On August 9th, TAKARA-TOMY will start releasing a new series of beyblade, called Metal Fight Beyblade. These new blades' Wheels are made completly out of metal, which is why the designers removed the Weight Disk. The anatomy of the MFB beyblades is therefore as follows :
Face (Bit Protecter equivalent)
Wheel (heavier 'Attack Ring')
Track (like an 'Engine Gear')
Bottom (tip of the blade)
(For a better comprehension, you can visit Beyblade Spirit's page.)
New parts are incompatible with either plastic and HMS parts.
Four starter sets will be released on August 9th 2008 : Pegasus, Cheiron/Sagittario, Bull and Leo(ne). On September 18th, Wolf will also be available and TAKARA-TOMY will officially continue releasing other beyblades in November.
The four types of blades are now Attack, Stamina, Balance and Defense, each corresponding to the first four beyblades listed above. Stamina is similar to Endurance.
Some beyblades come with a Beypointer, which only serves to record a player's wins and losses. TAKARA-TOMY invented an arcade kind of machine for convention purposes, and the Beypointer is used to remember how many points were won during the games.
The machine works the following way : an opposing beyblade (Cheiron) is fixed to the red bottom of the stadium. This floor can be rotated by pushing the buttons on the machine. First, a person must make the beyblade spin by pressing one button though. Then, they launch their own blade and somehow try to earn points. If you reach a certain amount of points, you can win some Beyblade parts.



An anime and manga are already being produced. The anime is scheduled for broadcast in Japan at the beginning of January 2009. The manga should most probably be published in CoroCoro magazines before that date.
Characters in this new season will almost certainly be different to the previous cast shown in the first three seasons. This new anime is going to be street-oriented.

TAKARA-TOMY is planning to sell the new Metal Fight Beyblade worldwide in 2010, so the dubbing of the show and manga is going to be done in that same year.



You can discuss the new series here. If you have any questions, I will try my best to answer them right away.

Additional information will be posted in this topic.

So, is it a completely new cast, none of the old characters?

Have you heard of any new stadiums?

It is not confirmed yet, but it is very probable that the old characters will not appear in the new series. Otherwise, I think we would know of new Dragoons, Dranzers, etc.

Two stadiums will be released on August 9th : an Attack-type stadium and a Balance-type one. Essentially, I think they are the same as the previous beystadiums, simply made of tougher plastic.

Kai-V, AFAIK only one of them is coming out August 9

Ah, that is right.

Video of the MFB :o =>
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4C-5mTqhI

B)

P.S : it's my first post.

This is the GANGAN Stadium machine :


It will be distributed in 100 locations in Japan. It is 600mm wide and 600mm large, and 1150mm tall.


There will be two events going on in Japan in July :
- In Tokyo, on July 12 and 13, there is the GANGAN Stadium Bey challenge.
- In Hokkaido, on July 23, is the Point Battle Challenge.


The dimensions for each new blade are as follows :
Pegasus -- 32mm wide, 10mm tall, 32mm large
Bull -- 33mm, 12mm, 33mm
Sagittario -- 35mm, 14mm, 35mm
Leone -- 32mm, 14mm, 32mm

Pegasus and Sagittario both weigh 37g while Bull's weight is 38g and Leone's, 40g.

The stadium's diametre is 400mm. It is 50mm tall. They weigh 14g.

Hudson Soft will be making a Metal Fight Beyblade game for the Nintendo DS.




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Well, I'm not expecting much from it. Not sure if it could be any worse than the PS1 game haha

Where did you get the product dimension information from?

On many Japanese websites. It was printed in Nikkei newspaper.

Do you know anything else about it, like what kind of game it'll be? A platform game or a game with a storyline? Is there a multiplayer mode and are they intending to release a game for the Wii?

No more information has been revealed yet.

In my opinion, it will be like the previous Beyblade games ...

I am personally hoping it will have both the features from V-force for the Gamecube, and have the explorable levels like G-Revolution for the GBA had, but i don't want random songs for each area you go to like in G-Rev because that got annoying after awhile. =/

Will sites such as Ideal808 carry them when they come out, because I will def order one of each if so, Plus a stadium.

Yes I just checked earlier and ideal808 is already allowing pre-orders of them. Though I will most likely be getting mine from Toywiz, ideal808 looks like a good place to get them as well! =P

Ideal, Toywiz and theINtoy are taking pre-orders right now.

www.ideal808.com
www.toywiz.com
www.theintoy.co.uk

Ideal is already taking orders, but they are price gouging which is why Beywiki has refused to work with them. Toywiz's prices are cheaper. If you really want to get them for a good price, you should use Mail Order Japan:

http://forums.beywiki.com/showthread.php?tid=4

I think i'm going to get 2 starters, then the other 2 non-starters then a stadium. I think its like 75 without shipping and handeling.

Note : Somebody at TAKARA-TOMY must have made a mistake. These measures have to be in inches : 3.2 inches = 81.28 mm. This makes more sense.

Are you kidding me? That would be gigantic! That is much larger than most plastic Beyblades.

I know. 32mm does not make much sense either though ...

CoroCoro's August issue will feature Metal Fight Beyblade :

Are there two Pegasus?
The colours are different...Why?

Pegasus product code BB01
color: blue
features: starter pack

Pegasus product code BB05
color: metal
feautures: booster pack

Is the bottom different?

Dream =>

Pegasus product code BB01 :
http://www.ideal808.com/product.asp?ID=33579

Pegasus product code BB05 :
http://www.ideal808.com/product.asp?ID=33587

The Wheel's color is different.

Only the color is different?
Are there another differences between booster and starter version?

It is important to note that boosters have another blade's Track and Bottom instead.

With Leone (booster) comes Pegasus' Track and Bottom, but Leone's Face and Wheel.

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http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/beyblade/whf_01.html

Basically, there will be other events in Japanese hobby shops and they list the regions that will get a GANGAN Stadium.

Only kids who would go to elementary school can participate to those events.

Ok Thanks! :D

Nice pictures :
Pegasus Starter
Pegasus Booster

Bull Starter
Bull Booster

Leone Starter

Sagittario Starter
Sagittario Booster

Launcher

Beypointer

Pegasus DX Set - Bull Wheel Recolour
Pegasus DX Set - Stadium



Is it me or does Pegasus's Wheel only have two 'sides' now ?

That's incredible!
Is there the word HOROSCOPE?!? :lol:
Japanese inspiration :D

Kai-V => "Is it me or does Pegasus's Wheel only have two 'sides' now ? "
No, it's an optical illusion ;)

P.S : Thanks for these pictures !

That is what I thought and hoped.

Yes, these four beyblades are part of a "Horoscope Series", along with Wolf.

I doubt it is a "Japanese inspiration" ... They most probably used the constellations for this.

Kai-V, source on these pics? Also, can we use them on Beywiki?

Also, source on the Libra picture ...

Amazon.co.jp, out of many, for Pegasus, Bull, etc.
As for using them, beside the fact that they changed Pegasus's Wheel design, previous pictures were good too ...

The Libra picture comes from FPARA. I already edited the Beywiki article, so I would be tempted to use this smiley : ;)

You are a quick one!

Thanks so much for all of your contributions over the past little while, I really appreciate it.

Same here. Who knows when we would have got the information on Libra and such if you hadn't found it.

I kept checking Fpara, but for some reason nothing new was showing up. I think it has to do with the link I have, because as soon as I searched ベイブレード it showed up. :S

Little question :
How the bottom is put on the track ? Is it a screw system ?

Yes, the Face is a screw.