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Gotta tell how popular bootleg beyblades were here in Brazil. The bootleg ones would have stuff to make them release sparks when they clashed. They were actually dancerous, they would cut through skin, but it was a LOT of fun.
@@firechaos70 because there is a real possibility that your blade will die, the enemy blade will die, and that YOU will die, OR the other guy. t's why gladiator fights get attention.
One time my friend showed me a beyblade that had LITERAL BLADES attached to it. And i'm not talking about your grandmas butter knife no I mean it when I say these blades could cut fruit if you could take them off
Yeah, but that’s just DBZ; only Goku (the main character) gets a rage boost. Vegeta was only permitted “powered-up tantrums” unless he was helping Goku
I remember those. Seeing sparks and pieces of plastic fly every time they tore into each other felt like a miniature natural disaster where you could only watch in a mixture of awe and terror because trying to stop them would lose you a finger.
I once had a bootleg beyblade that had a COMEDICALLY large sawblade as an attack ring like it basically strapped an electric fan's blades into my beyblade, it was terrifying.
My personal favourite oddity of the original Beyblade cartoon was that, even before Bit Beasts were seriously introduced, it was just apparently an accepted fact that everyone could psychically control/order their little tops?
I remember in the first beyblade movie there's a scene where one of the bladebreakers was battling a dark blader. Their teacher was there, but she didn't know what was happening because she couldn't see the bitbeasts fighting eatch other. The series never explains or brings up that moment ever again.
Seemingly all products in BBX are currently only produced by Takara Tomy, including Hasbro Exclusives such as SteelSamurai and Talon Ptera. Hasbro BBX also has TT branding, similar to Hasbro's Burst Pro Series having TT branding.
@@exocolt15 Because Hasbro's market is still towards younger players, even if they're selling stuff like "Tournament Grade Winder launchers" and the Soar Phoenix Starter Pack. Plus Hasbro's Starters and Stadium Set include the really shitty Proto Launchers along with Reskins that are still of the same quality and shape as their TT equivalents.
Eddy: Your Beyblade will be revered! Double D: In Japan... Eddy: You will have legions of fans! Your Beyblade will part the seas! Double D: In Japan...
Oh as a sidenote because of how the video ended: Takara Tomy really cracked down on Hasbro after the ending of Burst because of just how bad their production was, and it’s pretty much confirmed that while they can make original stuff, it’s just from small tweaks to preexisting molds TT has. All of the preexisting toys are just TT tops in Hasbro branding. They will not cause mayhem again, hopefully.
A beyblade once drew blood on me when I tried to pick it up after winning a match. I was an amateur, naive, *ignorant* I have since gained proper understanding of the world and attainted mutual respect with Sagittarius Edit: 56:37 HEH
For years I've heard people making fun of "strategy" in a spinning top bonking game, but then you showed that goat bey bouncing around and Drago spinning backwards to mess with vectors and _now_ I actually get it. There's some cool stuff going on there. More in the top building than in the top launching, though, which the anime seemed to emphasize more than it should, but I'll assume that's like how GX decided practicing drawing cards is a thing you can do
Most of the cool stuff about Beyblade does come from how the tops are built, but unlike drawing cards in yugioh GX, there is actually some strategy in how you launch your bey. Not as much as in the show, but launch technique does have a noticeable impact on how a beyblade behaves. For example, tilting your beyblade slightly away from you before launching it would cause it to move in a flower-like pattern through the stadium, repeatedly passing through the center, whereas keeping it level when you launch it would cause the beyblade to circle around the edge of the stadium. If you're using an attack-type beyblade, knowing how to launch it properly could mean the difference between landing hit after hit on a stationary opponent, and wasting all your stamina before you so much as graze them.
Fun fact: When I was in middle school at my daycare (very cool statement I know), I ran “tournaments” for the younger kids to play with Beyblades. This was also around the time my school banned Beyblades because kids kept launching them at each other. I still ran these tournaments because the little kids enjoyed it a lot. More kids kept getting hit with Beyblades and I only feel slightly responsible for it!
Man, ever since I saw a commercial for Beyblade Burst, I instantly fell in love with Beyblade, and to this day, I still have my old beys, so this video takes me back.
It's quite fitting that Ryuga would resemble Akuma. If the only thing that can put a person down for good is LITERAL DIVINE FORCE, you are not an antagonist you're a force of destruction.
