgWhale AttackerWhale CrusherTrygleTen Wide
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LAD vs Rolling On An Edge, Is There A Difference?
Argues and illustrates with diagrams that a Beyblade rolling in a circle around a single contact point on its layer edge is still technically rotating around its own axis, a tidal-locking analogy, so judges should count that rolling motion as still-spinning rather than treating it as stopped.
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Beyblade burst app (Hasbro)
Documents mechanics of the Hasbro Beyblade Burst app beyond what the game itself explains: QR codes found via a fan wiki unlock in-game Beyblades, screenshotting an opponent's name lets a player re-challenge them later, and repeatedly advancing a phone's clock by a day lets an Avatar Track challenge be completed and reset early.
Beyblade Burst app
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Hasbro Reboot
Owners comparing Hasbro's Reboot driver to Takara Tomy's reported the Hasbro tip is physically shorter, about half the height, which some felt let it lock into Defense mode faster and more reliably, at the cost of stamina.
Reboot driver
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Original Life Sized Beyblade Burst Stadium by TurboLibra14
A member built and kept improving a giant homemade stadium starting in 2014 using a discarded satellite dish, running informal battle-royal matches in it and posting video of the results over several years.
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Beyblade Hidden Avatars
Members catalogued small hidden faces and creatures molded into the surface of several Burst-era layers, including a warrior's face on Valtryek, a dragon shape on Roktavor R2 and Wyvron W2, and a three-headed dog on Kerbeus K2.
ValtryekRoktavor R2Kerbeus K2Wyvron W2SpryzenOdax
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Beyblade burst app on American IOS
Establishes that the Japan-region Beyblade Burst app used with the Beylogger Plus is not downloadable on a US App Store account, and that the workaround is to create a Japanese-region account or use a VPN.
Beyblade Burst app
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Galeon Reborn
A member shares a custom-designed, refined 3D model of the original-series Galeon Beyblade, made as a tribute to their favourite first-generation design.
Galeon
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Beyblade Burst Popularity
Community members compare why Beyblade Burst struggled to catch on outside Asia versus the original series, pointing to the earlier toys' price accessibility, weaker school-yard buzz, and Hasbro's redesigned colorways and renamed parts compared to TakaraTomy's originals.
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Live -sized stadiums
Confirms that oversized, life-sized Beystadiums like those depicted in the anime exist and are used for commercial group-battle events in Japan and other Asian countries, but are not sold at retail there or elsewhere.
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[PETITION] Kmart vs Beyblade: age discrimination
An Australian member organized a formal complaint against a Kmart chain for shelving Beyblade stock out of children's reach, citing the country's Age Discrimination Act 2004, and reported that raising it directly with Hasbro Australia led to an in-person meeting with store managers who acknowledged the concern without committing to move the display.
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Hasbro VS Takara Tomy
Posters comparing the brands' locking mechanisms said Takara Tomy mostly fixed an earlier problem with its burst teeth wearing down, while Hasbro's slope-based mechanism does still wear with use, though both agreed Hasbro's random-booster system makes certain exclusive parts easier to obtain than Takara Tomy's.
burst teethHasbro slope mechanism
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BEYNOVATION
Posters name and discuss specific recognized launch and battle techniques from the community's history, including sliding shot, banking, gattayaki, tornado stalling, one-hit knockout, weak launching, shield crash and counter break, and note that the pace of naming new competitive techniques had slowed by the time of posting.
slidingshotbankinggattayakitornado stallingone hit K.O.weak launching
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Beyblade Outlaws List Tournament
Describes a running home-league format in which every owned Burst Beyblade competes in bracket rounds down to a ranked "Top 10 list," which members can then challenge and displace over ongoing sessions using a defined points and re-spin system.
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Model Kits (plastic gen) vs. Ready to Play (Hasbro's Burst)
Comparing the build-it-yourself plastic-generation kit experience to Hasbro's pre-assembled Burst Beyblades, several members preferred assembling and applying stickers themselves for the added personal connection; a factual point raised was that Hasbro's Burst releases use painted or engraved designs directly on the energy layer rather than applied stickers, unlike Takara Tomy's Burst releases.
Beyblade BurstPlastic Generation Beyblade
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Koma Taisen: the real world of Beyblade is insane!
Describes Koma Taisen, a long-running Japanese spinning-top competition that predates Beyblade, where contestants hand-build their own metal tops under a size limit, win by beating an opponent twice in a row, and see a rule-defining feature of the previous year's winner banned each year; posters connect its manufacturer-driven, hand-built culture to Beyblade's own early customization era.
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BEYBLADE BURST HAS HIT THE UK
Beyblade Burst's UK retail arrival at Toys R Us in 2017 drew complaints over pricing (a dual battle set at £39.99, starters around £13) next to other toy lines, alongside comparisons to the rival Infinity Nado line, which some found more solidly built and longer-spinning despite being sold as a separate, non-Beyblade product.
Beyblade BurstInfinity Nado
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Please help sign this petition regarding Beyblades
A member organized a petition asking a Malaysian distributor to import Random Booster products, citing the small local scene's difficulty getting them; a reply added that Hasbro does not release Random Boosters at all, framing random-assortment products as a Takara-Tomy-only category worldwide.
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The Next Plastic Gen Burst Beyblade!
Covers a 2017 CoroCoro Aniki magazine reader vote to choose which classic plastic-generation Beyblade would be remade as a Burst Beyblade, with candidates including Gaia Dragoon, Dragoon F, Wolborg and Trypio discussed by their likely carried-over mechanics.
Gaia DragoonDragoon FWolborgTrypio
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Hasbro and TT beys difference
Responding to a beginner's question, posters explained that in the Burst era Hasbro and Takara Tomy beys use entirely different, incompatible burst mechanisms, that some Hasbro discs are lighter than their Takara Tomy counterparts, and that some Hasbro Legends-series parts are hollow and lighter.
Storm PegasusBeyblade Legends
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Otaku Beyblade shops in Japan
Members reported where to actually find Beyblade stock while traveling in Japan: central Tokyo has few Hard Off or Hobby Off locations, Nakano Broadway is mostly a letdown for beys despite its reputation, Bic Camera and Yodobashi electronics stores carry current-release stock on an irregular schedule, and Mandarake carries older plastic-generation and HMS pieces.
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Any criticism to Takara Tomy's products?
A long-running critique of Takara Tomy's design and manufacturing choices across eras, citing printed names quietly dropped from some Metal Saga-era faces after a rebrand, widespread complaints that Burst-era parts break or underperform compared with the Metal Saga, and a counterpoint that some less original parts, like Revolve and Xtreme, are still genuinely good.
Takara TomyVirgoPhoenixOrbitRevolveXtreme
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[April 2017 - Kai-V Joins the Brawl] Wizard's Beigoma Blog
A first-hand account of visiting a real beigoma club in Japan, describing beigoma as the traditional Japanese spinning-top game that Beyblade grew out of, played by wrapping a string around a metal top and throwing it rather than using a winder, with players carving and shaving their own tops instead of swapping manufactured parts.
beigoma
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Can you tell me what did I miss ? :)
A returning player who had quit five years earlier was told they had missed the Metal Fury and Zero-G (Shogun Steel) additions, which brought heavier gimmick parts that now form the core of the WBO's Standard Format, with Limited Format closer to what older players remembered.
Metal FuryShogun SteelTwisted TempoHades Kerbecs
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Beyblade mouldmaking ?
Members explain why fans rarely make silicone molds of rare, hard-to-find Beyblades: the process is genuinely messy and difficult to do well without proper equipment, and using a mold-cast reproduction instead of a genuine, distributor-purchased piece is treated as illegal for both tournament and testing use.
Frostic Dranzer
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Stop Rapidity and other fake bey sellers.
