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I remember those fake beyblades that were completely made out of metal. Those things were dangerous. Never used my original beyblades against those death machines.
Step up your parenting game: Study metallurgy.
Learn CAD. Build a CNC machine.
Invest in tungsten
Drop it from space on your enemies
As a kid, my friends also realized this. We started using glue guns to glue more weight disks on our beyblades. It turned into an arms race lmao. It didn't get super crazy since people didnt own that many beyblades but I do remember i had a beyblade with 3 weight disks.
No kid, you got banned for cheating!
The duality of man -
Wholesome: dad gets involved with his kid's hobby and helps him win
Not wholesome: kid shows up to play with a rigged beyblade someone else made for him, in order to participate in a one-sided competition, predictably breaking the other kid's toy
Its funny. I had never heard of Beyblades before last year. A kid/young man came it with his improved beyblades designs he had done in tinkercad. I helped him with how to 3d print them. Somewhere he still competes with them. He is twenty or so.
When I was a kid, my parent found some cheap china beyblade kit box, it came with random stuff to make beyblade. One of the stuff was kinda heavy metal core and it had 4 small plastic bits sticking out, and they CUTS. I fucked up couple of my other beyblades before I notice the damages.
I remember kids with meter long rip cords and giant knock offs and extra large metal disks that terrorised the playground back in the day lol. There were also kids with knock off metal disks with flints that spark when 2 bayblades hit each other so that was cool.
Lol nice. I wonder if he used tungsten carbide blanks. Probably densest cheap metal if lead isn’t an option. Would need diamond cutting discs/bits to fit it tho.
Edit: probably for the best that I didn’t become a parent lol
But lead would be an option. Just don't lick it and it's fine.
for the best I didn't become a parent
What? Why? You sound like you'd solve all yo7r hypothetical kid's problems!
Haha exactly! That would’ve been my mistake. Helping them trounce other kids would’ve felt natural, much easier than helping them become a better person.