How (NOT) to import a Japanese toy-line

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[@JettKuso]

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[@EL-bm9tv]

Jett has a more different tone of voice than I’m used to 😵‍💫

[@peanutsaber8837]

In other words... america happened.

[@legendaryteam3785]

Chek this vide out if you want it is really good

[@legendaryteam3785]

GKroyal

[@legendaryteam3785]

Also it is me fom an other acount

[@il0v3PepsiPepsiPepsi]

Heres a function for all Bdamn: -Bearga= Use Two Tumbs on the trigger pad to add power -Bison= Same as bearga but using your fist to push or punch -Snake= Stabilizer on the leg and Straightner trigger for accuracy Shark= One Hand shooting Scorpio= same as shark but you can reload while shooting Avian= same as Bearga but Accuracy And Finally, Dravise=Rollers in the leg for smooth rolling side to side

[@Camenye]

You forgot to mention scorpio’s ring that can make you push and pull the trigger faster

[@il0v3PepsiPepsiPepsi]

I forgot theres more bdaman with more function but I'll tell there gimmicks on the next Bdamn Video

[@Camenye]

@@il0v3PepsiPepsiPepsi I think if there’s any other video about these it will be about bottleman

[@yi_hou3092]

I think most of B Daman was aired in South East Asia

[@sadvec6328]

You can still play B-daman if you have some kidney stone in you You ARE the B-daman

[@JettKuso]

Shocked pikachu meme face

[@erichansen8235]

My god dude

[@Drooook]

Finally, now I know what to not do when I import a Japanese toy line

[@JettKuso]

You now have all the tools you need.

[@Camenye]

@@JettKuso now it’s time to import a japanese toy line

[@Nauj1017]

​@@Camenye @db guys!!!!! Its that time! Lets import a Japanese toyline!

[@Camenye]

@@Nauj1017 YES

[@Kinopio710]

I tried applying these tips in importing a Swedish toy line, BIG mistake… I’m not allowed in Sweden anymore

[@tothemaxthor1034]

a Bottleman video would be so sick, they're a really cool and refreshing take on the franchise

[@LJTK]

As a SEA resident I can proudly say this is my childhood. The Japanese ones were also more diverse in my opinion while the bros ones were more uniform and solid.

[@AidanThatWeirdo]

Crash B-Daman was actually exported to the Philippines and other SEA countries! I even remember watching the English dub while playing with my own B-Damans back in the day.

[@RyujinSaviorX]

I hope the dub gets recovered fully like the fire spirits SEA Dub that i got awhile back. Only footage is that commercial Jett played when beginning to talk about the crash series.

[@AJsoment95x]

I only heard about Crash B-Daman on this video, I was only aware about Battle B-Daman and Crossfight B-Daman due to GMA Network aired it on Filipino dub, did GMA also aired Crash by any chance or it's just the English dub maybe from cable channels?

[@RyujinSaviorX]

@@AJsoment95x I did sorta hear word that there may have been a Filipino dub for crash but I am not sure.

[@AidanThatWeirdo]

@@AJsoment95x I remember it airing through Cartoon Network

[@kazeki3135]

As a Vietnamese we got the Chinese version of BDamans they call the Ping pong legend 😂😂

[@josebencastro94]

I find the new bottlecap system pretty interesting: kids won’t spend on ammo and parents would be glad to see caps getting a second and fun use

[@shinreilba]

yeah that was the conceit of the toy and the anime. that they were created to effectively "recycle" bottles and bottlecaps in a greener universe

[@Camenye]

And you’re even sugested to use actual bottles as distante measurements and targets

[@Sai-fj4wi]

Well except, TT started manufacturing metal bottle caps specifically for Bottle Man toys now, so good luck recycling actual bottle caps

[@Camenye]

@@Sai-fj4wi Bruh who cares they come in like 3 releases and 2 of ‘em only come with one

[@Sai-fj4wi]

@@Camenye then you clearly haven't seen the new God Cap series products

[@bigfan10-gaming79]

