Bakugan Was Weird [A Nostalgic Look Back] | Billiam

[@pixeljeremy6592]

BAKUGAN, the toy everyone had, but nobody knew how to play

[@DragonProtector]

i still dont know how to play

[@adrianplacer7278]

I knew how xd

[@notfunny7875]

True

[@Gentifgn]

PixlJermy true

[@sp4zt4zt1c2]

Same with Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh

[@guamish7593]

Remember the plot twist when masquerade was one of Dan's girl friends? For me that was the biggest plot twist ever

[@connordarvall8482]

Oh right, Billiam forgot to mention the fact that in season one, half the main cast is practically Dan's harem.

[@ras3996]

That was the first thing I remembered when I hear bakugan. As a kid, I didn't understand the plot twist, watching the anime in a different language didn't help either. WTH was that?

[@gentlemandog4985]

@@connordarvall8482 A Harem in kinds show?! Oh wait it's anime...

[@unknowndane4754]

@@ras3996 You can see it basically as a split personality thing, with the mask she remembers nothing, without it she's her normal self. Yes.... I watched it way too much and regret nothing!

[@kk8490]

Yeah, the one with the Orange hair (I think her name was Alice?) Yeah, I remember that twist *_blowing my mind_* when I was a kid. To this day very few things in anime have blindsided me like that reveal did, mostly because when I found out about that I was a naive kid that didn’t even understand that what I was watching was anime lol

[@vonckjordy]

Beyblade , Pokémon , Yu Gi Oh , Bakugan... Man those were the good times. Going to school playing against your friends all day and then you come home just in time to watch the shows...

[@syahmishuhaidi]

Digimon too huhu

[@kbreezy2025]

Yep... now we got Fortnite... 😭

[@yeeticus6928]

My generation never got into beyblade or bakugan, but we had a whole Pokémon card trading network and yugioh cards battles were lit if you knew how to play

[@DerrBeezy]

Jordy Vonck ahhh the memories exactly 😔

[@DerrBeezy]

Ppl like me really used to buy, sell other bakugan and beyblades for others, and just play lol beyblade messed my fingers up kinda always getting cuts I miss it and the arena

[@TJJohnson991]

The show was something ahead of its time in some regards. The most memorable thing that comes to mind about that show is the fact the Shun's mother was in the hospital on her deathbed, and he KNEW she was going to DIE. So, Shun challenges Dan to a brawl and continuously beats him or loses to him, never fully ending their bout. Shun insists they keep on playing game after game after game. Why? Because when you enter the field, time slows down in the outside world. HE WANTED TO KEEP ON FIGHTING DAN SO THAT HIS MOTHER COULD CONTINUE LIVING FOR LONGER. THIS WAS A KIDS SHOW!!!

[@potatochicko]

Yeah that's deep writing, love it

[@numba3productions206]

Exactly. If this show was made for a more mature audience it would’ve been one of the best animes

[@notsocooldude7720]

I agree but Idk if they just screwed up when translating because the dialogue made no sense sometimes

[@MotivatedStudent2000]

Thank you so much! I just read about this tragedy yesterday. When I watched this show in 2018, I always questioned Shun's decisions during that battle with Dan Kuso. I did not know his intentions!

[@sunlitsonata6853]

@@notsocooldude7720I don’t blame the original Japanese writers for that as much as the localizers tbh

[@someguy4405]

*is reminded of Bakugan* *turns and looks at the small spherical dragon covered in dust, sitting in the corner of my room* “Please don’t murder me in my sleep.”

[@Cronomancer]

I actually kept my Aquas Dragonite on my computer desk. He never got more than a light layer of dust. My other Bakugan... I actually kept in a small box that mostly protected them from dust. But I kinda prayed for that too whenever I actually looked over my old collection. 😂😂😂

[@PeachDragon_]

I actually use them and still buy them, they are fantastic decorations along with my gundams, Warhammer models and anime models

[@cheepoi-066]

I still have two of mine! They’re awesome and I love them and I really hope they don’t murder me lol

[@hyperspacebackup3831]

Robin Tate they have a remake

[@Clarity-VIV]

i have naga sitting on my shelf and i always look at it and remember "hey you are the very object that landed me in iss in elementary for playing with you in class and led to getting them banned in my school creating a permanant rule in the hand book about bakugan specifically"

[@senorlechuga8832]

That feeling when you rolled the bakugan and it opened like in the anime was just freaking perfect

[@elsepio8944]

Or the frustration when the magnet inside the ball would barely miss the card.

[@corndog5631]

We would put the metal cards on our sholders and we would put the bakugan above our shirts that way they would stay on our shoulders like in the anime with drago lol

[@senorlechuga8832]

@@corndog5631 omg no one in my neighbourhood done that including me... Imagine if I got to do that those times.... I would be the king lmao

[@Haispawner]

@@corndog5631 WHY DID I NOT TRY THAT AS A KID?!?

[@umbrellabirb2959]

@@elsepio8944 or you somehow managed to break the magnet by slamming the bakugan into each other

[@OshawottLuke]

It was so good to put the metal card between your shoulder and your shirt and have the Bakugan standing there like in the anime. It was *the* shit.

[@Unsecurable]

I actually never thought of that lol. That would've been a good idea if I knew about it 9 years ago lol.

[@ninakuup21]

Shit dude, where were you when I was a kid

[@comfypumpkin6475]

YES!

[@davidbuconjic3262]

omg and i thought i was the only one

[@rawbinYT]

This dude freakin cracked the code. Never would've thought of that.

[@PurplePandaClock]

I remember one time someone's bakugan fell down a sewer grate so we made a paper clip tied around a string to retrieve it

[@CrunchyCeramic434]

Risking lives to save bakugan hell yeah

[@user-np2xl4qk4w]

Did you do it?

[@CrunchyCeramic434]

[ ] yeah he said to retrieve it so he did eventually

[@levans1076]

My brother thought an older kid stole his bakugan and was really upset but they just fell out of his backpack before he left to school

[@WingMaster562]

That's just Fighting For What's Right Before It's Gone Gone

[@jolty6969]

We all know we bought Bakugan because of how satisfying the shape was.

[@anonymoususer5936]

Loved sticking them to the fridge and watching them ✨transform✨

[@m0istur]

@@anonymoususer5936 I remember when my aunt would let us play with them, I would always just place them on anything magnetic, even the fridge, just to see them transform. That's really all I did with them, just roll them around and just put them on a magnet or the fridge to see them transform and do it over again

[@hopeestheim7219]

I don't know if anyone will ever see this but I made some Bakugan tributes well at least 3 that people might like if your a fan it's in my channel if you guys want to check it out, let me know what you guys think

[@nubbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbin]

What about the pyramid shaped one?

[@getshwifty3101]

@@m0istur z ,A

[@ThatsMox]

Who else used to make their parents mad by always screaming "BAKUGAN BRAWL" or "LET IT RIP" or "I CHOOSE YOU" or "IT'S TIME TO D-D-D-D-D DUAL" ?

[@soumyadeepbhunia172]

Me. And all my cousins.

[@numberhunter62]

I said something else instead of "I choose you" for Pokémon, but that sounds pretty accurate.

[@coreythepeanut]

First three, every time. Never even owned a beyblade. Just Bakugan.

[@cameoshadowness7757]

My parents wouldn't get mad, my mother laughed and my dad would (sometimes) join me when saying it.

