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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

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

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

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

Didn't expect Jett to mention Kamen Rider and Ultraman in this video. But that is a unique insight as to why those brands haven't hit big in the west. Even though bad first attempts at bringing over the shows was another issue. Though are slowly growing over time. Tsuburaya had legal problems with distribution. Which is why it took so long for Ultraman to hit the west as it is now. And Toei is just being annoying with distributing Kamen Rider because they're licensing one season at a time instead of their whole catalog and asking for a lot of money for each season.

Surprisingly all Bdaman series were shown in Malaysia and they even had dedicated malay dubs on a local kids tv channel. Kinda sad to see they flopped. They were a super big part of my childhood.

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

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.

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

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.

This is what makes Takara Tomy much better than Hasbro in this regard. Not only did B-Daman was originated in Japan, but bc japanese Toy Companies like Takara Tomy, Bandai, etc are all artists and craftsmen at heart. They just know how to make their toys aesthetically pleasing and sell to its audiences through its bombastic commercials, something that makes the toys themselves look like a work of art that people can and will eventually appreciate in the long run. They're also good at maintaining longevity by innovating their core concepts into something fresh with each of its franchise releases, something that Hasbro SHOULD really learn from especially in maintaining their QC, taking their franchises seriously and getting out of that "toys are just for kids" Mindset. If anything else, Hasbro should've let Takara Tomy's B-Daman commercial explain the products themselves on the TV. Like seriously, Hasbro's commercial was just idk, lame, cringe, missed the mark or something.

i remember when i was a little boy, i asked my dad for these so much but i had to get good grades, and i worked hard, when i first got a Japanese one i was frustrated on how to build it, and then was amazed by how takara tomy was way superior, just watching this vid made me want to dig out my old crossfire bdaman to mod them again.

Thank you for bringing up Kamen Rider! I have to further reiterate your point - Japanese candy toys in general are another thing that is basically exclusive to that country due to tradition. They do extremely well over there to the point that even adult tokusatsu fans will be looking for them online or in Japan. That's why the toy commercials go so hard - imagine toylines doing so well that they can be sold for cheap despite being incredibly high quality. I think the closest thing we've ever had are McDonald's toys; which is such a shame...

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

Funny you bring up Bottleman in this toyline critique. I personally think it DRASTICALLY improves upon every single facet of the development of Bdaman thus far. And it pretty much does away with every problem the franchise ever had. Granted, it had a rocky start with the original releases being fairly limited and all the marketing being pretty much isolated to KZfaq. However the core concept of shooting bottlecaps instead of marbles gave way to such a needed shakeup in gameplay. On top of all the Bdaman games still being applicable to Bottleman (save for break bomber, RIP), the toyline had a heavy emphasis on TRICKSHOTS. With the advent of bottlecaps, each shot was stronger, the projectile flew farther, and the caps could ricochet into a target several inches away. There were sets released in Japan that purely consisted of ramps, hoops, and other bottle-parkour doodads that breathed life into the otherwise monotonous projectile shooting gameplay. And that’s just base Bottleman. The sequel series, Bottleman DX, gave rise to the return of customization. Each part, each core has some level of functionality and effect on performance. The plastic was also way, way, way stronger and more robust. We had wheels, scopes, and hold part pinchers built into each Bottleman. We had Bottlemen that would shoot caps horizontally AND vertically, by virtue of bottlecaps being non-spherical. We have Bottlemen that shoot 2, 3, and 4 caps ALL AT ONCE. There has never been a better time to be a Bdaman fan and I urge everyone, if they have the means and opportunity, grab a Bottleman DX. I f***ing love this toyline.

thank god i got into this series when I was in the Philippines and the toy marketing there POPPED OFF, I have so many accessories its crazy. almost every kid had it in school more than bakugan and beyblade imo.

I'm glad you mentioned Bottleman. please make a Bottleman video, I've found it really difficult to look up info about that series.

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.

damn I didn't even know that the US marketing was like that lmao. as far as I can remember the toys here (Indonesia) are mostly marketed straight from the shows and we got the takara tomy releases. the ads for the toys are just played on the toy stores that sold them. and the funny thing is I actually had a friend who I can play b daman with when crossfight was out. thanks for the nostalgic trip man

Yk I don’t even buy these now as an adult. I just like the nostalgia factor Dan brings to this. Brings back memories

6:12 LMAO THE CUT TO CHAINSAWMAN THATS BRUTAL I JUST HAD TO LAUGH

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

Now replace by bottle cap from marbles

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

I really wanted to take some of the old Zero system bodies and kit bash them with SD Gundam kits. I thought it'd be pretty cool to have an SD Gundam Exia where the clear circular part on it's chest was actually a marble launcher. These things were cool as hell, but really had no good aim with them. They did make some pretty rad MegaMan Battle Network B-Daman though back in the day, though they weren't nearly as functional as the Zero system ones, only having the ability to hold one marble you load directly into the front of their busters, and the trigger being on the top of the buster too.

