Features & Benefits
- Beyblade is a customizable spinning top toy that includes launching device with ripcord.
- It was first released in 2000 and was inspired by the traditional spinning top called Beigoma.
- The main premise of Beyblade is customization with interchangeable parts.
- Hasbro started selling Beyblade toys internationally in 2002 along with the release of localized versions of the TV series.
- Takara Tomy released the first incarnation of Beyblade in three and a half years, Beyblade: Metal Fusion in August 2008.
- The company was created from a merger of Tomy (founded in 1924) and Takara (founded in 1955.)