IxRolloutIx/Rollout Reviews has done quite a few tests of the Cross Fight and Es B-Daman, and yeah the difference between Cores is more noticeable with the Takara Tomy Toys as opposed to the Hasbro ones(Apparently the Power Block aka the piece between the Trigger and the Core itself works better) for one example of a Cores capability Torque=Bearga's Core actually emulates a Newton's Cradle by maintaining Momentum so it does better with a row of Targets

[@JettKuso]

This makes a lot of sense

[@RyujinSaviorX]

I love how you covered the crash b-daman segment of this video. One of my favorite lines of B-Daman that and i love chainsaw man edit you pulled to make it look like the main character was firing at Aki’s house 😂. And yeah the core part of the crash b-daman is basically the marble man. A bridge way, connector to the the grip and barrel to lunch the marbles in between.

[@林ルーカス]

The Cross Fire series toys are also different not just marketing as Hasbro version are also different to save cost. Other than the dragon series B-Daman all just use the same core instead of their unique core. Bear is a power type cause the barrel was made with a rubber like plastic so when fire need more force to push, Scorpion one had a roller at the trigger for rapid fire. Reason why the dragon had their original design is cause when Cross Fire air in the West, the show in Japan already reveal all five Dragon Type and also showed that Dragold can use parts from all the other Dragon Series B-Daman parts

[@dnlplayz4284]

18:05 actually I did became a lil mobile advertiser.we didn't have the shooting range and targets but we did try a lot of things like: Shooting bricks -ruined my marbles -destroyed my b-daman because the spring was stuck and I kept pressing it Range test -we played outside so the marbles went to the grass,woods,etc. Head to head battle: -not a great idea,people kept hitting my hands. It was a fun time tbh too bad I had to move to another school when I was 9

[@Scayanite]

Absolutely great work on this video. I've been a Fan of B-daman for so long (as i grew up with the Cross-fight series) and seeing this level of detail in a Bakugan focused Channel (also a big fan of your work in this category)So being a fellow Content Creator, I applaud you for your effort and quality work. Keep it up Man!!

[@domingoavila3260]

I’m probably late to this but in Japan each core had its own name, like thunder Dracyan’s Japan name was accel Dracyan. Each core had a specific piece that affected its performance slightly. The snake b-daman,s core had a piece on the back that would help guide the trigger more properly to help with precision since some slight change to how the trigger gets push can affect the marbles trajectory. Scorpio was fully design with his core to be comfortably used one handed. His arm has places for your pinky (bottom spike), ring (inside the loop made by the arm), and middle (place it on top of the arm in the part that looks like a button to me) fingers. Your index finger goes on top of scorpios head, under the stinger, and your thumb goes in the trigger loop. This gives you a one handed grip that allows you to shot and reload at the same time.

[@MaverDick12]

You explained why Tokusatsu can't succeed in the West way better than any person in the Tokusatsu community ever has before. Good job.

[@pizzafuture]

To much Japan footage

[@nekonekopanicnekonekopanic7335]

I mean but what is power rangers

[@TheGoodOne1998]

​@@nekonekopanicnekonekopanic7335 Power Rangers bucks the trend with age as well as MMPR was adapted from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, the 16th Sentai show.

[@NutSaxs]

@@pizzafuture as opposed to anime we all “loathe and hate”?

[@joerioryuurisakakiidk7482]

@@nekonekopanicnekonekopanic7335 Sentai at the time was still basic. Sure we had the edition of Mecha in Batyle fever J and the early concept of a 6th Ranger in J.A.K.Q and Maskman. But those concepts weren’t solidified till Zyuranger. Dragon Ranger was the first notable extra hero who stuck for a while at had his own toys to sell. Daizyujin was more complex than past Mecha. It’s not till Go-Busters that Sentai has a major shift, and even then that show is built to succeed in America. (Even though they tossed out all of that) Zyuranger is a good place to start mostly because of MMPR but not entirely.

[@oblivionslefthand]

I've been watching YouheiDX build a ton of Bottleman recently. They honestly look pretty fun, and do all the gimmicks you'd want out of this type of toy, like have mode changes, or combine.

