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Aero Knight MS
Aero Knight MS (Metal Sky) · エアロナイトＭＳ（メタルスカイ）
- Code
- MA-21
- Maker
- Takara Tomy
- Released
- November 2004 (Japan)
Description
Aero Knight MS is a Defense Type Hard Metal System Beyblade whose knight-themed bit protector and jagged Knight Crusher attack ring nod to an armored, winged warrior. Its running core is a two-piece Aero Core/Aero Wing unit that reuses the flying-helicopter gimmick from the plastic-era Trypio top, letting the wing disk be launched and spun on its own.
On file
The record
- Type
- Defense
- System
- Hard Metal System
- Series
- New Generation Custom Beigoma - Beyblade: HMS Heavy Metal Battle
- Takara Tomy code
- MA-21
- Other code
- TAK14371
- Price as printed
- ¥780
- Released in Japan
- November 2004
- Japanese name
- エアロナイトＭＳ（メタルスカイ）
- Romaji
- Aero Knight MS (Metal Sky)
- Owner (in the story)
- None
Parts
- Bit ProtectorKnight Emblem
- Attack RingKnight Crusher19g
- Weight DiskCircle Wide14 Grams
- Running CoreAero Wing & Aero Core3g (Core) 6g (Wing)
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In play and in the story
Rated poorly for competitive play: the Knight Crusher ring causes heavy recoil or plastic wear in either spin direction and is outclassed by rings like Samurai Upper and Advance Survivor; the tall Aero Core suffers more balance loss than its plastic-era 230 counterpart because of HMS's smaller diameter; and the Aero Wing's air resistance slows the Beyblade badly and risks scraping the stadium floor if an opponent gets underneath it.
- No release date is recorded for this Beyblade.
- Its Circle Wide weight disk is noted as also appearing (in a heavier mold) with Draciel MS.
- Its gimmick inspired the later Burst Beyblades Air Knight 12Expand Eternal and Wind Knight Moon Bounce-6.
Community testing, Dec. 06, 2015 — summarised
The competitive view
Aero Knight MS, an HMS-era Beyblade, has a weak Knight Crusher attack ring outclassed by Samurai Upper, Circle Upper and Advance Survivor, a versatile Circle Wide weight disk praised for life-after-death glide, and an Aero Wing/Aero Core running core criticized as a bad, air-resistant copy of the plastics-era Trypio gimmick. The physics explanation for the running core's poor performance is disputed, with precession preferred over gravitational-torque language to avoid a misconception.
- BP Aero Knight Emblem: 0.65 g
- AR Knight Crusher: 19.77 g
- WD Circle Wide: 13.95 g
- RC Aero Wing: 6.44 g
- RC Aero Core: 3.3 g, ~3.3 cm tall
Condensed from community testing; competitive opinions are the community's, not ours, and may be out of date.
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