Discusses countermeasures against a specific counterfeit-Beyblade seller (Rapidity) whose listings were seen as misleading buyers, especially children and inattentive shoppers, into thinking they were genuine; replies note genuine boxes always carry a Takara Tomy or Hasbro logo that fakes lack, that fakes are usually noticeably cheaper, and that reporting listings to eBay was seen as the only practical recourse since legal action against overseas counterfeiters was viewed as unrealistic.
Rapidity
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Return/Comeback of the metal saga?
Debates whether Burst might reintroduce Metal Saga-style metal components, prompted by Lost Longinus's metal dragon-head accents, weighing that added weight would dampen the explosiveness of burst finishes and could pose a safety risk if metal pieces flew loose at speed, against the marketing appeal of nostalgia for metal-era Beyblades.
Lost Longinus
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Beyblade Stadiums with different materials
Community members weigh materials for a homemade stadium: carbon-fibre mesh with an epoxy coating is judged the most practical choice for reducing part and stadium wear, with press-fit aluminum raised as a cheaper but riskier alternative that could accelerate plastic-tip wear.
carbon fibre stadiumaluminum stadium
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Hasbro vs. TAKARA-TOMY Beyblade Burst Part Weights
A member weighed matching Hasbro and Takara Tomy Burst Layers and Discs side by side and found Takara Tomy parts are generally heavier, with some differences (such as Spryzen at 7.06g versus Spriggan at 7.83g) exceeding half a gram, while a few parts like Valtryek and the Ring and Wing discs came out slightly heavier on the Hasbro side.
OdinOdaxUnicornUnicrestRagnarukRoktavor
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An in depth look at Hasbro's Triangle Stadium.
A hands-on review of Hasbro's Triangle Stadium comparing its hexagonal pocket layout and dimensions with the Takara Tomy B-09 Standard stadium, including head-to-head win-rate results between Valkyrie Gravity Accel and Deathscyther Knuckle Revolve in each, and flagging that aggressive drivers launched at full power risk self-knockout because the ridge sits so close to the pockets.
Hasbro Triangle StadiumB-09 BeyStadium Standard TypeValkyrie Gravity AccelDeathscyther Knuckle Revolve
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The metagame and "balance": why do you care?
Traces how a genuine competitive metagame took hold in the WBO during the Metal Fusion era, built on accumulated plastics and HMS testing knowledge once a knowledgeable Japanese player's insight reached the community, and notes that Japan's own metagame diverged from the WBO's around the same period, dominated by Deathscyther rather than Odin, partly because it ran through a separate organizing body.
OdinDeathscyther
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Cleaning an old BB-10 Stadium
Members shared practical stadium-cleaning methods -- wipes, paper towel, or soap and water -- reporting that removing built-up rubber residue restored grip and noticeably improved launch behaviour.
BB-10
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Deathscyther AND Dark Deathscyther banned in Japan!
Chronicles the manufacturer's dated bans of Deathscyther and, later, Dark Deathscyther from tournament play in Japan after both came to dominate tournament winning combinations, linking directly to the manufacturer's own ban announcements.
DeathscytherDark Deathscyther
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Beyblade Burst released in South Korea!
When Beyblade Burst launched, South Korea's distribution moved from SonoKong to a company called Young Toys, which released the pre-Dual Layer System lineup ahead of other regions at prices comparable to North American imports.
Valkyrie Wing AccelSpriggan Spread Fusion
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[Part 2 - Apr 2016 Up!] My Experience with the Japanese Beyblade Community - Part 1/2
A member's two-part trip report from Japan described attending five community events across Osaka and Tokyo, connecting with the WARI BEY group and members active on the Japanese BBS Beyblade Renaissance, and reflected on why the international WBO and the Japanese scene had stayed largely separate due to language and differing norms around sharing early information.
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The Physics of Beyblades
A physics-focused explanation of how tip shape governs stamina and movement: wide flat tips convert spin into fast, erratic motion, narrow pointed tips waste less stamina but topple more easily, and tips that are both wide and pointed balance the two; it also confirms that spin direction changes which side of an attack ring, wheel or layer makes contact, and therefore which way a Beyblade travels.
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Replacement Stickers?
Explains that Takara Tomy has periodically bundled exclusive alternate sticker sheets into Japanese CoroCoro magazine issues for earlier generations but has never sold sticker sheets separately, and had done nothing similar yet for Burst, leaving fans to scan and reprint existing sheets on their own sticker paper instead.
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Beylogger Teardown
A hobbyist tears down the Burst-system Beylogger and documents how it actually works: launches are detected by an infrared sensor reading a spinning black-and-white disc rather than by NFC, despite rumors it used NFC; it runs on a Korean-made microcontroller; and it requires a minimum of five valid timed pulses to register a launch. The same member built an Arduino rig that fools the sensor into logging thousands of fake launches to probe its scoring behaviour.
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Beyblade Live Action Movie
Paramount's live-action Beyblade movie was first reported in May 2015, with early member reactions worrying it would follow poorly received toy-to-film adaptations rather than suit the source material.
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Spin Up Guide Book
Establishes that the Spin Up Guide Book was a Chuang Yi-published series of combo guides for Bakuten Shoot Beyblade, and that scans of it were used to date early plastics-era part releases: discussion using page 66's parts list and a black-circle marking concluded Wide Survivor and Wide Defense both released before Grip Attacker, with Wide Defense believed to date to around 1999 or early 2000 based on being pictured on the Random Booster 1 package.
Spin Up Guide BookWide SurvivorWide DefenseGrip AttackerSpark Disk
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Speculating on the next Beyblade series/system.
A long-running speculative thread on what mechanical innovation could follow Metal Fight Beyblade, opening with a table contrasting how the Plastics/HMS generation's mostly-plastic Attack Rings became Metal Fight's essentially full-metal Wheels and how height became freely adjustable once the tip separated from the core; replies propose gyroscope-based, magnetic-stadium, and app-integrated concepts as unrealized fan ideas rather than established facts.
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Record of Highest Beyblade Auctions in History
Compiles the highest known Yahoo! Japan auction prices for rare Beyblade items from 2011-2014, sourced from a Japanese fan site, listing sums like 110,000 yen for a complete Grade 1 event prize set and 102,000 yen for a Legend Beyblade Set, with a follow-up post noting an even higher, later 166,001-yen sale of a Twin Battle Bey Double Shooter Set that beat the original list.
Legend Beyblade SetDark Poseidon 145WD
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The Use of BeyRaider Ripcords
Reports that BeyRaizerz single-pack ripcords physically fit LL2 and Compact launchers despite different handles, with three extra teeth that testers found made no noticeable difference to launch strength.
BeyRaizerz
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How's your local toy store after Christmas 2013 ?
Members across several regions reported specific post-Christmas 2013 stock, naming particular Shogun Steel, Spark FX and Hyperblade items still on shelves at named retailers in different countries, while noting Hasbro had stopped shipping newer lines like Metal Fury to some regions such as Australia.
Shogun SteelSpark FXHyperbladeBeywarriorsMetal Fury
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Old Beyblade Community People
Long-time members traced the community's early lineage: Off the Chain as the precursor to the WBO, Beyblade Damashii and BB Spirit as contemporaries, and Beybladeforums as a bridging forum that filled the gap between Off the Chain's closure and Beywiki's founding before its culture soured and it shut down.
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[RESULTS] BeyDays Face Contest: Beyblade Photography 3
A WBO-run photography contest ranked fifty-four entries down to five winners, awarding a choice of Face Booster parts to the top five and an Orojya Reviser T125JB to the top two, showing the kind of community event and in-house prize the site ran during the Metal Fight era.
BeyDays Face Contest
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Problem of bottom wear in Zero G Stadium?
Sharp-pointed performance tips wear down unusually fast in the Zero-G stadium line, which owners trace to tiny metal flakes shed by the Chrome Wheel parts as they collide, combined with the stadium's sway gimmick driving extra wobble-related contact at the tip's edge.
Zero-G StadiumChrome Wheel
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Osamu Mashimo - the creator of Beyblade!