[@sitisarah826]

Now replace by bottle cap from marbles

[@Paper_Cuts]

After seeing Power Rangers success, always been into importing more Japanese shows like Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Beyblade, etc. Sadly, like you brought up, it is harder to introduce a shows story to another country, which is probably why Masked Rider and Ultraman Powered flopped. At least we still have the anime imports though

[@chronoblue418]

But Power Rangers success is a counter to this argument though. Even taking into account that it was altered somewhat, what we were introduced to in the west, Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, wasn't the beginning of that franchises history. If I remember correctly its like the 16th in the Super Sentai series so all that cultural history and growth seemed to be largely irrelevant in selling the series to young people in the west.

[@vitadude5004]

I disagree with it tho , it's all about marketing, advertisements and strategy to how u present the show in the west ... Anyone remember the kamen rider dragon knight?? The way they introduced the show to western audiences is very good and also very fresh. . And b daman never took in west because of lack of advertisement and proper Marketing .. Meanwhile in some countries in Europe b daman was quite popular . Hasbro actually released season 2 of crossfire b daman it's called fire blast b daman it's only released in Europe ..

[@noodle4542]

@@chronoblue418 You are correct, Zyuranger was the 16th season. Sentai as a whole didn't even start out with mechs or the spandex suits and Zyuranger was the beginning of another large change to the franchise, the introduction of a proper sixth, which was only really tried before for an episode or two in previous seasons with prototype characters like MagneWarrior and X1Mask.

[@DirectorOfChaos9292]

I heard Ultraman Tiga was popular in the U.S.

[@r.i.p.plegaming2327]

So that’s what the hole was for, my uncle had a bunch of these sick looking bot gundam are these? mini things and I never knew the holes were for marbles, I’d just put other mini robot gun-thing’s crowns in them to make a chestplate.

[@imnotlying2760]

5:26 Never expected to see my countries advertisment of crash b daman here. Feel old seeing that channel logo on it

[@qq13563817153]

I remember B-Daman being even older than Okto, like Kids Central old

[@helentran204]

Glad someone else remembers this, because sometimes I think back to when I was around 8 or so, and I distinctly remembered my cousin having one! Always wondered if that was just a fever dream till I started trying to look around and it all came back when I saw Negative Legend's video on it

[@LakeSG1985]

Scorpio is a rapid type because you can grip it with one hand using the handles on its head and arms, which frees your other hand up for reloading. They replicated this gimmick with THAT purple Bottleman DX 22:56

[@JettKuso]

Huh

[@zuntata7860]

funnily enough the new Bottleman season is gonna crossover with B-daman, there will be a new Cobalt Blade that shoots bottlecaps

[@Evrgarden]

6:24 im dead 💀

[@reina_harhar7815]

I remember going crazy for these toys with my classmates and my parents buying me a B-daman. Best part is the fact they bought me the scorpion one, it was my favorite. I was so stoked they bought me such and it was expensive. The advertising were from Japan so I guess that what made the hype big from where we're from. There were only two of us in our elementary class who had such but it was the reason why we became playmates. I was sad it got lost and disassembled when a storm hit our town. Then the hype for B-daman just died from there.

[@Wayo.]

That weird spinner carnival ride thing looks like its based off the OG Crossfire and jammed into the hasbro bdaman. Maybe you can do a "How to not import a Korean toy" with Mecard. It has magnetic balls now.

[@allenusison3124]

Crash B-Daman was limited to East Asia and some parts of Southeast Asia (like the Philippines, who did like the line), but both Japan and America apparently share the same sentiment about the Crash line. See, back in those years, American gun laws are slowly becoming a thing, making sure there won't be anything remotely looking like a gun unless there are major modifications to the toys like firing harmless foam darts or paper bullets that break immediately when it hits its mark (basically why we never get any gun-based Transformer anymore). Crash B-Daman having gun-based parts are an instant no-no to be released wholesale in the West, and would naturally be skipped over whether the line succeeded in Japan or not.

[@gerubax]

5:27 I remember seeing this on TV. The advertiser always has a way to make a new show sounds interesting to watch.

[@cutsleeve117]

Okto! I remember when Mediacorp switched the channel name from Kids Central to Okto

[@boringbone]

I got so excited when I saw that clip of Kamen Rider Gaim. One of my favorite works from Urobuchi Gen

[@JettKuso]

I specifically picked a clip from Gaim cause it's on my watchlist. Gen's work is usually phenomenal.

