(Apr. 16, 2015 2:41 PM)Kai-V Wrote: By the way, I am just reposting this video because they finally added it to YouTube instead of having it firmly embedded inside a website :
Information that surely nobody cares about - but this video shows more than just Beyblades. At the end of the clip are two guys posing with a couple of blades and launchers for a press conference. The guy on the right is Harold Meij, the Chief Operating Officer at Takara-Tomy. He basically determines how the company represents itself. So it makes sense that he'd be there for the release announcement. The guy on the left is Kenji Horikoshi - Beyblade designer from the Maximum Series, 4D and ZeroG.
I have written extensively about Horikoshi's favoured "power-creep" design-model and now it's obvious he's designing the Burst blades, we can pretty much assume there'll be some massive power-creep happening here too. Conclusion? It's only a matter of time before those "clear" wheels become "metal" wheels again.