This just showed up in my recommendations, I'm not really keen on these kinds of toys, but your presentation made me consider getting one for myself, so cool!

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!!

Got some at the Dollar Tree near me. They were awesome

Omg you just uncovered a memory of my childhood I remember having these things and loving them 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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.

I hope you do a bottleman episode too, i don't like the look of Crossfire but Bottleman looks really good. I've been super curious about them lately but I haven't been able to grab one yet since there's like no US sellers

I honestly remember having a lot of fun with B-Daman, I also only just now got into Bakugan (At the ripe ol' age of 29) I feel like if they kept the core concept alive throughout each iteration, I think it would have been a hit!

I've got a crazy B-Daman set from Japan, around the year 2000. It's 3 different evil looking, animal themed B-Daman. each one can change into an animal form as well, and all 3 combine into a single robot. Oh, and the robot heads each come off and become more traditional Bomberman style figures. It's really cool, and I wish I had been able to find/buy the good guy version, which is 4 or 5 gundam/vehicle looking B-Daman.

love the b-daman videos bro, wonderfully made

Although it failed in the West, in the SEA regions, B-Daman was doing pretty well! I would know since I'm from Malaysia and these things were popular with kids back then. But besides the toys themselves, I especially loved the anime and a lot of people I know who were into B-Daman seemed to agree as well. Crossfight B-Daman/ES was my childhood.

Great video!! I was OBSESSED with b-daman as a kid after finding out about battle online (i was too young to have seen it on tv), got crazy hyped up seeing the cross fight toys on youtube and i was so excited when i found out they were gonna get imported as crossfire, only to get super disapointed learning that they were simplifying the toys a ton (seriously they had what, 3 different types of magazines, a single barrel attachment, and nothing else when japan had tons of both plus other types of parts) and was so let down. They actually had some full arena sets in japan that were like the one from battle and had multiples games to set up, tho the main one was also break bomber. One clarification tho, the break bomber set in japan was actually different than the one in america. The bars holding the blocks were specifically made to be able to hit out two blocks at once on the sides if you were accurate enough, but the middle could only be hit by itself, thus letting you have much more strategy and skill to it, but they made a new mold of it for the american release i guess cause they wanted a cheaper option. Not sure if keeping the toy line unchanged wouldve saved the series in the US, but i think it certainly wouldve made it better, at least for those of us who were big into the toys/series (those commercials always annoyed the hell out of me tho, they couldnt even be bothered to make the cgi look accurate to the toys??)

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.

God, I miss my childhood. I used to play Battle B-Daman at school back in 2007-2009. Not until Crash B-Daman aired in Malaysia. I miss battle B-Daman and B-Daman Fire Spirit

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

Cross Fight B-Daman was awesome!! The Hasbro version of the B-Daman was trash but Takara Tony was amazing 🤩.

7:13 Eva is truly a horror series

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.

20:21 So.........basically Kamen Rider has a new season/series every year with each year being its own self contained story for the most part. The one you shown is Kamen Rider Gaim which have dancing groups using locks shaped like fruits and seeds to summon monsters to fight like pokemon. In the first episode, the protagonist finds a driver and transform with the fruit locks to become armoured riders. The scene you just shown was him using the watermelon lock which summons a giant mechanical watermelon that can be used as a bowling ball or turned into a simplified mecha.

b-daman crossfire is like a fever dream for me. i looked at b-daman as a long lost relative to beyblade.

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

also some of the Bottleman designs are direct homages to the OG B-Daman which is cool.

i feel like a mechanic when i put two piece of papers onto the shooting thingy to make the marbles shoot faster and harder...... and yes it hurts xD

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

i collected all of these. me and my friends on my street would use a old air hockey table and painted lines to make our own little stadium to have matches. such a fun toy. especially with the dueling attachments.

omg, I used to have one of these toys, I could never remember what they were called, this video is very informative.

