HI I’m Jett Kuso, and today we're taking a look at the—
TODAY WE’RE TAKING A LOOK AT THE NEW LIGHT-UP BAKUGAN!
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Maxus Dragonoid!
Dragonoid Colossus!
Dragonoid Destroyer!
Dragonoid Maximus!
Infinity Dragonoid!
Geoforge Dragonoid!
Beyblade Dragonoid!
Boba Dragonoid!
Sassy Pirate Dragonoid!
The slate of capstone Dragonoid toys, from Legacy through to the reboot,
is a complicated chunky ooze of good product design, bad product design,
and utterly-irrelevant-to-what-people-want product design.
Usually a big action figure, or sometimes a buncha little Bakugan that turn
INTO a big action figure… Someday I’ll deep dive into these and compare em,
but I wanted to show them in this video because THIS year’s capstone toy is VERY different.
The Genesis Collection. Six exclusive Bakugan
and two Nanogan, packaged together and distributed so broadly you’ll probably
find one creeping outside your windows at night if you haven’t bought it already.
The four normal Bakugan and the two Nanogan are neat! Main character Bakugan in new
shapes from the show, and nanogan with Diamond coloration for the first time,
but they’re all pretty much irrelevant to this video, so…
What really makes this collection what it is are these: The FIRST two light-up
Bakugan from the reboot. Genesis Wrath and Genesis Dragonoid, or as Iike to call it, Pride Dragonoid.
Functionally they’re exactly the same, but they’ve got different looks and
opposite stat blocks. Clear and gold when closed, but when they stand they come alive
with a flashing roulette of faction colors! We’ll look at the roulette function in a minute,
but first I wanna ask how they compare to Legacy light-up Bakugan?
Lumitroid has not only a crazy flashing light, but also
heckin’ laser sounds. Oh crap man. Oh jeez. Sir calm down, this is a Wendy’s.
And now I list some stuff
Lumitroid, Glotronoid, Apexeon, Volt Elezoid, and
Irisca were light-up Bakugan labeled ‘BakuBolt’ in Gundalian invaaders. Only Apexeon and Lumitroid
have sounds, whereas the rest are notably mute. They have no mouths, yet they must scream!
Genesis Bakugan don’t have any sound effects either, but neither did Moonlit Monarus, the very
first electronic Bakugan! Flare Wilda was supposed to come out alongside Moonlit, but y’know…
I was never sold on gimmicks like this as a kid. Somehow I was MORE cynical
back then than I am now. I always thought the electronics forced the Bakugan to be
so…round and ugly to accommodate. But now I’ve cast aside my unhealthy
Hollywood beauty standards and I can see these thicc kings in a new light.
But anyway, modern technology and B3 sizing has not only allowed Genesis Drago/Wrath to be
more streamlined, but the color-changing LED is what makes them truly special.
Every time one opens, a randomized sequence of lights flares out. Each light represents
one of the six factions, and whichever color it lands on is the Bakugan’s faction for that turn.
It’s frickin’ sick. It’s like the little beanboozled jelly beans game.
Few previous Bakugan gimmicks have affected the gameplay
THIS much. The only equivalent would be the old attribute change wheel Bakugan like
Preyas, but Preyas’ wheel could only display three factions. The mechanical
quality has always been pretty cool though… G-Power change wheels just aren’t as cool.
ThAt BeInG sAiD I think something with b-power randomization would STILL be
hella neat to see in the reboot, especially for Melee battling.
Speaking of the excellent Fan-Format Bakugan Melee (link to the rules sheet in the description),
Genesis Bakugan are totally normal feeling in terms of construction. Normal weight,
normal balance, normal rolling. You can crit K.O. with one just fine;
they don’t have any advantages in that regard, you just can.
The randomization makes things QUITE neat and unpredictable.
BuT JeTT kUsSSo hoW dO thEy WoRk in ThE TCG?!??
I DON’T KNOW! Okay?? I don’t know, there’s no TCG stuff coming out right now,
so there’s no official rulings for gameplay or deck-building. We know NOTHING! We get NOTHING!
YOU LOSE! Watch how the mind spins and writhes to grapple with that which it cannot comprehend!
