Beyblades
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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.
My friends and I were WAYYYY into them, right down to making less than 'legal' modifications to them, including using nails for their 'spinning bit at the bottom.' (My brain is gone missing!)
Then, I saw a commercial for them the other day, with a new anime and everything, and I lulzed.
Then, I saw a commercial for them the other day, with a new anime and everything, and I lulzed.
Oh God! I remember Beyblades they were fucking epic! oh the endless enjoyment those offered me and my mates trying to customise them to make them indestructible, the joy it brought you when your beyblade pwned your mates beyblade.
I had a Beyblade when I was like 8 I think, if I recall correctly it was an "Ultimate Frostic Dranzer". Melodramatic, but damn it won at least 8/10 games I played. Good times.