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@@JohnDoe-gt3jr Awww, but you should've. Rick rolling would get a rise out of those clowns and I'd love to see them get genuinely pissed off. Next time don't hold back.
Damn bro me and my grade school friends were so obsessed with these, we would put the cards under our shirts on our shoulders and keep our bakugan sitting magnetized on our shoulders outside and in school just like in the anime. It was cringe but felt really cool and fun back then.
What the fuck that goes so hard, none of my elementary school friends thought of that, we had a gay rule where stinglash could just absorb bakugan g power, and if you wanted to play again you had to go home to "recharge" your bakugan. So stinglash in my school was just the meta (we didn't know how to play)
The new-ish Bakugan toys have solved the rolling issue. Instead of one or two big magnet cards that were impossible to land on, they’ve replaced them with multiple mini magnet cards each the size of a coin that basically guarantee landing on one of them. Source: was a summer camp counselor
You know I actually expected it, because in that episode Masquerade loses the coat and you could perfectly see that his body shape was that of a female, obviously Im talking about the show's designs, Dan and Shun had similar male body and Runo and the other females had the same shape etc, but then masquerade didnt have the same design as Dan, so back then I was like, "I s he a woman?", now we know.
As a kid I knew nothing about the cards or the anime, but those toys where actually incredible. Most of them where surprisingly durable and folded out in cool ways. My little kid brain went ape over the funny monster shapes.
Its not too complicated at least on a base level Its mostly just trying to get the bigger number then you win. Its a bit more complex now that it's a full on card game though but it could definitely use a tweak or two
@@mauriciomagalhaes181 idk really. I just remember her putting on that mask and turning into him and then taking it off and reverting back to herself. For some reason it made sense to me when I was a kid
@@mauriciomagalhaes181 negative energy from the bad dimension turns her into a guy when she puts on the glasses i guess. And even though they basically sentence bakugan to death the main cast forgives her cuz "its not her fault"
This hits way too close to home. As a kid, my parents once brought me to a Bakugan tournament. It was in the rules that you had to roll your Bakugan onto the card or forfeit your turn if you miss. I didn't get it to land on the card even once. I went home crying that day.
I had to look up the rules to verify this- and yeah, it's true. Even in the trading card game version, you still roll the toy and if it misses the opponent is declared the "Victor" of that "Brawl", but you still have cards in your hand you could play. In the standard toy-only version, you win 3 Brawls to win the game. That is- that is something else. And this is coming from someone that plays modern Yu-Gi-Oh!.
Dan and Drago had the thickest plot armor ever. There was literally an episode when Drago was about to be sent to the Doom Dimension by Chan Lee, then his g-power spontaneously increased without Dan even playing a card. He avoided the doom dimension, and he and Dan ultimately won the battle. This show was such bullshit XD.
True but the entire plot of the first season was Masquarade trying to evolve his Bakugan through battle and then Drago eventually matching him. These are meant to be real life monsters so their power level staying the same would actually be weirder.
Imagine if there's an anime that is also centered around selling toys too, but they're extremely self-aware about how stupid the whole concept of their game is.
The DS game was pretty cool. You had a stamina meeter where you can control your bakugon, and if you got enough speed you could slam an opponent off the card instead of fighting them and doing so counts as an instant ko, makeing each battle about understanding the environment, deciding what to use base on that environment and how you want to face your opponent
I remembered my friend's mum yelling at my friend "I'm not buying you one of those anymore! You always broke It each time you played with It" My friend high-key slammed his bakugans instead of just rolling It normally "adds the immersion" he said
The fact that Dan and Shun made the game together but Dan was still ranked in the several hundreds while Shun was the top player in the world, tells me that Shun did most if not all the actual work.
Shun is a giga chad and an actual anime ninja. If boomer Bakugan came back from the dead for one more season (it really shouldn't), he would have the Sharingan and would defeat SSJ4 Naga's first form with a Susanno that looks like his dead mom.
@@asmarlokicerain7706 according to them it's because of a "reference" like bitch they don't have anything on common, BB shun is a ninja and BP shun is a rich kid
Bro am I the only one where I used my bakugon so much the magnet wore down to the point it wouldn’t even stand? That’s why it hit so hard when he said “Oh god is good” too relatable
I remember when me and my brother bought our first Bakugan, my dad was pretty skeptical about it. He thought that there was no way it could unfurl and open up just by landing on the card, and he said that is was just advertising magic and editing tricks. The look on his face when we just placed the ball on the magnetic card is probably the most astonished and perplexed I've ever seen him.
