(Aug. 11, 2017 4:13 AM)Kai-V Wrote: I find that it actually lacks a lot more tournaments everywhere, and the fact that people are turned off by the higher prices in Europe just spells a bad future for Burst...
Wow so there's less tournaments in comparison to MFB so far?
I think the four factors that turn me off from progressing Hasbro Burst is this:
1. The aesthetics. A lot of you know by now that I don't like the changes they made here, the colours are often too bright and unappealing, the colour schemes suck and the solid drivers don't look as cool as translucent ones. The clear plastic sort of has that unclean clearness to it, like there's a dirty sort of reddish tint in the plastic, it's also a bit foggy though I never found it that bad. Mainly the recolours.
2. The price is abysmal, these things, at least in TRUs in the UK are £13 for a starter and £10 for a booster, in Metal Fusion, the starters were £8-10 which is far more reasonable and since it uses more metal, it's understandable.
3. Lack of cross compatibility. The lack of cross compatibility is probably the single biggest reason I can't be bothered getting more of these, I liked just mixing and matching parts for TT and Hasbro beyblades for MFB, it was convenient. If you didn't have easy access to one beyblade in that brand but do on the other, that was useful. A compatible Hasbro tW and Atomic (if they do ever make it) would be awesome rather than RBVs in case people like me don't want to gamble on them. Hasbro decided to not make them cross compatible, and while some may say it's fresh, gives a new meta and less wear, I find having to start another burst collection for another meta is extremely redundant and the price doesn't help, and I hear the slopes also wear down anyway, plus Dual Layer teeth don't really wear that badly.
4. The overall quality. I know that the plastic is less brittle and therefore doesn't break as often, it instead leaves white stress marks which I can live with and I'm glad it doesn't break as much, but the quality doesn't feel as crisp or nice as TTs, it feels a bit more dull, the launchers it comes with sucks (although I hear the Hasbro Beylauncher is great), even the packaging feels a bit unappealing.
I don't hate some of them overall, they're okay but they're definitely not something I really want to get.
My Cho-Z Reaper Deathscyther .12.Cr concept render, click below to see!
No I don't plan on doing more yet.
I should probably go back to making fan custom Zero G beyblade concepts again