[@boringbone]

@@JettKuso I admit that it starts out a bit slow but it's one of Urobuchi's strongest works. You won't regret watching it!

[@damiamia3115]

6:21 that was just too good 😂

[@synth-wave_steve]

I like how this channel has explained why so many of these franchises never got anywhere in the west

[@mrkicker11181]

The game was so popular in el slavador when I went to visit in 2005, they had bootlegs of the model kits and older figures lol

[@KGKSkull]

20:22 I can explain this scene, the main hero got an item that gives him a big watermelon that turns into a mechsuit.

[@dmfyre]

I *think* I remember that the Core prongs' colors were supposed to be indicative of its type...but outside of a few specific cores, the toy quality wasn't big enough to make a ton of difference? My brother and I got some of the japanese versions (Dragren and Drazeros), and the difference in quality was clear to even us then! Plus you still built assembled those like a gunpla, cutting out and snapping together parts!

[@dcred7412]

Memory unlocked- I remember getting these through a mystery bag type kids magazine in Asda. No idea what happened to them though 😅

[@giovannisingergs4159]

I was never into b- daman but one of my best friends was really into b- daman and he is still in to it I seen his collection it is huge

[@KudaGeatsune3821]

19:38 that's.......quite the design choice😅

[@slippyquack7672]

Damn. I remember these from my childhood. Got my friends into playing as well as Beyblade, Zoids, and Yugioh. When we didn't feel like playing PS2/XBOX 360/Game Cube, we'd head outside and just start blasting, dueling, or letting it rip. Damn, kids today just don't know what they're missing.

[@TheTrueMorse64]

20:27 Hi, fellow Kamen Rider fan here! Let me explain, Kamen Rider Gaim’s Suika Arms is a very large suit and it’s basically like a hulk buster. And normally for every form change in Gaim there’s a smaller set of armor, that’s in the shape of the specific fruit based off the Lockseed a rider is using, would come out of a zipper portal above the rider and land on top of their head then fold out to form the armor. But since Suika arms is so big it basically just “crushes” Gaim, but he’s fine and he just ends up inside the armor. If my memory serves me correct I do believe they only do this “crushing” gag the one time with Suika Arms, but it has been a while since I’ve seen Kamen Rider Gaim so don’t quote me on that. But one thing I do know is that Kamen Rider Gaim may look all silly and ridiculous, but trust me it gets pretty *DARK* later on in the series (not gonna get into spoilers so you just have to watch it)! And it’s actually a fan favorite for most of the Kamen Rider community (including me)!

[@JayFolipurba]

Whoa, you just unlocked a deep memory. Over the years I thought about B-Daman every now and then, but back then I couldn't read and for a while didn't know what this was called. If you ask me, this was SO AWESOME. Better than Bakugan

[@groovetorped]

Remember having these in sweden 2009. Wild throwback!

[@WarriorZ676]

I loooved Battle B-Daman as a kid. They used to air the anime in Chile (South America) right before school, so I would watch it while having breakfast before going to school. The anime was great. I still remember the episode where the Cat Teacher tells the protagonist he needs independent hand coordination to get better at B-Daman, so he makes the protagonist draw a circle with one hand, and a triangle with the other, all over a rock, until he can do both well, and fast. That was so cool!! Please make a Bottleman episode, I want to know the most recent evolution of B-Daman! And thank you for the video!!

[@WyrmsOfWonder]

in defence of bottle man, the toys ROCK and the games are an absolute blast. Now if we could just get a DHB style system for it.

[@LucarioShirona]

Agreed! We basically got a variation of the game Invasion back in Bottle Man!

[@JettKuso]

All it would take is attachable barrels with the flip down gate function! Same with crossfire!

[@sunnyysss]

IMO DHB was the core game of b-daman for me. Really made you want to play the game with friends and see who was the best

[@vinxcxcxcxc6354]

I used to love these as a kid fondest memory is when my grand dad gave me a rc bdaman.

[@gurra981]

god its been years sense i heard about b-daman, for years i been trying to remember it but never did, had one and watched the show and loved it as a kid

[@logannunya3139]

Great! Now I just need a video from you explaining why you continued to promote Bakugan despite knowing full well we weren’t getting any TCG support anymore!!!

