Bey Blades - What Can You Tell Me?

Amazon is actually really hard to buy Beyblades from. They mostly carry the Japanese versions - which are much more expensive. The popular ones that the kids are buying here are sold most places like Target, Walmart, TRU etc.. One bey should be closer to 8.99. You also want a Bey arena for the battles. You may be able to get a starter kit, I don't remember. We just bought all separately.

I have no idea what the point of playing with them at school is if you can't use a launcher?? Weird.

You and others count down 1 -2 let it rip, then pull the launcher and launch the bey into the arena with the others. The first to get knocked down is the looser. Then you keep doing it.

My son did not like the beywheels as much as the beyblades.

They are not a fighting toy and are totally appropriate for 5 year olds.

Here is an arena with 2 beys. http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=111451...

An extra bey or a 2 or 3 pack
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11745493
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12475940

No, they're "fancy tops". My husband says they were called gyros when he was a kid. My son and his friends are in kindergarten and love playing with them. They all look the same to my untrained (adult) eyes, but according to the packages and the kids, some are made for stamina and just spin forever, some are supposed to be able to "defend" (basically, just harder to topple) and others are good for moving in different directions, a little more mobile, and can "attack". To make them more interesting, you can get different little things to add to them where they can spin in a spiraled.....thing (ours looks like a big dog's water bowl, but spirals down the inside, it's black), or a battle dome I saw at the store but not sure what it's like inside. Nothing violent or "fighting" really, except the marketing to say you can "battle" your friends with different ones...which is really just seeing whose top spins longest. They're simple, but the kids love them. Actually, as far as tops go, they are pretty neat.

'Crazy fighting toy'....really?

BeyBlades are TOPS, only modernized...ya know the spinning kind of TOPS.

You launch them and they spin until they stop spinning. That's it. If you launch two at a time in the plastic container/stadium they sell for them, then yes they 'fight' each other...which ever one stops spinning first loses.

That's it. That simple.

They have them at your kids' school... and are allowed to play with them in their K class.... but you are still wondering if they "are totally inappropriate for five year olds"? Wow!

There is no wrong set. They are like $13 for a 2-pack at Walmart or Target.

My kids loved, loved, loved them. They have really updated the look since my kids had them. Inmy30's is right - they are tops. I'd just go to Toys R Us and look at the different ones and pick.

There's nothing inappropriate about them for 5 year olds. However, it could be that they don't have the manual dexterity to handle them - that's the only thing I would worry about.

I should look at them and see what they look like now. It has been a long time!

Dawn

My 9 yo grandson is extremely taken up with BeyBlades and WheelBlades and has been for a couple of years. They're sort of like tops. Yes you can "fight battles" with them but my grandson doesn't. There is a launcher which causes them to shoot out from the launcher and spin when they land. My grandson has a couple of plastic stadiums into which he launches them. He also launches them onto the floor.

We buy his at Toys R Us and Fred Meyers. They are popular and I suggest you can find them anywhere that toys are sold. They are the same price whether purchased on line or in a store unless you're looking for discontinued collectors editions. He chooses specific colors and names but I doubt that it would matter to your girls which ones you buy. I think there are packages labeled as starter sets but I doubt that they are any different than other sets.

In the past few months my grandson also looks up pictures and stories of them on the Internet. When he first started he didn't.

My son first got them when he was five.
They are zipcord launched tops.
They have a circular "arena" that you launch them in. You try to knock the other top out of the circle to win. They even have an anime on them. I bought the ones my son and I play with at Walmart for $5 each. You can show them the display at Walmart, and see if they find two different ones that they like, or find the one's they play with at school, for example.

I just drew a circle on the kitchen floor with a washable crayon, and if the top spun out of the circle, it lost. Then again, I made the circle larger than an arena due to it not having walls to bump about in.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for asking this question. I was wondering too. (The word 'blades' does kinda suggest a fighting aspect, so I know where you are coming from.)

Completely appropriate for 5 year-olds. You can go to Target and check out all the different options. There are really basic Bey Blades and there are ones that are actually controlled by a remote control launcher. You will probably want to buy one of the little "arenas" which are contained areas where they battle. Super fun for this age!

My son loves them (his twin sister does too ). You can go to Target and get a set . Don't get the sphere arena or beywheelz just a plain beyblades set . If they don't have a boxed set get an arena (they are on the bottom shelf) and two different individual beyblades. That's all they need to play .Ask for help they will help you figure it out . Happy Thanksgiving !