I remember these being a big thing in the Philippine, I as well had a bunch of kits, but I can't remember much of the anime. We also made paper counter parts to the kits at school, we would flick paper "crush gears" at each other and see which gets toppled over. Ah, the nostalgia hits just right
Dude My cousin in the Philippines made those paper crush gears for me while I was in the Philippines as a kid I think xd (I’m half Australian n half Filipino) I loved the whole franchise n everything to do with it so much when I was a kid n i still do to this day n always will for the rest of my life it’s always got a special place in me n my heart
Growing up in the Philippines, Crushgear, alongside Beyblade and Zoids (and a bit of Tamiya perhaps), were very popular when I was a kid, perhaps because they aired in the local mainstream channels. Although being that most Filipino kids have no money to buy toys, you'll find more bootlegs than originals of these stuff among the average kids. They were everywhere in the markets, but you'd have to go to the malls in the city (which were not readily accessible to those in the provinces) to buy the originals.
They were all pretty big here in Australia too, with Beyblade definitely being the biggest I had mostly knockoffs too, my grandparents would take me down to the markets and I’d end up with knockoff beyblades and a crushgear, as a kid I couldn’t tell the difference though so I never cared hahaha
@@Viseak the top 3 trends that rotated in school was Crushgear, Pokémon/YuGiOh and bakugan. The Crushgears took regular beatings with us sending them into each other, over ramps and other ‘obstacles.’ The toys were good quality but no wonder several didn’t survive haha
@@The_Car_Show I hate to nitpick but Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh are 2 of my favorite things to this day for 2 completely different reasons.. they are not necessarily connected
I am the leader of the translation project for the Japanese original! Do check out the fansubs currently going on as the second season(The Budokan Cup) is nearing completion :) This video made my day fr, and it's so nice to see people talking about Crush Gear outside of Asia
Viseak!!!! Bro! You're the King! Thank you for bringing this up. I used to own a Garuda Phoenix and we get to really custom use some weapons, gears, and motors for this and battle. :) this is a nostalgia bomb!! I want to buy a garuda phoenix again :)
Absolutely loved Crush Gear show as a kid. I remember I bought one of the toys and it didn't work. Parents returned it and that was the end of that, never got a replacement. Kinda a core memory of disappointment as a child... Anyway recently I was in Japan and I found a kit at a retro store, bought it, built it, got it working. Genuinely felt like I closed off some inner demons there...
Hi, coming late to this party but I'm from the Philippines and crush gear was indeed a big thing here. I remember one of my classes asked us to bring our crush gears so we could learn a little about physics and force and i think. Those were some interesting times. I wish I still had my old CG but alas it did not survive 😢
Dude thank u for being a fan n making this cos there isn’t a single other retrospective out there on this highly underrated but amazing classic goated gem the crush gear turbo franchise, it will always have a special place in me n my heart, It was def a big special part of my childhood since I’m from Australia and I would also go to the Philippines many times back then since I’m also related to that country by blood, kinda funny for some reason how it was only mostly big worldwide in 2 of my most important countries in my life but I’m sure it must’ve been kinda big in some other countries as well back then there’s proof of that, but it was def mostly its biggest in Australia n the Philippines worldwide out of Japan back then I remember seeing n buying the dvd’s n toys a lot in both those countries as a kid n I watched the show n played with the toys so much as a kid, n I had dvd’s n toys of the show from Australia and VCD’s n toys of the show from the Philippines, I loved it all so much some of the best times of my childhood that I’ll always cherish n I still love the whole franchise to this day n always will for the rest of my life We even had tazos from chips snacks packets of the show here in Australia back then that was also rlly cool, n ppl still sell those tazos, dvd’s n toys of the show online to this day iswtg xd crush gear for life man I’ve even made amvs of the show n I’m making a full amv tribute of it right now that’s how much I still n will always love the franchise, I’m an amv editor/maker n I suddenly came across ur crush gear vid on google while searching up some crush gear stuff today n I was genuinely kinda hyped when I first saw it before I watched it, I should’ve found it much sooner tho, n it also happened while I was working on my crush gear amv today xd I’ve watched the show many times when I was a kid n the last time I did was back in like 2014 as a teen I think n now I feel like rewatching it n getting into it all again this time as an adult since I’m coming back to it all again xd just everything about it is so cool n done rlly well to me n I can tell ur aussie as well like me btw, I always recognise the Aussie accent being an Aussie myself ofc
Yes! I do remember crush gear. My first crush gear toy was the "shooting mirage" it was a bootleg though. But I no longer have that anymore which is sad 😢.