[@JettKuso]

I didn’t know any more than anyone else. Regardless, I’m not a Bakugan fan because of the TCG, and I haven’t been talking about much it AS a TCG since the cards stopped being released.

[@ashleylightheart126]

I cannot get over the fact that the only example of English Crash B-daman Jett Kuso could find is off a advert from the SEA Singapore channel targeted at kids called Okto. Mainly also cause I can vividly remember that commercial now and I do not like the memory XD The toys were also imported here and I'm assuming a bunch of other SEA countries too.

[@princetrumz]

Not many people knew about Crash B-daman here in the Philippines, so i was able buy some for a cheap price. I just find the gun design very unique and kinda badass

[@streetwatcher_]

But a bit rough ergonomically

[@Lavendre]

6:23 I was not expecting to see a chainsaw man clip!

[@VulpisFoxfire]

A counter-example of a franchise that was brought from Japan to the US in the middle of the run without the history behind it..Power Rangers, MMPR was based on Zyuranger, which is fairly late in the Super Sentai run...there's quite a few seasons before it.

[@JacobIsACheese]

pls do a bottleman video - i was really hoping you would go into it in the first video

[@Hareeem_99]

Dude i have been searching this thing for so long, now i finally know

[@machemique162]

They shoot bottle caps now cause of the danger problems that takara had through the years.

[@fairlyelongatedyoungman7452]

I remember having one of these when I was like 3 years old.

[@Harveeee]

Just finished watching this and part 1. I'd say this series could've survived if they focused on DHB as the primary mode of play. I understand that having different modes is cool, but having that one "main" purpose of playing is important in marketing this toy-line. DHB is incredibly skill-based and seeing how Crash and Crossfight evolved the systems made me just wish a new version of DHB was also released. I never had the Crossfight toys as Crash was the last time I played with B-Damans but I'm certain this franchise could've come a long way if they had decided to choose one main mode of play to easily market it globally. As we have seen, it seems every commercial made for this toy-line has different goals despite having a simple concept of "marble shooting" On a side note: Jett, you SHOULD try to look for Crash B-Damans as they were absolutely cool! The concept design of guns in a marble shooting toy is a no-brainer and I honestly wished they had DHB along with it. Plus, having the ability to shoot two different types of marbles from two different triggers was the coolest addition this series has ever seen imo.

[@kamikisekai01]

bottleman is more like a trickshot purpose now. But this franchise is still the one of my favourite.

[@lerona.martyr3811]

Finally! I love seeing some new bdaman content lol

[@Indie1293]

I remember having this toy when i was younger.

[@AlfiRizkyR]

Actually very understandable. B-daman was a hit back in my childhood, but marbleshooting was always a childhood game where I'm from, which makes it so much easier to pick up because we knew what to expect (and because its ammo was interchangeable with our traditional marbles). Like Beyblade, B-daman was based on a local tradition reinvented into something modern, which very much helped with their domestic or regional marketing because … well, Asia's got a lot of shared traditional toys and games. The marketing could simply focus on the individual gimmicks that set them apart from the traditional gameplay we knew (as the commercial you showed did). If I were the execs, I'd honestly be equally confused about importing the thing properly to the US.

[@KRXIRL]

THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD!! I had Dracyan, a recolor of Dragran from a set and i had a mystery box ES Dragran. Also it was all Takara Tomy because they didnt sell the Hasbro ones (thank god, i like Takara Tomy's better). And speaking of things like Kamen Rider and Ultraman, Kamen Rider was brought into the qest TWICE but sadly failed, Masked Rider, the adaptation of Kamen Rider Black RX was horendous and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, the adaptation of Kamen Rider Ryuki was not reseved well in the west even though it was reseved amazingly in Japan, even getting a sequal Novel, so Kamen Rider is probably always going to fail, as for Ultraman I dont know.

