Ever heard of the Bakugan Battle Brawlers? If you are a regular on the cartoon channel, I guess you would not be new to this term. The Bakugan Battle Brawler started off as a Japanese cartoon series, so you can say that it was a Japanese anime. Subsequently, and similar to other such animes, it was converted into some cool toy franchise. If you look at the other examples, this includes Pokemon and also Digimon, both Japanese animations that involved monsters or should I say big and small friendly animals that become man’s best friends. The toys from these cartoons are quite popular, especially the pokemon ones and because they have got so many many different pokemon you can go crazy if you really want to collect all those toys!

As for bakugan, I think their numbers are not as big as pokemon, but the way bakugan is played is slightly different from that of pokemon. Pokemon is mainly played via its pokemon trading card game, whereas for bakugan you can play it with your own bakugan monsters which are curled up in magnetic balls that will open up when it interacts with games cards that have metal inside them. To play bakugan, it is optional but good to have a bakugan bakubowl arena for you to highlight the battling ground. This way you can not only demarcate the arena but also have a place to store your gate cards as well as unused bakugan.

To conclude, playing bakugan is really one of the latest fads in town. Most important of all, if you are on a budget, you can play bakugan with a low startup; it is seriously a cheap toy to play with if you get what I mean. Not to mention that if you are not interested in the game, you can just play with the bakugan monsters as normal toys.

I think a new Christmas trend this year will be saving money, but kids still need presents, and parents still need to get presents to feel good about themselves. A new doll that is out this year created by the guys behind Bakugan are the Liv Dolls. They are pose-able fashion dolls with lots of outfits and wigs. They also have Liv World which is an online world where there are videos and games and kids can interact in the world of Dolls Liv. It won’t be difficult to collect all of the Liv girls since there are only four of them so far.  Although the accessories are another story. A fun activity for kids and adult alike are to take the pose-able liv dolls and make you tube videos. Many liv dolls are very good dancers and have traveled to exotic locations.