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To be honest takara tomy and hasbro should re-release metal fight remakes, same design just remade. I think it would be a smart marketing strategy, before the next generation comes out.

The primary issue with this is that it's getting much harder for players like me who want to bounce back into Metal Fight but can't afford to buy exclusively the authentic parts. Have you seen what most reshuffle sets go for nowadays? It hurts physically when I have to blow hundreds just for a couple of pieces, and the market on the WBO isn't as reliable as it once was. If these midfakes can prove themselves to be of even slightly higher quality and durability than those of Rapidity and Flame, then I say let people use them, as long as they can be proven safe. Beyblade should be accessible to everyone, not just the hardcore collectors.

In defense of the midfakes, buying used authentic Beyblades on Ebay doesn't exactly support Takara and Hasbro either. Midfakes serve an important role in this hobby for people who want to get Metal Fight beyblades without having to pay the ridiculously overblown Ebay prices of them.

fun story: during my secondary school days I started a "beyblade club" which did make 80% of teachers mad due to battles happening on chairs. they gave up at some point since it just became way too widespread (still funny to me). fake beyblades were something I never "banned" though, since everyone was just having fun. I regret this now haha..

From my experience, the people who buy fakes/midfakes do so because the original versions aren't sold in their region and getting one from overseas can get expensive. Maybe TT & Hasbro have an obligation to their fans from all regions that they can afford the original products.

Ive bought over 15 midfakes knowing they are midfakes, I would buy authentic ones but those are crazy expensive and “supporting the creators” is literally impossible since there hasnt been any official production in years. But I gotta say I am very impressed on how good the quality was for all of them outside of 2 that had a tiny piece of 3D print sticking out.

It's one of the most heartbreaking bombshells when I discovered at least half of my 4D beys were midfakes, but I didn't know back when I bought them. I did however notice their odd quality, specifically their rubber tips, messier metal wheel moldings and strange text printed. What's more frustrating is the launchers even still say "Takara Tomy" molded on them. Thankfully, my rarer beys like Duo or Jade are genuine. Midfakes aren't terrible, they have okay quality, but like you said, they still don't help support the actual creators.

With respect, buying 100% authentic mfb beyblades off ebay or second-hand stores does not support the original creators. These products were either already purchased or sold to another store.

why should i care if theyre fake or not, if theyre not horrible quality and dont break, i can simply use them. sure if youre a collector who gets off on just looking at these things in their original package or something you might have a reason to be angry, but honestly i think its great someone still produces them so people can play with something that's 90% identical to what we had back in the day.

A little late to the party there, but a very informative and important video for the community nonetheless. As a collector myself I have gone through the struggles of identifying them apart in the past so I will list some tips here: For new in box listings: 1. Code (at bottome of box) - last 2 digits should NOT end in 12, 13, or 14 as these numbers represent the year of manufacturing and metal fight ended in 2011 for the majority of Takara Tomy beys. If you can, ask seller for a picture of a code, if they're confident in their product they will be happy to provide. 2. Box color and clarity - midfakes are washed out in color. Also look at the smaller Japanese text... midfakes have blurry text while real Tomy ones have very clear printed characters. (This is one of the ways I tell midfakes when looking at photos of listings, when code is not shown) 3. Location of item - best avoid ones from Taiwan and China as these are where the midfakes factories are at. 4. Sometimes they have sample photos of the contents, in which case use the tests below. For second hand listings and beys you already own: 5. Facebolt tattoo - is off-centered for midfakes 6. Stickers - for midfakes, coloring is washed out and less saturated, while printing may be off-centered. A great example of this is Phantom Orion. I recommend DaimyoGT's video on Phantom Orion midfake comparison. 7. Plastic moulding - the moulding of the facebolt, clear wheel, spin track and performance tip of real Tomy or Hasbro beys are very clean. Midfakes however, have a lot of excess plastic and jagged cuts. 8. Metal wheel moulding - most obvious one... midfakes have bad moulding and less detail. A good example is Earth Eagle 145WD, the clear wheel does not fit perfectly in the fusion wheel for midfakes due to bad moulding. The Diablo wheel also has trouble fitting with the X:D tip and Nemesis' ultimate balance mode does not work due to it being too stiff. Hope this helps for anyone who is looking~

