(Oct. 13, 2021 2:25 AM)Wizard Wrote: In retrospect, it's crazy how may Beyblade designs were utterly ruined by Hasbro during MFB. Several face designs were outright butchered, names of constellations were censored and stickers on the inner wheel with interesting patterns were changed to be bland. And many of the disks were changed to awful colors like that snot-green Pegasus.
Do they still do that with Burst?
I mean, a lot of layer recolors aren't that great, though some of them totally are. They used to be almost entirely good, but lately they've been falling into Hyperblades territory and it's not working as well as it once did.
The bigger issues aren't color-wise though, but rather Hasbro's decisions to remove the metal, gimmicks, and hollow out layers and disks alike. Remember Hasbro's original "4D" releases, missing all the shape-changing and tip gimmicks? Now imagine that they've been doing that since Season 3 of the anime (we're on, what, season 6 or 7 now?) and also adding in generally unhelpful gimmicks into the tips that (short of Slingshock, the first of those gimmicks) have made them either worse or totally unlike the TT releases.
That's what Hasbro has been doing here, except even worse because they're not even compatible with TT short of disks and disk frames and most of the names are horribly butchered (e.g. Slash Valkyrie became Sword Valtryek in Hasbro's line). Sure, I get some name changes (no parent would let a kid buy Curse Satan, so Curse Satomb is an alright substitution), but by and large Hasbro is like if the entire line was Burst Limited and power creep just stopped existing.
Well, short of Pro Series, but given that it's not compatible with their own mainline I don't really consider it a true Hasbro product.