[@anonimus699]

Now B-Daman not use marble again but bottle cup

[@Theskies2000]

Next about Bottleman the reincarnations of B-Daman 🌊

[@AutomatonTechnology]

the "Burst Ball Barrage!! Super B-Daman" series is the best, the power of b-daman is truly depends on the user's strength, and by strength i really do mean human PHYSICAL STRENGTH

[@akis123GAMER]

The old B-Daman came to game boy advance with two games that I really enjoyed

[@sirenouir]

Loving the new content Jett! Sorry I stopped popping in on streams I've lost internet irl :) always try to catch you Keep it up

[@JettKuso]

I haven't been able to do a lot of streams sadly... I'm gonna get back into it though!

[@CrasherLIX]

I remember seeing one of these like 10 or so years ago in my friend's house. I thought it was the coolest thing in existence.

[@Vixen-debo]

holy hell there are like 60 different bottlemen that progressively get less bottle more mech. WE NEED A VIDEO.

[@Vixen-debo]

and obviously a show

[@MaouNPC]

B-Damans was the best selling toy in the Philippines. Me and my friends always compete with our B-Damans with those brick points and spinning marbles. We always bought the Japanese version and it was selling like pancakes but we also have the western version at the store but no one is buying it cause everything was made of plastic and also the marble bullet was plastic makes the fire power weak. I think why western adaptation doesn't sell well even with or without marketing because they make it even more child friendly because of its hazard, like no diecast metal or any solid part that could last long. They are switching everything that could mold or break easily and thinking that kids will buy it again if the toy is broken but they were wrong. Today, why the marble bullets change to bottle caps for recycle purpose on I think, I saw their commercial for that bottle caps version. It's for the environment they say if planning to throw the broken product including the cap bullets.

[@TheEngieTF2]

Tbh, I'm pretty sure Hasbro's interpretation of the B-Daman franchise is the reason why B-Daman didn't sell well in Western countries. Their alterations and way of marketing it is pretty odd and poorly made, even Japanese fans would find those commercials... horrifying to say the least (A walking B-Daman would forever be the clutches of my nightmares). Takara Tomy on the other hand always keeps their products on point to the original source, especially how their commercials actually shows how each B-Daman can perform differently

[@StardustZee]

For crossfight, Hasbro ruined it with tthe Thunder, Lightning, and Strike naming convention. They all carried the name of the cores they used. Thunder Dracyan, is known as Accele Dracyan. As in acceleration, due to the drive strip giving the ball a faster rotation, its more effective with glass marbles. Lightning Sassord(scorpio) core is rapid fire due to the parts that hold the marble being thinner than otthers allowing it to shoot out quicker. Its hard tto explain, but if you want to, there are review videos out there that ccan cover these sorts of tthings.

[@spideychamp]

I still own one of these. I used to love these💖

[@Mysda_]

You should dive into Kabuto Borg by Takara Tomy. It has been one of my favorite toyline that has never really been imported in Europe or US. But we did got Battle Crawlers in Europe and MegaLutes in Brasil. It was from arround 2003 but they relaunched it in 2023, and they look even better.

[@JettKuso]

Zep already made the best Kabuto Borg video possible! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKXZYXl4mtCsp6c

[@FlameThrowerDuck]

Oh my god I remember having a few of these and I accidentally left one at a restaurant and was devastated

[@EnderBudoks]

There is another version of bottle man if I'm not...wrong..right...right?

[@dragonicus2614]

Crossfire is what I grow up with and I still have some of the toys to, considerable condition

[@johnremizeztomilloso158]

Found it! My nostalgia of the anime of b-daman!

[@dawsonrice9949]

Holy blast from the past! I used to collect these little guys 😂

[@insecurecow4419]

HOLY SHIT, i got one of these i got in DTLA while my dad did laundry and i thought these where some random fever dream toy. didnt know they where a real thing 😭

[@blasianbrother]

Please make more hex bug videos I used to remember having a lot of hex bugs as a kid and it brought back lots of memories I remember the jellyfish one the shark and fish one and the little bugs and the battle ones where you control and hit the robots with each other

[@333megaice]

I just found out people are just 3d printing B-Daman, imagine the parts you could printed when we were kids back then

[@AngeloDenwillPetate]