Tbh I have an entire beyblade collection and I’m very aware that they are midfakes however I spent about $200 on them for about 60 beys and all of them battle really well and launch and are very well made (for midfakes) they are a cheaper alternative especially if you just want to battle! And have fun! I recommend them to anyone that just likes old metal beys. :3

Midfakes are insane, but I can confirm that midfakes don't exist for plastic gen, and burst is safe for now

I dont really see how its a scam, you are getting an unofficial replica of something that isnt made anymore, if it performs the same as a legit bey which it does, and if it doesnt have lead which it doesnt, and can be used in tournaments which they can, then it just seems like you want people to pay over $30 for a rare bey because you think it supports tt. There doesnt really seem like theres a reason to not buy these so yea.

For beysandbricks, it is extremely easy to tell if it's a midfake. They literally spell it out for you. If the item says "OEM Status: Reproduction" its a guaranteed midfake.

"The problem with fakes is that buying them doesn't support the creators of beyblade" idk man seems like they're creating more metal fight beys than Tamara Tomy. Buying authentic beys only helps resellers, so by that logic if we want more metal beys we should buy midfakes, not authentic beys.

My reason for not buying real Beyblades is because takaratomy do not sell beys in our country and even if they did i would not have brought it because of the high price. Just imagine paying more than 40$ for a piece of plastic and metal in a country where a a single dollar amounts to 80 native currency.

Idk why Takara Tomy or Hasbro hasn't capitalized on this. Clearly a lot of people still care about metal fight era of Beyblade.

I’d love to support the actual creators but they quit making them. How am I support to give them my money for one? Because you can’t. Even if I’d love to. Even buying real ones for $100+ isn’t supporting them. It’s supporting whomever you bought it from…… there’s literally no way to enjoy our classic beyblades without spending everything to have one or these thoughtful people who bring midfakes to us at an affordable price.

Sure, but like what do you do if you want a specific metal fight bey in new condition and don't have £100+ to buy it. Is it my fault that they didn't make enough copies for everyone? And why didn't they continue producing some of them, like once an year or so? This way we wouldn't be temped to buy midfakes that are so close to the real thing :/

Thanks for making a video on this, Jake! I think I’ve been pretty close on buying one of these beys while thinking they were legit ones, maybe some scalpers had gotten a hold of them. Idk. But thanks for always being a bright light in the beyblade community.

Technically you are not scammed if you get what you pay for.

This is frustrating. My friend and I recently got back into MFB after 10+ years and we want to get new parts/beys for our collections but you really can't trust anything now. I bought a TT Flame Libra and Dark Cancer a couple years back and while they seem to look and perform genuine I'm still not 100% sure.

I'm 23 and wanting to get back into metal fight beys every now and then, because I never had that many during my childhood, but it's borderline impossible to get legit ones nowadays because the abundance of fakes. If hasbro and TT started re-releasing metal fight beys, it would be awesome, because I know there's a ton of people like me that would be re-living our childhood

“Buying mid fakes doesn’t support the creators” well….that’s what happens when the creators stop selling them lol

I actually don’t have a problem with Midfakes and even think there are decent deal for people who weren’t around during the metal fight days and want to get into it for the experience my big problem like you said it’s people selling them as real when they’re not and deceiving people Who don’t know any better who just think they’re getting a good deal

I've been a victim of these midfakes... In 2017 I ordered Big Bang Pegasis, Diablo Nemesis, and Basalt Horogium, and 4-5 years later I found out that they were fake all along...