Takara Tomy credited Osamu Mashimo, with the company since April 1986, as Beyblade's creator, and traced the line's origin to two earlier, poorly-selling spinning-top toys called Battletop and Suge Goma that preceded the customisation idea. Two limited artboards were also referenced, one for the Dragoon line and one for the Pegasis and L Drago line, offered through a WBBA parts set.
Osamu MashimoBattletopSuge GomaDragoonPegasisL Drago
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(ex BBG-28 talk) Guardian Garudas SD145PF-possible upcoming Hasbro Zero-G release
Contributors document a Guardian Garuda beyblade that appeared in a lost, never-aired Zero-G anime episode, carrying an original three-sided AD145 variant track called SD145 and a bottom named Point Flat, and discuss that a planned product slot for it was reportedly cancelled or reshuffled at the last minute, feeding ongoing hope for a dual-spin chrome wheel that never materialized.
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[TBT] [In Progress] What ARE Anti-Attackers?
Defines the community term 'Anti-Attacker' as a defense-style combination built fast and heavy enough, usually on a grippy flat-style tip, to knock out attack types as well as stamina types, distinguishing it from an ordinary defense build.
Anti-Attacker
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TAKARA-TOMY Regulations September Update.
Summarizes a September 2012 update to TAKARA-TOMY's tournament regulations: touching the stadium or its fence can bring disqualification, play continues if the stadium is bumped by the venue itself, and a Synchrom Wheel's stacked halves during a 3 Deck battle check may share at most two of the same Chrome Wheel type.
Synchrom WheelChrome Wheel
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Never Released Beyblades
Members catalogued Beyblades that were shown but never sold, including video-game-exclusive designs never released as toys, a first-version metal wheel that differs from a later prototype released under a similar name, and a CoroCoro lottery exclusive that reached only a very small number of winners rather than general retail.
QuetzalcoatlPrototype QuetzalcoatlPhantom Orion
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Shaun Linsao - Lead Designer for the Hasbro Beyblade Brand
Identifies the person credited with packaging and promotional design across the Metal Fusion-through-Fury wave, including a Kellogg's crossover box concept shown on a public design portfolio.
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Beywheelz General Discussion [TOYS - NOT ANIME]
Explains Beywheelz as a separate Hasbro side-line, with its own short-lived spin-off anime, built on rubber-tired parts rotated 90 degrees from a normal Beyblade: the face is called a Spirit Axle, the clear wheel a Spirit Shield, the metal wheel a rubber Energy Core, and the bottom an Attack Gear, sorted into Speed, Power and Balance types; its launchers use a wide-set, differently-toothed ripcord that is not compatible with standard MFB launchers or ripcords.
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Left handed Beybladers
Left-handed and off-hand-launching players describe how launching with the non-dominant hand naturally banks a Beyblade's trajectory toward that side, and several report adapting to launch right-handed anyway for consistency despite a stronger left-hand launch.
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Project Zero-G: Let's Find New Launching Techniques!
Testers work out several launch techniques suited to the Zero-G stadium's sway gimmick, including sliding shoots aimed near the centre versus the upper slope, a high vertical launch effective mainly with attack types, and a technique of resting the launcher's core against the stadium ridge to keep the Beyblade briefly elevated on release.
Zero-G BeyStadium
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Salamander Ifraid : SYNCHROM - New Customizability of Beyblade Zero-G
Lays out the three ways Zero-G chrome wheels can combine to change a build: a chrome wheel over its usual plastic base, a crystal wheel stacked on a chrome wheel, and two chrome wheels stacked on each other in a thin-chrome arrangement, with the last two confirmed for only one pairing at the time.
Salamander IfraidSamurai IfraidShinobi Salamander
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What do you do with your extra launchers and stuff?
Establishes that bladers repurpose retired launchers by giving them away or using them in geocaches, or by modifying them: painting them, adding lights to clear housings, and removing the internal spring that blocks reversing the ripcord to gain more launch control.
Launcher
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Beyblade Zero-G Series. (Watch video in first post!)
Documents the announcement of the Zero-G series and its swaying stadium, introducing a new diamond-shaped Face and a metal Chrome Wheel part; confirms tracks and bottoms stay cross-compatible with earlier Metal Fight Beyblade parts, and records the stadium's penalty pocket being named the Outer Hole.
Zero-G stadiumChrome WheelOuter Hole
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Beyblade Battle Card Collection - The Official Beyblade TCG
Describes an early-2010s European trading card line tied to the Beyblade brand as a region-limited release (named territories included Germany, France, Russia, Portugal and Italy), and records the community's largely negative first reaction to its rules and card art next to a separate fan-made battling card set.
Beyblade Battle Card Collection
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Fixing All Your Beylaunchers!
A compiled repair archive walks through restringing a Beylauncher, replacing its coil spring, and using a Beylauncher Suspension as a temporary fix for a fully broken handle, while a moderator has the poster remove a described method for a banned illegal rev-up modification.
BeylauncherBeylauncher L/RBeylauncher Suspension
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Awesome April's Fools done for Adachi Takafumi !
TAKARA-TOMY marked April Fools' by packaging a novelty fountain pen as a special Big Bang Pegasis-style tribute for a CoroCoro comic artist, sized and labelled to reference the artist's work rather than functioning as a spinning top.
Big Bang Pegasis
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Hidden Spirit Beys
A member questioned why Hidden Spirit beys remain banned given that plastics tournaments are now rare, and a rules writer explained the ban is kept on the books for reference in case a plastics event is ever organized, comparing the reasoning to the separate ban on Light Wheel beys; the questioner argued the parts are not strong enough to warrant a ban either way.
Hidden Spirit BeysLight Wheel Beyblades
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Hell and Basalt: Ideal for Gattyaki?
A member proposed that the wide Hell wheel and heavy Basalt wheel suit a gattyaki attack, launching a bey to strike the opponent in mid-air; replies corrected the definition to landing on the edge of the opponent's wheel a moment later to unbalance it rather than a true mid-air hit, and one tester reported the attempt against Basalt Horogium cracked its layer apart instead of working as hoped.
HellBasaltBasalt HorogiumEarth Eagle 145WD
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Beyblade's USA Facebook
Members describe organizing volunteer moderation of the WBO's Facebook presence around 2011, aiming to steer low-quality fan questions there toward the WBO's own, more knowledgeable community and delete spam and arrogant posts.
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Washing your bey
Laid out a wash method for metal-fight-era parts using a damp cloth and careful drying, and follow-up replies added that a standard eraser can scrub a metal wheel clean while clear nail polish restores rubber tip grip but counts as an illegal alteration for competitive play.
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Deception tactics in tournaments
Catalogues psychological and deception tactics competitive players use at events -- concealing a chosen combo until the moment of launch, using recolored parts to disguise identity, avoiding conspicuous stickers -- and explains how each is meant to unsettle an opponent's own preparation and part selection.
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~Hasbro Beyblade Stadium Measurements & Comparisons~
Members measured and cross-checked five Hasbro Metal Fight-era stadiums, recording each one's diameter, centre-circle size and slope angle, and later noted that the Max Stampede stadium's tornado-ridge crater seen in prototypes was removed from the released version.
Max StampedeLightning ForcePegasus Thunder WhipSuper Vortex StadiumMobile Stadium Case
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Beyblade Launcher using a low KV Brushless Motor
A member built a working electric Beyblade launcher using a low-KV brushless motor, servo tester, and protective housing, and posted test-launch videos reaching roughly 11,000 rpm on a 3S lipo battery.
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An arguement for metagame adjustment
A lengthy 2010 debate over whether the WBO should create a separate ruleset or sub-forum for players who could only afford Hasbro equipment rather than genuine imported gear, weighing accessibility for younger or lower-income bladers against the WBO's existing scope as a rankings body for the tournaments it runs.
WBOHasbro Beystadiums
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New Hasbro Battle Gear
Owners of Hasbro's Rev-up launcher described how its internal gearing produces a stronger, more complete pull than a standard string launcher, but that the mechanism wears out and loses power once its gears break, most often from forcing a jammed trigger button.