Good god that's a throwback; I could never afford them 'cause they're so expensive back then, and we weren't exactly well-to-do back then either. I only ever owned bootlegs lmao
Right! I only remembered it cause I stumbled across the DVD’s as I was packing for an upcoming move Honestly mine were probably bootlegs too, most of my beyblades were as well, classic market stall rip off toys hahaha
I remember you could buy bootleg ‘body’s/shells’ for the crushgears. I had a green shell for the blue Garuda Eagle and another green shell for the Shooting Mirage. It’s amazing how vivid memories are when fun and friends are attached
My Primary School Japanese teacher let us watch part of an episode of Crush Gear at the end of term and the intro has been living rent free in my head ever since.
When I was a kid, I thought my crush gear toy was the most powerful thing I ever owned and I never let it be turned on for more than 3 seconds... Usually because it ends up under some furniture beyond my reach if I let it be.
im from the philippines i use to watch this series and collect the toys back in the days, now my collection is somewhere in the storage box in our garage
This is very nostalgic for me and my childhood. We we're so poor that I had to steal from my father's wallet and use the Money he kept there before they had me to buy one Crushgear! Oh I was on Cloud 9 when I bought it back then not knowing the wrath I'd get from my parents afterwards lol
i had a bunch of crush gears and had the dvd set upto when they stopped making volumes got that at the video store raided the anime section when it shut down
Medabots looks and sounds KIND of familiar, but honestly I don't think I've seen it. My brain might be confusing it with Megaman or something though haha
@@Viseak which MegaMan and which media form? Are we talking the old cartoon? NT Warrior? StarForce? Or are we talking about the old games? X? XZ? Battle Network?
Honestly the early 2000’s had some amazing anime, I love the art style/aesthetic of the era too. Currently watching Hajime No Ippo for the first time and the style alone makes me nostalgic for it haha
OK Beyblade I live and breathe and grew up with it and I will always love the original trilogy no matter what but this I never heard of this lol. But now it sounds really hilarious to say the words and then there was an anime that had battling race cars........ I swear Japan and their weird ideas for shows lol!
Lol it was definitely a wild one, I showed a clip but didn’t really mention, the fight from the first episode had the mc and rival standing on a skyscraper roof top with a helicopter flying over broadcasting the match Yugioh didn’t get stakes that high until battle city, this was in the first damn episode hahaha
Never watched Crush Gear, mainly cause it was never broadcasted in my country, but i do remember seeing it pop up on goggle after trying to rewatch air gear, so maybe google got those mixed because of the name. Would you recommend to watch it? I have rewatched beyblade, and even though it wasn't as good as I remember it, nostalgia made the rewatch tolerable. Having no nostalgia towards this anime, would it still be worth it? Nice video btw, hopefully we get more of these short ones where you talk about anime that's been buried and forgotten, it's always nice to discover new shows i've never heard of before. Cheers mate!
Cheers man! It’s definitely pretty niche and the anime was OK, maybe not quite worth your time tho If you do watch it I wouldn’t recommend watching in Dub, I genuinely cannot take it seriously, but maybe it fairs better in Japanese
I highly recommend watching the show if u still haven’t n it’s def worth ur time n effort, it’s such a goated but highly underrated gem that I n many others will always love to death, everything about it is so cool n done rlly well, I feel like rewatching it again this year
It gets famous but on a short term not like beyblade that explodes tons of tournaments even we got a community tournaments on every barangays leading to national tournaments to asia tournament
Ah i regret destroying every other toys i have as a kid. Bakugans, crushgears, tamiya, beyblades, bdamans. All of them i destroyed as a kid. But for some reason all of my zoids survived. Edit crush gears was big in the philippines back in the day but it was only for a short time. Kids destroyed all of them then moved on.
A decent amount of my childhood toys are still intact, I’ve got a few bakugan and beyblades lying around somewhere, but I’m the same where it was mostly my Zoids that survived lol.