[@cyber502]

It's spelled Duel not Dual

[@FrankOceanLover3169]

My childhood hit the exact golden age of bakugan

[@nullpoint3346]

I'm a conquer your butt.

[@nekosparkclaw3021]

It's funny. I have 6 new bakugan from the reboot.

[@andybrinks3784]

Who is the better Bakugan player Charlemagne? Orlando or Rogero?

[@SatoshiMaiko]

I call them Byakkogaun

[@shutupdodo3686]

Childish Emrino I was in preschool when they blew up, and they died when I was in 2nd grade.

[@haosmagnaingram6992]

9:16 Yugioh *had* rules which *were* simple for kids to understand. That past tense is very important, I can’t imagine kids getting into modern yugioh.

[@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow]

When I look at modern yugioh I shake my head, they should have just made a different game

[@qayyim3299]

@@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow yeah it was hard for me to get back to it. Snychro summon is ok. But the others are a little bit hard for beginners to understand

[@viktorvesic7422]

@@qayyim3299 the summons aren't complicated. But cards have so many and really complicated effects.

[@qayyim3299]

@@viktorvesic7422 i used to play yugioh a while and i can keep up with the effects. But how about the newcomers who want to try the game? Seems pretty hard to me

[@hoanghale2671]

@@qayyim3299 i quit a while ago. While i did try to get back to it 2 years ago, all the new summon mechanics just make me dizzy.

[@danieladjei7723]

Watching Billiam struggle to successfully roll a Bakugan and then have his friend do it perfectly is the story of my life

[@npc6817]

are you a friend or a Billiam?

[@danieladjei7723]

saverio sassetti definitely a billiam

[@aldenmcgrath9722]

thats his fiance

[@npc6817]

@@aldenmcgrath9722 good for him

[@zeno1099]

@@aldenmcgrath9722 this is relevant because???

[@fan3805]

My friend described this franchise the perfect way- "I know it lasted for like, 2 seconds, but it was a BIG 2 seconds." Edit: By the way, can you review Battle Strikers next?

[@TheKpa11]

.......yeah I guess so. That's a good one Actually with the almost stopping of time I guess that makes it even more fitting......even more great

[@michaelx8486]

And they are getting the next two seconds now.

[@tb3411]

Your friend just described how fads work

[@ho-cq9ow]

Man I used to love Battle Strikers back in the day, those things were scary looking back though, they flew around like crazy, the metal ones at least, I dont know how those were ever considered safe

[@MacusL]

omfg i thank you i forgot what these were called and it bothered me for the last 10 years

[@Junior__________]

Bro if you had a Dark, Light, or that main water Bakugan, you had ALL the respect

[@the_catstronaut7037]

Dude, the wind guys main was badass. The bird thing. Fucking loved that bakugan

[@Dark6997]

Junior Dark is where it’s at

[@jamesfitzgerald8267]

A friend of mine had a red one that everyone wanted, he was even offered 4 other Bakugan for it including that water one, he didn't take it for some reason.

[@jdjdjcjdjx3107]

If u had a dharak, the black and green bakugan you were the coolest kid in school

[@andrewmoulton7429]

I had so many bakugans bro even all the big ones n shit

[@apollojustice5338]

I was addicted to the Bakugan DS game. While the games for the other anime like Beyblade had you play as pre existing characters from the anime, Bakugan had you play as your own customizable player character with their own exclusive signature Bakugan named Leonidas working your way up in tournaments and making friends with the anime characters and fighting the villains instead of forcing you to play as the main characters from the anime and use their signature Bakugan.

[@Jfrost9101]

It's a shame Bakugan only got, like... four games in the original series? And two of them were pretty bad. Haven't seen much of Champions of Vestroia, the reboot didn't really interest me (seriously, why get rid of Subterra for some OP element?) Defenders of the Core on the Wii was great for different reasons, but nothing they make will ever top the original Bakugan Battle Brawlers game. Some of the most fun I ever had on the DS, and that's no lie. Leonidas was badass, the game was a perfect mix of challenging and fun... the only real downfall was that the multiplayer was kinda bad. But I still have my cartridge of Battle Brawlers on the DS, and the Wii version, and play them so much. Such an incredible experience.

[@corb5905]

Bro that game was the shit

[@alexp.7068]

@@Jfrost9101 getting rid of subterra was one of the worst things with the reboot. Sure it was the least popular attribute, but it was there for a reason. Aurelus (I forgot how to spell it) should have been a rare attribute, or something else like that. At least we finally have leonidas

[@32andu]

Oh god I recently got a copy of the DS game and played it and god was that a trip down memory lane. Along with being mad that I couldnt play as a girl because me and my best friend as kids were the only like 10 girls in North America to be into this stuff.

[@alexp.7068]

@@32andu yeah, being forced to play as a boy is frustrating

[@truealiban]

Noone has ever actually played a real game of Bakugan

[@joaomanuel7917]

I did, fight me

[@egamer22]

@@joaomanuel7917 I did as well we should both fight him

[@parikshitrao4208]

That's not true

[@joaomanuel7917]

Yeah Bakugan battle us!

[@embeepierre6414]

mystummyhurt I also played a crap ton with my friends back in the day, so yes people have played it

[@tubbe7757]

Not going to lie but bakugans intro is fire

[@timon_of_athens]

Holy shit man, that Intro was the only reason i watched this again when I was 14 and i consider it to be the "first rock song" i heard and loved

[@nightmare-nightmarenightma1147]

*"You gotta fight for what's right,* *Before it's gone-gone-gone,* *This is Bakugan."*

[@AlmondishTofu]

That intro is cool and so nostalgic

[@slickserpent9484]

Although the lyrics sound like they’re talking about rape “Back against the wall, gotta give it your all...” “Two worlds collide on the inside...” “Fight for what’s right before it’s gone (your virginity)...” This is BAKUGAN

[@Yallan]

One time when I was 8, while I was in the bathroom at an airport, I decided to sing the ENTIRE intro song, and my mom and sister who were waiting outside could *very easily* hear it.

[@DrScrubbington]

Bakugan was THE shit back in 3rd grade but the hype in my school did indeed only last for about a year before it slipped off into the "they still make those?" status. But goddamn was it one of the best franchises from my childhood. Billiam is right though, nobody actually cared about the card game when it was popular. My friends and I only cared about the toys, collecting and trading them as if they were the cards themselves. We'd only bring one metal card with us to school to open them, but that's it, we never actually played the game because even us as 8 year olds found it boring. But the originality of the concept behind the toys made it such a memorable thing for the kids who were into it at its prime. The TV show also helped make it a memorable series, and seeing those toys you collect come to life in a TV show is one of the coolest things you can watch when you're 8 years old. I really hope the new series does well so that the new generation of kids will also have Bakugan in their childhoods.

[@heavenlysenju9948]

I was thinking those exact words as I look at your comment. I didn't even like Pokemon or yugioh but I knew bakugan was the shit. I almost missed the bus a bunch times trying to watch what happens next.

[@everygameguy]

Masquerade being a split personality of Alice was like, the biggest twist reveal of your life back then.