Rev-up launcher
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V-Force Mobile Stadium
A long-running thread establishes that this Hasbro stadium's exit flaps and low walls genuinely helped attack-type Beyblades leave the bowl, while its shallow depth and thick plastic build were seen as its lasting design flaws next to Takara Tomy's stadiums.
V-Force Mobile Stadium
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Stamina
Establishes that the release of the 230 track shifted the Metal Fight stamina metagame away from domination by short tracks like 85, giving taller tracks such as 145 renewed viability since 230 could beat 145-height combos roughly half the time, though some found this made outcomes feel more luck-based; CH120 was noted as able to beat 145-height combos but perform poorly against lower stamina tracks.
23014585CH120
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Balance Types
A poster argues that the community's idea of a 'balance type' combination as one that reliably beats attack, defense and stamina types is a misreading of an earlier discussion, and the site's own founder is quoted saying he isn't fully sure the classification fits standard type theory, showing the term's definition was genuinely contested rather than settled.
Libra CH120RFMF Lightning L Drago CH120RF/R2F
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Stadiums
Establishes that the standard Metal Fight Beyblade Attack Stadium's steep curvature and weak tornado ridge were seen as favoring Attack types unfairly, prompting members to test combos in the older, harder-to-find Tornado Attack and Tornado Balance stadiums instead; one member's Tornado Balance test found a stamina-type combo beat an attack-type combo three times via out-spinning, but Tornado Attack itself was noted as no longer purchasable, making the proposal impractical for tournament use.
Attack StadiumTornado AttackTornado Balance
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Cleaning beyblade (metal fusion)
Lays out a soap-and-hot-water hand wash for plastic parts plus a Brasso metal-polish pass for the fusion wheel, and a reply offers an alternative of wiping the metal wheel with trumpet valve oil to restore shine.
fusion wheelbolt
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Beyblade Metal Fusion Storm Pegasis Keychain Beyblade Review
A reviewer tested Hasbro's smaller "baby" Metal Fusion Storm Pegasis keychain Beyblade against a full-size Storm Pegasis and reported it winning roughly one in three full-power battles, describing it as painted rather than rubber-tipped and about three-quarters the weight of the standard release.
Storm Pegasis
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Sucks to your Meteo L Dragtechnicality.
A technical debate over Meteo L-Drago's reputation as a dominant spin-stealer, with one member's ten-match test against Earth Bull showing only a slight, narrow win margin; the consensus reached was that Meteo's rubber clear wheel acts as a speed equalizer between two colliding Beyblades rather than a one-sided spin-stealing gimmick, meaning energy transfer works both ways and either combo can steal spin depending on setup, and that the Meteo wheel's reputation for spin-stealing had been exaggerated by early impressions.
Meteo L-DragoEarth Bull
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Fixing the Handle of Beylauncher
A member describes filing a Beylauncher's broken handle prongs down into a smooth cylinder as a working substitute, and others confirm the fix does not meaningfully change recoil or launch power.
Beylauncher
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Battle Under a Blacklight! (Picture Heavy)
A poster documents testing several parts and stadiums under blacklight, finding that clear-plastic pieces show the effect most clearly while chipped or heavily painted parts look worse, and warns that positioning the bulb too close to or directly over a stadium risks heat damage.
Pegasus Thunder WhipSuper VortexStorm Gasher
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Takara Tomy needs to find it's bearings: a Beyblade metagame timeline.
Traces how the competitive metagame narrowed across generations, arguing the wide part variety of the Plastics era supported many viable playstyles, that the four-part HMS system cut that down mostly to attack, defense and stamina specialists, and that MFB's rubber-flat attackers and the loss of bearing-based defense parts pushed the game further toward attack dominance.
Bearing CoreBearing Core 2Rubber Flat
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Launch Techniques with the BeyLauncher
Establishes that the sliding shot launch technique can be performed with the two-handed BeyLauncher, not just a string launcher, by gripping the handle loosely and letting it slip through the fingers during release.
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BeybladeForums Threads
BeybladeForums (BBF) was the primary Beyblade community forum before the WBO's Beywiki launched in October 2007; after BBF later closed for good, one member who had saved many of its old Hybrid Wheel System and Plastics-era threads shared that private archive with the community.
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Burger King Beyblades
Members recalled that Burger King distributed imitation, non-Takara-Tomy Beyblade toys as a fast-food promotional giveaway during the original series' popularity, with some later using the imitations as informal practice tops.
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I hate Hasbro
Catalogues Hasbro's Western localization changes for Metal Fight Beyblade, including the name changes Aquila to Eagle, Killer to Evil, Pheonix to Fireblaze, Cancer to Gasher, Escolpio to Scorpio and Pegasis to Pegasus, plus complaints about unreleased individual parts and stadium quality; other posters relay an actual response Hasbro's support team gave when the naming complaints were sent to them.
AquilaEagleKillerEvilPheonixFireblaze
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Beyblades should go all metal?!?
Members explain why making a Beyblade's track, base and clear wheel fully metal was seen as a bad idea: attack types would lose the speed that lighter bottoms give them, two all-metal wheels striking each other produce sharp recoil that can be mistaken for a true upper hit, the added weight would need a redesigned launcher since the existing direct-gear prongs already take heavy stress, and a fully metal blade flying out of the stadium raised real safety concerns given the game's young player base.
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Does anyone still use plastic Beyblades?
Establishes that by 2010 tournaments run under the organization's own rules had restricted competitive play to the Metal Fight generation, that Metal Fight was considered to have outclassed the plastic generation competitively, and that some organizers still separately ran 'Universal' events allowing every generation.
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Wind & Shoot Launcher ( B 201 )
Establishes that the Wind & Shoot Launcher (B-201) was a Hasbro-only ratchet-wind launcher that spun in one direction only, shown at a toy fair, and that multiple owners who tried it found it noticeably weaker than a standard pull-cord Beylauncher and considered it more of a novelty.
Wind & Shoot LauncherBeylauncher
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A fix for the WB
Reports that launching a defense-type WB combo at full power with a Hasbro light launcher, rather than the recommended 80 percent power, lets it reach its full potential, and estimates from the comparison that the beylauncher is roughly 20 percent stronger than the light launcher.
WB
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Wearing of RF
Established that a worn rubber flat tip can be shaved level to extend its use, that clear nail polish restores its grip but counts as an illegal alteration, and that freezing the rubber gives no lasting protection against wear.
RF
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Ranting about how much Hasbro ruined MFB
Long-running debate on how Hasbro's early Metal Fight Beyblade releases differed from Takara Tomy's: shorter launcher winders, cheaper stadiums, no Beylauncher L and no Metal Faces at first (added later alongside the DS game launch), while others argue Hasbro still put real effort into the toy line and its plastic-era stadiums were comparatively well balanced.
Metal FacesBeylauncher LRapid Deploy Case
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Zombie and Spin Stealer Discussion
Works through what separates a spin-stealer Beyblade from a 'zombie' type: both use free-spinning outer parts to draw momentum off an opponent, but zombies are named for their round outer shape letting them keep going after appearing finished, not for the spin-stealing itself.
MF L Drago 90WF
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A curiousity of mine, cross-system parts comparison.
Traces how a recurring base-part archetype changed shape and function moving from the Plastic system's Semi Flat through the HMS Spin Gear version to the Metal Fight generation, with corrections in the replies about which type each version actually plays as.
Semi FlatWolborg
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Hasbro's Metal Fusion Battle Case (Mobile Stadium) Discussion
Owners of Hasbro's Metal Fusion Battle Case (Mobile Stadium) reported it is noticeably small inside with a weak ridge, making slide-shooting nearly impossible and giving stamina types a strong advantage over attack types, while other posters valued it mainly for its portability as a combined carrying case and stadium.
Metal Fusion Battle CaseMobile Stadium
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How to clean your metal wheel.