I remember these being a big thing in the Philippine, I as well had a bunch of kits, but I can't remember much of the anime. We also made paper counter parts to the kits at school, we would flick paper "crush gears" at each other and see which gets toppled over. Ah, the nostalgia hits just right
Same! Those paper crush gears seem to be more popular than the actual toys in my school.
@@CheriShin21 Yeah, cause us kids didn't have enough money to buy the actual kits, we just made do with what we had. It was still a lot of fun though.
I remember watching that show on Cartoon Network as part of the Toonami block, in which it mentions Singapore.
Dude My cousin in the Philippines made those paper crush gears for me while I was in the Philippines as a kid I think xd (I’m half Australian n half Filipino) I loved the whole franchise n everything to do with it so much when I was a kid n i still do to this day n always will for the rest of my life it’s always got a special place in me n my heart
my cousin taught me how to fold them when i was young
I got two raging bulls as a kid for some reason
Growing up in the Philippines, Crushgear, alongside Beyblade and Zoids (and a bit of Tamiya perhaps), were very popular when I was a kid, perhaps because they aired in the local mainstream channels. Although being that most Filipino kids have no money to buy toys, you'll find more bootlegs than originals of these stuff among the average kids. They were everywhere in the markets, but you'd have to go to the malls in the city (which were not readily accessible to those in the provinces) to buy the originals.
They were all pretty big here in Australia too, with Beyblade definitely being the biggest
I had mostly knockoffs too, my grandparents would take me down to the markets and I’d end up with knockoff beyblades and a crushgear, as a kid I couldn’t tell the difference though so I never cared hahaha
Wow, didn't know that knockoffs weren't just a Chinese/Filipino thing XD
I also grew up with Crush Gear as a kid, although I don't have any toys of it.
Zoids, Beyblade & Crushgear is the holy trinity
Right? Those were the days haha
Kinda wish I still had the crush gear toys lying around but unfortunately they didn’t survive my childhood
@@Viseak the top 3 trends that rotated in school was Crushgear, Pokémon/YuGiOh and bakugan.
The Crushgears took regular beatings with us sending them into each other, over ramps and other ‘obstacles.’
The toys were good quality but no wonder several didn’t survive haha
@@The_Car_Show I hate to nitpick but Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh are 2 of my favorite things to this day for 2 completely different reasons.. they are not necessarily connected
@@Happy_Magician yeah you’re right, I see how I made it look like I was generalising them in my comment
@@The_Car_Show for us it was Pokémon, Yugioh, Bakugan and Beyblade as the biggest ones.
Still play the Yugioh TCG to this day
I am the leader of the translation project for the Japanese original! Do check out the fansubs currently going on as the second season(The Budokan Cup) is nearing completion :)
This video made my day fr, and it's so nice to see people talking about Crush Gear outside of Asia
God I loved this show back when it aired in the PH. Crush Gear, Beyblade, and Tamiya Mini4wd was my childhood.
Always found it weird how Crush Gear came to Australia but not America
Viseak!!!! Bro! You're the King! Thank you for bringing this up. I used to own a Garuda Phoenix and we get to really custom use some weapons, gears, and motors for this and battle. :) this is a nostalgia bomb!! I want to buy a garuda phoenix again :)
Such a nostalgia trip hey! Lucky I kept the DVD’s or I would’ve completely forgotten the series
Had a bunch of these as a kid, loved them XD (Aussie too)
Zoids, Medabots, Beyblade, and Crushgear - Loved it all
Absolutely loved Crush Gear show as a kid. I remember I bought one of the toys and it didn't work. Parents returned it and that was the end of that, never got a replacement. Kinda a core memory of disappointment as a child... Anyway recently I was in Japan and I found a kit at a retro store, bought it, built it, got it working. Genuinely felt like I closed off some inner demons there...
I'm from Philippines and crush gear and bey blade was huge when I was small
Hi, coming late to this party but I'm from the Philippines and crush gear was indeed a big thing here. I remember one of my classes asked us to bring our crush gears so we could learn a little about physics and force and i think. Those were some interesting times. I wish I still had my old CG but alas it did not survive 😢
This was the first anime I ever watched, and it's my all-time favourite. Can't get enough of the battle sequences.
