The "Title" of my entry is "A Better Matchup". I think the reason should be quite obvious.
I guess it helps that these are my two favourite uncustomized (or mildly customized, in the case of driger s) beyblades.
I know I'm not the only person that was annoyed by Ray dropping Driger S for Driger F, and then Driger V, and then losing his bitbeast to Dunga (for his second bitbeast loss in the show).
Always a fan of "what if...?" I thought I'd use my imagination to answer the question "what if Ray kept Driger S?" I used a 10 Heavy and an MG Core (HMC was G-Rev), though they aren't quite visible, as he still would have upgraded appropriately for V Force. Of course, by this point Driger would not be without his battle scars, so I used my original Driger S (albeit with some new base clips), to exemplify the passing of time.
And then it would've come to the battle with Dunga - I used my mint condition Voltaic Ape as this was his first battle with it.
Of course, Voltaic Ape is a great beyblade, but a well customized Driger S, well, I think we can agree V-Force would have been missing quite a few episodes in the end, haha.
It was also nice to use my two favourite lines, the S and V2 series beyblades, generally regarded as the two best series. I'm very happy with this photograph overall. I was concerned as I overslept, and thus missed the time of day I wanted to take the picture, but I found a nice spot with just the right amount of light to highlight the details, but with enough shade to bring an air of "the old and forgotten" to it.
It's a shame I couldn't upload a larger version as I'm really proud of how well it came out, but that should be sufficient, haha.
Oh, and for what it's worth, yes, Driger S is standing up just fine, it's main contact point and I think the tip of the nose, prop it up against the toppled Voltaic Ape. I was going to use blu-tac, but I wanted to try to do it "for real" first, and managed to get it to work!
And, for once, my odd choice of application angle for the original sticker came in handy - Driger is glaring directly at Voltaic Ape. I only realised I could do that after taking about 20 different shots, but it was too much to pass up, haha.
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