Beyblade Builder
Pick a part for each slot and watch the top take shape: its stats, its weight, the real Beyblades it matches. The part-swapping customizer Hasbro’s BeybladeBattles.com had from 2010 to 2015, back for every generation.
Opening the Metal parts…
How the stats work
Metal Saga: Hasbro’s stars
Hasbro’s star ratings, printed on the card in each box (face bolts carry none), averaged the way Hasbro’s own customizer on BeybladeBattles.com averaged them, to the nearest half star. Run on the ratings Hasbro’s own 2014 customizer used, this method gives that customizer’s figures for all sixteen of its tops, star for half star. Our catalogue’s ratings match Hasbro’s file for 55 of its 64 parts; a census of 540 box and card photographs read the print on 55 parts and corrected four, and a few tops can still sit half a star from Hasbro’s figure where the two makers’ boxes disagree. A face bolt carries no stars; a 4D bottom is one piece in the track and the tip slot, so it counts twice, as Hasbro counted it.
Balance: our rule
Hasbro’s original customizer showed a fourth row, Balance, and its rule was never saved. Ours is how evenly a top’s three stats are spread: full marks when Attack, Defense and Stamina are equal, one star less for every star between the strongest and the weakest. A top is a Balance type when its three stats sit within one star of each other, which names the official type of 77% of the Metal Saga tops on file.
Anything goes
Any part of a slot’s kind can go in that slot, as on Hasbro’s site, which warned that some online tops “can’t actually fit together in the physical form”. The card says when a part never came on a top of the system you are building, when two parts spin opposite ways, and when parts cannot go together for real: a Burst disc that takes no frame, an Energy Ring that only locks onto one Fusion Wheel, a Beyblade X blade with its ratchet built in, a Hard Metal System core that takes no plastic ring. “Make it real” lists the Beyblades your parts come in.
The other generations
- Plastic generation. Per-part ratings from 1 to 4 as the community record lists them, averaged the Metal Saga way; whether Takara or Hasbro ever printed these is still being checked.
- Heavy Metal System. Per-part ratings from 1 to 4 as the community record lists them ("endurance" read as stamina), averaged the Metal Saga way; their origin is still being checked.
- Beyblade Burst. The per-part ratings the community record lists for Burst (0 to 8 a part), added up for the top; which maker printed them, and whether the app added or averaged them, is still being checked.
- Beyblade X. Takara Tomy’s per-part numbers (0 to 100 a part) as the community record lists them, added up for the combo the way the official X stat sheets add them; being checked against the makers’ own.
- Spin-offs. BeyWheelz parts’ Speed and Power (1 to 3 a part), the two stats Hasbro’s Wheelz customizer showed, added up.
Weights are the parts weighed one by one and added up, so a top’s own weight on its box can differ by a few tenths of a gram; where our record had no weight, the figure is the median of several collectors’ measurements. BeybladeBattles.com was Hasbro’s; this builder is our own, drawn and built from our parts catalogue, with none of Hasbro’s art. The drawn stack is ours too, five shapes for five kinds of part, not any maker’s design.