{"id":705258,"date":"2026-05-31T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705258\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:02:09","slug":"beyblade-mania-spins-nostalgia-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705258\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyblade mania spins nostalgia in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260529 Beyblade\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The objective of playing with Beyblades is to knock your opponent&#8217;s top out of a specialized box-like battle arena called a Beystadium, or have their top come apart into pieces.\u00a0(Photo by Reika Mihara)<\/p>\n<p>ANNE CHAN and KENSAKU IHARA<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212; Beyblades, a customizable spinning top toy first released by a Japanese toymaker in 1999, have taken Hong Kong by storm this year, giving elder enthusiasts a whirl of nostalgia while winning over new, younger fans as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The objective of playing with Beyblades is to knock your opponent&#8217;s top out of a specialized box-like battle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[256478,49,48,58048,58049,25412,17999,256479,61],"class_list":["post-705258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-beyblade","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-mania","tag-nostalgia","tag-spins","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}