Lays out several metal-wheel maintenance techniques bladers actually use: toothpaste-and-cloth polishing, metal polish for oxidation, and sanding to remove dents, with the point that sanding counts as an illegal modification for tournament play while polishing does not. Zinc-alloy metal wheels don't rust but their luster fades with wear.
Metal Wheel
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Problems with light-Launcher?(Ripcord launcher)
Light Launchers with ripcords can develop a cranking sound and weak, staggering launches after regular use even when disassembly shows no visible fault, and owners are advised to pull straight and to straighten the winder to slow the wear, since materials differ between older and newer production runs.
Light Launcher (Ripcord)
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Rock mold difference.( Canada and US molds)
Investigates an apparent manufacturing difference in Hasbro's Rock metal wheel, with owners reporting a lighter 3-cylinder mold and a heavier, more reinforced 6-cylinder mold turning up across different purchases, plus member spin-time tests comparing performance, though which mould shipped when, and why, was never confirmed.
Rock
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Metal Fight Beyblade - Takara Tomy VS Hasbro
Comparing Takara Tomy's Storm Pegasis 105RF to Hasbro's Storm Pegasus 105RF, owners of both versions found no meaningful weight difference and reported the main construction difference was an added support bar inside the Hasbro performance bottom, with the rubber flat feeling and looking nearly identical between the two releases.
Storm Pegasis 105RFStorm Pegasus 105RF
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Poll: BeyLauncher+Grip: Horizantal launch or Vertical launch?
An informal poll found launch-pull orientation tracked handedness, with left-handed members leaning toward pulling the BeyLauncher-and-grip vertically and right-handed members toward horizontally, diverging from the vertical launch style shown in the anime.
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Stadiums
Establishes, from carton labeling on a Takara Attack Stadium, that Beyblade stadiums are made of PVC plastic, in a thread asking about accidental silicone-spray damage to a stadium's playing surface.
Attack Stadium
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Weights of MFB
A long-running, member-submitted spreadsheet of calibrated part weights compares Takara Tomy and Hasbro releases piece by piece, recording measurable differences such as a heavier Hasbro clear wheel and a lighter Hasbro metal wheel for shared moulds.
Lightning L-DragoPhantomFlash
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RC beyblades
RC Beyblades used a launcher with a speed-control switch and only allowed the attack ring to be swapped, distinct from oversized light-up novelty Beyblades and from the unrelated Battle Strikers spinning-top line; named Hasbro RC releases include Driger G RC and Draciel G RC.
RC BeybladesDriger G RCDraciel G RC
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List of blades hasbro never released
Catalogues Beyblade parts and toys Takara Tomy released in Japan that Hasbro never brought to North America, including pre-Metal-System Beyblades, the Metal System line, Sol Blaze, Dark Poseidon, and dual-direction launchers.
Sol BlazeDark Poseidon
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good news for hong kong
Contributors confirm that the Hybrid Wheel System line and its anime launched in Hong Kong in January 2010, airing on a local network's weekday afternoon slot, extending distribution beyond earlier regional releases.
Hybrid Wheel System
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whats your fav launcher
Members compare launcher and ripcord preferences, and a reply states that plastic ripcords physically fit Metal Fight Beyblade right-hand launchers but are not permitted for use there, plus that the Beylauncher belonged to the MFB line and had not yet reached North America as of this exchange.
Dual ShooterBeylauncherCatapult
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Weight disks (the shine) and MFB's
Confirmed that metal-fight-era wheels and weight disks are a zinc alloy that dulls with handling, and that fine sandpaper, a dremel with a felt polishing wheel, or a clear coat can restore or protect their shine.
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MFB upkeep/maintenance?
Long-time posters explain that early metal-line wheels carry a silvery coating over the metal that shows wear more visibly than later, uncoated production runs, and suggest stripping and re-lacquering or a simple metal polish as upkeep rather than fretting over battle scuffs.
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Engine Launcher [Idea] [WIP]
Documents an attempt to motorize a launcher, first with a small battery-powered engine and then a battery-powered blender, which spun a top up near full speed but still needed a working release mechanism since the top kept sticking rather than dropping free.
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What's happened in the last 5 years?
A returning fan asked what changed while they were away, and repliers explained that Metal Fight Beyblade is a separate universe from the original Bakuten Shoot series with no Bit-Beasts, its creatures representing the Beyblades themselves rather than summonable spirits.
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BEYBLADE RPM (Revolutions Per Minute)
Using a digital tachometer, a poster measured spin speed for a plastic-generation combo and a Metal Fight combo, finding roughly 5000 RPM for the plastic build against roughly 5500 RPM for the metal build with a standard launcher, and separately around 6650-6940 RPM for a metal build using a dual-string launcher instead of the standard light launcher. The same thread includes a step-by-step build guide for a homemade string-style launcher.
BeylauncherLight LauncherV LauncherDriger MS
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Ginga's Cases.
Documents a capsule-beyblade carrying-case product line (shooter, shooter grip and grip case) tied to the Ginga-era anime tie-in, and later replies establish that a bey fitted with the 230 track will not fit the Rapid Deploy case.
Rapid Deploy Case230
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Complaints about the BeyLauncher
Documents a recurring BeyLauncher design flaw: the handle and prongs break under normal use because releasing the handle at the moment of the shot lets it flail and strike the hand or launcher. Records that Takara-Tomy's public response placed the blame on players' grip technique rather than the design, which posters disputed as incompatible with getting a full-power launch.
BeyLauncherBeyLauncher-L
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I had an incredibly stupid yet fun idea!
Bladers describe homemade stadium builds: a wooden stadium with angled ramps built to withstand tip wear, and a proposal (with a real Takara Tomy precedent for a two-floor stadium) for stacking multiple stadiums into a multi-level arena.
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did they beyblade 200 years ago?
Contributors trace the toy's lineage to older spinning-top traditions, describing wooden string-tops passed down in their own families, and one poster notes that spinning tops predate modern civilization, citing artifacts from the Hittite Empire (circa 2000 BC) displayed at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.
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G-Blade Metal DX Set! WHOA!
Members identify a Korean-market product called "G Blade" tied to the Top Blade broadcast, a regional release some had mistaken for a fake, pairing older-style and newer-style blades.
G Blade
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G-UNION CHALLENGE SET (HOLY carp)
A newly revealed set pairs an original-series Dragoon G with a Metal Fight Pegasis 105F in one box, the first time members recall two different Beyblade systems being packaged together, with members guessing it was meant to let older players compare the two eras directly.
Dragoon GPegasis 105F
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Bad News: Metal Wheels are not left-spin capable
A poster identifies a physical design constraint on early Metal Fight hybrid wheels: the Storm, Dark and Rock metal wheels contain a metal piece that blocks the shooter notches a left-spin-capable clear wheel needs, meaning those three wheels cannot be built to spin left, a limitation raised alongside concerns about an unchallenged dominant right-spin combination.
Storm Metal WheelDark Metal WheelRock Metal WheelDark Wolf DF145FSLibra D125D/WB
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texas get together
Organizing a Texas meetup turns into a rules debate over engine-gear beyblades, and a reply explains why EG parts underperform standard ones despite the early speed boost: they sit too tall and the gear's release disrupts the beyblade's momentum more than it helps, usually ending in a loss.
Engine Gear
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Is it possible to make a better BeyLauncher?
Bladers compare the string-pull BeyLauncher against ripcord-style launchers, describing a modified RC-style launcher grip and arguing string launchers can out-power ripcords despite skepticism about the physics.
BeyLauncher
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Beyblade Colosseum.
Beyblade Colosseum was a Japanese storefront and website tied to the early Metal Fight-era Beypointer reward program, and members traced how its points system later switched from a physical Beypointer device to a Beypoint card attached to the launcher grip.
BeypointerBeypoint card
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Capsule Toys ...
Members documented a licensed gashapon-style capsule-toy line of miniature Beyblades and matching battle holders sold in Japan, including photos and per-bag pricing, as a smaller spinoff product line alongside the core toy line.