Not gonna lie I prefer the japanese version with the Crossfire thing, in Japanese it's called Crossfight B daman, naming is cooler in the japanese version, if you judge the names of the figures you'd know what they're supposed to do and it's hard to see but you'd see it if you really look at it. For example Thunder Dracyan AKA Accele Dracyan in the Japanese. The first name "Accele" came from the word "accelarate" where if you hit a target, the marble bounce back then the forward spin you see in that marble will make it accelerate forward again to hit another target, the lightning scorpio thing it is named Roll Sasword, the ring thing in the finger makes you shoot faster, or Lightning dravise where the wheels on the core be able to shoot fast, and if you start to notice after you shot your initial marbles you will be shooting faster and faster as you keep going. There's a figure named Drift Jacker where it makes curveshots(barely curve shots) In the japanese again you knew what it's supposed to do, in the US version though the names have become so generic, for power types it's called thunder, for accuracy it's called strike(baseball puns or bowling puns) and for rapid fire type lightning. I kinda blame Hasbro for it because it actually became a hit from Japan, to even south east asia and US but for Hasbro to make their versions of it that they will always mess up, let's face it hasbro tends to mess up the japanese versions of the product line, look at beyblade for example

[@samuelpierce2.088]

B-Daman, to me at least, always felt like that one toy that was caught in an awkward middle ground with its overall design and functionality. For example, while the concept of shooting marbles at each other as a game has been around for a long time, it never held the same level of popular appeal as…say…racing your friends downhill on wagons and/or go-karts. Then there’s the parts system…once again, it really feels like it’s at an awkward middle ground where the parts don’t feel important enough to be marketed as performance upgrades, but they also don’t feel superficial enough to be marketed as just cosmetic upgrades. None of this is to say that a toy line based on advanced marble shooting *can’t* be made to sell well in the West - far too many toys have thoroughly disproven that argument - but for all of the reasons I mentioned (along with the ones mentioned in the video), it does mean that it’s going to have a harder time taking off and sticking in peoples’ minds for a long period of time.

[@goggleheroomegamaple820]

12:38 wait.... that voice... that came out of that B-daman in he commercial.... was that metabee?

[@mechashadow]

5:33 hey that's okto

[@Omar_ZX]

It's name is literally the acelle core, there's the lightning core, etc etc

[@kiteyn3608]

i had all of those accessories for crossfire bdaman and all the bdaman before that and i live in malaysia its was well hit for malaysian at that time.

[@NocturneThrone]

I loved these as a kid

[@kodcx2]

Thank You, you done me a great service I wonder what happened to these toys and I hope there's a part 3 bottle man

[@jakstrieder]

one issue I see is that the toys are like half the size of the one's in the show, I seen the animes but when I walked through the toy section at the store the figures and bay-blades looked tiny.

[@sandhiwistara9128]

They are hard to get in my place unless you in main city you will never get them, but maybe if they relaunch it I buy, I miss my fighting phoenix (a cousin took it instead of my knock off power ranger robot)

[@HamzaAlZagha.]

I used to watch a lot of good ol Crash B Daman as a kid

[@andresrios9855]

I'll be honest, between the two, I chose Battle. I like the fact that it (and possibly Beyblade) was a model that you had to put together. As for the stickers, well, that was good too. You could either attach the stickers to make Dragoon, Cobalt Blade, ect., or you don't have to attach them and just stick with a generic that belongs to you and only you. The same goes for Beyblade Metal, though it was not a model you had a choice to customize them with stickers.

[@JinOrigin-1]

I low key miss B-Daman, now we got Bottleman

[@ThatChosenOneDuck]

Man I missed this toy….

[@Lordodragonss]

I LOVED first Bedaman anime.

[@Oxxxyminog624]

"How (NOT) to import a Japanese toy-line" Hasbro: *Whistles in f-ed up Beyblade Burst*

[@squizzlor]

I seem to recal these things, think they had a bomber man line as well?

[@JettKuso]

It actually originated FROM bomberman! The first part of this series on my channel talks about em.

[@bionicpuffin]

the moment you brought up Bionicle... you got my attention.

[@Jamesssssssssssssss]

HOLY SHIT i had forgotten about these!

[@yugiboi209]

I had a couple of those before I lost those, it was fun but easy to lose the marbles(the first set)