When I was kid, i went to a summer camp and I remember there was an entire social hierarchy with beyblades. If you have the best beyblade you were known as cool
actually, correction about the X series. hasbro is handling distribution, takara is producing them. the hasbro X beys are virtually identical to the japanese ones.
Oh, so basically Hasbro is just importing them, slapping them into a translated package, and shipping them to stores? Why do I feel the box is going to somehow still fail Quality Control even if the Bey is perfect?
As a person who was into beyblade for almost all of the Metal series and imported in JP beys to get the actual gimmicks has ro skimped out on. And a brother who is literally at a betblade tournament RIGHT Now, Beyblade will always hold a special place in my heart
@@kratangg-arang This was barely about the fighting game and just Bumbles spearing on for about an hour over Beyblade and I'm all here for it. I wonder if I could get people to set up a MMDS bracket lol
You're certainly right about the violence, an X bey escaped a stadium and hit me in the nads. It was also not the only time a bey tried to injure it's owner.
Jack, I'm gonna be honest-I think you're my absolute favourite youtuber now. You're the same height as me, you were/are a TBFP fan, you're FUNNY, you're SUPER INFORMATIVE, you're FASCINATING. Thank you for being you. I would've never learned the actual real world history behind the concept of Top-Fights without you. Genuinely, you're the best.
When I was an elementary student, I was OBSESSED with the Metal Fusion and Metal Masters animes when they were on Cartoon Network, even more than I was with Pokémon, and they were my introduction into Beyblades in general. Sadly, I was a stupid kid and thought Ginka Hagane’s English voice was the coolest thing ever. I now see that he was in fact annoying to hear. Carman Melville’s Ryuga voice is still badass though, and that theme song lives in my head for all eternity.
Honestly aside from Ginka's dubbed voice the cast was okay at worst but 100% with Melville as Ryuga. I recently marathoned Bakugan as sort of background noise and realised that it's the same group of voice actors when hearing some of the voice actors (Melville shows up as a villain late in the first series, Lync in New Vestroia is Ginka, and Spectra also in New Vestroia is Dashan from Masters).
Beyblade was actually why I got scammed for the first place! it was in 2nd grade, I was two years ahead so I was 5 years old meanwhile everyone else was 7. so I was showing one of my beyblades to this guy during recess, the purple eagle one from Beyblade Metal Fusion iirc, and he asked if he could borrow it, and I said sure, but he didn't give it back to me lol. I had to ask my dad to tell the kid to give me back my beyblade, and he did. also really love the Alpha 2 reference in the thumbnail, huge props to the artist!
Me and my friends were obsessed with these back in middle school. Shouting “LET IT RIP” in the middle of the lunchroom whenever we played with these levels of obsessed. We saw every episode of the show as the dub aired on Cartoon Network, all that. I do not use the phrase “cringe” lightly, and I’ll happily grant the nuance that we were neurodivergent middle schoolers at the time, but it was super cringe. Edit: On a related note, literally everything Jack said about Ryuga is 100% true.
@@bumblesmcfumbles You’re telling me some random shit starter just decided to pick up one of the most powerful artifacts and become one step below god? I need to watch this anime now.
@@jokerofspades-xt3bs I was a 3rd grade kid, so whatever I brought to school (probably a bad idea, but since someone also brought theirs I wanted to partake)
One of the unmentioned part about the Beyblade X series? They're remaking V-Force and Metal Burst Beys for this new generation. So old fans can come back into the absolute *best* generation we've gotten.
I have this very special memory in my mind with Beyblade. When I was a kid back then, I usually have the privilege of buying manga, and I would lend them to friends around my neighbourhood, since they are all good and kind kid, but less fortunate than me. I remember buying a few manga and there was a Beyblade manga, there's this kid around the block usually hang out with me, he's smart, much smarter than me, and truth be told, I'm the dumbest kid around the block. His parents didn't seem to like him hanging out with me, I can tell that by the look even then, I was still little back then. Anyway, we all like the manga about Beyblade, and I continued lending him the manga up until the last book I could found. It's early 2000, and we live in a place where it's not well-developed and not all kind of entertainments are accessible. Toys are luxurious and proper, branded toys are holy rail and didn't exist. There are a couple of ladies set up their toy stores around the school, they sold cheap toys and some bootleg stuff, but for the early 2000 the quality of these was surprisingly decent. Of course, we both bought our cheap-ass beyblade. They only came with one colour, white, and they all function the same without any kind of customization, they spin, and that's it. Didn't stop us from using a metal cookie box as an arena and had fun, we both yell dumb shit from the manga while they are spinning. This was also at the time, where he was about to move to a bigger city, I visited him a couple more times before he finally left. I didn't have the chance to say goodbye to him that day, since I was in school. We only met the last time in the party, all of the mom around the block joined in to say goodbye about a week before that. Anyway, I didn't have many friends back then, and I knew a genuine one when I had one. All the people I called friends back then were legitimate friends, and I'm glad it happened that way. I'm sure that he ain't even remember about this after so many years, but this memory lives rent free in my mind. Last time I heard, his father was having his business working well after moving, so I presumed that his life got better, good for him.
