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I don't believe that is what's happening with these name abandonments. Let's just expect Amaterios and Baldur are not happening. Hasbro never released Sol Blaze during Metal Fight, this might be a repeat of that.

Has the Hasbro Beylauncher been released yet? I was really interested in trying it out and seeing how it worked.

Guys Beyblade Burst Has Hit the UK (Continued from this Thread: https://worldbeyblade.org/Thread-BEYBLAD...pid1383160) This was at the Toysrus closest to me.[img][/img]

Have not been able to find anything past wave 2 stuff in the mississauga area. I was able to find the xcalius double pack at a heartland Wal-Mart but still considering I'm seeing some places already getting wave 5 stuff it's a bummer.

Well, speaking of Wave 5, Zankye has received a full set of Wave 5 starters! He will be hosting a livestream on them today at 7:30 PM EST. He will also be doing a live giveaway (including Wave 5 starters).

Just a few pics of the packages:





Not sure if these were already posted... but yeah, here you go.
I'm not a fan of the Ifritor color scheme, but the others look really good! Q2, Z2 & X2 are just like their Takara counterparts.

(Jun. 20, 2017  11:48 PM)Howaitonekon Wrote: [ -> ]Just a few pics of the packages:





Not sure if these were already posted... but yeah, here you go.
I'm not a fan of the Ifritor color scheme, but the others look really good! Q2, Z2 & X2 are just like their Takara counterparts.

I posted them on my yt channel like 2 months ago

Haven't seen them in this thread and I'm not subscribed to you, so yeah, just thought it would be interesting

Found the Beylocker with the black Valtryek at my local Toys "R" US, priced at a ludicrous CAD 39.99 (on sale at around CAD 32).
I'll try and take some proper pictures at some point.

July 15th in France !

(Jun. 20, 2017  9:01 PM)ali12345456 Wrote: [ -> ]Have not been able to find anything past wave 2 stuff in the mississauga area.

So it's not just me then... I figured my local toysrus and walmart weren't getting the newer waves because I'm in a smaller town (Kingston ON).

Kinda sucks that the US is getting all these new waves of products while other countries still have waves 1 and 2. Yes i do realize that the US is a bigger market but it just doesn't seem fair to other consumers.

(Jun. 25, 2017  9:47 PM)Captain_Pancake Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jun. 20, 2017  9:01 PM)ali12345456 Wrote: [ -> ]Have not been able to find anything past wave 2 stuff in the mississauga area.

So it's not just me then... I figured my local toysrus and walmart weren't getting the newer waves because I'm in a smaller town (Kingston ON).

Kinda sucks that the US is getting all these new waves of products while other countries still have waves 1 and 2. Yes i do realize that the US is a bigger market but it just doesn't seem fair to other consumers.

I actually found the U2 and O2 two packs in Milton, and I think they may have had Wave 3 starters too, but they were pretty wiped out of starters. Couldn't find them in Mississauga, though.

(Jun. 20, 2017  11:48 PM)Howaitonekon Wrote: [ -> ]Just a few pics of the packages:





Not sure if these were already posted... but yeah, here you go.
I'm not a fan of the Ifritor color scheme, but the others look really good! Q2, Z2 & X2 are just like their Takara counterparts.

Why is Hasbro so random with the driver colors?  Like, who was the guy that said "Yeah, these colors work"?  Also...

*at Ifrit*

Yay, another trans-red Magnum.

I'm deep in a nowhere USA, the beyblade desert. Tons of the first couple waves but I can't find anything newer locally.

Beyblade Burst is now available in France !

Ehh, i was buying hasbro to support the hobby in the west but im pretty much done. I'm not going to spend money on both lines when the hasbro releases are cutting corners with quality and appearance and completely skipping out on parts. Takara looks better, feels better, and there are more releases and variations. It's not like they are paying for licensing for the anime characters either, or the names. I don't get the price point hasbro has their products set at. I thought maybe it was toy sales suffering but i went and looked at annual numbers and sales were up quite a bit last year. I just can't justify it.