@@sagrawolf Yeah, I guess that was his logic haha. To be even fairer, this video depicts the harsh reality of trying to use the power of Spin on an imperfect sphere, sometimes it just doesn't work
@@silversonome5360 To be the most fair, an elliptical sphere is better for a children's game. We don't want children breaking dimensional walls with perfect rotations.
@@NightWing1800 Imagine a kid who just doesn't want to sleep "Timmy, put your toys away, you have to go to school tomorrow" "No! I don't wanna!" *Throws a Bakugan at mom, causing her entire atomic structure to rotate into inexistence, encompassing even the alternate dimension versions of that mother ultimately turning every dimension's version of that child into an orphan*
This was hands down some of the funniest things I've seen in years. I haven't genuinely laughed that hard in ages. Every line right after the other just gold.
Helpful tip: modern Bakugan have a “wheel” in the center of the ball and an arrow somewhere on said “wheel” telling you what direction to roll it to help people with rolling. But the Gen 1 Bakugan did not have those
I used to own all the gen 1 stuff, did they ever make a wrist launcher that actually stored the balls in there? When I bought the wrist launcher, the actual bakugan never fit inside it and my dreams of 14yo me cosplaying Dan Kuso were crushed.
@@nolaz010 they did have a wrist launcher, I never owned it but if I had to guess I believe the reason why they didn’t fit is because only B1 Bakugan could fit in it and you might be putting B2 Bakugan in it. B1 Bakugan were only made for a short time in the first season and after that they just made B2s for the rest of the series
As a father who had to try learn this thing, after his five-year old got into this briefly, I cannot emphasise enough how much this relates. Everything about this is accurate. EVERYTHING!
RIP my guy. Hopefully the little one had fun. I know when I played this with my friends we just placed them on the cards because no way were we gunna do that rolling nonsense
All i gotta say…is the video game was SO FKING EASIER like my god it took me atleast 3 months before i learned how to actually launch it irl with accuracy i dont think a game where you roll a marble should take you take long JUST to play it properly
I honestly kind of hope you make more Bakugan memes in the future. The show is pretty wacky and as a person who grew up with the game it would be pretty great to see you riff on it a bunch
“The odds are stacked against you” The theme song was talking about the odds of you getting the Bakugan to land on your card before you get disqualified
I just had them. I didnt know why, how and when i got them, i just had them. No cards, no magnets, just the balls. I just had them. I didnt even know it had an anime
I love that it is in fact canonical that Dan and Shun literally invented the game of Bakugan and somehow bent the will of literal creatures of another dimension to follow the rules that earth kids play for fun.
I remember i had a realization somewhere around the second season that they started to focus more on the battles themselves and threw the tactical card game aspect to the side. Don't know if it was because they gave up after trap bakugans was implemented, lack of interest or for other reasons. The games were pretty decent though (:
Part of it genuinely just had to do with the fact that the real life game mechanics themselves were very simple, unlike something like Yugioh which is surface level easy to play but very intricate under the hood, there wasn't enough substance to make an entire second show off of Iirc, Bakugan's entire rulebook is basically Turn: Set gate card, throw bakugan, if bakugan sticks, it stands, if not, end turn Battle: When two bakugan owned by opposite players stand on same card, reveal gate card, both players use one ability card, higher G power wins, winner keeps the gate card, loser's bakugan can't be used again Victory: Win three gate cards or all three of your opponent's bakugan are unplayable
This was so accurate when this came out. A friend in school tried to run a game and we spent more time trying to roll the dang thing onto the card than actually playing the game.
I remember my brother made up a bullshit rule that missing the card meant my turn was skipped and i didn’t know the game so i went with it. I lost just barely and knew if i made it onto the card i would’ve won.
I never thought about it, but it's kind of weird how a bunch of kids somehow made up this game using magic falling cards and monsters from who-knows-where and everyone just kind of went along with it. I mean, the cards fell all over the world, and the Battle Brawlers don't even all live in the same place (I think Alice lives in Russia?), so how did they pass the national and language barrier? This is a mid to late 2000s anime, so imagine doing that with internet technology from that era.
