economist suntribune youth saturday oct 26 2002 stouffville store big on beyblade tournament craze from page 1 and said i should try it out and it just went from there to encourage sales mr benevides holds afterschool beyblades tourna ments in the back of the store where 10 to 20 kids pay 1 each to put their tops to the test the rules are simple two tops are revved up and let loose inside a plas tic tabletop arena and the top that stays spinning the longest is the win ner it sounds like a game of chance but theres actually a lot of strategy involved paul explains different tops have different attributes some are designed to attack others for defence and still others for endurance plus beyblades which sell for about 10 can be taken apart rebuilt and accented by extra weight disks and attack rings a definite bonus for those prebattlebot kids looking to hone their juniorlevel engineering skills you can take them apart if you know what youre doing paul said if you dont you might wreck it and have to buy a new one you can get the bigger attack rings or defence rings to put on them its really cool named after the beygoma a 1960sera japanese spinner save s 800 on complete system 0 down 100 financing available oac beyblades first appeared in that country about three years ago they soon became a national obsession with boys dragging their parents to predawn stakeouts in front of toy stores to snag the latest models and its not just the kids who are getting hooked in may more than 15000 people of all ages showed up for the first world beyblade championships in tokyo no surprise then that hasbro the north american distributor has big plans for the little toy along with the usual ads and in- store demonstrations the toy giant which introduced the tops in canada in march is planning a gaming custom made mdoob whtthr new semester begins nov 1202 520westneyrdsajax 9054264254 league like the one in japan a ytv cartoon series based on the wildly popular japanese show star ring the spinners is also fueling demand said andrew pelletier spokesperson for walmart canada we will be getting as many ship ments as we can between now and christmas but theyre literally flying off the shelves he said john gibbs store manager at the toys r us store in newmarket knows what he nieans two saturdays ago during the stores grand reopening 600 brand- new beyblades were on display by closing time they were completely sold out its fun for the kids and the par ents like it too he said adding a lot of parents see beyblades as more benign than video games or yu-gi- oh cards which were banned from several schools after students were caught stealing cards from each other thats the case at pauls school but he said he doesnt mind because beyblades are much more fun than collecting cards you know exactly what youre getting he said and its really fun for more information hasbrobeybladescom visit staff photomike barrett beyblades fans kieran douris and cody steele let em rip stores are 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