Welcome to PlasticsDB, a repository of my knowledge of Plastic Generation Beyblades, or Bakuten Shoot Beyblade.
PlasticsDB is still a work in progress at this stage, Parts and Beyblade entries are done, but there is more to come - including combo suggestions and articles on launchers, so stay tuned - or sign up for updates below!
This is not primarily a personal site, just a database. If for whatever reason you want to read me rambling about plastics, my blog th!nkBlargh and the WBO Plastics and HMS Customizations subforum and its pinned topics are generally the places to go, and I often post random thoughts in the WBO Discord. If you have questions about Plastics that are not answered by this site, the Plastics Q&A thread on the WBO is the place to go - myself and other knowledgeable members check it regularly. If you need to get in touch, PM me on the WBO or hit me up on the Discord - plus the Plastics and HMS channel there is usually relatively active. Lastly, also check out International First Generation Beybladers Community on Facebook, for a positive, friendly Plastics and HMS community with a lot of very helpful collectors, sticker makers, and players.
This information is correct to the best of my knowledge, and I checked it all carefully as I wrote it. Whether one top-tier part is better than another is often a matter of opinion as well as the metagame it is being used in, as such there is no reasonable way to cover every possibility or, past a certain point, to say one combination of a type is better than another. Please keep this in mind when reading.
Thanks for checking out PlasticsDB, I hope you find it useful!
<3 - th!nk
General Usage Notes:
The menus to the left should allow for navigation. There is also a search function if required - I have tried to add alternate names and common misspellings of names to each article to aid in this! The Beyblades page and the category page for each type of part (Attack Ring, Weight Disk etc) have galleries to help with identifying parts too!
If you are looking for a part you have but don't know the name, each category page for the part type has images of each part for easy identification - it's my old Weight Disk ID chart on steroids! There is even an ID guide for Beyblades in the same format!
I own every legal part (and pretty much all non-legal official parts aside from the Draciel G Engine Gear RC Blade Base), including almost all major known mold differences, so information herein is based on testing and experience.
If you have any mold differences not documented here, please let me know - information on these does tend to be scarce as it's rare anyone has both molds for comparison, but perhaps with the parts gallery they may be easier to find now and see if yours is any different!
To Do List/Coming Soon:
If you want to keep track of updates or are looking forward to any of these, you can subscribe to update notifications below!
Basics of Plastic Gen Beyblades Page(s)
Type Pages (Entries on popular competitive and not so competitive archetypes and how they work).
Updates regarding recent rule changes such as SAR Inversion.
Example combos to make use out of each part (even the bad ones).
Release dates and official types (Attack, Defense etc) where available.
Stadiums! Though mostly an ID guide, given I can't play in them all.
Glossary (though HMSDB does a great job with most terms used here anyway).
Permissions/Vague Terms of Use:
The information in this database may be used as a reference (not copied verbatim), however citation is required if using it for your own works (including Wikis - sorry guys, not doing all the work for you + Fandom is an awful, add riddled mess of a platform). Exceptions may be given, but a simple link back is all that is needed! It's not much - just please give credit, this site was a tonne of work and I would like people to see it in its intended form.
Use of images on this site for other purposes is not permitted without my own approval or the approval of the contributor who supplied it (per their watermark or associated link).