@@flarestorm9417 I know it's a glorified commercial but I find it curious how no goverment or science team ever cared about this magic cards that can slow/freeze time, nor how this little balls turn into fucking monsters of the size of a building
@@user-hp7kk4gq6t The adults just considered it some game the kids play and never looked further, which is odd now in hindsight. And I guess all of the kids agreed just to never tell their parents about it, ever. I mean, the anime showed you could take people into the interdimensional battlefield without them having their own card or needing to battle, so the kids could show their parents super easily, even if none of their Bakugan talked. But I guess no one decided to do that. This anime had a bunch of contrivances now that I think about it.
I remember attempting to play the game by myself and it kept making me mad that it wouldn't go on the stupid card or stay in the arena thing that came with the set. I eventually just chucked it into a door, the door was hollow though so the ball just busted a hole through it. Ah good times.
Here's a funny story, I was working at a toys r us when Bakugan was the new hot shit, and we had official tournaments at the store, sponsored by the company that makes Bakugan and everything. I was tasked with hosting the tournament and giving out prizes and such, but was also expected to play with the kids some rounds or teach newcomers how to play. In order to do this, I was actually given a specially issued Bakugan of my own. Just the one, I didn't get a case of them like some players had, and it was very simple in the way it unfolded. I remember some Bakugan balls were like masterpiece grade Transformers, they were so complex, mine just kinda split open and had a little monster face. The problem was that I was only issued the ball, it didn't come with a card. They forgot to include it in my little tournament hosting kit which meant I literally could not play since I couldn't deploy it and it had no stats. And I was expected to be the one running the damn event.
@@biomecraft356 @Athius Sorry fellas, this would have been about 13 or 14 years ago, so I have no idea. I definitely don't have it anymore. Plus, no card meant I knew nothing about it in the first place, not even the name. For an official tournament, it wasn't run very well.
Man, I went to a few tournaments at my local toys r us back then, everyone but one person basically decided the whole "just place your bakugan on the card" thing which made it really easy for me to beat everyone since I had a busted card + bakugan combo. But of course I couldn't land my bakugan a single time against the other person so they won our match when we had to roll them. But you shouldn't have needed a card back then to tell you its stats, they were printed on the bakugan. Though I guess an example one might not have had any so that it wouldn't get stolen or something lol.
My favorite shit ever is that in the first episode it’s established that Dan and Shun both came up with the rules that every person in the world plays by, yet when Dan battles someone who mains the subterra element, he has no idea what that is. Like, dude. You wrote the fucking international rules, yet you don’t know what one of the six elements is??
I literally practiced rolling when I was alone in my room because I wanted to be good at it in front of my friends I never could figure out the distance I needed to roll, but it's probably a similar concept to how axe throwers gauge what kind of grip they use with their axes before they throw.
Man, this reminded me of my childhood. I still have my lunchbox full of Bakugan over the years and same with the gate cards. I used to play the game with some of my friends during recess. We had our playground rules and we were allowed to run 5 Bakugan since the rounds were so short. I also remember the look on my mom and dad’s faces the first time they saw one of the toys pop on the magnet. My mom also watched the original anime with me since we had it on DVD. My first one was an Aquos Dragonoid, from that point I got a lot and I sometimes played the game with my mom. It was an amazing, yet interesting concept.
I love how Masquerade is the most chill and patient person. I kinda wanna see an abridged with this version of Masquerade and Alice is the evil psychotic half.
Tbh I still loved this game as a kid, my friend and I played it so much we basically knew how to roll them on the card each time. After a while the main problem was the ones that got sticky from playing outside, you had to roll those onto the card then force them open.
After I got out of middle school and the first 2 series came and ended and I had hundreds of Bakugan and probably tens of thousands of cards I found a bunch of them in my senior year of high school. I was doing highschool and college at the time so we set up a tournament with modified rules 4 players, more cards, and between each of us after a certain amount of throws we could choose to place a card on the field. Granting more space for us to land. But it also made it easier for others to land and capture cards. It was fun
Worst part is that it says in the card game's rules that if you do not _specifically_ roll it onto the card successsfully, that is a forfeit of your turn. Yeah, there's a reason why nobody on the playground made this obligatory, especially since none of the available surfaces during recess were level.
