Two days. Takara Tomy left exactly that much room between the launch of the first Dual Layer bey and the anime that turned it into a star. On April 2, 2016, the B-34 Starter Victory Valkyrie.B.V reached Japanese shelves at 1,404 yen including tax. On April 4, Beyblade Burst premiered on TV Tokyo, with Valt Aoi as its hero and Victory Valkyrie as his partner.
A sword, a disc, and a rubber tip
The Burst System had started the previous summer, on July 18, 2015, with the Single Layer System; B-01 Valkyrie Wing Accel was the first layer ever made for it. Victory Valkyrie opened the next step, the Dual Layer System, where each layer came in two joined pieces. The stamps on the starter spelled V.V.B: the Victory Valkyrie layer, the Boost disc, and the Variable driver.
Official copy calls the layer a Valkyrie, goddess of battle. Its wings break an opponent's balance low, and the big sword comes up high, aimed at a burst. The Boost disc plants the bey in the stadium through six blades, amplifying whatever driver sits underneath. The Variable driver wears a rubber tip that changes its movement with your launch angle. Together they made the gamble that defined the generation: one clean hit can pop any bey into its layer, disc and driver, ending the match without a knockout. Victory Valkyrie was built to land that hit.
Valtryek goes west
The first season ran 51 episodes, from April 4, 2016, to March 27, 2017, animated by OLM for D-rights and TV Tokyo. A naming habit started with it: most Burst protagonists share their first initial with their bey. Valt and Victory Valkyrie, Shu and Spriggan. It never stopped being charming.
Hasbro handled the West, and the rename hammer came down. Victory Valkyrie became Victory Valtryek, the V2. Layers became Energy Layers, discs Forge Discs, drivers Performance Tips. Hasbro's September 2016 announcement told fans to "battle for the burst," and the line shipped in Canada that month, reaching U.S. shelves in January 2017. It was the first time the franchise's English side ran without Nelvana.
The rematch in Beyblade X
In its era, Victory Valkyrie's teeth and aggressive shape made it a top-tier Attack layer. The God Layer system that followed made it too light for the top formats, so it found a permanent home in the community's Burst Classic format, where it remains a must-have. Collectors never lost it either: blood-red Random Booster versions, a black Triple Booster release, and Youngtoys' Korean edition.
Then Beyblade X came for it. On March 21, 2025, Takara Tomy Mall sold the Beyblade 25th Anniversary Set (BX-00) for 11,000 yen, and inside sat VictoryValkyrie 2-60RA, the X-Over Project's remake of the 2016 bey. The old layer and Boost disc are fused into one blade, paired with a 2-60 ratchet and a Rubber Accel bit recolored to echo the Variable. Hasbro brought the set West that July, starting at San Diego Comic-Con for $79.99, and for once it left the name alone: the box said Victory Valkyrie.
Nine years separate the 1,404-yen starter from the 11,000-yen anniversary set. The parts swapped plastic for metal, the stadiums gained rails, and the sword is still swinging. The lesson from April 2016 holds: you do not have to knock a bey out. You can pop it open instead.