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After a long morning yesterday, I an antonella went to manhattan to do some last minute shopping and to go check out three...The most notable thing was my toysrus experience. Shopping for my girlfriends nephew has been difficult, toys just dont seem as interesting as they once did even though id tell you they just dont make them as well as they used to. After about a 30min walk around the store we stuble across this lego type castle set. It looked like fun but antonella was not to thrilled about the small pieces and I could see it in her expression. The straw that broke the camels back was the price! After paying over $100 dollars minus the coupon antonella stole from another toy :P she was further annoyed. So I decided to let her go to customer service to get a refund while I go on a mission to find the perfect toy. I began to observe other patrons to see what they were buying, and noticed a pattern. Everyone was buying up these golf ball sized contraptions in a flurry. I looked to one sad looking gentleman with a smirk and said, "whats the deal will the golf balls?" He siged with a heavy breath and said, "Bakuban...I dont know what they are but I know I sopposed to buy alot of it." At that moment I knew I had discovered this years hot toy. I was not some flashy high tech gadget nor expensive like the usual hot seller. It was 6.99 a ball and they were flying off the shells like plastic crack. So we ended up spending almost $100 on these golf ball creatures anyway. I had to make sure he got a good amount to play with, Im a collector myself and I understand these things of course. Im also very, very curious.

So I did some research on this Bakugan...Bakuban...Bahugan...who knows. It turns out its an actual game, with relatively simple rules. Here is the thing, I believe this game promotes adolescent gambling. I know what your thinking, hes definitley gone off the deep end this time but hear me out.

You see; all of these bakuban creatures have point values hidden inside (which you cannot see at purchase). The higher the point value the better and more powerful the piece. One has to hope you buy a good one with a good color combo in order to defeat your oppenent and leave them in utter shame (muahahah). The key is that you dont know what your buying, you betting your seven dollars that it will be a good one or keep buying them until you do. Do you think I am off base here? Comments?


-This is similar to collectible pokemon or baseball cards...law suites were won against pokemon for creating gambling type habbits and now they have to put the special card pic on top of the pack to show you what you are getting. Do you feel these changes should be made to this game? discuss.