Toyline · Original series

RC Beyblade

This wireless line reworked the standard three-piece build into a battery-powered version, swapping the ordinary Blade Base for one holding a spring and a small motor so the direction and speed of a battle could be steered by a handheld controller. A minute of charging bought only a few minutes of remote-controlled spin before the top needed to recharge, and the internal battery itself wore out after repeated cycles, limiting a unit's working life to a few months of regular use. Because steerable attacks were judged an unfair edge, sanctioned Beyblading contests kept RC tops out even though other supervised events allowed them.

What to know

Uses a three-part build: Bit Chip, Attack Ring, and RC Blade Base
Charging frequencies of 27MHz, 25MHz, 45MHz and 57MHz kept different RC Blade Bases from interfering with each other
Hasbro released Dragoon V2 and Dranzer V2 in Spring 2004, then Draciel G and Driger G under an 'Engine Gear' branding in 2005
Product codes follow an RA-00 numbering scheme

What it covers

Bit Chips
Attack Rings
Blade Bases
RC Launchers

Named elsewhere on this site

From our own records Tournament reports, testing threads, rules announcements, news and fake or leak checks carrying this name. Each link opens that section with the name already searched for.

Genesis Valtryek V3 6-RC Reboot-RC released in the US (E3014) news item · 2018-10-01
Drain Fafnir F3 8-RC Nothing-RC released in the US (E3015) news item · 2018-10-01

Claims We Could Not Check

Attributed, not verified by us

Hasbro's Engine Gear versions added a button that sped up rotation beyond what the stock finger-trigger launch provided