[@filipesilva7581]

i have the ps2 game and omfg i loved it everytime my childhood friend came over he'd always beg to play it, even when the whole hype got blown off i still enjoyed playing it. its sad all my bakugans(toys) that i had got thrown into the trash when i moved out

[@Beanteam81]

Dr Scrubbington I know what you mean, I remember in 3rd grade getting to school early everyday day and going to the corner of the room with my friends and battling my friends till class started but as soon as we started 4th grade they all forgot about it except for me and I would still buy the toys and watch the show and I even bought the game for the ps3 which I still play to this day out of nostalgia

[@lautrack5241]

@@everygameguy I remember watching the episode where that was revealed and it was so unexpected for me that i almost fell off my chair

[@dominicborrelli6625]

the first season was literally so good. like all the characters were so well developed and likeable. Plus the Alice/Masquerade twist was amazing.

[@GiftIdeh-cg7id]

Why the fuck did U spoil the plot twist

[@GamingWarlord64]

I think bakugan is next

[@plutonash2545]

LMAO

[@PaulsGoldWeapons]

Was that you??!!! Lmao

[@loaf2138]

Was it u

[@PeterGriffin11]

@@loaf2138 No I think it was you.

[@helioxous5338]

I saw this comment as he was talking about you... Perfect timing?

[@Mikszak.]

Even tho i had tons of this sh*t, i never knew how to play it...

[@bahgdadi_dead]

CallMeMichael same man. Same.

[@crimso_nn]

I didn't have anyone to play it with :D... yeah...

[@Dead_by_Design]

Literally just looked at which card had a higher number lol

[@bobwilson679]

SomeRedBoi I feel that on a spiritual level. Same, dude, same.

[@nateurbina]

Same

[@blossomieproductions7222]

One time we rented a bakugan dvd from a local video rent store. We forgot to return it, and by the time we realized, the place had closed down. We still have it today.

[@pkj7116]

Is the place called blockbuster i heard that happened to them i dont have a blocmbuster in my country but i heard of em

[@joshuafyb4114]

Who is we

[@catbear3294]

@@joshuafyb4114 everyone

[@qwertgibson1572]

Damn bro, you finessed the system

[@AQUA4p]

I had the same thing happen

[@noahjackson5099]

Bakugan taught me what Masquerade meant. Greatest anime plot twist of all time

[@haremking7256]

Facts

[@jazzywuzzydoubunhgu2944]

What was the twist?

[@amacheez3270]

@@jazzywuzzydoubunhgu2944 Masquaerade is actually one of the mc friends.

[@marcoscabezolajr.8408]

@@amacheez3270 Well Masquerade wasn't actually Alice, negative energy struck Alice and created a separate person from the negative energy in her. So he is and isn't Alice.

[@haremking7256]

@@jazzywuzzydoubunhgu2944 he was a she,not just any she but the best girl 😂

[@charlesdeliberis239]

at least bakugan followed a story into a series that added onto its self with the characters saving the world

[@TheKpa11]

Well it changed its own rules by just having fights be like a pokemon/traditional fighting mechanic where at best I could describe it like a beam struggle in the anime. You activate abilities to give your bakugan a power or counter edge, but the opposing bakugan can still try to DODGE, TANK, REPEL, or Counter and would only get hit if they weren't fast enough or not strong enough endurance wise given whatever their forms were. And its expansion came with having alien humans be a thing where bakugan ended up on other worlds. Pokemon even does that with the multi dimension thing along with pokemon that come from outer space

[@kickviccansuckit1690]

Charles DeLiberis oh you mean like Digimon?

[@jasperjavillo686]

I hate weeaboos Not exactly. Digimon has different continuities after the third series. Bakugan has the same continuity through all the follow ups up until the reboot, having an ever expanding world.

[@ZyroShadowPony]

@@jasperjavillo686 there was a reboot?

[@jasperjavillo686]

KittenPyroNao Yeah, the new show, Bakugan Battle Planet. The entire cast is replaced except for Dan and Drago, and the lore is completely revamped.

[@lovelyname117]

I remember being weirded out as a kid how one of the villains, Masquerade, turned out to be the gender-bent split personality of a female supporting character.

[@alexanderking8336]

Was it a split personality? Thought it was just unsuspecting girl character putting on a mask, throwing her voice, and being edgy. But the twist reveal *was* surprising, as a kid.

[@michaelbrown2463]

@@alexanderking8336 Yes, it was a split personality. Alice wasn't aware that she was Masquerade

[@isaacsussman5632]

As weird as it was, thats kinda the twist that made the story more interesting than most toy shows of the era

[@nanq.5689]

Not to mention when she changes her personality her hair color LITERALLY changes from orange to blonde. Like whut even.

[@velazquezarmouries]

in the Spanish dub she was the sister of masquerade

[@VlogDoPajamas]

I always loved bakugan as a kid, specially the ps2 game, it was really fun

[@Vanlens]

Oh my god same. That game was dope as hell.

[@zackbop9045]

There was PS2 game?

[@VlogDoPajamas]

@@zackbop9045 there was!! it was cool you could create your own character choose your own bakugan and all

[@CT-zi8em]

Sarah Camargo 강성훈 That game was a godsend for me. I almost wish I still had the game. But unfortunately my childhood ps2 games never had a long shelf life.

[@Mclxrendrive]

what about the wii game? I played that for a literal year! Still have the game and a wii...

[@Teag_Brohman15]

The fact that Dan and Shun made the game together, but Dan was still ranked in the several hundreds while Shun was the top player in the world, tells me that Shun did most of, if not all the actual work. Dan probably came up with all the buzzwords

[@tylerberman7527]

not how it works, game creators usually arent the best at he game they create, if anything this would make me think dan did more of the work while shun was busy playing it

[@DaDandyman]

@@tylerberman7527 Dan literally didn't know what the Subterra element was.

[@tylerberman7527]

@@DaDandyman im just saying what itd usually make me think the better player isnt spending all day devving usually

[@notsocooldude7720]

@@DaDandyman Yea that was always weird to me. Dan supposedly created the game yet he would be surprised every episode by some tactic that his opponent would use. Also how could they create the rules when they had no control over which cards fell from the sky?

[@emperortime2356]

​@@DaDandyman wut thats really inconsistent.

[@flygxg2515]

Who remembers those giant robot bakugans that were combined bakugans? Imagine playing that in a tournament against a normal person. Other guy rolls. Guy with meta strat plops the giant beast onto the table "gg".

[@amahlaka]

Gabriel Galarza i had one of those!

[@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr]

I never knew how to play as a kid but I wish I had cause I'm sure I would've devastated people with my Dragonoid Colossus

[@albertschoise8091]

Gabriel Galarza I had three of those. I loved em

[@the_catstronaut7037]

Had one, sold it and then rebought one cheaper like last year because i was buying and selling stuff to make money.

[@rogueisded]

They're display pieces. Maxus Helios, Maxus Dragonoid, Dragonoid Collosus ect can't be used in gameplay

[@kaeyaliker]

i remember being obsessed with this anime when i was like 10 and making my mom buy every single bakugan themed school supply we could find sjdhsjdk

[@brandonwells7594]

I see you were a man of culture and well

[@jordan-fj3zi]

moonzie if I didn’t have the brand new colour variant of a main character I’d do chores for a week then beg my mum

[@thaddeuskyle572]

My first watch was Bakugan themed.

[@qmelon2956]

used to have a friend who made me watch all the episodes

[@limjiaxin8279]

I only have one cause my mother said it was a waste of money

[@Fractorification]

Funny story about the Bakugan anime, I actually got to meet the actor who played Drago (the main protagonists Bakugan) Jason Deline at a voice acting workshop, and he told us a little about his time working on the anime. He didn’t really get it, saying that it was “one huge commercial disguised as a show” and describing the toys as a game where you throw plastic balls to let out a monster, and _that’s it_ He told us about the time he recorded his lines for Drago for the Bakugan Wii game, but the recording team was different and didn’t know he voices the character in the anime as well , so they kept asking him to say “Dragon Booster” in an overly goofy Barney voice until they realized their mistake! Lol He also said that after the game was done he got a copy, but since he didn’t get how Bakugan worked, he never got pass the tutorial stage and didn’t get a chance to hear himself. I think he still has that copy of the game somewhere just gathering dust.

