They Rebooted Bakugan AGAIN!? (ft. @JettKuso )

Battle Planet happened. Distribution was a mess. So they rebooted it again? Now we have Bakugan with a whole new coat of paint. Is it an upgrade? No, it's not. You won't even recognize it anymore.

✦ Creator of my avatar: @DragunFU

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#bakugan #cartoon #reboot #nostalgia

[SuperZeve]

I loved how in the orignal, the bakugan were in ball form, or in their open toy form. So if you had one on your desk, or shoulder, it would be the same as in the show. The giant monsters only show up while battling which just is awesome and show you imagine it as a kid

[JunkoEnoshima.]

What i loved about the original is that while Bakugan was made to a game by humans (and also Vestals later) it was NOT a game at all. It was serious business, heck in the third season Gundalian Invaders there was a straight up WAR for gods sake

[hideandslide]

as a kid i loved the semi realistic designs of the bakugan, sad that they went more in a cartoony artstyle. even as a kis i never played with the cards just collected the bakugan

[grayrook]

Wild thumb nail to see how much anime artistic sensibilities have changed.

[AllanFuentebella]

Remember the time when Masquerade plot twist shock most of the kids in front of the tv screen, yeah me too, it wass WILDDD

[hyperlink]

MY least favorite part about this whole system, is there will be zero "Playground bakugan" with this version. Its something beyblade failed at during the burst series, but luckily the shape of school chairs makes it work. But the BIG part of these games for the kids is "Can i play this with my friends at school?" Because getting to your friends' house isnt as easy to do but you see them everyday at school.

This is what made old bakugan, yugioh, pokemon, beyblade, super popular. Your parents could get you 1 10-15 dollar product, and now your kid is occupied every lunch period, and they have something to do with their friends. Packing a beyblade or a ygo deck, or 1-2 bakugan and some field cards was SUPER easy. It took up a very small amount of space, and was extremely portable, while not taking anything AWAY from the experience. Beyblade the least so, but even then because the rules were so utterly simple, it was also really easy to *come up with your own way to play!* You could make a stadium out of dirt on the playground, or do it on the basketball court. Maybe you launch it down the slide, see how far it goes or whose bey reaches the bottom the fastest. Plus, most school chairs are roughly stadium shaped. With bakugan as long as you had the field cards and your bakugan itself, you could play literally anywhere that was a roughly flat surface. Desks, tables, the ground, didnt matter. However, with the new system, if you wanna use the spinning bits, you would need to use something roughly shaped like a stadium, but you also need the cards in the middle and that wont work on anything OTHER than the designed stadium, and aint no kid fitting that in their backpack and pulling it out at lunch.

The ability to play the game practically anywhere massively affects how many return customers a product like this gets, and as-is their not gonna get a ton of those. Kids cant take these to school and play with them, cause the new field cards wont stick together unless they are held together, and so it just becomes a mess in the backback or on whatever surface you decide to use. The rules are too specific to be able to make up new ways to play, and the design of the toys is extremely rigid. these are not good playground toys, and thats not good.

[keshang_laow]

I think they are failing to understand their target demographic by trying to understand their target demographic
They are trying to fix something that was never broken.

[tomforge]

So, I have to admit that I'm confused why the most contemporary iteration of the series looks more like the 2009-2012 era of animation akin to Huntik, Dinofroz, and D.I.C.E. than the adjacent series of our modern zeitgeist like the Yu-Gi-Oh Rush franchise like the prior take of the franchise.

[Avenew_Seven]

the reason why these reboots suck is because it doesn't even feel like an anime anymore it feels like a washed up american kids tv show

[summertime]

G1 Bakugan will always be my favorite. Hands down.👍👍

[Poke-ladd]

All I remember from the first series, like he ends a dimensional war and uses up some cosmic wish for eternal friendship which awakens something with in his Bakugan but the raw power literally hurts him and is uncontrollable and he loses the fight to some Newbie

[Happy_Slappy_]

I haven't seen Bakugan since its original series and I didn't even know of the prior reboot, it's been THAT long.

[PurpleFlashlight]

I'm just thinking Shun would go so hard in this new battle format. But he got erased from existence it seems?
Loved that guy when I was younger. He was just cool guy with a big bird.

[Kellfiree]

When I was a kid I had the toys and literally just played them like they were dolls. They had names and dated each other and killed each other. Card game whomst

[koku]

Did....did Bakugan learn nothing about gimmicks from the failure of Mechtanium Surge?? I have no confidence this reboot will work out

[dominiks_second_channel]

G3 performed so badly that the second season has been cancelled. All season 2 products produced have been ordered to be destroyed by the factories. So, uhm, yeah.

[NeroPiroman]

based on the thumbnail, it keeps regresing just like ben 10

[comicstrider]

Maybe it's because of the red outfit but it suddenly popped into my head that you'd be a KILLER Spectra cosplay

[Little-Dewott-]

Bakugan G3 feels more like a preschool show than an older kid's show.

[notsmrt]

11:16 I see, the Yu-gi-oh Arc V approach