Additional information regarding Beyblade at New York Toy Fair
Hello! If you have seen the pictures of the CX Beys going around, my friend Josiah and I were the ones who took those (my twitter, where they were originally posted, is moonmistblue. I'm whynowhy most other places). I was told there was a bunch of posts about them here so I wanted to pop in and add some additional context. I was allowed in because I work with a doll-focused website with a friend called Dollect, but I had a double mission when I came to Hasbro.
This is my first time at Toy Fair and I tried my best to get as good of coverage as I could of the beys. I'm shocked nobody else got that many pics until now, since my meeting was the very last day. My main guess is most people there just didn't know entirely what they were looking at, and especially nobody else probably knew what the community was looking for. I also filmed at the booth for my own personal channel, and it should be out by Thursday.
The main Beyblade rep unfortunately had left Monday, so I only had the general rep giving us the tour to talk to. She did take my card as well as the email of one of my friends who is WBO staff, so hopefully those get exchanged with the right person. I'm gonna be honest, I was so overwhelmed I forgot to ask about release timeline. I'm gonna check the footage later to see if we caught anyone saying that, I was also given a card with a qr code that links to all the info for press about the booth, so hopefully there is something in there (I gotta dig through all my bags still. I also some how did not think to bring a scale. I'm glad they let me take them apart when I asked. I did see some other guy was able to demo Perseus in a video and I didn't think to ask if I could test them either. We already were spending a longggg time in there though (like an hour and a half at least) so I was getting nervous towards the end we may get kicked out soon for their next tour.
I did try to ask the general rep a few things. The main thing was about tournaments, she said it's something that is still being worked on. She said announcements on a "championship series" are coming within the next few months and that the next world championship will be in Japan. I expect this to be some kind of 3/21 announcement.
That's all I'm remembering off the top of my head right now (I'm exhausted lol. I literally got up at like 5 am to catch the earliest train to nyc. nj transit gave us issues yesterday and there is no way i could afford being late to this)). If anyone has any questions feel free to ask.