[@RolandTemplar]

Hahhah dont have kids that play for him?

[@s.colins2050]

@Mark Regan Bruh, wtf?

[@DeskoDev]

@@s.colins2050 Don't worry, I've seen him in other comment sections. Just ignore him.

[@bilieber4lifejustinbieberf632]

@Mark Regan I agree with you

[@IR-Fan]

@@bilieber4lifejustinbieberf632 ofc you would agree with Mark Regan.

[@mdc7508]

DAMN. does anybody remember the Ds game, that sh't was lit

[@sofareader]

Wii game too

[@robguy198]

Bro i still have the wii game and 2 of the DS games that shit was awesome

[@javonyounger5107]

I remember my nigga Leonidas

[@sofareader]

@@robguy198 that's the same number of each that I own. weird

[@ashmaan2386]

Leo leo leooooooonidas

[@WoWplayer527]

bakugan was pure heroine for me back in elementary school

[@DerrBeezy]

WoWplayer527 that and bakugan

[@Junior__________]

2003 gang

[@starscorpia4005]

The bakugan series got pretty dramatic at times, alternate races fighting wars using bakugan to gain power and seeing the og bakugan as primitive yet incredibly powerful

[@rilo4630]

Right you are. The crew going to the Doom dimension, Dan saving Dragonoid with a trident and then taking a veeeery long fall. And of course that weird light saber duel that I could not comprehend. It was a weird show but I liked it.

[@ShadowBolt869]

Bakugan had one of the greatest wii games of all time

[@germchang]

BIG FACTS

[@tyroneswoopes5383]

It was so fucking cringy, and I wasn’t even that big of a fan of the series. But that fucking game was my childhood, and I loved the shit out of it

[@mannypena8518]

Tru

[@greninjajoestar8771]

I remember everytime I played it and it brings back great/cringy memories

[@mrmangled3697]

I think we all know the greatest wii game is. *Cough-Wii-sports-Cough*

[@Magmafrost13]

One thing that always bothered me as a kid, was that shortly after I got into it, the toys moved in a distinct second wave, which were slightly larger and the plastic was noticeably lower quality. The toys were still pretty neat, but the first wave was definitely better.

[@auraguard0212]

Oh definitely. Of course, all the rules and cards and stuff for the first wave didn't line up with the show. XD

[@mckinleyostvig7135]

This is what killed it for my peers tbh. We all agreed that we were too cool for the newer blocky plastic toys because metal equals cool I guess 😅

[@m0istur]

I knew they werent plastic back in the day! 😂 the last time I remembered about bakugan was a long ass time ago. My aunt had them when it became big, and I was little and of course I would have fun just sticking them on metal or magnetic surfaces. I remember how they were kinda plastic-y, but weren't like the ones you see now, and they were a bit smaller, and now that billiam reminded me of them possibly somewhere around the beginning of this year, i started collecting them, and even though the new ones may be a bit bigger and not have the same material that was used to make the original bakugan, they are still pretty damn cool to look at and see them transform, especially the geo and nanogon (even tho the Nanos don't transform, but they are still pretty cool to look at)

[@ea8455]

Especially the color went from intense colors to something that looks like smeared over it. Red became nearly orange, blue became turquoise etc. I think at one point they gave up and even released clear Bakugan where the plastics natural color was tinted or clear.

[@DanTodd_]

I loved this series, everytime that It came on TV I arranged my bakugan so we could watch it together.

[@jeromealday614]

That's cute

[@Zakkious]

Wholesome.

[@raijinsage8416]

That's weird

[@raijinsage8416]

@lucetta jones really dude shun is better than dan

[@Luka-jl7zf]

Me to I loved the series.

[@Mynamegeoph]

"Kids grow out of toys" *Looks to the box full of the new Bakugan in my college dorm

[@zhaoyangxie]

Lol yeah since going to college I’ve been getting back into nerf, hot wheels, and transformers 😂😂😂

[@Slim.01]

If that's true , you have my respect dude . I'll swear I'll never sell my Bakugan , at least I'll probably store them in a box

[@edwinbenitez8420]

I remember one Saturday morning my mom took me to a garage sale and I missed the new episode and cried for a good hour just to realize it aired again 2 hours later 🤣🤣

[@mohammadshabih5293]

🤣🤣🤣

[@DiamondBeyblade]

My best memory of bakugan was that, when someone lost, the winner got to keep one of their bakugan, and things got so intense. (We would only keep them for a few days before returning them, we weren’t terribly ruthless)

[@ghosthunter0950]

We had a different game with cards, we ACTUALLY got to keep other people's cards. Shit was brutal. But I was the guy that never bought any, just borrowed a few from a friend won a few, returned my friend something of equivalent value and had a massive stack by the end of the year lmao.

[@DiamondBeyblade]

@@ghosthunter0950 😂 awesome

[@paradox4627]

only cool kids remember this

[@ashwen337]

you mean nerds

[@leowo4557]

Help me now this is epic

[@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX]

This game was how I first learned about power creep

[@cyndrick7373]

Me and my friend used to look up episodes online in secret at our afterschool back when Bakugan was somewhat relevant.

[@somedesertdude1308]

Jup

[@BugsyFoga]

I'll admit, I mainly was into Bakugan was because of the cool looking toys

[@datsavagepokewolf5427]

Yea I remember having 2 Bakugan toys and a rule book when I was a kid. It was a big fad at school 1 year but I didn't even know the anime existed until a month ago.

[@animefan133]

I was into the show, I never played that game lol

[@RosieJonesRules]

I was into it for Julie

[@RolandTemplar]

@@RosieJonesRules me too

[@Adam-cq2yo]

I remember that I really liked the show, but man, the toys are just so fucking awesome. Not in a "unique experience" or "feat of engineering" sort of way, they're just awesome to have and feel.

[@PaladinOfSpirit]

I wasn’t too old for bakugan. What happened is that the show completely changed direction and they started just making tons of random shit like mecha bakugan that you had to put together with multiple bakugan and weapons you could attach to bakugan. That shit just got too ridiculous and people stopped playing as we got too old but the younger generation never picked it up. Also as other people said the point wasn’t the game everybody just collected them, traded them, and played with them.

[@maddcruiser8874]

I loved all the extra shit they added, I stopped whatching caus3 they never aired when I was watching tv

[@philthethotdestroyer4194]

yep

[@Klaxynd]

Not to mention the anime eventually got rid of gate cards in favor of the same 'ability card activate' over and over and over and over...

[@trellnebula]

Maxus Dragonoid was my favorite thing as a kid

[@Ziko577]

The Japanese only anime and manga Bakutech Bakugan used them but rarely after the initial introduction of them.

[@Faded.Arcade]

I love how Kuso means “shit” in Japanese. So when they aired it in Japan his name was Shit Dan because they say your last name first when your not close to that person and first name when you’re friends or loved ones.

