Get in the stadium, Shinji. The first-ever Evangelion x Beyblade X collaboration touched down in Japan on August 29, 2026: the CX-00 Evangelion Deck Set (エヴァンゲリオンデッキセット), priced at ¥7,500 including tax. It was built for the 30th anniversary of Neon Genesis Evangelion, which began airing in 1995, and sold as a made-to-order item through just two Japanese channels — the Takara Tomy Mall and the EVANGELION STORE — with pre-orders running from March 21 to April 20, 2026. Miss that window and the aftermarket has definitely noticed; import shops across the US and Europe have been reselling it since.
The pairing writes itself. Evangelion and Beyblade are both Japanese exports from the nineties built on engineered power and pure spectacle, and Takara Tomy mapped each machine's personality onto a bey. Unit-01 is the attacker, Unit-00 the sturdy wall, Unit-02 the relentless brawler — finished in colour-accurate Metal Coats of violet, orange and red.
Inside the box: three Custom Line Beyblades, two specially printed Long Winder launchers and a dedicated storage box. You'll still need a Beyblade X stadium to battle, which sells separately. The lineup:
- EVA Brave A 1-70V (Unit-01, Metal Coat: Violet) — Attack type. Brave main blade, Assault assist, 1-70 ratchet, Vortex (V) bit.
- EVA Arc B 0-70E (Unit-00, Metal Coat: Orange) — the defensive-looking one. Arc main blade, Bumper assist, 0-70 ratchet, Elevate (E) bit.
- EVA Brush T 2-70A (Unit-02, Metal Coat: Red) — Attack type. Brush main blade, Turn assist, 2-70 ratchet, Accel (A) bit.
If CX — the Custom Line — is new to you, here's the short version: every CX bey stacks five parts instead of three, adding a Lock Chip and an Assist Blade on top of the usual Main Blade, Ratchet and Bit. The Lock Chip is the character piece carrying the artwork, which is exactly why collaboration tops arrive as new chips: the identity is the point of sale. Here, all three ships carry new EVA chips.
Competitive players should look past the sticker sheet, because the metal underneath is proven. Brave, Arc and Brush are existing main blades from CX-01 Dran Brave, CX-02 Wizard Arc and CX-06 Fox Brush, wearing premium metallic coats — a finish, not a stat change. What's genuinely new is the packaging: each bey pairs its familiar main blade with an assist, ratchet and bit it never shipped with before, and across the trio no part repeats. That matters for 3-on-3 deck rules, where a part can only be used once per deck. The one shared piece is the EVA Lock Chip, and whether a collaboration chip counts as a "basic" chip under those no-repeat rules is an organiser's call.
One thing fan coverage keeps tripping on: Unit-00 looks like the stamina pick, but because official battle type follows the Bit, the Elevate-equipped Arc B classifies as Balance. And the Unit-02 bey doesn't hide a dual spin-mode switch — the reversible piece is the Turn assist, whose outer ring flips between a rapid-strike and a deflect orientation, a feature that predates this set.
For collectors it's a centrepiece. For players it's three proven fighters in their sharpest paint yet. For everyone who ever pretended to pilot Unit-01, it's the closest you'll get without the sync test.