Quote:Widest Diameter: 49 cm
Shortest Diameter: 36 cm
Widest diameter without pockets: 46 cm
Tornado Ridge Diameter: 25.7 cm
Depth: 2 cm
Pocket Depth: 2 cm
Wall Height: 6,7 to 7 cm
This Stadium set the base for the vast majority of the Stadiums released by Hasbro for the main Beyblade: Metal Fusion and Metal Masters line. Indeed, almost all of the others are simply copies of the Pegasus Thunder Whip arena's design, save for a few subtle alterations of slope or additional gimmicks.
It consists of a normal, mostly round playing area molded within an odd main diamond shape accompanied by two smaller pockets on either side, shaped as irregular pentagones with the bigger sides headed in the right-spin direction. All these shapes are surrounded by high walls tightly marking the edges. In other words, this Stadium has no exit at all, and it favours Self Knock-Outs, from right-spin Beyblades, since a left-spin would have less open space to accidentally enter the pockets. The Pegasus Thunder Whip is typically painted a bright yellow, with a blue swirl design drawn in the middle representing an extension of the Pegasis Face mark. It is however also available in the opposite colour scheme, which means a blue stadium with a yellow design in its center.
The whole play area is considerably more flat than most of TAKARA-TOMY's BeyStadiums. Therefore, not only is it more difficult to execute special launching techniques such as the [[Sliding Shoot]] in this stadium, but since the Tornado Ridge is barely any resistance, most mobile Beyblades can easily enter the pockets while simply circling the play area. They will skip over the Tornado Ridge without catching onto it or at least being stopped by it, which would greatly help by sending them back towards the centre of the stadium to attack their opponent. As such, real Knock Outs in the pockets by pure Attackers barely happen in this stadium, and the few opportunities where Beyblades are sent in those spaces are either a result of chance, excessive Recoil, or self KOs due to there being no good ridge to prevent slipping into the pockets.
Hasbro also uses thick paint to cover the stadium's surface, which easily sticks on all Bottoms, dirtying them sometimes forever and affecting their performance afterwards.
Using Attack-type combinations which used to be top-tier against a Stamina type which should definitely be knocked out several times by them helps to illustrate the clear discrepancy of this Stadium and its extreme unfairness towards Attack types in general:
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'''Thermal Pisces DF145SD vs. [[Storm Pegasis]] 100RF'''
*[[Thermal Pisces]] always shot first
*Launcher Grip + Light Launcher
'''Results:'''
*''Thermal Pisces DF145SD:'' 5 wins
*''Storm Pegasis 100RF:'' 0 wins
'''Thermal Pisces DF145SD vs. [[Lightning L Drago]] CH120RF (145 height)'''
*Thermal Pisces always shot first
*Launcher Grip + BeyLauncher L
'''Results:'''
*''Thermal Pisces DF145SD:'' 5 wins
*''Lightning L Drago CH120RF:'' 0 wins
'''Thermal Pisces DF145SD vs. Quetzalcoatl 90RF'''
*Thermal Pisces always shot first
*Alternating between Launcher Grip + BeyLauncher/MFB shooter for [[Quetzalcoatl 90WF|Quetzalcoatl]]
'''Results:'''
*''Thermal Pisces DF145SD:'' 10 wins
*''Quetzalcoatl 90RF:'' 0 wins
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The complete lack of exits, the flagrant absence of a decent slope, the odd shape of the pockets which can allow re-entry by bounce of Beyblades sometimes, as well as the paint coating combos' tips are all reasons that make this BeyStadium entirely unfair towards anything but Stamina or Defense types. '''Since it does not give a fair chance for all types to shine, this stadium is easily considered illegal for World Beyblade Organization tournaments.'''
==Combos Recommendation==
Any low Stamina customization should do well in this stadium. Defense types are not particularly required since Attack combos are nullified in this stadium, therefore it will often only be a battle of survival. Stamina combinations such as Basalt Bull AD145/100SD/WD and Hell Kerbecs BD145WD will consequently be advantaged.
This will be the article that most other Hasbro stadium articles get referred to so that we do not have to repeat the same sections of physical description over and over again. Therefore, this one really needs to be complete.