6:24 im dead 💀

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

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

The problem with B-Daman is its supposed to be a 2 player game but has a single player option but the 2 player game is DLC the singl3 PVP game is also DLC Just sell the whole PVP along with the B-Daman figure and just find another player for a shoot out game

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I remember this thing, in the super market there was a stand were they sold dollar items and it had these small toy robots with a marble in the middle( obviously a knockoff), they stayed there until the stand was removed a decade later. I discovered a weird Canadian channel that aired anime on Saturdays and amongst them they aired B-daman, in that moment I discovered what that toy robot was but I still wonder why only the bootleg made it to stores instead of the real ones.

Watching this video when suddenly hearing about Thunder Draken reminds me of how Konig Cerberus from Bdaman Super has the same coe but it can change the place of the rubber strip so you can have forwad spin for power, backspin if you want the marble to return, and side spin to change the course of the marble. I have him on my table now too.

I remember crash b-daman reaching the Philippines. I think it was exported to SEA region hence why there's an english dub.

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

Man’s just unlocked a core memory Used to see kids play against each other at campus, which tempted me and I bought one

Okay I actually did stop this video to watch the older one, I'm ready 🍿

Love this and nice callout to Kamen Rider and Ultraman. Could have used Power Rangers as a counterpoint but that’s a rabbit hole you probably want to avoid. And now you gotta do Bottleman :)

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

Well yeah I remember trying to fight with other kids with those, it didn't go so well. There was no clear winner ever

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.

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

You said that Yo-kai Watch didn't do so well in the US because most Americans don't know about Japanese culture where yokai come from. I think that also factors into why Cross Fight B-Daman and Cross Fight B-daman eS, aka B-Daman Crossfire and B-Daman Fireblast, respectively, failed in the US. The figures that were marketed the most, the four dragons from the first anime, the four beast from the second anime, and their respective antagonists, were based on the guardians of the four directions and the center from Chinese and Japanese mythology. If the average American sees an azure dragon, they'll just think it's a dragon (which are admittedly cool on their own), and not the Huanglong/Seiryu.

Crash B-Daman was exported to South East Asia, I actually had the pair that would combine with two triggers

Lightning Scorpio is designed so you can fire it with one hand while loading marbles with the other, and that helps the rapid fire.

B-daman crossfire was a nostalgia for me

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

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.

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

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

So nostalgic, had these guy back then, now it's broken :'(

I'm a big fan of b Daman cross-fire and the pain of jett saying "thunder drakon" instead of thunder dracyan just hurts

Next about Bottleman the reincarnations of B-Daman 🌊

This was a great video! B Daman deserves a lot more love in my opinion. While it probably should've been a battle game, or at least had the option to be one, it's really cool that they tried making it different with target practice. I will admit though, the inner collector in me was shaking. I noticed that you have the parts swapped on Strike Cobra and Thunder Bearga. Cobra should have the dark yellow parts, and Bearga should have the red parts. I still loved the video though!

Using footage from Kamen Rider Gaim, and Ultraman Geed (as featured in Z)? Those are some ***HELLA BASED*** editing choices, Mr. JettKuso

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

right at 17:58 during your DHB, two marbles hit eachother just right and hit the bdaman figure in the top hard enough to move it! awesome shot going through frame by frame

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.

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

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

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

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

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

so in crossfight the original japanese version the cores made more sense the hold parts had different levels of compression thus giving them a stronger shot a more precise one or so that they fire faster if you look at the back of the cores you'll see a tab on the bottom that goes up and down yea that's safety so that kids didn't shoot em at each other and the also allow for the cores to feel and shoot differently hasbro made that part useless by having them screwed together there for fucking up how the cores work. i promise you that if you ever get a chance to order any of the japanese ones made by takara you'll see the difference

6:21 that was just too good 😂

I liked BDaman Crossfire cause I grew up with it. I really wanted Dracian for so long even today I want him, but since it's gone now I can't get him without buying it at a higher price than it used to have. Plus the fun part of living where I live is that I can buy the Better Takara Tomy stuff rather than the Cheap Hasbro stuff.

i was unironically looking up bdaman videos for a nostalgia trip and this came up just in time

Bottle man is actually really cool, it has some absolutely ridiculous stuff in it, and the figures just look nice

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.

I will say, as a kid, I did have a few of the battle Bdaman playsets, but it was all about direct hit battle As a teen with crossfire It was all about break bomber we had a few of the others. But it was all about that was the main set

Omg this is nostalgic. Always wanted one but could never find one in target or toys R Us

Dude, I loved these things! My friends and I used to shoot at one another's hands to get an advantage in Direct Hit Battle. It was brutal. I'll always love Helio Breaker.

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

Crash bdaman was in Singapore, the commercial is from Singapore channel 😂

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