I still remember it! Now I have two on the way from China
Dude thank u for being a fan n making this cos there isn’t a single other retrospective out there on this highly underrated but amazing classic goated gem the crush gear turbo franchise, it will always have a special place in me n my heart, It was def a big special part of my childhood since I’m from Australia and I would also go to the Philippines many times back then since I’m also related to that country by blood, kinda funny for some reason how it was only mostly big worldwide in 2 of my most important countries in my life but I’m sure it must’ve been kinda big in some other countries as well back then there’s proof of that, but it was def mostly its biggest in Australia n the Philippines worldwide out of Japan back then I remember seeing n buying the dvd’s n toys a lot in both those countries as a kid n I watched the show n played with the toys so much as a kid, n I had dvd’s n toys of the show from Australia and VCD’s n toys of the show from the Philippines, I loved it all so much some of the best times of my childhood that I’ll always cherish n I still love the whole franchise to this day n always will for the rest of my life
We even had tazos from chips snacks packets of the show here in Australia back then that was also rlly cool, n ppl still sell those tazos, dvd’s n toys of the show online to this day iswtg xd crush gear for life man
I’ve even made amvs of the show n I’m making a full amv tribute of it right now that’s how much I still n will always love the franchise, I’m an amv editor/maker
n I suddenly came across ur crush gear vid on google while searching up some crush gear stuff today n I was genuinely kinda hyped when I first saw it before I watched it, I should’ve found it much sooner tho, n it also happened while I was working on my crush gear amv today xd
I’ve watched the show many times when I was a kid n the last time I did was back in like 2014 as a teen I think n now I feel like rewatching it n getting into it all again this time as an adult since I’m coming back to it all again xd just everything about it is so cool n done rlly well to me
n I can tell ur aussie as well like me btw, I always recognise the Aussie accent being an Aussie myself ofc
I'm in Australia I heard about it
As someone from the Philippines, yes I do remember Crush Gear. One of the fads that my elementary school bought in to.
Yes! I do remember crush gear. My first crush gear toy was the "shooting mirage" it was a bootleg though. But I no longer have that anymore which is sad 😢.
Good god that's a throwback; I could never afford them 'cause they're so expensive back then, and we weren't exactly well-to-do back then either. I only ever owned bootlegs lmao
Right! I only remembered it cause I stumbled across the DVD’s as I was packing for an upcoming move
Honestly mine were probably bootlegs too, most of my beyblades were as well, classic market stall rip off toys hahaha
I remember you could buy bootleg ‘body’s/shells’ for the crushgears. I had a green shell for the blue Garuda Eagle and another green shell for the Shooting Mirage.
It’s amazing how vivid memories are when fun and friends are attached
@@Viseak Good luck on the move
My Primary School Japanese teacher let us watch part of an episode of Crush Gear at the end of term and the intro has been living rent free in my head ever since.
Yes I do remember crush gear! As a kid I owned a few knockoff. It aired in Malaysia. But I never completed the series
I never quite finished it either 😅
The toys were pretty cool though!
@@Viseak Garuda Pheonix was my favorite
When I was a kid, I thought my crush gear toy was the most powerful thing I ever owned and I never let it be turned on for more than 3 seconds...
Usually because it ends up under some furniture beyond my reach if I let it be.
Kids from early 2000's know about this.
It also aired in India, but I don't recall it running long enough
I used to watch this show when I was in the Philippines 🇵🇭 and I used to have this toy but sad to say it broke and it’s hard to fix
It's literally 4am and I'm thinking about it now (new Zealand)
It was really big in the Philippines. It was a cross between Beyblade and - do you remember: Lets & Go? (mini 4WD) - .
im from the philippines i use to watch this series and collect the toys back in the days, now my collection is somewhere in the storage box in our garage
Before Crush Gear Turbo, there another anime about toy race cars titled Let's & Go.
@@DennisTamayo yeah have that too, i think let's & Go toys is still alive in some place
This is very nostalgic for me and my childhood. We we're so poor that I had to steal from my father's wallet and use the Money he kept there before they had me to buy one Crushgear!