[@kittenfrompicture]

Shit Dan sounds like a prequel to the "damn daniel"

[@darkclaws1234567891]

@@kittenfrompicture shit dan back at it again with the white vans

[@finnlewis1652]

The japanese name is actually kuusou, not the curse word kuso, since japanese has contrastive vowel length

[@anxietywave8735]

Bebyblade was even weirder. If the villains used guns instead of beyblades they may have solved all of their problems. Also a beyblade caused armaggedon and killed 50% of the world's population and somehow the world was fine with that.

[@CybernikTheHedgehog]

So they pulled a Thanos?

[@anxietywave8735]

@@CybernikTheHedgehog Yeah except that everyone was cool with it for some reason.

[@aimanali7222]

Jordan Sipe bet blade was 🔥

[@commanderzavala9328]

@@CybernikTheHedgehog Thanos beyblade Thanos beyblade

[@Moizsh10]

I remember laughing really hard at an episode in one of the series where the gang goes after a mysterious"Sniper" Beyblader

[@gamingbutnotreally6077]

I remember when Masquerade was finally revealed to be Alice. I did not see that coming.

[@nekroghoulz]

Faxxx

[@beatmuhmeat]

The only trap that mattered

[@creamyicy]

Lol it literally confused my christian childhood. I was like "huh? B-but that's g a y"

[@PeiceofNick]

no one did, even I didn't.

[@thomasbobincheck568]

GamingButNotReally we can’t spoil the surprise for people

[@rbwjakfjenwbw1009]

Bakugan was my Pokémon when I was younger

[@subswithnovideos-ef6ck]

Same. I use to think Pokemon was for "big kids"... I don't know where I got that from.

[@kringhetto]

No, it's your digimon. Pokemon is everyone's Pokemon. Hahaha. Seems like it was dope. I was about 13 when this came out, so I missed the hype train. Digimon though... I had everything.

[@flexican5399]

There is new bakugan

[@punchy4real]

same, in my country only a little bit of the diamond and pearl anime was aired

[@muguelcydhhd1941]

Which of you were born in 2003

[@GiveMeYourEyes947]

I was obsessed with Bakugan when I was a kid. I especially loved the Wii Game

[@bckends_]

the WHAT

[@dcb99filmz]

@@bckends_ it also dropped on PS2, 360 and DS and you got to make your own character and it even had the cast from the show (something later Bakugan games didn't have)

[@Ari-gd8bc]

Let’s be honest we were all happy when dan and runo finally went on a date. It was good ending to S1

[@CrunchyCeramic434]

Is season one 100 episodes?

[@notgray88]

@Elico 2589 ONLY?!

[@TheSilviaGuy]

Maruchos bakugan prius was badass

[@LowTierGaming-lol]

@@TheSilviaGuy prius was literally the only bakugan with a like unique evolution lol

[@vermgilbestdad3678]

@@LowTierGaming-lol I think a lot of water ones had something unique to them especially in 2nd season like their domain (I have no idea how do you call it in english) change but that may be just my memory playing tricks on me and me being amazed at how elfin could just change

[@DigitalRag3X]

This kids show had one of the biggest twists ever. I NEVER expected Alice to be Masquerade....

[@geogomez433]

Nothing that they did afterward was able to top such reveal

[@PrimalDragon1740]

IKR?!

[@mymouthisbleeding]

@L Lawliet It was, but it was kind of done a little TOO early.

[@thedestroyer9971]

Fr this is the first time I was introduced to the “plot twist” as a kid😂😂

[@delphoxoa9677]

I've got a literal drawer full of those little Bakugan with a ton of cards and Bakugan all from my childhood. Bakugan was crazy as hell when I was younger. Actually, now that I think about it, I have a bunch of CD's with practically the entire show on them and it's so nostalgic.

[@preetdurllabh6303]

PornIsAWayOfLife same

[@DjSoSmooveMINTY124]

profile picture name please?

[@sidneydavis1365]

I got a drawer full of them too from all the seasons. Wish we had picture comments so I can show yall.

[@delphoxoa9677]

@@sidneydavis1365 Same, I had the originals of course, but I also had the ones with attachments, the other weird shaped ones, and also the more complex bigger robot ones from later seasons.

[@dragonmastertheedgeking1595]

@@delphoxoa9677 I'll give you 100 bucks for them. I'm serious

[@brownrrrrr]

Real ones know New Vestroia was the peak of Bakugan

[@NotTobiFr]

Still waiting for a spin off series of “spectra and gus adventures” 😂

[@adam-dn3hi]

Your crazy the first season was the best new vestroia was not bad but it was not the peak

[@nickmattson5398]

No way dude new vestroia was decent but battle brawlers was far and away the best season

[@_chonkov]

Lmao... I find season 3 to be the best

[@gamerwolffang2722]

It truly was

[@terratheterribl]

Back in my middle school we all played Yu-Gi-Oh and had our own internal ranking and tournaments. I was one of the best duelists and used mostly dark monsters. One day the younger kids started playing Bakugan in the Yu-Gi-Oh area and started shitting on Yu-Gi-Oh. The best player was a former sub-par Yu-Gi-Oh earth-element player who now played as a dark Bakugan player. People were comparing him to me repeatedly and saying he was just like masquerade from the show or whatever. I found that unacceptable. The next day I bought a few earth Bakugan and whooped his ass. I gave a long winded "Yugi" speech on how he could never be the best at dark or whatever element he plays as. I verbally shamed him so hard that he almost started to cry and Bakugan died off in our school after that. What can I say, back in my school Yu-Gi-Oh was SERIOUS business. Eh, no one read this far anyway so who cares.

[@heaikawuolabwollberg514]

Phillip The Thrillip pure savagery

[@uzicanclutch]

r/thathappened

[@terratheterribl]

@@uzicanclutch r/yourmomgey

[@terratheterribl]

For real though, not a brag, I was a pathetic doucher as a kid.

[@Sleppa_95]

Big OOF

[@janiepine]

"boy toys"? Oh PLEASE all the guys at kindergarden were jealous of my bakugan collection

[@asvuksi42]

Same lol one was dumb so we traded and he gave me a cool haos apollonir for some really lame bakugan. He later broke the bakugan I traded him and wanted his back so he started crying to the meanest teacher. She DEMANDED that I give it back. She was yelling and screaming so I looked her dead in the eye and say "No, I don't have it with me, it's home, and I will never give it back". I was like 8 and got sent to the principal lmao no one messes with my bakugan. And same with yugioh, pokemon and digata. I had all the figures and cards and the boys were ultra jealous so they would try to hide them and shit...fun times 😂

[@meljerichoasakki2046]

Same, some kids tried to steal mine. Bitches, back off, i earned this

[@promisnwekenta9703]

Still boy toys, I don't get the point of your comment.

[@meljerichoasakki2046]

@@promisnwekenta9703 it's unfair to ignore a group of people (in this case the girls who played bakugan) and act as if they do not exist just because they are in minority

[@promisnwekenta9703]

@@meljerichoasakki2046 I don't ignore you. This game is still pretty much for boys and was likely made for boys. I have no problems with girls playing it and I never said it's only made for boys.

[@KeiW_]

I had like 6 bakugan. All my friends watched the show but we never played it ourselves. We just had random bakugan that we would stick to random metal surfaces and be amazed when it opened. The show was awesome to me though

[@ShadowMudkip123]

8 years later I still pick them up and stick 'em on random metal surfaces when I find them around the house

[@Naharu.]

Honestly, l did and still do that.