I don’t think it’s a scam for me because I buy them on purpose. When it comes to 4d beyblades there is almost no other option than buying midfakes because the originals are to expensive here in Europe. But when it comes to metal fusion/masters beys only buy authentic tt or hasbro because they are way easier to get and way way cheaper. So I kinda like midfakes for that one reason just that it allows me to have these goddamn beyblades.

As far as I know Midfakes don't exist for Plastic Gen/HMS and Burst. It's honestly an MFB exclusive kind of thing.

I'm glad midfakes and rapidity didn't exist back when I was a kid growing up on the original (tbh I even sort of "grew up" on metal fight) but it is disheartening to see even Metal Fight prices for originals be so extreme. I understand paying $100+ for Dragoon MS, the Beyblade is almost 20 years old and one of the most prized beys in existence thanks to how limited HMS itself was, but $100+ for L-Drago Destroy or Meteo L-Drago? That's straight up bs

To those of u out there. Midfakes do have lead in them. BUT unless your putting giant scratches on your midfakes there should be no problem as theres a metric ton of paint on them. The videos lead testing them have different answers depending on it they've scratched them or not. Also I've heard that midfakes are used as alternatives in metal tournaments but I'm not sure if it's true

My boy called out beys & bricks💀

The thing is what we can do. I hate beyblade burst, the core mechanic that is bursting beyblades got to a point that is better to not burst them, and now they are built with so many teeth and anti burst systems, that for me shows me how bad it is. Recently I found my old collection of hasbro beyblades, like 5 month ago. My little brother got interested as well as my sister (and man, they're 16-17 yrs old, that's how awesome metal fight is)... I never experienced the 4D system. So I bought roughly 10 midfakes and they are awesome. If TT would still doing them I would buy them original, 0 problem. I mean is cheap enough to import them from amazon japan to my country. but they don't and I refuse to pay for a pre owned beyblade 100 usd+. I want to enjoy them metal, all of us. (I do have some BU TT beyblades, and yet we still hate them) the string launchers are great tho, have adapted 3 of them to metal fight :p

Today is 2022, which is 14 years after Metal Fight saga debuted (The pre hybrid wheel lineup debut in 2008, then in 2009 comes the Hybrid Wheel system and Anime that we all come to know)..... or specifically 10 years after metal fight 4D ended so even without the knowlegde of midfakes people should've guessed that these so called "Takara Tomy" or "Hasbro" ones selling at that kinda price today is no way the real deal. A Beyblade once their lineup passed on would instantly become rare and harder to find in the after market, and this also applies to Burst too. Like example a Cho Z bey would become rarer once we have reached SuperKing or DB era, so even if even beys part of older Burst lineup is getting rarer then save to say that beys from previous Generations like Bakuten or Metal Fight is almost impossible to find an authentic one with a normal price.

Great way to expose the scams going rampant all over many websites! Thanks for featuring one of my vids, and shout out too! I appreciate it 🙏

eBay says they don’t allow for counterfeit items yet their listings are full of fakes😂.

I got over 100 beyblades as a kid and never saw a real one irl I thought the mid fakes were authentic they were the only ones I found. Sadly, I discovered that 10 years later.

Well from a neutral prospective, If the original brands don't wanna re-release the beys as reasonable prices let midfakes be. If they upped the quality I see nothing wrong with it. People can get the beys they wanted as children for cheap. They perform the same and sometimes even better due to them being a bit heavier. I do agree on one thing, that they shouldn't be marketed as originals because some people such as myself want to get their hands on og box beys and don't know where to look or if what they are planning to buy is even real in the first place.

I buy midfakes off of beystation and i knew they were midfakes before I even bought them When people in discord servers ask me if they should buy off of beystation I say yes but warn them that they are indeed midfakes If y’all have a problem with this then please reply with your reasoning As far as I’m concerned as long as you buy it knowing it’s a midfake and you don’t try and pass it as the real thing it’s fine

4:03 problem here, they no longer sell mfb beys there for we cannot support them anyway and the people who resale them sell them at a very high price due to demand and even then it still doesn't support Takara Tomy

Is this an issue for just Takara Tomy products or does it effect Hasbro products as well? Just ordered a Hasbro Beyblade last night, had no idea schemes like this were even possible. And if it is how can I tell it’s a midfake from the original version?