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Help! Customize Grip Part Weights Needed
Several members weighed their own Hasbro Customize Grip components on gram scales and posted results: roughly 39-40g for the Customize Grip itself, about 52g for the Metal Trigger, and around 7.3g each for the Spring Support and Sniper Compass, with one poster's lighter 33.4g reading on a different Metal Trigger suggesting more than one mould exists for that part.
Customize GripMetal TriggerSpring SupportSniper CompassMetal Grips
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light wheels aka why i hate takara-tomy
Contributors explain that Takara Tomy's cheaper Light Wheel parts, introduced through Random Boosters as a lower-cost alternative to Metal Wheels, share the same attack/defense/balance naming pairs as their metal counterparts, drew criticism for replacing metal-wheel prizes and diluting the line's branding, though several noted metal wheels still won when the two were pitted against each other.
Light WheelMetal Wheel
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Metal Fight Beyblade Official Regulation
A translated Takara Tomy regulation page is compared point by point against WBO rules, surfacing real differences: the publisher-issued text counts a stadium pocket as still in play, unlike the WBO ruling, and states a 30-centimetre launch height that posters find unusually strict.
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War Lion CWD *illegal but easy*
Discovered and documented that a War Lion sub attack ring fits onto a Circle Balance HMS weight disk to improvise a combination weight disk, a workaround other members then found could crack the receiving part under enough impact.
War LionCircle Balance HMS
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Custom HMS Driger
Documents dismantling an HMS Engine Gear launcher mechanism, a spring-wound wire and gear assembly that releases on ground impact, and rebuilding it into a smaller custom housing using fewer gears; a reply notes that mixing HMS Engine Gear parts with plastic-generation Beyblades is against tournament rules.
Engine GearDriger
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MFB launcher fits into Plastic Grips: ILLEGAL but easy
A tester finds the metal line's pull-string shooter snaps neatly into launcher grips built for the earlier plastic-launcher generation, though it is ruled unfit for tournament play; a moderator adds that an upcoming rules release will explicitly bar mixing launch systems that were never designed to work together.
launcher grip
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My thoughts and yours on plastic, hms and MFB
Comparing Plastic Generation, HMS and Metal Fight Beyblade, members argued the HMS line's customization was undermined by a handful of parts that outclassed the rest, while Metal Fight's removal of the weight disk was seen as a positive simplification since only a few weight-disk types had ever seen real use; the Plastic Generation was favoured by several members specifically for offering the widest range of customization.
Plastic Generation BeybladeHMS BeybladeMetal Fight BeybladeDriger V2
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Nuno's Lego "Beyblades" (Updated 12/06/2009)
A member documented an ongoing project building custom spinning tops and launchers from Lego parts across several revised designs, running head-to-head battles against a standard attack-ring part and reporting how the custom launcher's pull compared with standard shooters.
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Metal Fight Beyblade Official Website
A note that Takara Tomy refreshed its product site to show every metal-line release doubles as a spelling clarification: despite the site's own text, the packaging and face of the part print it as 'Gemios,' which posters treat as the accepted spelling.
Gemios
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Hybrid Wheel System
Announces and explains the Hybrid Wheel System that introduced Metal Fight Beyblade: a five-part construction (Face, first Wheel layer, second metal Wheel layer, Track, Bottom) where the plastic and metal wheel layers are interchangeable across releases, contrasted with the cheaper Random Booster Light line that shipped without any metal wheel parts, and lists the wave of Hybrid Wheel products announced alongside it.
Rock Leone 145WBStorm Pegasis 105RFDark Wolf DF145FSFlame Sagittario C145SRandom Booster Light Vol. 1 Mad CancerRandom Booster Light Vol. 2 Wind Aquario 100CB
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This happen to anyone else?
A member who opened a Libra booster and found a Quetzacoatl prize part is told those prize face, track and bottom parts can also turn up inside MFB booster packs, and another member gives the odds of finding one of those prize parts as roughly one in eight.
LibraQuetzacoatl
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Sticker Sheets Scans!
A long-running archive thread where members collected and shared scans of original sticker sheets for many Plastics and early Metal-era Beyblades (including Driger V2, Draciel S, Dragoon GT, Wolborg 4, Gaia Dragoon V, and dozens more) so owners of blades with missing or damaged decals could reproduce and reapply them.
Driger V2Draciel SDragoon GTWolborg 4Gaia Dragoon VDranzer F
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History of Beyblade
A member summarized claims that Beyblade launched in Japan in 1999 alongside a tie-in comic and Game Boy title, that a 2001 anime drove a sales boom, and that the toy's spinning-top format descends from the older Japanese beigoma toy; moderators flagged the text as lifted from an outside article rather than written by the poster.
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how do i fix a mfb launcher?
Replies give a repair technique for a launcher that lost its internal parts: the spring's bent end must sit above the stopper flap, and the flap must be reinserted right-side up, with its cut facing down and curved end away from the gear, for the launcher to wind and fire correctly.
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MFB Bearing Bottom
A blog report of an unreleased bearing-style bottom for the metal line circulates before any confirmation, and posters speculate how such a low-friction tip could unsettle the existing top combinations.
Bearing Bottom
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Hasbro Power Spirit Toppers
Posters debated the legality of Power Spirit Toppers, add-on figures that attach via a metal-disk bit chip; the consensus placed them in a grey area since they only fit an SG Core when inverted into an arbitrarily wide hole, which members took as a sign they were not designed for that use despite being genuine Hasbro parts.
Power Spirit ToppersSG Core
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why do you think more cyber beyblades werent made
Replies explain that the anime routinely features beyblades that never got a retail release, including Cyber versions of Driger, Draciel and Dranzer, simply because it was impractical to manufacture every model shown on screen within a release cycle.
Cyber DrigerCyber DracielCyber DranzerKnight DranzerMaster Driger
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Cancer spotted in L Drago promo?
Members pieced together that an early promotional image referred to a Beyblade as 'Cancer,' a name later swapped for what actually released as Quetzalcoatl, matching that early promo art against a later CoroCoro image to confirm the design was still planned.
QuetzalcoatlPegasisSagitarrioLeoneBull
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Stadium Fence - Do you use it?
Recounts that a site moderator was criticized by email for demonstrating Beyblade play without the stadium's safety fence, and explains that WBO rules never required the fence because Takara Tomy's own rule was seen as more about liability than genuine safety (Hasbro, by contrast, built stadiums with the fence integrated); most participants agreed the fence mainly interferes with launching technique and provides little real protection against injury.
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MFB Scoring System - Your Thoughts?
A translated account of the metal line's Taiwanese scoring format, where a knockout and an outspin are worth uneven points toward a two-point win, leads bladers to lay out how the WBO's own point system had earlier moved from a three-point to a two-point win condition.
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Weight disk dilemmas. :3
Established that the short letter-and-number codes stamped on plastic-generation weight disks are plain manufacturing codes with no meaning tied to a specific part or release date, despite sometimes being mistaken for authenticity markers.
Weight Disk
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Left spin with no launcher or spin gear (is this real)
Describes a now-banned workaround for early plastic-generation EZ launchers: feeding a second ripcord in from the opposite side while withdrawing the first reverses the launcher's spin direction, letting a right-spin Beyblade be launched left-spin, though with reduced power since the launcher itself keeps spinning afterward.
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What you don't like about MFB
Early reactions to Metal Fight Beyblade's launch criticized its fixed single-direction launcher system as a step back from the prior dual-direction shooter technology, objected to Beyblades being locked to one spin direction regardless of the wheel's design, and questioned whether the line's larger size and price suited its target age group.
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Metal Fight Beyblade Part Weight Measurement
A member measured and tabulated the weight of Metal Fight Beyblade faces, wheels and tracks (Pegasis, Leone, Bull, Sagittario and others), including matched pairs of custom-painted versus clear parts. The comparison shows painted coatings add only a small, largely insignificant amount of weight, contrary to a common assumption that paint meaningfully changes a part's mass.
