(Aug. 05, 2021 3:02 AM)SeaBASS90 Wrote: REVIVAL OF THIS THREAD bumpity bumpity bumpity
Please don't bump/try to revive threads like this. If they die out, it's probably because interest has waned or most people have already said what they wanted to. Bumping is only really a thing in the buy/sell/trade threads honestly, though they have a limit for how often you can do that.
Still, while I'm here, I might as well say something a little more on topic.
I mostly got into Beyblade because my brother and I saw some near the front of the local toy store one day. It's not a flashy origin, I know, but everyone has to start somewhere. I think our parents offered to buy a stadium for us when we realized we couldn't afford both the tops and the stadium. My immediate favorite at the time was Draciel Shield with its big bulky base, though even as a kid I could tell its attack ring was terrible. Sadly the stadium has long since been demolished by two hyper kids, but we had a lot of fun with them, got a few HMS beys when those came out, and then got distracted by the next big fad and moved on, battling from time to time but nowhere near as often as we used to. With the inability to get more and having lost some of our more valuable ones to a scammer from school, the passion died out to the next shiny thing.
I came back around to the game when I saw MFB in the local Target, just walking through he toy department to get to electronics with my mother, and decided it was worth picking up and trying again since the set I saw already had a stadium in it. I was surprised to see weight disks being used like attack rings, but the idea seemed a good one at the time. The collection grew and grew again, though I left my brother behind and the fascination became a more personal passion instead of one shared among brothers, leaving me with only myself in competition. My parents finally deemed me old enough to get on the internet from time to time where I'd do a bit of research, learned the Sliding Shoot (as a kid I assumed rubber flats sucked because they just died so fast. I was surprised when Storm Pegasus knocked Lightning L-Drago out of the stadium in a single hit and revised that opinion as I learned to control it better), but I was still stuck with Hasbro's stuff and never really communicated with other bladers yet. I was a one-man battler, alone but undeterred, growing stronger as I started to look at the sport more through the eyes of a physicist over the sheer excitement of a kid that drove me before. My passion became a grand experiment, and so it was for many a year.
Once Zero-G died so prematurely, I thought Beyblade was just gone. Nothing seemed to be on the horizon, and I had no real time or method to check to see if it ever got revived, and though I still enjoyed battling there were times where I'd grow frustrated from boring stamina v stamina battles when two Earths clashed against one another. I got a job working for Amazon and moved Beyblading to a sometimes thing on the weekend, until eventually I opened up a box at work and found a small army of Kerbeus Central Defense. I did a double take. Beyblade was still alive, and it had a new form? I took to the internet again once my shift ended, started ordering off of Amazon, and my collection grew a few tops at a time as I shoveled some of my cash back to my employer, fascinated by these wildly different shapes and their bursting nature. I found the WBO in my early research into Burst, though I didn't make an account right away and just used it as a way to keep up to date with upcoming releases until late 2017 until eventually mustering up the strength to post here and join the community itself.
It's been such a long time since this road began, though I'm still one of those who can claim to come from the very beginning. Once I was just a child with dreams of battling tops, and now I'm here: an official WBO Organizer, knowledgeable in most aspects of the game, the victor of both a ranked and an unranked Burst Standard tournament, and boasting a collection that would make most people here jealous...
...and my ending has not yet been written.
Cincinnati-based Organizer, and owner of every single currently released TT Burst bey part in at least one color. Hard to think of anything I don't have from MFB either...
i wish i had rivals to play with, but my brothers think they're just boring spinning tops and never play with me
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