While I think its wrong to brand them as takara tomy according to the WBO some midfakes are actually tournament legal due to the accuracy of the parts and the accessibility

I dont think midfakes do anyharm to takara tomy. Autenthic mfb prices skyrocketed after they stopped producing new mfb beys . Takara tomy doesnt sell them anymore anyway so have fun with your midfakes guys

Bought a Twisted Tempo once, well turns out the Ring was hollow and litterally lighter than a flame ring.

Like you said , when we buy fakes we are obviously not suporting takaratomy or hasbro but in order to support them they should start making old beys again with a resonable price so people who are in to old gen beys can support them again and just have fun without worrying if ther fake or not

the fact that fake db beys have more details than Hasbro qd beys 💀💀

If you see a Beyblade that cost $1 million is obviously a scam no piece of plastic should cost that much

I prefer to buy burst beys because mid fakes of metal fight makes very dificcult to buy a real one.

I think there are much worse mid fakes out there. It wasn't even a week ago when I wanted to buy Flame Sagetario. I found one on Amazon and ordered it. The bay had completely wrong parts. It had the Spintrack of Libra and a flat attack-type blade tip. So things get so much worse.

the sad thing is that it’s so hard to find real ones and it will take a very long time to find a real one

I'm still messed up finding out my flame libra is fake

I remember i had gotten a beyblade legends storm pegasus and a midfake rock leone. One hit, one hit was all it took for the the pegasus to destroy the fusion wheel and launch it towards the wall

Yeah I’m just a casual player, and I often buy midfakes cause they are really affordable

I didn't even know this was still a thing.... Back in my youth we had to worry about Sunokong and TT hongli beyblades in the plastics generation.

For me it’s almost impossible to find real beyblades under the 100, so I have to buy midfakes. I have a few to point out. The rubber on the meteo L-drago is soft, even softer than my Hasbro on, and even most off the tips off the beys I bought also feature usable rubber. I have only one question, I heard midfakes are licensed by tt is that real?

Where can I find real metal series beyblades

but if they arent i production anymore then how the hell u wanna support beyblade otherwise than buying it and bring other people to get beys.

Flame brand is already a billion dollar company by now ..

Honestly with how prevalent Midfakes & Rapidity were/are I hope one day, as unlikely as it may be, we see a re-release of previous beyblade generations. It's probably nigh impossible, and maybe all of the molds have been long destroyed, but it would be a dream to see a dead competitive game resurrected even if for a short while. Buuut, that's just a pipe dream.

Well not all people have 20 now 30 dollars to spare for a beyblade, where i live hasbro beyblade that costs 20.99 dollars in us will cost 26 dollars because of shipping fee and other expenses, also shipping beyblades from mall of toys would add half of beyblade price to total because of shipping and 21% increase expense. Dont forget inflation

5:51- wait people nowadays dont use the term rapidity anymore?

4:05 the issue is that hasbro and takara don’t sell these in stores anymore. Buying them used do not support the creators because they don’t get any new money from that 5:04

I mean, how do you even buy legit beys if they actually stopped producing them?

How can you support TT when they don't make Metal fight beys anymore and people that have original TT or Hasbro want like $60 to $80 for 1 bey

It's not even necessarily a scam at this point unless they start charging the now inflated price if the originals due to scarcity. Buying the real ones doesn't support the makers of the originals anymore. It's a secondary market. The money for Takara Tomy has been made already. If Takara Tomy remade the genuine stuff and brought it to market, then the midfakes would be a total scam again. If you want the genuine stuff, then if it looks too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. Though the sellers claiming legitimacy where there isn't legitimacy? They are scamming.

FYI: not a lot of people know, those fake beys are not allowed to be sold in the USA, they are harmful to children, The fakes are not CPC approved (children product certificate) all toys MUST be CPC approved if they are intended for children under 12.