PegasisLeoneBullSagittarioWolfAries
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"Comparing" Upper attack/force smash
Describes an original measuring method for comparing Attack Ring upper-attack surfaces: rolling two rings across smoothed modelling putty to leave imprints, then measuring the imprinted ramp's angle and slope length with a protractor rather than the curved ring itself, judged more accurate than eyeballing or photographing the rings directly.
Tiger DefenserTriple WingDriger S
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Focus on MFB: Your guide to wealth and sanity!
Writing in 2008 as Metal Fight was newly released, a WBO figure argues that newer collectors should shift focus away from the discontinued Plastics and HMS lines, out of production since 2004 and rising in price, toward the actively supported Metal Fight line, both to save money and because competitive play was expected to move there.
Shining God MS
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Bey Ta 1 & 2 Go.
Explains how the Bey Ta arcade machines worked in Japan and Taiwan: a blader's own bey fought a fixed in-machine opponent across selectable difficulty levels, with a rare reward part offered for clearing the hardest level, plus unconfirmed reports of a second machine with more levels and two simultaneous opponents.
Bey TaQuetzalcoatl
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What is 'Defense' relative to Beyblade's game? yo
A long-running community debate concludes that Defense functions as a distinct type positioned between Attack and Survival, resisting attacks while also trying to outlast opponents, though members disagree on whether it is fully separate from Survival since dedicated Defense combos are rare and constrained by weight limits.
Defense type
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Stopper in MFB Shooter not working...?
Establishes a fix for a Metal Fight Beyblade shooter whose spin-release mechanism kept spinning after launch: opening the shooter revealed the internal stopper piece had been installed upside down by the manufacturer, and flipping it corrected the problem.
MFB Shooter
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Got Wolf today!
Beyond one poster's informal win/loss tally for Wolf against Pegasis, the conversation turns into a theoretical debate over whether Defense is a discrete type at all or just a property Attack and Endurance parts can share, framed as a slider running from pure Attack to pure Survival with Defense sitting in the middle.
WolfPegasisD125
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Is this one of the MFB stadiums?
A circular-shaped Balance Stadium pictured in early promotional material is identified as a 3D render or possible prototype that differs from the stadium Takara Tomy actually shipped, which instead reused the Attack Type Stadium shape with a different sticker.
Balance StadiumAttack Type Stadium
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Official Metal Fight Topblade website
The Korean license marketed the toy line under the name Topblade through a Sonokong-run site, reusing the same Pegasis mold as Takara-Tomy's release but showing older promotional images.
TopbladePegasis
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BB-20 Beybattle Try Set
The roughly $50 BB-20 Beybattle Try Set is reported to bundle a Balance Type stadium, Wolf and Pegasis starters, two string shooters, and two Beypointers; posters note the string shooters rewind themselves rather than needing to be manually wound.
BB-20 Beybattle Try SetWolfPegasis
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MFB String Shooter Confirmed
A community moderator confirms, from a fan-shared photo, that the mysterious new metal-line shooter is a pull-string design rather than a ripcord one.
String Shooter
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BB-14 Bey Stadium Balance Type
The BB-14 Balance Type stadium is described as the first in some time without a Tornado Ridge, built as a deep bowl with a centre Survival Area and smaller openings; posters coin a 'vortex effect' for how an attack type can get thrown into an orbiting loop around such a stadium's wall on impact.
BB-14 Bey Stadium Balance Type
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BB-15 Launcher Grip
The BB-15 grip is reported to fit loosely enough onto the MFB shooter holder to be usable with padding, while the earlier HMS grip fits an MFB shooter holder more tightly than intended.
BB-15 Launcher Grip
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BB-13 Random Booster Vol. 1 Secret Aries
The BB-13 Random Booster line is reported to award a full Beyblade per pack rather than individual parts, a change from the piecemeal part-drop systems used before it.
AriesBB-13
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Hasbro responds to my criticisms
An archived mid-2000s Hasbro Beyblade FAQ, reproduced in full, stated its Metal Driger used an Engine Gear core rather than a Heavy Metal Core for higher performance, and that names like Gaia Dragoon were changed to Strata Dragoon for the US market due to overseas trademark issues; a longtime member's contemporaneous rebuttal argued the FAQ sidestepped the community's real quality complaints.
Metal DrigerGaia DragoonStrata Dragoon
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Left-Spin MFB
Examines photos of early Metal Fight Beyblade wheel undersides, including Pegasis and Bull, to argue the wheels were physically designed to accept only right-spin shooters, with the gaps and hooks that would allow a left-spin shooter deliberately absent, read by posters as planned obsolescence ahead of future left-spin releases.
PegasisBull
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Restricted Format
Documents an early IBA/WBO proposal for an alternative 'Restricted Format' banning specific over-dominant Plastic-generation parts (Samurai Upper and Circle Upper attack rings, Bearing Core) so combos would diversify beyond a small set of dominant cookie-cutter builds, with the community debating which additional parts, like Wide Survivor and Wide Defense enabling 'zombie' stalling combos, would also need banning.
Bearing CoreSamurai UpperCircle UpperWide SurvivorWide Defense
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Question! Beyblade Tourny
A 2009 event called Beyblade War Room is confirmed to be planned for Anime North in Toronto, Ontario, with a separate tournament also noted for early August in the New York/New Jersey area.
Beyblade War Room
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Spin Velocity
Debates the community term "spin velocity," concluding it is technically a misnomer for angular speed (since true velocity of a spinning point averages to zero) but is used relatively in the hobby to compare how much faster one Beyblade spins than another under equal launch conditions, and that the term persists by convention despite the imprecision, similar to standard physics misnomers.
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Tournaments
Members discuss the lack of sanctioned tournaments after Beyblade's mid-2000s hiatus, with one noting the upcoming Japanese Birth Festival is being called a 'challenge' rather than a genuine tournament since no winner would be declared.
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is it illegal to color on a beyblade with marker
Replies note that Takara Tomy sold marker sets meant for coloring beys, but that hand-applied marker wears off and looks uneven next to paint, and that any coloring should go on a decal-free shell and dry fully before decals are applied, since the process's heat can weaken the plastic.
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Problems with the launcher
A common complaint about HMS launchers is a Beyblade leaving the launcher before the ripcord fully disengages, which weakens the launch, and a broken grip's black teeth can sometimes be repaired with a nail file or sandpaper rather than replaced outright.
HMS Launcher
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Customize Metal blades
Compares customization depth across generations: HMS and MFB both offer fewer total parts and less build variety than the Plastic generation, yet several posters found HMS and MFB customization more satisfying despite the smaller part pool.
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How to obtain the rare dark blades and orthros
Establishes that the Dark series and Blizzard Orthros were Fukubako (lucky-bag) prize items rather than the rarest Beyblades ever made, that they were not released by Hasbro, and that despite the rarity they were mostly valued for their support parts rather than performance.
Blizzard OrthrosUrielGabrielDark Gaia Dragoon
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Gimmick Specialty Discussion
Walks through several Gimmick Specialty HMS sets by how their gimmicks actually play: Phantom Fox splits into two pieces mid-battle, Round Shell's running core lets it roll off a launch pull, Magical Ape uses a gyro mechanism, and Dark Leopard's rubber-core gimmick is judged the weakest of the group by multiple owners.
Phantom Fox MSRound Shell MSDark Leopard MSMagical Ape MSSlash Riger MS
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Wolborg MS Video/Videos of Potentional Purchase(s) Thread
Explains why a bearing-core survival type like Wolborg MS can dominate a mixed field: against an opposite-spin opponent it functions like a gear system, gaining speed by absorbing the other Beyblade's spin rather than losing to it.