[@Tomoyou]

My bakugans are lost somewhere in the house but once i find them y'all already know it's going down

[@IsaacClodfelter]

One of the most impressive things about bakugan was how quickly such a massive show and game disappeared so quickly. Once it was taken off air talk about it died off within the month.

[@kiruyauchiha8012]

Bakugan didn’t end until 2012!?!!??! I thought it was older than that

[@astaa4474]

7 years...

[@claireaquos6532]

@Evil0x Nah! Defenetly 2012

[@calinnita7395]

Bakugan was really cool, but a big problem it had was it being so hard to keep up with. In the beginning, it is all simple, you have ball monsters that fight with the help of some cards or something. The next thing you know, they are in another dimension, they have different -pokemon- bakugans, a big part of the initial cast is missing for no good reason, and they are fighting a completely new enemy, they use some weirdly-shaped bakugans as supports or something, and then those bad guys make themselves robotic bakugans, and Dragonoid starts using this big-ass mech thingy made of those robotic bakugans that they actually hate, and then those are immediately scrapped for some smaller, 1000000x better battle gears or something. Now skip some more seasons, they are in some computer simulation, and at the same time get caught in the war between two planets or something, and then the next thing hat happens is that -ash's- Dan's dragonoid now fuses with some other bakugan, and then this big fucking bakugan that's not actually a bakugan comes out of the sky or some shit, and that's basically bakugan Yeah, I know that if I took the time to actually watch it now, I'd probably understand it, but this is the impression I have from when I was a kid. And even for an older kid, a teen or an adult, Bakugan is kind-of too over-the-top imo

[@zenvious5645]

I remember when they started using the gear bakugans. I know exactly how I thought its stupid because their power levels literally jumped from 1500 to like 3500 and shit

[@alberteinstein1620]

Freaking dragonoid started with like 250hp, fused with a bunch of super overpowered stuff and still is weaker at some point than other base pojemon, uh I mean bakugans xD

[@JustASammy12345]

It was really annoying how they just removed Alice, Runo and Julie. Sure Alice was the closest to a legit good characters but still, it felt like they had no real reason to get rid off half the cast. Even worse was that all Bakugan was removed and replaced except for Drago. Prayas, Gorem, Hydronoid, Trigrera and Skyrus all had legit powers, were chosen by the legendary six warriors, evolved because they were so good in battle and saved the world, but in season 2 they just decide nah, those guys were nothing special, let’s take these five new ones with no character, just some lines and friendship bullshit and pretend the first ones never were that good to begin with.

[@lewd2851]

Ok that is COMPLETELY backwards. Bakugan was pretty complicated during its first season, having different abilities being useful for certain situations and even different bakugan being stronger against other different types of bakugan. It took strategy and teamwork. As seasons went on it just became more and more simplified, to a point where the show basically turned into DragonBall, a bunch of laser beam battles. Bakugan could be summoned anywhere and they fought freely outside of the classic duel limits. Overall the show was much more complicated early on and by the last season it was basically a game of "Whose laser beam had more attack points"

[@JustASammy12345]

Both of you are right tho. The rules of the game itself became more simple; but the world and all the extra add-one became more complicated. Eventually revolving into way to simple and boring game with way to conveluded story, setting and add-ons. Perhaps since I only half-watched season 3 and 4 this happened since I didn’t pay attention?

[@ontos8534]

Remember the big bakugan that you’d put all the parts together to make a big bakugan

[@PsychoCrusher46]

I remember the giant versions of the Bakugans. Back then my brother and I had a giant Terra Juggarnoid and Ventus Fear Ripper.

[@ianmckenna6146]

Yo Ontos, what’s your profile pic from? I swear to god I remember that sword from somewhere but it’s lost on me right now

[@titantasorin]

@@ianmckenna6146 Xenoblade chronicals by the look of it.

[@slashsight6577]

I still have it, lmao

[@ontos8534]

Titan Tasorin yup

[@joshlegacy1101]

Hearing that English opening awakened memories in me.

[@josephmital9387]

Bakugan DS... Who there?

[@wahjergah4543]

Joseph Mital I am

[@yamjay5613]

Me

[@AaronDarkus]

Joseph Mital Reporting. One of those best games of my childhood.

[@Furi0fl4m3slol]

I had xbox 360

[@slobertooth1358]

I played that shit when I was really really little.

[@amazing384]

Here in Germany Beyblade was the biggest craze ever. Jesus I remember grinding that shit every break in elementary school and almost the whole school was playing

[@zenvious5645]

Ich hab damals mein Beyblade versucht stärker zu machen in dem ich es die ganze Nacht gegen einen Karton gespinnt habe. War wahrscheinlich ein Placebo aber am nächsten Tag in der Schule konnte mich keiner besiegen

[@BulletK1ss]

BooksWisdom Das ist ja total erbärmlich...

[@jellysmeme4923]

Ja man ich hab damals ein Earth eagle in der Erde gefunden und habe damit jeden vernichtet

[@jellysmeme4923]

@@CurazyDiamondo Ja ein Zufall der mir erst vor kurzem aufgefallen ist haha

[@hunternichols9463]

aMaZINg Beyblade was the shit back when I was in school

[@FrigginBoomToys]

I mean did Bakugan really 'fail' if it was in the top boys toy brands for like 4 years in a row?

[@truepatrician4700]

And have like 5 shows

[@shianeruu4359]

I don't think it failed. It just died as time passed

[@LR_Bushido]

The toys did well but the card game itself was a major failure

[@Peanut_Butter_Jelly_Time]

@@shianeruu4359 DONT WORRY ITS BACK AND BETTER WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER AS DAN BUT WITH DIFFERENT FRIENDS AND HE SOUNDS,LOOKS AND IS DIFFERENT

[@TheDiscusserOriginal]

It was a success at first, but later died.

[@Hiro.3D]

I LOVED bakugan.. i was the only girl inn my school that loved anime and gaming XD.. i watcht it in norwigen dub

[@UluvNacho]

Bakugan started selling in Walmart again I'm not kidding and they're almost sold out

[@crimsonalatreon5713]

Nacho wait the new ones or the originals

[@nekosparkclaw3021]

The new ones. I have 6! Keep a lookout for Diamond bakugan, really rare and powerful bakugan.

[@impartialknockback]

Yeah but they’re trash now

[@tb4l_jay17]

@@impartialknockback nah, there OK I guess

[@Codykurczeski]

Show isn't that good toys r pretty good tho. Same with beyblades and the new burst. Metal series was bomb in all ways with that and brawlers was better than planet

[@tiedyeeli]

Drago and Dan were on the level of Pikachu and Ash

[@jonathanjoestar5849]

More like Red and Charizard.

[@helmenhjelmen1955]

well better then pikachu and ash because they actuelly grow a little up.

[@guythat779]

Then they were ichigo and zangetsu level

[@trellnebula]

Atleast Drago evolved and kept getting stronger

[@bigginger7417]

Drago and Dan were beyond Pikachu and Ash

[@albertobaruco3943]

Something i always found funny about the anime is that the protagonist freaking created the game but then sucked a it (at the begining)

[@kingol4801]

Alberto Baruco That is not very far from truth. Look at league of legends, where most if not all developers are fairly bad at the game they created.

[@Kromiball]

Look at Erno Rubik and his Rubik's Cube, he made it and it took months to solve but now many people can solve it under 20 seconds; some even under 5.