(Jun. 28, 2017  1:45 AM)mechahate Wrote: [ -> ]Ehh, i was buying hasbro to support the hobby in the west but im pretty much done. I'm not going to spend money on both lines when the hasbro releases are cutting corners with quality and appearance and completely skipping out on parts. Takara looks better, feels better, and there are more releases and variations. It's not like they are paying for licensing for the anime characters either, or the names. I don't get the price point hasbro has their products set at. I thought maybe it was toy sales suffering but i went and looked at annual numbers and sales were up quite a bit last year. I just can't justify it.

Their sales probably factored in other products and brands/companies that they own (Transformers, Nerf, Wizards of the Coast [Magic the Gathering/DnD], board games, etc...)

I find that if you go to Hasbro's website and scroll to the bottom of the main page, under the list of "our brands", you have to click on "all brands" to find beyblade. In other words, Beyblade is not a featured brand and is not a priority for them. Therefore a majority of Hasbro's budget probably goes towards more popular/featured brands first.

(Jun. 28, 2017  4:22 AM)Captain_Pancake Wrote: [ -> ]I find that if you go to Hasbro's website and scroll to the bottom of the main page, under the list of "our brands", you have to click on "all brands" to find beyblade. In other words, Beyblade is not a featured brand and is not a priority for them. Therefore a majority of Hasbro's budget probably goes towards more popular/featured brands first.

But it is sort of their own fault for not making Beyblade one of their priorities. It was clearly a huge seller on the two previous occasions, and they announced both during Metal Fight Beyblade and before Beyblade Burst came out that they planned on making Beyblade an evergreen brand. Clearly, if you just place a little more effort into your products, you can achieve that. It does not just happen.

The insight someone gave us, who is close to Hasbro's Transformers department and Hasbro overall, is that they just want to cut wherever they can so that they can make more profit out of the set $8 or so price. I think that, more than Beyblade not being their priority, is what is causing all these issues.

Yeah I admit having a downgraded quality Hasbro Beyblade for £13 rather than £8-£10 is pretty stupid. I can get a TT one for cheaper and with mostly better quality. Because of the starters being £13 despite the obvious cut corners, I am a bit discouraged to buy more, only ones I'll likely buy next is Q2 for a new Jerk disk, gold Xcalius, black Valtryek and electric K2 and some micros for the time being.

If it weren't for our Hasbro Burst format, I wouldn't even consider purchasing Hasbro's Beyblade Burst products at all. Remembering the quality of the products I've spent $10-$15 a piece on still makes me cringe...

At least when I drop the occasional $25-$30 to get the latest Takara-Tomy releases, I don't regret my purchase immediately upon assembling the contents of the box.

But people will continue buying Hasbro products. For most children it's the only access to Beyblades, because their parents might not support online transactions or don't have Paypal or whatever. So I would suspect that Hasbro still gets enough money to go on with their low quality decisions.
It's like EA, Activision etc. if compared to gaming...
Something I really dislike, but yeah... I will probably get some releases myself, got a few Takara ones, very proud of these, but it's still pretty hard to get them for a good price where I live. If I could I would stick to Takara.

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ummmmmmm howwww?

(Jun. 29, 2017  4:08 AM)Jimmyjazz39 Wrote: [ -> ][Image: wlPpJgu.png?1]
ummmmmmm howwww?

I think he may have preordered it from a whole-seller such as Entertainment Earth. I'm honestly not suprised because I remember seeing a Japanese Twitter user with the set a couple of weeks ago.

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Beyblade Burst comes out in Germany on August 15th this year. You can preorder on now amazon.de but it's very expensive. The Epic Rivals Battle Set costs 55 euros right now which is about 63 US-Dollars.

https://youtu.be/LRh6Qr8ntY0 gold Xcalius unboxing