Spin Dragoon (アルティメットドラグーン Ultimate Dragoon) is an Initial System Beyblade, released on July 1999. It is succeeded by Dragoon Grip Attacker.
Official Description
Hasbro
From the Beyblade Starter Set, the Spin Dragoon top. Launcher and Ripcord included. Very limited quantity of this individual top.
BUILD...to create your own Beyblade top. CUSTOMIZE...for different attack patterns. LAUNCH...into the battle stadium. BATTLE...you opponent to win!
Interchange parts with other Beyblade tops to customize for different attack strategies. The more Beyblade tops you collect, the more customizing you can do!
Information
Spin Dragoon is a Left Spin Beyblade. It was released with a blue Left-Spin EZ Shooter and a blue Winder by Takara as a Starter Set in Japan. It was later released internationally by Hasbro sometime in 2002.
Parts
Bit Chip (BC): Ultimate Dragoon
Ultimate Dragoon is both the first Bit Chip and the first Bit Chip for a Dragoon Blade. The sticker depicts Ultimate Dragoon, a muscular, dark red dragon with a few black highlights, white claws, sharp, flame-like wings and the power to conduct fire from its hands. It is placed over a red background sealed within a yellow border and a black ring.
The bit features a bit-chip from Jisedai Begoma Battle Beyblade and was the ultimate Bit Tyson could own if the player choose to go with it. In fact, all 3 stages of the Bit's forms from the game are included in the Japanese version.
Attack Ring (AR): Cross Dragon
Cross Dragon is the first Attack Ring ever released and the first for a Dragoon Beyblade. Mostly a circular piece, this white Attack Ring has four protruding spikes with a large amount of space between them, and they are arranged in a cross-like format, hence its name. Each spike is designed to resemble a dragon's head with three horns and a long, rectangular curved snout.
Cross Dragon uses four, dark red stickers shaped like thin, curved lines. They are placed within the space between each of the Attack Ring's spikes.
Weight Disk (WD): Wide
Wide is both the first Weight Disk ever released and the first Wide Weight Disk. As its name suggests, this Weight Disk is very wide, using six sides forming a hexagonal shape. It is also the Wide Weight Disk with the least amount of sides, compared to its later successors, Eight Wide and Ten Wide.
Blade Base (BB): Flat
Flat is the first Blade Base ever released. Its gimmick lies within its namesake: a circular, flat tip which causes the Blade to move at wide and fast speeds, which are ideal for Attack-Types. Despite this, the flat tip is made of plastic, which consequently provides weak grip to the Beystadium surface, unlike with those made of stronger material, like rubber. However, plastic bottoms offer longer endurance and spin time than rubber ones. It is a white Blade Base.
Other Versions
- Ultimate Dragoon - #14 BeyBattle Set (White with gold-plated Weight Disk)
- Ultimate Dragoon - Limited Edition (Clear)
- Ultimate Dragoon - CoroCoro Limited (Black with MG Weight Disk)
- Ultimate Dragoon - Promotion (Gold-plated)
Gallery
Packaging
Trivia
- It is the first Beyblade and Beyblade product that was ever released.
- The back side of the Takara packaging incorrectly romanizes "Blade Base" as "BULADE BASE".
- Unlike its Hasbro variant, Ultimate Dragoon does not have an official Type because Beyblade Type names were not created yet, as evident by the lack of any "Attack-Type" wording anywhere on the Takara packaging.
- Spin Dragoon's bit is from the early Jisedai Begoma Battle Beyblade game. Many of the early Bit illusions were based on bits from this game. Also all parts of this Beyblade can be bought in the game. It is also Tyson's main bit, and is the stage of his initial starting bit
- Spin Dragon was the general inspiration for later "Dragoon" class Beyblades, it shares this in common with Ultimate Frostic Dranzer who became the inspiration for all "Dranzer" class Beyblades.
- Spin dragoon is a play on words, the "dra" means "dragon" and the "goon" comes from "dragoon", the name of a mount infantry unit. This was to match "Dranzer" which was a play on "dragon" and "panzer". Unlike Dranzer, future Dragoon Beyblades remained dragons, while Dranzer switched to a phoenix in future related versions.
In The Media
Anime
Spin Dragoon appears briefly in Back to Basics in a flashback of Tyson's childhood. It was Tyson Granger's first Beyblade.
Manga
Spin Dragoon plays a major part in the manga, being Tyson's first Beyblade.
Tyson is given the Bit-Beast, Dragoon, as part of a test made by Jin of The Gale and it enters Tyson's Blade. He then uses it to defeat Carlos and the remaining Blade Sharks. However, Spin Dragoon gets destroyed.
Despite this, the Bit-Beast of Spin Dragoon survived and Jin gives it back to him, allowing Tyson to keep it. Tyson then lets Dragoon inside his new Beyblade: the successor of Spin Dragoon, Dragoon Grip Attacker.
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