World Beyblade Organization by Fighting Spirits Inc.

This is not for me but my nephew who is five years old. I have never used beyblades and have no idea how to play with them. :(
I needed to buy some beyblades for my nephew but there were so many in the market that I got confused as to which one to choose. Now I have switched to the Internet to seek help. So is there a starting point for beyblades? Which ones should a started buy and how do we progress from the starter version to a more pro-version?

Thanks in advance.

Hi biskut! I've moved your thread to the Q&A section so people can best help you out. :) Please mark the thread as "Answered" once you're satisfied. (You can do this with editing the first post, you should see the option there.)

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So you're interested in Beyblade Burst, right? The first thing you need to do is figure out which brand you want: Hasbro or Takara-Tomy. Which country you're in will affect what's easier to access. For instance, Hasbro sells in the US. You may want to simply buy what's easiest for you to get.

If you need to buy Beyblades online, unless you can find everything through Hasbro's website or Entertainment Earth, you're better off buying Takara-Tomy (and then this thread may be very helpful). TT prices on sites like eBay are more stable than Hasbro, but you have to watch out for counterfeits, which may contain lead.

Takara-Tomy makes the best stadium (Burst Standard Type, labeled as B-09 for white and B-33 for black, on its own) and better launchers. It's fine to use these with Hasbro Beyblades, just not in Hasbro tournaments (if you have local stores that hold them).

If being comeptitive with "the big kids" isn't too important and your nephew just enjoys the show, I suggest learning which Beyblades are your nephew's favorite and buy those up. The TT stadium will work out better for gameplay though, as Hasbro's stadiums have obtrusive pockets and sometimes holes that get in the way.

As a note, you can't mix the tops&bottoms (layers and tips/drivers) between brands, so many people simply get only Hasbro or only TT of the Beyblade tops themselves. Buying TT lets you get the latest from Japan, with Hasbro being some 6+ months behind, so those who are rather competitive tend to lean toward TT so that they can "keep up" with the latest (though this is no good in a Hasbro-only setting).

I'll stop it at that for the moment, since that's a lot already.

Thanks for the prompt reply, Frostic Fox. I am in Australia and have only seen Hasbro brand BeyBlades in the local market. I was not aware that there were two manufacturers of these toys. So are BeyBlade Burst a type of beyblades or does that mean some style of play?

Yup, it's a type of Beyblade, it's the latest generation of Beyblade. In the beginning of the Beyblade Burst anime, if you burst the beyblade of your rival, you'll get 2 points, if you took your opponent's beyblade out of the stadium, you get 1 point, if you out-spun him or spin-finish, you still get 1 point. You can win against other player with the suitable method or technique of launching, weather if it's leveled, tilted, hard-launch or soft launch and such along with some strategies and moves like flower patterns, spinning around the tornado ridge or just settling in the center, there are types of beyblade bursts, attack types, defense types and stamina types but you can also create stationary or hybrids, you also need to collect some of the recommended burst beyblades for its parts; the layers, the discs, the frames, the drivers to build combinations to be competitive in the metagame, let it be in tournaments or fun-plays.

(Aug. 28, 2018  7:46 AM)biskut Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for the prompt reply, Frostic Fox. I am in Australia and have only seen Hasbro brand BeyBlades in the local market. I was not aware that there were two manufacturers of these toys. So are BeyBlade Burst a type of beyblades or does that mean some style of play?

Yup, like kidwhoasksalot said, Beyblade Burst is the current generation. Beyblades have the feature of coming apart during the battle, a spring in the driver/tip making the pieces fly apart. This is why the stadiums have high walls or shielding, to help keep the parts within the stadium.

Takara-Tomy is the original maker, with Hasbro having been given the rights to handle certain countries (and then they've done their own modifications to the designs for what they personally think is better, which is why the brands can't be fully mixed). Because the TV show is originally made in Japan, and then it takes time to re-dub to English, Japan is further ahead. (May also take time for Hasbro to make their changes, I'm sure.)

From what I understand, Australia gets them later than the US with Hasbro for some reason. Not sure why that's the case, but it seems different countries are on different schedules.

If you're in a Hasbro-targetted country, you can buy TT Beyblades, they just have to be imported from Asian countries. Most people buy them from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea for the better prices (rather than straight from Japan). The thread I linked to is put together by leosama, who is also in Australia, so you will find it makes use of Australia's eBay, which likely makes things easier for you.

I know when I was a kid, I really liked being able to go to the store and get my Beyblades. Lots of memories of digging through to find good ones and picking out my favorites. Here in the US at least, some areas have their stores easily bought clean of the better Burst ones. That was the case for me, so that helped to make the choice easy between the two brands.