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AT a time when just about every toy has a screen, buttons and batteries, the must-have diversion among elementary school children is positively primitive: a top.
But not just any top. Exotically named plastic-and-metal tops known as Beyblades.
A Japanese phenomenon, these tops have erupted into American living rooms, with more than 30 million sold in the United States in the last 18 months, an old-school onslaught that has left some parents finding Beys (as they are known) in every nook and cranny of the house.
Just ask Teresa Palagano, an editor in Tenafly, N.J., whose son, Jay 7, is an undeniable convert.
“We have Beyblade play dates, and a Beyblade stadium under the couch in the living room in case anyone wants to wander by and challenge him,” she said, sounding a little frazzled. “It’s funny till you’re living it.”
Tapping into an age-old childhood need to collect and compete, Beyblades are a surprisingly simple game: just make sure your top spins longer than the other tops after battling and bumping in a shallow bowl called a Bey Stadium, or any other makeshift arena. And while there is a Beyblade-inspired game for hand-held devices, one of the main appeals among the SpongeBob set seems to be that the Bey is something you can actually touch.
“It’s real life,” said John Luk Payne, a second-grader at P.S. 261 in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, where students successfully petitioned to add a “Beyblade Mania” club to their after-school programs. “It’s not just looking at something.”
Continue reading the main storyThe showdowns typically work this way: two or more children load the tops into a special launcher, feed in a plastic rip cord and then send them flying into the stadium — in every direction — after screaming the ceremonial battle cry: “3, 2, 1, let it rip!”
And because such skirmishes usually last less than a minute, there is always time for another. And another. And another.
“I hear ‘3, 2, 1, let ’em rip,’ in my dreams,” said Sara Andersen, an architect from San Francisco who has two Beyblade-obsessed boys, 8 and 6.
Ms. Andersen said her home has essentially become a Bey — and Bay Area — battleground on the weekends, as her kids wake early to play, often, it should be noted, with mom still dozing.
“I’ll be asleep downstairs on a Sunday morning,” she said, “And I’ll hear, ‘3, 2, 1. ..’”
You get the idea. With more than 100 models — including a few with remote controls and flashing lights — Beyblades were the top-selling “battling” toys in the nation last year, according to the NPD Group, a market research company, surpassing well-known brands like Star Wars and Bakugan, another Japanese fighting franchise. Youngsters scramble to find rare imported models, swap them on schoolyard black markets and mix and match parts to create hybrid super-tops for battle.
Annie Talbot, a former actress in Palo Alto, Calif., said her 6-year-old son, Liam, had taken to customizing his tops and battling other kids at school or on pretty much any patch of available asphalt. “At first I didn’t want to buy another item that was going to sit around the house,” said Ms. Talbot, who compared the tops to a fancy dreidel. “But I do like that they usually do it outdoors.”
Beyblades have topped the toy charts in France and Germany, and have sold more than 120 million tops worldwide, according to Hasbro, its American distributor. And that global frenzy will come to a head on Sunday, when young competitors from 25 countries gather in Toronto for the first-ever Beyblade world championship.
“In Slovenia, I won without a problem,” said Gal Veselinovic, a confident 9-year-old reached by e-mail at his home in Ljubljana, about qualifying at a national tournament there. “But I will practice a little bit more intensive just before the world championship.”
The American contender is Zakiah Garcia, a sixth-grader from Rialto, Calif., who out-spun the competition at the convention in New York last fall to be named national champion.
“Beyblade is a heck of a way to unite kids from all over,” said Zakiah, who has been getting pep talks from his friends. “They’re like, ‘Win it for the U.S., Zakiah.’”
Parents are not immune to the mania. Pilar Beccar-Varela, a teacher who lives in Oakland, Calif., said she had even ordered a particularly hard-to-find model from South Korea to make sure her 7-year-old son, Tavi, was well prepared for battle. And she has become hooked herself, occasionally competing against her husband after Tavi goes to bed.
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“It’s tactile and it’s simple and it’s quick,” Ms. Beccar-Varela said. “And there’s something really satisfying about the feeling of pulling that rip cord.”
It’s not a new sensation. The ancient Greeks played with tops, as did the Romans, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. The toys were also big in Asia, where they were made of a range of materials, from conch shells to bamboo.
TODAY’S Beys take their name from a Japanese fighting top known as a bei-goma, and they are a rare case of a fad catching fire twice. Beyblades were first sold in the United States in 2002, in a simpler, mostly plastic form. In 2008, the brand was reintroduced in Japan with a variety of changeable parts — energy rings and spin tracks and fusion wheels — and more metal, which added heft and created a satisfying clanging noise when they collide.
The new-and-improved Beys didn’t reach American shores until August 2010, according to Hasbro, coinciding with a new anime series on the Cartoon Network, produced by Corus Entertainment in Toronto, which is hosting the world championships. But with names that make them sound like heavy metal bands — Poison Zurafa, Evil Befall, Thermal Lacerta — and with different strengths (some are best at attacking, others at things like defense or stamina), they have proven to be a potent collectible for children.
And a potent draw for parents looking for a relatively cheap — usually less than $10 — form of bribery.
As Ms. Palagano put it, “We haven’t been in CVS for two years without getting one.” But she added that she’s impressed by her son’s loyalty to the toy. “He had his superhero phase, his Star Wars phase. But nothing else lasted longer than six months.'
The craze has some elementary school officials cracking down on classroom competitions, and the tantrums they can inspire, but others are embracing Beyblades as a teaching tool for a range of subjects, from astronomy to mythology. (With the Beyblade called Galaxy Pegagus, presumably you can do both.)
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It’s an argument that resonates with people like Susanna Yurick, assistant director at the Honors Center at the City College of New York, who was initially apprehensive about letting her 7-year old son, Niko, play with Beyblades. But she said she has been impressed by the “experiential lessons” the toy taught about physics. Her son now has a dozen Beyblades.
“Of course, maybe I’m just trying to find a silver lining,” Ms. Yurick added in an e-mail.
Most Beyblade fans are boys, but some girls seem eager to join the club. Maleah Frances, a first-grader in San Jose, Calif., admitted: “The boys are a little bit better. But I’m practicing.”
Sure enough, at P.S. 261 in Brooklyn, nearly all the two dozen or so children who signed up for the after-school Beyblades club were boys. The club was started last year by three students, Taiyo Myrthil, Sampson Owens and Jackson Boutin, who gathered enough signatures to sway school officials.
On a recent Wednesday, Danielle Brocco, the teacher in charge, tried to manage the chaos as Beyblades flew across the floor, the hallway and tabletops to the chorus of “3, 2, 1, let it rip!”
One of those in the fray was Eamon Moogan, a 6-year-old who said he started playing with the tops in December and now has a growing collection.
“I like it because it’s really fast,” he said. “And because even if you lose, you can always do it again.”