[@chinii_eej]

Kromiball I mean to be fair he didn’t have a guide to solving it lol

[@Kromiball]

@@chinii_eej lol

[@Angelika00700]

@@kingol4801that's why the game is unbalanced

[@jacksonyoung3497]

When that theme song started to play the nostalgia hit hard

[@rhysofsneezingdragon1758]

What're you gonna do?

[@artistthegoat3586]

@@rhysofsneezingdragon1758 the odds are stacked against you

[@jaygomex]

I’m so nostalgic man

[@chiissu]

The Bakugan anime was sort of the reverse of Yugioh. Yugioh started with this weird "Anything goes" thing (Like firing his Dragon Champion at the Dark Castle, Busting its levitation ring and it falls to crush his monsters. Or using Living Arrow to fuse his Mammoth Graveyard with Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon and making it rot, Then taking out 1 head, but it grows back as a regular Blue Eyes White Dragon) that gradually evolved into a game with somewhat clear and explained rules (like with sacrificing monsters to summon better ones or the upgrades we got in GX and 5Ds). Bakugan started with a card game that seemed to follow rules in the 1st season, but in later seasons they just summoned their ace, equipped it with a giant mech armor, chained like 6 fusion ability cards, and won w/o even showing points. It didn't seem to be a card game and was closer to a weird DBZ/Pokémon battle.

[@TheKpa11]

But you know from an action standpoint I did love it. Though it got tiring seeing the attacks boil down to different colored lasers, energy beams, and lightning attacks.

[@kurtdelarosa6151]

Starting with Season 4, all I saw is monsters using the same laser attacks to strike, only in different colors.

[@AnthonyPlayz]

Lol somebody’s watched a lot of yugioh *even though I’m the same*

[@wondercookie4620]

100% agree

[@rawbinYT]

Even then Drago kept evolving so many times but by the time each season started he becomes neck-and-neck with "Random Joe Number 24" over there, almost evenly matched. But by the time the finale rolled around, they showed Drago's G-Power and it was surprising to see just how little it increased as he kept evolving and gaining all these ass-pull powers to not use them a second time.

[@gamingbutnotreally6077]

SOMEONE ACTUALLY REMEMBERS THIS SHOW? This used to be one of my favorite shows of all time as a kid.

[@Isaacoun100]

Random fact, in spanish the power system was called G points, that in spanish also means G spots, so you could hear kids in the streets playing with Bakugan and telling each other how their Dragonoid had more G spots than their Hydra, it was a revelation when i grew older and found out what G spots actually mean

[@Barakon]

Lmao

[@Xeffrey]

I literally just told my brother “I watch a youtuber who kinda revisit childhood games/shows and review/breakdown them and I’m waiting for him to get to bakugan” lol

[@infern0127]

Same that's sorta why I subbed after the bionicle vid.

[@joshbermudez4024]

I remember when I used to illegally bring and trade bakugan at elementary school, me and this kid Andrew would always trade at the back of the library or the bathroom. I trusted him until one day he went into my backpack and stole all my Bakugan while at recess, I knew it was him so I told the teacher and it was full csi, we searched his backpack and pockets but he must’ve hidden them real well because I never saw my bakugan again. I remember crying so much because I had spent all my birthday money towards those bakugan and my parents wouldn’t buy me anymore because the other ones were stolen. Andrew moved a month after that and I never saw him again until I ran into him years later at a different summer school where he was like “I did steal your bakugan lol” nether less it ruined the series for me as a whole

[@specialke1]

The exact same thing happend to me, but with PokéMon cards. I had a whole book of them, and the class "problem-kid" stole them. Still salty about it.

[@Erick-uf9ek]

ok this is sad

[@hssp1]

Fuck Andrew

[@boulbaggies1465]

Oh man, I hold grudges for a long time I wouldve tried beating his ass lol

[@beepboop05]

**Karate chops imaginary Andrew** FREAKIN IDIOT!! >-

[@mechajay3358]

Bakugan was a pretty cool concept when it first started, now I'm not sure it would be a big hit now. The anime itself, while pretty enjoyable as a kid, hasn't really aged well with it's story.

[@mechajay3358]

@Hyun Dong Lee Not so much at the beginning, but in later seasons yes it does get kinda generic

[@RolandTemplar]

@@mechajay3358 the reboot fix that

[@livium9149]

The first 2 seasons or so weren't that bad... It's the rest that is awful

[@fightingmedialounge519]

What? The first season felt like it came straight out of a make your own gaming anime beginners book.

[@EthernalOynuyor]

2:21 brooooo, tears are falling down from my eyeees yooooo, i used to saw that shit here in turkey

[@psychiron]

Didn't he seriously just call Haos: House?

[@assasainalexgaming]

my thoughts exactly lol

[@sleitgeb9895]

He misprounced a ton of stuff T-T

[@Cronomancer]

Which makes less sense when you consider he watched 12 episodes. Last I checked, they mention Bakugan types A LOT in the first episodes, so he should've known how to pronounce Haos

[@notfunny7875]

Yup he did

[@lordluna4843]

Haos = hay-yus

[@shushigargenzola1822]

Remember that one Bakugan episode in pt2 of the mectanium surge series when almost every character died. That messed me up

[@Zekken.00]

Bakugan infinity war

[@anguswoodrow7138]

Haha

[@stfdcrst]

They pulled a thanos

[@guythat779]

Wait what

[@sidneydavis1365]

Razenoid?

[@Xio_Joestar99]

6:30 Actually, in Japan, at the end of each episode of Bakugan Battle Brawlers (the first season), they explained the techniques used in the episode and how to apply them to the real game. It is also worth noting that the rules changed as the game moved from Japan to the West.

[@expendableindigo9639]

Hopefully the card game was better in Japan?

[@DarkAmph]

my main strategy was "lowest g power wins", thanks for speaking about that XD

[@m00nrac00n]

The first 2 seasons + video games were amazing as a kid/young teen. I like how they sometimes had more serious themes thrown in here and there and some good plottwists.

[@berilsevvalbekret772]

Hey gundalian invaders was pretty good too. I loved the alien races just wish they did more with them especially the gundalians.

[@tolord1800]

@@berilsevvalbekret772 gundalian invaders was a lot of wasted character potential

[@muddy5013]

this takes me back to grade 3 and 4. thanks for the trip down memory lane for a quick minute. I swear at one point I had so many of these damn things and I have not seen them around in years.

[@gregwxst]

Same man! This was the shit back then

[@micahclark24]

i still have like 20

[@Kuroyaa]

Better than fortnite.

[@Molotov49]

As if that's saying much.

[@nekosparkclaw3021]

OH MY GOSH YES

[@phantasmalemperor8887]

Not that hard really lol

[@scallywag2054]

* TRIGGERED *

[@krisp.bagels3866]

duh c:

[@imbrawler1591]

I swear this dude is saying "doon dimension." Even emphasizing the "oon" instead of saying "doom dimension"😂😂😂

[@negispringfield6156]

I instantly thought of the Shadow Realm from 4Kids

[@kingdeedee]

Man, I remember back in elementary school we'd have a rule where if you ever lost by more than 500Gs your bakugan would go to the "Doom Dimension," and the winner would get to actually keep the loser's Bakugan. Shit got MAD heated, dudes got into fights, kids would be crying losing their favorite Dragonoid. THOSE were the days

[@MemesToa]

Sounds to me like you guys invented the New Vestroia anime rules.