I will say that Mcfaboy10 got one of his tested at an actual lab where they scanned the whole wheel and it had zero lead. This was just one example, but this test was a lot more accurate then the cheap lead tests.

Well only Beyblade fandom is the only fandom that is killing itself from lead poisoning and that is sad ngl😢

I was able to tell it's the midfake because it looked the newest. Not because of anything else. Scary.

If a code is written on each part of the beyblade, i.e., face, ring, wheel, track, and tip, then is there any possibility it's a midfake?

It’s the company’s fault that makes beyblades. Their decision to discontinue making these with so much demand is on them. I do not care if buying these beys doesn’t support takartoymi, if they wanted my money they should’ve made the beys I wanted.

For me it's at the point where I don't even consider what real Beys to buy. It's about what midfakes are good quality to play with and it shouldnt be like that. Either the new beyblade gens should have better designs or they should just remake the metal beys

If the price for the beyblade is cheaper then normal it’s most likely a fake like takara tomy beys are always pretty expensive. Also I was able to tell which one was the mid fake right away since the color of the bey is a little different then a normal takara tomy or hasbro bey.

Conclusion: Fun can't be fake or midfake or original....

We in Russia understand that we buy midfakes, for example, from the SB brand. They are cheap, and at the same time ok qualityWe in Russia understand that we buy midfakes, for example, from the SB brand. They are cheap, and at the same time ok quality (price 350-600 Rub). But the launchers are really bad and quickly fail.

Its getting hard to tell since the only real ones left that are being sold are b-stock. Ive gotten manu woth bad molds that are wiggly etc.

Hey, did you get that Diablo nemesis from Beysandbricks?

Mfb is my favorite and I hate that the only way to get real ones is to pay 100+ dollars just for a a piece of metal and some plastic pieces that aren't even close to costing that much

It's scary to think that even some with well-known brands even be faked. I'm not into beyblade, but have a son who is into it, I don't think I can ever be knowledgeable enough to differentiate a real one from a good fake, if I stick with buying exclusively with Mall of Toys, can I be completely sure that it's real?

I've gotten my Beys off of Ever-Wish... I haven't had any Problems with them AT ALL and They sell em really cheap too

Why don't takara Tomy re-release metal fight Beyblade with reasonable pricing cause there is basically high demand for them

While I wholeheartedly agree with supporting the creators of Beyblade and trying to raise awareness of cheap knockoffs...at the same time...I feel like some of the blame for the presence and popularity of midfakes should be laid at the feet of both Takara-Tomy/Hasbro and Beyblade's creators; Largely because neither the creators, nor the companies in charge of distributing Beyblade toys, have really given fans of older Beyblade generations (especially for those looking for the rarer or harder to find Beys) any other options when it comes to obtaining said older generations of Beyblade toys. And quite frankly, potential health issues with lead poisoning notwithstanding, I don't really blame the Chinese companies for choosing to take advantage of the market by putting out these midfakes. If the creators of Beyblade - or at least the companies in charge of distributing the Beyblade toys - aren't gonna make any effort to give fans of older Beyblade gens another way to obtain authentic (or otherwise high-quality) parts and Beys from older generations, then...well...what the hell else are we supposed to do? I said it once before and I'll say it again: Beyblade's creators, going forward, *need* to create and support a robust aftermarket scene for their Beyblades. Not just the current-gen Beys, but *all* generations; From plastic-gen to Metal Fight and beyond.

I did a lead test with my chem teacher to test if my midfakes had lead. We dissolved the beyblade in hydrochloride acid to see if there was any lead content but nothing happened. I did find that some paints could contain lead

wtf that's the exact rapidity set i bought when i was a kid lol

the thing is, they are competitively allowed and that itself is already a dub tbh

They don't make them anymore and haven't for over a decade. If you want bayblades that you can be sure are real and support the creators, then you kinda have to buy whatever is the newest product is. Honestly, with how bad Hasbro's quality control is these days, the fakes are probably on par with Hasbros stuff.