@@demonic_myst4503 Bull fucking shit, that is exactly what I tried to do, that is exactly what we all tried to do. Everyone just placed it on the card.
@@demonic_myst4503 except some of the cards were thick enough that you literally could not roll the Bakugan directly onto it: I cannot tell you how many times I literally watched rolls just stop dead or start going along the side/bottom of the card because it just couldn't make the climb I'm also pretty positive if you try treating a tiny sphere like a bowling ball, you're never gonna hit, ever, And have a good chance of breaking something
@@QuickSilverKitsune 1 if it isnt going up the rim your literaly not rolling it your dropping it and hoping it rolls 2 are you autistic?? genuin question because u took obvous anaology literal , no one said slam it like your throwing a bowling ball i said it tekes technique same way being good at bowling does its a basic anaology
When you think about it Masquerade is a genius. Masquerade knew his bakugan had a higher attack power than Kuso's which means he knew dracos attack power and decided not to tell him so Kuso would forfeit his bakugan out of frustration. That was truly a pro gamer move.
@@Jacob_G9 honestly when I first watched the video I forgot who masquerade really was, then after reading a few comments and remembering a few cringe moments in my childhood I realised
@@Jacob_G9 yeah, that plot twist at the end of the first season is actually the only real thing that Bakugan fandom remember about Masquerade. Was actually a good villain but was launched to the trash in the next seasons. That's why not everyone talk about Masquerade.
1:32 For context: the battle power of a Bakugan was written on the Bakugan itself, was very small to read and you had to basically go out of your way to find it; it doesn't help that different colors and runs of the same Bakugan could have the number in different places from each other despite being anathomically identical. Even worse, the battle power wasn't a fixed value, so it was common for different copies within the same run to possess different values from each other; which is a really cool idea for a collectible toy, until you realize these weren't the kind of toys you find in random packs at €2.99 each but the kind that you buy in plastic packagings that display their content at about €9.99 at least.
Yes. There were the cheap variety available at a fraction of the price and virtually identical, and then the actual ones that were made of slightly stronger plastic. Then there was a larger variety which came in for the "evolved" bakugan, those were easier to land and a lot cooler, but they never fit in with the original bakugan cuz they were bigger. I had almost every single one of them, and to this day I regret the hundreds of dollars wasted on an entirely useless toy collection when I could have saved the money for good video games on the Wii or a good gaming PC 😭
@@drakegrandx5914 I remember it, it was great but the Wii game was flipping amazing, it was one of my favourite games on the wii, I still remember all the names
along with this, if they showcased the bakugon with it open they covered up the actual number on it, you had to buy it and peel it off to see how powerful it is
i'm realising now that bakugan were made with their selling power as toys in mind and not too much thought was put into how they would actually work in a game
I remember back in elementary how me and my friend were obsessed with this, but we didn't understand it's rules at all, so we ended up making sh*t up based on the anime lol
I feel thats how everything like this happened in school, like the pokemon card game, there were a crap ton of rules for a kids game, so we just did it based of the anime, Monsuno, Bakugan, turning mechard
@@Coffeegobrrr that actually was pretty close to how the original game was played. The only difference was that sphere attacks wasn’t a thing, you couldn’t put cards down when there was any on the field, and you could only do a double stand if there was no other gate card, if there was you had to choose a Bakugan to move to the other one.
I mean that’s pretty accurate since the show made sh*t up when it wanted to as well lol, like when you watch it again for nostalgia as an adult the battles make no sense
Bakugan was just after I stopped caring about kids toy animes, but my little brother had them. I used to steal his cards and take out the magnet plate inside and use them as metal throwing card weapons.
I remember when some kids at my school were playing it and I wanted to join in but i didn't have any bakugans of my own but by the time i got my own bakugans to play with everyone stopped playing it. Ended up rolling them onto their cards over and over again and got really good at it for no reason.
Ah yes. Bakugan. The show that looked incredibly fun, but the game that was so confusing to understand how to play. But that S1 OP though? So good to listen to.
As a gal who was a fan of Bakugan way back in the day, this cracked me up! And yep - I totally get it. It can be a little hard to get the Bakugan on their cards!