[@kingdeedee]

@@MemesToa crazy you say that, I never watched much of the anime at all. Just a few episodes here and there of the first season when it was on TV, but my friend group all kinda moved on from it afterwards

[@hollowfox213]

Oh god, I was so into Bakugan when i was in first grade. I have so many stories about Bakugan in my childhood, like how I tried to watch the first episode when it first aired cause I was just /that/ excited about it, but I was told to go to bed halfway through since my bedtime was like 7pm, lol. God, I even remember i was laying on a mattress on our basement floor, which i still don't even know why it was there. Regardless, seeing the white lion, which was discount Hatsune Miku's main partner,(cant remember any of the names, so....) open up makes me want to but a bunch of these little shits again. It looks so cute! Even if literally only two or three pieces of plastic open up only slightly.

[@idavrad4343]

Next series of Bakugan were also great, especially New Vestroia, I mean Spectra is like the biggest badass of this whole anime. This whole show was always my number 2 after Ben 10

[@MaleficentsLover]

I remember when I was young I had this mad crush on Spectra because of how badass and mysterious he was. I'm watching it again and a massive wave of nostalgia hits me every time the opening starts. When I saw him in New Vestroia again I legit had to pause and take a deep breath cause my crush resurfaced basically. I was always watching Bakugan,Beyblade and Ben 10 but Bakugan will always be in my heart as number 1.

[@gisellalobo4911]

@@MaleficentsLover like legitimately same. No joke even I started rewatching the second season like 2 weeks ago

[@cadenanderson4178]

Same

[@kheii3503]

For me New Vestroia was my favorite from all the season, I love the main protagonist and the villains like it was just too good, after that I watched and enjoyed the Gundalia season but I missed some of the other season characters but despite I think the whole series is really enjoyable

[@californiacrook7828]

idavrad 4 Yeah! Ben 10 series is the G.O.A.T.!

[@RaquelleDeVil]

The point of the doom card is that 1. If strong opponents are defeated by Masquerade they have nothing to fight against him anymore since their strongest bakugans can never return. 2. Hydranoid absorbs the power of every bakugan which was send to the doom dimension, which is why he evolved to Alpha Hydranoid.

[@edenwalker8614]

Dude the intro was baller when I was an kid that opening theme was epic

[@matthewdures]

Can you cover "dinosaur king"?

[@theonlyhikaru]

Or "spider rider" lolz

[@DDRhappiness17]

Make your move!!!

[@ecognitio9605]

Dinosaur King is your destiny!!!

[@MikeVoss]

@@theonlyhikaru Other people knew that existed? I thought it was obscure lol

[@gunma747j]

Why not mushiking?

[@danieltruong4873]

I basically watched all of bakugan so I can explain all 4-5 seasons for you. First season was good enough to merit a second season. Second season changed the game a tiny bit and added new toys to keep it interesting. It also set up for the 3rd season near the end. In the 3rd season stopped playing the game less and we started watching monster fights near the end. By the 4th season nearly all plot was thrown out of the window, drago(the main bakugan) now has had like 8 evolutions, the 2 side characters randomly have new bakugan every season, and there were mechs. Edit: My favorite were season 1 and 2. But waifu of the series was in season 3.

[@infinitypercival5958]

Tbh, I have a hard time deciding whether Alice or Fabia should be my top waifu of the whole series. They're both so damn sexy lol

[@aamirparker5451]

Me too

[@frassisuhmatic9959]

Actually season 3 was good but the moment it became mechtanium surge it got fucked up

[@kini2960]

Gundalian invaders was fine imo. But mechtanium surge is just horrible

[@nyle2001]

@@kini2960 mechtanium surge was scary lmao

[@noeltakeover1]

Bakugan is so special. It was my childhood and i have so many memories of bringing all my Bakugan to school and buying everything of Bakugan, and obviously being so excited for Bakugan to show on tv.

[@jimipakkanen8225]

The Bakugan game on ps2 was lit.

[@mathiasposch9548]

True darkus FTW

[@Vanlens]

I loved that game so much. Was quite dissapointed when its sequel totally changed the gameplay.

[@joshuafyb4114]

mathias Posch Darkus English voice was so bad😂

[@iciclearms]

Naw man DS game

[@SS-mk4sn]

Ikr

[@brycevo]

The theme song was Boss! I hope you heard it before it's Gone, Gone, Gone! *This is Bakugan* 3:36

[@ichigochameleon5762]

Bryce McKenzie I like the original Bakugan theme song better than the new one (the one from Bakugan Battle Planet). Have you heard the new one yet?

[@shaymin491]

Normie you never heard of the Japanese or the Korean opening

[@S1erra107]

Tome Of Cartoons the new one isn’t bad at all, it just lacks a true climax at the end. For real though, both have amazing OSTs that I wish they had on Spotify

[@PeachDragon_]

BAKUGAN was basically like yugioh and beyblade, with some digimon sprinkled into it. It was amazing.

[@platinumusman0s5]

3:34 YOU CAN'T JUST PLAY THAT INTRO WITHOUT WARNING THAT STUFF WAS PART OF MY CHILDHOOD

[@FurryCombatWombat]

Fun fact: Bakugan got rebooted, it has a strategic card game with actual decks and a new anime starring Dan, Dragonoid, and a bakugan playing dog... okay maybe i'll stop there

[@kyumazu1926]

oh God

[@deathkitsune6839]

Hold up what??

[@Syahidsahoarder]

@@deathkitsune6839 Bakugan Battle Planet

[@jmej01]

excuse me what the fuck

[@philthethotdestroyer4194]

yeah, he said that at the end

[@brycevo]

I really liked Bakugan. It rivaled Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh at my school.

[@MurIocMage]

Bryce McKenzie football cards

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

It beat both of those out at my school. As someone that has been going to card shops to play Yugioh since I was in 5th grade that severely annoyed me.

[@ilikefoodcrazy]

Real street homies used tech deck

[@WingItMan217]

Bryce McKenzie I was one of two kids that preferred bakugan to Pokémon. Yup nobody found that cool

[@amiteea]

Yugioh has simple rules? That’s new to me

[@jayesper4390]

I think they're meant to be so, but too many cards break all the rules lol

[@hardiltakhar380]

It’s real simple, all you have to do is screw the rules whilst having money, once you have successfully screwed said rules you may then play whatever the fuck cards you want with no repercussions other than losing to your opponent who has also screwed said rules but was also blessed with some Pharaoh levels of RNG

[@chrishansen1842]

It's actually is pretty simple it only gets complicated when you get down to specifics which Yu-Gi-Oh does have a lot of. But it's honestly not that bad and once you get used to it.

[@amiteea]

Hardil Takhar oh yeah? You’ve seemingly underestimated the power of (this series’ new summon method)! Feel the power of friendship you rule screwing, randomly OP character!

[@serpentofdays]

Holy shit, I also didn't know how to play the game but I was in love with the anime, it was so good. I still have my huge mega-sized dragonoid delta laying around somewhere and it was so fun. I think this might be the reason I turned into a shounen fangirl later in life.

[@CraftyMaelyss]

Dude, I still have my Bakugan from when I was a kid X'D

[@datguy5743]

CraftyMaelyss same and I bring them out every few months to just enjoy them even though nobody will play it with me

[@kloshy43]

I don't even remember which I had Only remember a snake from season 1

[@CraftyMaelyss]

@@kloshy43 I've got maybe 10 or so still? Some are the main characters from the series, while others are different ones P:

[@joshua_bluemoon8683]

im 18 and still have my Bakugans i got when i used to play with my friends at school

[@ikazuchi7523]

Same