Dang I think I might of bought these mid fakes last year do they contain lead?

There has been alot of counterfitting when it comes to toys and video games lately... Example that happened to me recently, I bought a Pokemon HeartGold from Gamestop. Started to play it, I could not use my cheat device ( won't fit right away, when you start it up after putting in the codes, it goes black screen ), when i got to Goldenrod City, I could not do the gambling place ( it black screens ).. I could trade pokemon to my SS but i have not tried to trade to Black/White or any other pokemon games. .. so Yea, This Pokemon Game was a Midfake, when you can do all of those in the real games. ( it is the only game that does this to my Action Replay )

İ buyed once a midfake. As a mistake . İ was a child and buyed the evolved version of flame sagitario. That's how i can spot now the midfake. The fusionwheel is rough , it looks even rough. Normal bays are looking like Haven a round metal texture while the others are rough . İf in box is a black launcher with a long black strip and if the metal is a little thinner than its fake. Besides they have no metal bottom tip.

The reason why people (including me) want to buy midfakes is because they are cheaper, I don`t have 30 dollars per beyblade to spend, end of story.

i understand that they are midfakes thats the reason of the name, theres no way to support the creators of beyblades with metal fight or plastic gen, and once the burst gets out of production theres gonna be midfakes of those too, i understand the reason you set fourth of, "saying they are genuine takara tomy beys."

I really don’t get what’s the problems with them besides distributors claiming they are TT, the “buying mids takes away support from the original manufacturer thing” I don’t think it’s valid because TT doesn’t sell them anymore anywhere so they are not profiting from them, and the quality of the beys itself is pretty close to the real thing if not the same from my experience, also repeated testing on KZfaq and from my local community shows they do not contain lead, what’s your opinion on mids? For me they are totally fine

Plastic gen the closest thing to mid fakes was probably TT hongli's bootlegs due to the way they did their packaging. Tho the blades themselves were obviously fake. There was a few where the beys themselves looked crazy close to the official releases but they didnt come in packaging remotely close to official

Anyone know where you can get Real beyblades? Metals series

Tbh grew up in metal fusion and use to have every single beyblade until I lost it due to social services taking me… anyways I’m 21 now and wanted to buy some to get back into collecting and idrc if theirs mid-fakes I don’t like any other beyblade versions🤷🏻‍♂️

but since takara tomy doesn't make metal beys anymore even if you buy original beys you won't be supporting them. instead you will be supporting those who had already bought them at a cheaper price and stocked them 8 years ago

I really wished Metal fight would get a resrugence I just like it overall the most. I recently got into Beyblade again, mostly Metal Fight. I love the customizability of beys and their looks and honestly speaking Metal Fight midfakes are cheaper for me to buy than Beyblade Bursts in my areas for some reason. Tho I would like to get into the newer gens, too if I had more money. But at the moment buying midfakes is the only way for me to get into metal fight beyblade without going completely broke. I do agree however that sellers should be more open about what their selling are midfakes, as seeing from the comments, Midfakes seem already very accepted. Honestly this could motivate TT and Hasbro maybe to revisit some of the older gens

Nice video buddy. Seriously, selling fakes are straight up illegal. I don't know why Tomy just sit there and let it happen. Plus I remember getting a fake around the late 2010s without even knowing them, I'm so happy I threw them away.

Who....in this World..is buying a fucking Beyblade 1.000.000 Dollar🤦‍♂️?

Not all of us are sponsored by Hasbro and TT behind the scenes to advertise their products, bub. The prices for those originals are fucking ridiculous now, not to mention the scalpers who sell used Beyblades at even more obscene prices. And TT and Hasbro wanna act all high and mighty and neither re-release the originals, nor distribute their products throughout the world. So yeah midfakes are way better than burning your pockets for something that should be made available to children and collectors around the world.