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity,
and it was not meant that we should voyage far!!! THIS IS ABOUT A CHILDREN’S CARD GAME!!!
*Laughing* This is about children’s card games
There was an interview with toy designer Michael Lee
for a blog that mentions the faction roulette design though.
So that’s the only way we know that’s what that is, but it’s not really in-depth in terms of TCG.
Our other hint comes from Prisma Dragnoid… Prisma shares a symbol with the Genesis Bakugan,
labeled ‘ALL FACTION,’ and thankfully we DO have a ruling for Prisma Dragonoid that may count for all
all-faction Bakugan, thanks to Toolbox24 and Gary Arant!
Right so is that the Prisma rules or the all-encompassing All-Faction rules? Or is- ugh
y’know I could do the thing where I list all the questions but screw that, I don’t know. It’s
not like there’s organized play right now. Fan tournaments use banlists and house rules already,
so do we really need to know “Official Rulings” when the TCG isn’t getting support?
If you’re still playing the TCG at this point just make something up!
The way I rule it is that you follow Prisma rules for deckbuilding,
then in-game you follow the roulette rules for each turn. Seems simple to me, I dunno.
And I guess for stuff like Natures Power, whenever it isn’t in battle it acts as all
factions at once? I dunno how it’d interact with flips though… I dunno! And I would appreciate it
if you didn’t ask me about it. Just post your own ideas in the comments and people can pick one.
Anyway, enough of all that nitty gritty stuff, all I care about is ~SHINY CARDBOARD~
Check this out! The character cards in the whole Genesis Collection are basically
ONE piece of art, split up into six CCs.
Lookit that. Woof. Wowsers.
Gee willikers. This lofi montage would be cooler if I wasn’t saying stuff wouldn’t it?
Also uhhhh… What else is in this thing…
Oh that’s not supposed to be there…
Ah! Here we go, it also comes with display stands what the heck? You can put a Bakucore
and the character card in them, then connect them together to make a neat Bakugan display!
Aside from ultras and BakuCores, this might actually be the first 100%
original concept in the reboot. Bakugan has never put out ANY kind of display stand before,
but now I’m REALLY hoping more products come with these things cause they’re so neat.
SPEAKING of the future, wouldn’t it be cool to have more Bakugan
with the gimmick that’s featured in this year’s boxed set? woooAAAHHHH
Okay well, okay… So they DID do platinum Bakugan after Geoforge
Dragonoid but surely they wouldn’t make more light-up Bakugan just like that?
Oh. Oh my. Ohhhh my goodness, well hELLO THERE MY NEW BEST FRIENDS!!!
Nova Bakugan are gonna be a topic for a later video next year when they actually come out,
but maaaaan. MAAAAAAAAN. I’m excited, I’m in love.
So what do I actually think about these things? I’ve been pretty impartial and
factual so far but the time for that ends here… I love the genesis Bakugan. I love the whole
Genesis collection! I tossed away the other Bakugan earlier, but they’re also really cool??
Genesis Nillious might be my favorite Nillious design, both in the toy and in the anime.
I know I call like every new nillious the best nillious, but still.
The Nanogan may have the same cards as the normal versions, but I like em as collectibles.
They’re all really neat, and they all look better in person than they do in photos.
They’re the icing on the cake to the Genesis Bakugan themselves. In terms of design, Wrath
is…fiiine. It’s okay, it’s aite, I like it. It’d be really cool in a damage wins deck especially,
but Genesis Dragonoid is rad for a LOT of reasons. sharp head, bendy arms, big honkin wings.
And a good personality! Do you ever think about THAT Jett Kuso?
It’s all about LOOKS with you isn’t it?
Last year I said Geoforge Dragonoid was the best capstone product they’d ever made. A bunch of real
usable Bakugan toys that turn into a big action figure is better than just a big action figure,
but maybe JUST a bunch of cool Bakugan is even better than that…?
The Genesis Collection may not have the sort of cohesive star power that Geoforge did but
I dunno man… The Genesis Bakugan themselves are stunning, even if the others are a teeeensy bit
more random. They’ve done a lot of work to make it worth your purchase,
by giving it not only collector’s value but CRAZY play value.
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