Oh I was on Cloud 9 when I bought it back then not knowing the wrath I'd get from my parents afterwards lol
My brother and I watched it on Cheese Tv and he and I owned I think the Blue one and the Red one
I still have my Garuda Eagle and Garuda Phnx hahaha
I remembered. In 2009 I saw this Anime and my favourite cartoon still now. 😊😌
I'm From Bangladesh
i had a bunch of crush gears and had the dvd set upto when they stopped making volumes got that at the video store raided the anime section when it shut down
Bro, every kid from the Middle East knew Crush Gear
I've never heard of Crush Gear, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Do you remember Medabots?
Medabots looks and sounds KIND of familiar, but honestly I don't think I've seen it.
My brain might be confusing it with Megaman or something though haha
@@Viseak which MegaMan and which media form? Are we talking the old cartoon? NT Warrior? StarForce? Or are we talking about the old games? X? XZ? Battle Network?
@@Happy_Magician MegaMan NT Warrior anime / Mega Man Battle Network games were what I grew up with
@@Viseak were you aware there was a very short lived card game in the Battle Network franchise?
@@Happy_Magician no I never saw it myself, I remember having the PET toy with a bunch of battle chips though
Wow never heard of it but sounds cool
Crush Gear and Zoids! Suddenly remembered it hahaha
Oh and B-Daman
I live in Iran. We watched it too 😢❤
It is basically the nostalgia of childhood.use to be a big fan of takeshi
Haha yes definitely remember it, I remember finding it just after I started with zoids and gundam wing
Honestly the early 2000’s had some amazing anime, I love the art style/aesthetic of the era too.
Currently watching Hajime No Ippo for the first time and the style alone makes me nostalgic for it haha
They should make it like Beyblade,and Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokémon, Digimon,still exists till today
OK Beyblade I live and breathe and grew up with it and I will always love the original trilogy no matter what but this I never heard of this lol. But now it sounds really hilarious to say the words and then there was an anime that had battling race cars........ I swear Japan and their weird ideas for shows lol!
Lol it was definitely a wild one, I showed a clip but didn’t really mention, the fight from the first episode had the mc and rival standing on a skyscraper roof top with a helicopter flying over broadcasting the match
Yugioh didn’t get stakes that high until battle city, this was in the first damn episode hahaha
@@Viseak Wow and that happens in the very 1st episode that's insane!
Never watched Crush Gear, mainly cause it was never broadcasted in my country, but i do remember seeing it pop up on goggle after trying to rewatch air gear, so maybe google got those mixed because of the name. Would you recommend to watch it? I have rewatched beyblade, and even though it wasn't as good as I remember it, nostalgia made the rewatch tolerable. Having no nostalgia towards this anime, would it still be worth it? Nice video btw, hopefully we get more of these short ones where you talk about anime that's been buried and forgotten, it's always nice to discover new shows i've never heard of before. Cheers mate!
Cheers man! It’s definitely pretty niche and the anime was OK, maybe not quite worth your time tho
If you do watch it I wouldn’t recommend watching in Dub, I genuinely cannot take it seriously, but maybe it fairs better in Japanese
I highly recommend watching the show if u still haven’t n it’s def worth ur time n effort, it’s such a goated but highly underrated gem that I n many others will always love to death, everything about it is so cool n done rlly well, I feel like rewatching it again this year
It gets famous but on a short term not like beyblade that explodes tons of tournaments even we got a community tournaments on every barangays leading to national tournaments to asia tournament
Watched it through Cartoon Network bought a couple of them toys just like Let's&Go mini 4wd
Me too.
Yes. just discovered it after discorvering mini 4wd. Also: do you remember mini 4wd? I'm probably sure you don't since it's very niche.
What?
In southamerica i have never seen that.
This anime doesnt make any sense on how they control these machines and perform such moves
No I don't. But I like watching your stuff, so I guess I'm about find out about it.
I figured a lot of people wouldn’t, I appreciate ya watching none the less!
I do
Ah i regret destroying every other toys i have as a kid. Bakugans, crushgears, tamiya, beyblades, bdamans. All of them i destroyed as a kid. But for some reason all of my zoids survived.
Edit crush gears was big in the philippines back in the day but it was only for a short time. Kids destroyed all of them then moved on.
A decent amount of my childhood toys are still intact, I’ve got a few bakugan and beyblades lying around somewhere, but I’m the same where it was mostly my Zoids that survived lol.