@@MatiNuva1724 Oh my gosh, I had an entire COLLECTION when I was in middle school! I’ve long since given up most of them to a neighbor’s kid who fell in love with the franchise, but I still hold a few near and dear to me - including a Wavern that I personally customized so that she would look more show-accurate!
This unironically reawakened an entire part of my childhood I forgot about. While everyone else was playing with Pokemon cards, I was playing with Bakugan, and I somehow completely forgot. I'm unironically going to just go binge all of it and see where it went after I grew out of it lol
@@realdragon they where lit es specially the season 1 and season 2 era toys. after that they tanked in quality and design, and got overdosed on gimmicks there is a reason the brand originally collapsed but while the reboot's anime is an affront to nature, the toys are actually pretty good and live up to the legacy of B1, B2 and NV
Bakugan came after my time so i never got into it. But i get the references and damn the script was funny that you made for this XD I remember my best buds nephew tried to show me how to play this game and it went exactly like this lol
Back when I was in primary (elementary) school, we used to get a large metal tray and just try and flick our Bakugan to knock the opponents off. I gotta say, it was so much fun and I was gutted when I found out that wasn't the way the game was meant to be played.
Would've preferred this method of playing honestly. More like beyblade and less using cards actually sounds like a really fun idea. Should've been the initial release.
It kind of is. Knocking your opponents bakugan off the card with yours counted as a victory in the real game. Japan even got an anime based on a knockout only format.
Bakutech the game based on knocking your opponent's Bakugan off was real and had it's own 5-10 minute anime series. It was fun if a little bit brainless. Both the anime and the game.
Honestly, as a kid, I was all into the whole "Gotta collect 'em all!" Anime phase, but Bakugan I couldn't follow. I tried to watch when it first aired but for the life of me I couldn't get behind it lol
I always found it strange just how eager the main cast was to do battles with random kids that walked up to them on the streets considering just how many of them had Doom Dimension cards or whatever Like after the 10th one, you'd be a bit hesitant to start a game with a rando
@@flarestorm9417 I still entertain the theory that the pokemon are actually hallucinations caused by brain parasites. Pokemon battles are the equivalent of 2 crackheads shadow fighting each other behind a supermarket
@@Bowfella Dan is that your Bakugan I hear screaming Dan: yea he's excited to kick your ass Finally gets drago on the card Drago : FINALLY THE TORTURE ENDS DAN IM GONNA KICK YOUR ASS COME HERE MASQUERADE YOU WIN I NEED TO BREAK DANS THROWING ARM
I remember it more fondly cause of the console game based on the anime. Though I did get into the game cause I enjoyed watching the show and collecting the bakugan with classmates long ago. I don't think I played the actual game much, I just liked collecting and looking at other friends's bakugans. I only really played through the video game cause the story and gameplay was really fun.
I was never into its tcg, but I watched the first two seasons of Bakugan on the local tv. For real, after watching this, I think the rolling would have been much more difficult for me than the actual card game (if I decided to play it). 😂
There should be a video based on Bakugan or Wixoss where the whole thing is about how they can't leave until they finish a game. Honestly Wixoss is a goldmine of stuff that's messed up you could make videos about though. The first few seasons anyway, the Diva part was a real shark jump and it says a lot that it still hasn't gotten a second season..
This gives me so much nostalgia. I remember waking up on Saturday and hoping that I woke up early enough to eat breakfast before the episode ended. Bakugan, along with Dinosaur King were my childhood.
Can we talk about how busted the separate dimension is. It straight up freezes time, and allows people to move through space in the physical world. Runo and Murucho use it out of instinct freeze time and then dodge a ninja. (Shuns granddad)
"Hey guys, we mastered time dilation technology" "Holy fucking shit! we can solve hunger, disease, complex physics equations like my god... the possibiities are endless?' "What.. no, we're going to use it to play a game that requires us to roll an unfolding ball onto a magnetic card- Dad? Dad where are you going?"
I remember i bought the starter pack with the 2 headed dragon, and everyone thought it was rare because they hadn't seen it in the store yet. I think I've still got them too.
@@miilexthemii9353 Iirc, he was worried that noone would get the jokes cuz Bakugan came out a while back and while it did achieve some success, it wasn't exactly Batman levels of popular.
