The best toy-line to ever get cancelled twice

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[marcoooo]

This makes me sentimental. My dad, rest his soul, bought me one when I was 9, and I had a blast with it. He researched the rules, was so into it, and it made me really happy that he bought one for himself so he could battle with me. These toys were such a happy part of my childhood.

[LakeSG]

The Bakugaiden anime was made when the Bakugaiden toyline was already at its 4th iteration and year.
There's an earlier version of the DHB system on the mech suits in Bakugaiden 2 (1996), hitting the target at the crotch of the mech suit would eject the pilot B-daman in a dramatic fashion. No customizable parts yet though.

[Bakutalk]

Get Ready! Get into position! Prepare for competition! Destroy the opposition! BE THE MAN!!

[MicoDossun]

I had BDaman in 2004 and I thought it was so cool that the toys were designed to be more powerful by adding pieces that increased resistance… until I broke an hourglass

[mustaqim]

one of the things we did as kids with these was to literally try and blow out each other’s fingers. it turned into an endurance test more than anything and what we quickly found was that the cheap fake versions had faster speed in them. we did go crazy when the special marbles were introduced and pretended as if they made a difference

[MigsUdon]

I'm not sure how it worked in the west, but here in southeast asia, we had tons of tournament support! When I was like 7 years old I'd join the almost weekly tournaments for battle b-daman! The cool thing was entrance was completely free, and there were limited edition b-daman to be given to those who'd make it to the podium! Was such a great experience growing up with those competitions, and even taking the championship myself a couple of times! Good times

[joshclarencejoseph]

As a B-Daman collector since 2018, while also being recent Bakugan collector, I appreciate the coverage of B-Daman! Can't wait for pt. 2!

[ForgottenFafnir]

I actually grew up with B-Daman being my first ever 'anime' alongside Megaman NT Warrior, so I'm glad to see it's finally getting some coverage. It was such a weird premise but I loved it all the same. Especially getting to construct the B-Daman and also customize them if you had different ones.

[HaonProductions]

Haha, holy cow, one of the fuzzy memories I have of Battle B-Daman lore is how the big magic cat dude invented a new, standardized build system for the little marble shooters that allowed for increased customization, and it turns out that's exactly the toy line that the show was advertising. To get the full experience you needed the previous gen Japanese toys. Amazing.

[HMNPRSN]

As someone who was a kid when beyblade first dropped, I gotta say, building the sprue kits for ANY toy was an absolute highlight. sprues forever.

[insertatitlehere]

YESS! Ever since I found your channel you've quickly become my favorite "toy" youtuber. I'm so happy you talked about this.

[dmfyre]

This series was almost as big as bakugan for me, and I was real sad when Crossfire didn't get very big, because it was the only series I actually GOT as a kid

[relue-sama]

I knew I wasn't crazy that early B-Daman is related to Bomberman. It felt strange looking at them why they look like the Bomberman characters and thought they were knockoff versions. Pretty cool video

[Guyasis]

Just for those who are interested, right now the b-daman franchise is not actually dead. Takara tomy is currently selling a similar product call bottle-man, in which instead of shooting marbles, they are shooting bottle caps instead 😂

[IAmPrincipality]

I'm not even kidding you, I used to have one of these for years but it recently just vanished. I've always wanted to know what they were and now you helped me, so thank you.

[iman]

Man, I loved these toys as a kid, and completely forgot they existed. This video was a nice blast to the past.

[cyberdragoon]

If I’m guessing correctly, there’s going to be a part involving the transition of B-daman to Bottleman.

[PenguinNerd]

I LOVED b-daman as a kid I so wish it would come back in the US. As a tip, you actually missed a few series. Battle B-Daman had a second season called Fire Spirits that as far as I know never got imported out of Japan, and between Battle and Crossfire there was actually another entire series called Crash B-Daman that was never imported, most likely because every B-Daman was designed to look like a gun (no joke, those bottle loaders were replaced with ones that looked like actual magazines, just upside down)

[KRBrickBot]

I had great fun discovering and sampling the Battle D-Daman toys in South Korea localized by the toy company Sonokong, and then it was novelly surreal seeing them in America when I moved there.

[wavewingman]

10:37 Wow, plastic bottles in B-Daman? What a strange concept, sure hope that doesn't come up again.