Beyblades have undoubtedly some of the coolest engineering of any toy - tops that jump or steal momentum are CRAZY ideas that I love seeing them actually implement.
Oh my God, really!!!! You're literally my favorite creator!! You've covered punch out, TF2, and now beyblade?!? That's fuckin, I can't even... I'm genuinely in tears of joy dawg! As a long time competitive blader, good shit bumbles! Good shit Edit: also, heck you bumbles, you really just boiled down several years of launch and bey testing to "making a beyblade that runs away" and then called me a coward lmao. I've been had! Well played bumbles, well played
I'm so happy I grew up with the Metal Fury/Metal Masters line of beys, because at least those were pretty close to the original japanese versions. Imagine being a kid growing up with the Hasbro Burst system, getting older, and finding out how BAD you got robbed.
The “Crappy Fighting Game EVO” is mentioned once again. I wait for the glorious day such an event becomes real. (It will justify my 100+ hours on Metal Masters from when I was a kid)
Honestly, it's cool hearing about how complex beyblade actually is. I can't help being excited for beyblade X while also being simultaneously terrified that hasbro is making them.
I LOVED this video, beyblade has been one of my favorite things in the world since I was a kid, so seeing you both tackle the hobby in such an in-depth way, plus talking about such a cool video game as metal masters is, has been just great.
Ahh, beyblade. Back in school they had a bowl shaped thing as part of the playground where people played, and someone got so mad they kept losing they brought pepper spray and coated the entire bowl. Beyblade wasn't allowed anymore
OH MY GOD I USED TO WATCH THE ANIME AND LOVE THESE AS A KID. DUDE. I WANTED TO PUT A STUPID BANDAID OVER MY NOSE AS A FIVE YEAR OLD BECAUSE OF THIS ANIME BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT LOOKED COOL WHAT I RECONGNISE THE STUPID RED HAIRED KID IN THE THUMBNAIL THAT WAS A JUMPSCARE...
im so glad someone else out there understand how fucking cracked Ryuga is shoutouts to Gjinka's tails miles prower type beat sidekick went to RYUGA for advice on how to be better
I love that there's a fighting game where the only visual difference between the fighters is the colors and the crazy stuff that comes out when they attack each other. Beyblade Metal Masters is a rare breed and should be treasured as such. I was going to specify that I meant the game before I remembered everything about Ryuga.
I really like the idea of the final boss being the embodiment of the Dinosaurs Vengeance, and then sits around watching two tops spin around and hit another.
As a kid the Metal Series was absolutely amazing, I still have so many good memories of my Leone and Pegasus beys We used to have fuckin beyblade days with the bros it was nuts...
I had a beyblade as a kid (1st gen, I believe), and really didn't think much of it. I played with it a couple of times with kids at school and day care and went straight back to Yu-Gi-Oh. Despite that, this was a really interesting video. The history of the franchise, the shifts in the meta, the widely varying build quality (no surprise that the American ones were noticeably worse) and that absurdly funny anime villain were interesting stories and well told. The fact that there were people that would spin their beyblades in reverse using only their hands, and that that WORKED, was probably the biggest highlight of the video for me.
I only know about Beyblade because of the out of context moses scene but this video alongside seeing more of what goes in the series, I REALLY need to see the Metal anime now
ROCK LEONE! The one good starter bey from Metal Fusion! By the way I still find it crazy how Meteo L-Drago's absorbing powers are actually scientifically true, I remember how I bursted in laughter when me and my brothers launched it by hand and saw it win
40:45 In the manga Ryuga lives. There is two different counterparts to Ryuga. The anime makes him a power hungry anti-hero and the manga makes him a literal almost 1 thousand year old dragon king. I am not joking just ask Takafumi Adachi this and you will be surprised that this is indeed part of Ryuga's lore
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