Beyblades
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Beyblades were awesome. The local Woolworths once even did a competition. I came about 6th out of 20-odd.
You don't mess with a wide-blade, low-sitting beyblade. Need to get some power on it to make sure it doesn't rock, but it works damnit.
ASaw they were on sale on Amazon again. I wonder if they're still down in the shed...
You don't mess with a wide-blade, low-sitting beyblade. Need to get some power on it to make sure it doesn't rock, but it works damnit.
ASaw they were on sale on Amazon again. I wonder if they're still down in the shed...
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I still got the gray one. Plastic, ray was it's name I think. They used to be the bizang. Warms a special place in my heart, or is that the booze?
It was a couple of years after my time, but I watched a bit of the series.
Yu-Gi-Oh may have been a show about childrens' card games, but Spinning Tops? Seriously!? IIRC only the main cast could see the cool monsters and the rest of the Stadium full of people would flip their shit over 20 seconds of spinning tops hitting each other and falling over.
Yu-Gi-Oh may have been a show about childrens' card games, but Spinning Tops? Seriously!? IIRC only the main cast could see the cool monsters and the rest of the Stadium full of people would flip their shit over 20 seconds of spinning tops hitting each other and falling over.
Those things were the most face-wrecking toy a kid could buy. I don't know how something that dangerous/awesome was allowed on the market, but I'm glad for it. I have several tops and a couple of plastic "arenas" at my parents' house. Wolborg and Draciel were my personal favorites: they could seriously mess you up.
I remember I was the first kid at my primary school to get one. The one and only time I was officially cool!
Then all the Maori kids started using the tops off old Drink bottles, launched off a pencil with string... To be honest they worked better than the real thing, but at the time it was WAR!!!!
Then all the Maori kids started using the tops off old Drink bottles, launched off a pencil with string... To be honest they worked better than the real thing, but at the time it was WAR!!!!
Man... I was top fucking dog of my school because of my beyblade. It modified, probably illegally, and next to impossible to beat. NEXT to impossible, my bliss was shattered when this one girl with an even more illegal wieght disk, seriously, this ************ was insane. Then, on the final day of grade 6 (year 6, 6th grade, whatever), me and her had one final round. Mine hit hers just right, and it richet'd off he stadium thing, went horizontal, and still in full spin, hit the nearby cement barrier that keeps cars from parking on the grass, and split in half. That's right, after years of almost always losing to that fucking weightdisk, I destroy it on the very last go. That was that.
I used to love them, I watched the show too for a while. It's too bad the toys were such shitty quality, because they could have been really lasting as a toy. I remember they were banned at my school after some kid launched one during class and shattered his teacher's vase.
Funny that this thread popped up, because just the other day I noticed a couple cardboard stands in different stores with Beyblades on them. I thought the fad had died out like 6 years ago, but I guess they're back now.
Funny that this thread popped up, because just the other day I noticed a couple cardboard stands in different stores with Beyblades on them. I thought the fad had died out like 6 years ago, but I guess they're back now.
