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i have looked the new Metal Fight beyblades and I have some sugguestions for the designers and marketers of the game.
1. The industry is moving in the right direction via making beyblades metal, although i think they should have maintained the weight disk in the design to improve costumisation variations.

2. i have yet to use the new MFB, but i am expecting them to be a marketable improvement on plastics, having a greater spinning time and not breaking easily, however if these are not the results of the new designs i must ask Why redesign them?

3. I've bin thinking and i believe that if beyblades were advertised as more of a hobby sport instead of a kids toy, sales woyuld be greatly improved as they would reach an older audiance as well as younger through the cartoon. And if they where sold like a hobby toy instead of a kids toy they would have a greater age sale range e.g. if the parts for the beyblades where sold seperatly in hobby shops then it would be seen more as a hobby sport and people who bought them would choose and buy parts seperatley and have highly unique beyblades. but most of all the beyblades should be Metal, as they are seen less of a kids toy that way with the right advertising.

I'll give 'em a call and tell them your suggestions

I don't disagree with your suggestions and, if they had done so from the beginning, I think your second suggestion could have greatly improved sales and the audience that was into the game.

i agree they shoold also expand the age range for tournaments

There is an age cap?

8--15 is the age limit used to be 8-12

There is an age cap?

With official tournaments yes. The cap was at 14 back when tournaments were done by Hasbro and an affiliate. Whether it was the Canadian television network YTV or a toy store (Toys R Us was the big one and I don't know if other stores held tournaments, but I assume they did). From what I heard the judges were biased against older players too telling them to and I quote: "Go easy on the other kids okay?"

Our unofficial tournaments (Brad's tournaments) have no age cap as far as I am aware. (Judges are much better too since they know the game and aren't just appealing to the hockey dads and soccer moms making the whole thing a farce like the "official" judges did at Hasbro's tourneys)

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There is an age cap?

With official tournaments yes. The cap was at 14 back when tournaments were done by Hasbro and an affiliate. Whether it was the Canadian television network YTV or a toy store (Toys R Us was the big one and I don't know if other stores held tournaments, but I assume they did). From what I heard the judges were biased against older players too telling them to and I quote: "Go easy on the other kids okay?"

Our unofficial tournaments (Brad's tournaments) have no age cap as far as I am aware. (Judges are much better too since they know the game and aren't just appealing to the hockey dads and soccer moms making the whole thing a farce like the "official" judges did at Hasbro's tourneys)

thaz dumb i hate how they treat it like a little kids game

Ok that makes sense.

On one hand I can understand that Judges wouldn't want some 18 year old who's studied the game in depth to go in and dominate a bunch of 6 year olds...but at the same time, the game is for everyone and older members (the majority of this board) shouldn't have to deal with that.

Thanks much for the response and info, I did not know that stuff.

fyi op there's no-one on here with any connections to takara/hasbro beyond that one time we harassed the 1-800 number

ya but i can understand the minimum age is 8 because no one wants some brat whining about losing or throwing a fit or trying to keep playing after he or she lost i honestly think 10 shoold be the minimum

fyi op there's no-one on here with any connections to takara/hasbro beyond that one time we harassed the 1-800 number

how do u kno? most ppl on here r like 18 and up they coold get jobs therre

Because I've known most of the people on here for like 5 years. ;p

fyi op there's no-one on here with any connections to takara/hasbro beyond that one time we harassed the 1-800 number

Well there might be marketing people lurking about.
I mean look at the poll thing on OtC that time with the Hyper Blades.

Though marketing would have absolutely nothing to do with the fact they don't have weight disks anymore. That's engineering/designing and I would highly doubt they'd be hanging around listening to us.

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Yes, but Beywiki is no-where near as big as OtC was. OtC was THE English language Beyblade community, Beywiki, if you want to look at the numbers, is little more than a pale shadow.

Yes, but Beywiki is no-where near as big as OtC was. OtC was THE English language Beyblade community, Beywiki, if you want to look at the numbers, is little more than a pale shadow.

You know of a better site for ENGLISH beyblade discussion at the moment? like a serious site not something that has people just chatting about the latest movies or what's new on Youtube? I realize it's no where near as big, but the fact remains it is pretty much the site for English beyblade discussion now.

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Hey!

Some of those soccer moms were pretty hot...

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Flash Leopold, UK Superhero, you know where I'm going with this by now...

Yes, but Beywiki is no-where near as big as OtC was. OtC was THE English language Beyblade community, Beywiki, if you want to look at the numbers, is little more than a pale shadow.

You know of a better site for ENGLISH beyblade discussion at the moment? like a serious site not something that has people just chatting about the latest movies or what's new on Youtube? I realize it's no where near as big, but the fact remains it is pretty much the site for English beyblade discussion now.

What I'm saying is that Beywiki isn't big enough yet for Hasbro to start giving a carp, not to mention that they've hardly even acknowledged the revival of the franchise. Things are still too far into the future for them to start to pay attention to us, and even then it'll really only happen if it's as popular as it was before. Business sense etc. They don't care about the players or they game, they care about making money. And if the core group of players isn't large enough they will not pay attention.

How big was OTC? I keep hearing about it all over the internet. What happened to it?

Thousands strong. Brad's interest in Beyblade died/he got fed up with the community, and he closed it.

Man that's terrible. So he just got bored/pissed with it? Was it that bad there?

He had a lot going on in his life.

fyi op there's no-one on here with any connections to takara/hasbro beyond that one time we harassed the 1-800 number

hahah I remember that day :3

fyi op there's no-one on here with any connections to takara/hasbro beyond that one time we harassed the 1-800 number

hahah I remember that day :3

lmfao

Yeah, that was awesome.

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I was too chickenshit to participate.

What happened? I don't remember the details xP I think I slept through it due to time zone differences.

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