OG Beyblades

While technically “born” in 1999, OG Beyblades really became famous in the 2000s. It is a line of spinning top toys that were originally developed by Takara when it merged with Tomy in 2006, the company Takara Tomy started producing it. The Japanese are quite popular for inventing a lot of toys that became popular and this was one of them.

Those in their 30s today will still remember shouting “3, 2, 1 and let it rip!”. This is what kids back then shouted when they pulled on the ripcord. While children were quite fond of it, parents were not so keen because it easily scratched their marble flooring. Nonetheless, they could not do anything about the fad. There were even Beyblade battles back then, and these blades smashing into each other at high speeds sometimes resulted in broken Beyblades.