Wolborg MS
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My ripcords keep breaking too easily
Discussing frequent ripcord breakage, members agreed the fix is learning to pull the cord straight rather than reinforcing it with glue, which was discouraged; one reply noted that blades packaged with a 'TT Hongli' or 'New Boy' logo on the box are counterfeit and tend to come with poor-quality ripcords that fail quickly.
ripcord launcher
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Building an EG
Members worked out how to reassemble a broken Engine Gear mechanism from a G-Revolution-era Beyblade, describing the gear stacking order and noting a small internal spring as the critical, easily lost component.
Dragoon G
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Repaint galeon To create Galux
Establishes that Galux is essentially Galeon's Attack Ring and Metal Ball Disk/Base recoloured pink, meaning a repaint plus the separately available Galux bit would reasonably reproduce it, and notes an existing pink-toned Galeon recolour (Hasbro's translucent Phantom Force version) as a reference point.
GaleonGalux
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Weight disks and Gekiryu-oh
Confirmed that a licensed weight disk with a flint-and-sandpaper mechanism was sold and did produce visible sparks on contact, and that it was later discontinued over parental safety concerns.
Weight Disk
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Different beyblades
Traces a product line's origin to a poll run on an earlier fan site asking which discontinued Beyblades should be re-released, noting that every Beyblade named in that poll was eventually issued as part of the resulting series.
Phantom ForceHyperblades
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METAL FIGHT BEYBLADE! AUGUST 9 NEW SERIES RELEASE
This records the starter and booster lineup Takara Tomy shipped at the metal line's 2008 launch, naming each numbered set from the four starter blades through the stadium, launcher, beypointer and first random booster.
PegasusBullChironLeoWolfBeystadium (Attack)
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Takara to revive Beyblade, new tops and anime forthcoming.
Reports the 2008 news that Takara was reviving the dormant Beyblade franchise with a new all-metal top line and matching anime, and discusses what an all-metal design would mean for durability and cost, plus whether Hasbro would carry the revived line outside Japan.
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My engine gear blades and why they suck.
Discussing the plastic-generation Engine Gear mechanism used in parts like Rock Bison and Gaia Dragoon G, members generally found the gimmick unreliable and underdeveloped, though a few praised specific late-series implementations such as Flame Pegasus's gyro mechanism and Dranzer GT, and noted the line's limited number of distinct Engine Gear types kept it from reaching its full potential.
Rock BisonGaia Dragoon GFlame PegasusDranzer GTDranzer V2
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Removing Penalty pockets.
Describes ways bladers neutralize the built-in 'penalty pockets' on some Hasbro stadiums that catch and hold knocked-out beys: cutting a hole through the pocket wall so beys pop back into play, or blocking the pockets entirely with toilet-paper rolls or cardboard and tape.
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A Problem With Shooters...
Troubleshoots a launcher making an unusual noise, tracing it to a worn plastic clutch piece between the launcher's prongs and driven shaft slipping, with lubrication offered as a partial fix.
launcher
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let it rip or go shoot
Contributors compare the English dub's launch phrase, Let It Rip, with the original Japanese Go Shoot, note that the Japanese phrase is favoured internationally by some fans, and mention that other language dubs use their own translated launch calls, such as a Hindi version.
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Can you give me a hand with a Zombie article please
Members collaboratively refined a definition of the 'Zombie' combo type, explaining it relies on spin-stealing (which only occurs between opposite-spin Beyblades) and life-after-death (continuing full rotations after tipping over), and debated which parts and bearing setups best support each ability.
WolborgWolborg 2Dragoon VDragoon V2Bearing StingerBurning Kerberous
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What of these types have you not heard of?
Members defined a set of informal attack-role terms used in the community at the time — Compact Smash, Zombie Slayer/Killer, Upper Attack, Grinding Attack, Bulk and Forced Attack/Smash — describing what each style of hit means and naming example parts for each.
Advanced AttackerFlash LeopardWolborg 4Driger V2Master Dragoon
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Defense Strategy
Works through the distinction between a Beyblade built to win by outlasting an attacker (defense) and one built to win by never being knocked out or stopped (endurance), concluding both are valid strategies alongside attack and are usually blended together rather than pursued in pure form.
Seaborg 1Master Draciel
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Some beyblades that are somewhat forgotten...
Debates the usefulness of Shadow/Death Driger's attack ring, concluding it works best for weight-disk attack or as a narrow, hit-avoiding profile in a grinder or endurance role, though most agree it is outclassed by more aerodynamic or better-balanced parts for those same jobs.
Shadow DrigerDeath DrigerGuardian Driger
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[split] I stopped playing for a while...
Returning members explain the difference between the G-Series and GT engine-gear lines, that GT engines share an interchangeable customize-engine-weight tip while G-Series engines do not, and lay out the three clutch types (first-clutch release at spin-up, release-on-hit, and continuous release) that determine when an engine-gear beyblade lets go.
G-SeriesGTDragoon GDranzer GWolborg IVRock Bison
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HMS - Unfair or advantageous?
An argument over whether HMS parts are unfair against plastic-generation ones establishes that mixed plastic-versus-HMS matches were always tournament-legal from HMS's Japanese release onward and were never banned, with the generation gap treated as a legal advantage rather than an illegal one.
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Wolborg
Owners comparing photographs establish that Hasbro's release of Wolborg shipped with an incorrectly shaped performance tip compared to Takara Tomy's original design.
Wolborg
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I Come up with a Great Launching Style
Describes two claimed launch techniques (a fast upward-then-downward ripcord turn for speed and endurance, and a sideways launch meant to send the Beyblade circling the stadium edge), though other posters dispute their usefulness and point out one matches how a launch is shown in the anime.
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Beyblade Stadium Types
Replies name and describe the classic plastic-generation stadium types: Tornado Attack (a green stadium built for fast attackers), Tornado Balance (a black stadium favouring endurance) and Tornado Balance Type S (a smaller, light blue stadium better suited to attackers), correcting an initial mix-up between the last two.
Tornado Attack stadiumTornado Balance stadiumTornado Balance Type S stadium
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Metal Upper AR Question
Two different Metal Upper attack ring molds existed, an older one with squarer lifting-ramp edges and a newer one with more rounded edges; posters agreed the newer mold was sturdier while the older mold offered greater smash-attack potential but broke more easily, and that the part had fallen out of common competitive use.
Metal UpperDriger MS
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Tournament and strategy support would've helped.
A member links a 2005 news article reporting Hasbro's Beyblade brand suffered an unexpected $97 million year-over-year sales decline, and others discuss how Hasbro's lack of marketing the game as a strategy title and its failure to hold tournaments after the initial World Championship left kids with no reason to keep buying, contrasted with Japan's stronger hobby culture.
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Some Of The V Series Re Released?
Establishes that Hasbro re-released several popular original V-Series Beyblades (naming Kerberous, Orthrus, Gaia Dragoon V, Voltaic Ape among them) as a final production run alongside the earlier S and V2 re-releases, while Flash Leopard II and Metal Dranzer were believed never to have gotten re-releases and instead dated to around the time Hasbro stopped making Beyblades.
KerberousOrthrusGaia Dragoon VVoltaic ApeFlash Leopard IIMetal Dranzer
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Phantom Fox MS
Discussion of Phantom Fox MS's split mechanic also surfaced a detail on a different HMS prize piece: Slash Riger Metal Scratch was a CoroCoro design-contest winner distributed through the Beyblade Hukubako 2005 promotion, paired with a random Beyblade and issued in two colourways, with the blue version the rarer secret variant.
Phantom Fox MSSlash Riger Metal Scratch
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tuning?
Members explain tuning as de-greasing a beyblade's bearing to shift where spin energy is lost, from the tip to a smoother, smaller bearing surface for longer spin times, and note it had been debated for a ban within sanctioned BBA play, though no sanctioned plastics or HMS tournament ruleset remained active to enforce one by the time of the exchange.
Wolborg
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Three-For-All!
A returning member proposes reviving three-way stadium battles, arguing the format forces a different strategy than one-on-one since a Beyblade can't focus on a single opponent, and other members discuss which types — high-speed attackers or heavy defensers — suit multi-blader chaos best.
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