I found a small description of one of the characters on Bakugan Battle Brawlers.  My personal opinion of this cartoon - it seems very dark.

BAKUGAN: HYDRANOID, ATTRIBUTE: DARKUS,Masquerade is also ranked number 1. In episode 38, he took off his mask and was shown to have been Alice. In episode 39, it is explained that he is the evil side of Alice.

I am also on a hunt to find out more information regarding these toys. My boys 9 and 7 really want to play with these. In the past I have been really tough about them watching or playing Pokemon and Yugi-oh. It is so tough when they are faced with these Bakugan toys at school and everyone has them. Have you found out more about them?

I am with you. My 5 & 8 year old sons are begging as well. I've let them have pokemon cards since they play with them their own way, but I've been hesitant on Bakugan.

But--from what I can see, Bakugan seem to be less of a concern then the pokemon cards.  I really don't like the cartoons of either of these, so I've limited those.

My kids really just want the toys. They have great imaginations and will come up with their own thing on this, but I really would love more info on it all before I give them a yes or no answer!!

My 9yr old son has also been begging. If you check out Wikipedia you'll find out more. It is very similar to Yu gi Oh. We don't allow our children to watch/play that either. I also had a dark feeling about Bakugan before I looked into it and from my past experience, I feel  that it is God giving me that feeling and I need to heed that uneasiness. I applaud you all for doing research before allowing your children to play /watch it just because everyone else is!

So I too have been looking into the elusive Bakugan since the Spring of this year. My son came home from school informing me of the new popular game and I didn't know much about it but it certainly did seem similar in nature to pokemon. I wasn't able to find much on the internet about the sensation at first but here is what I do know that is concerning:

The "fear-ripper" Bakugan has a pentagram on the front of it.</p><p>There is a character named Diablo in it. (Diablo is another name for Devil)

There is attributes like fire, earth, water, etc similar to the Buddhist religion as well as the directions of the pentagram symbol.</p><p>There is an alternate dimension and the actual game involves summoning the character.

There are other concerning things but what I find the most concerning is how games like this suddenly become an obsession for kids. When we couldn't find much information on the game we did allow our son to play with the toys/cards. What I found too is that in the earlier episodes (I read the summaries) the concerns were more subtle and now it seems to be slowly fusing in more blatantly anti-christian elements. (Once a lot of kids are already hooked I imagine!). We never allowed him to play with yugi-oh and pokemon which were obviously dark just based on names and pictures and translations but this one took us for a little bit and made us question if we were being too cautious and protective. Until one night about 2 weeks ago when at 2 am I was woken up by the sound of my 9 yr old rummaging in the closet. When I went to see what he was doing he replied, half-asleep, "I want to bring my Bakugans to school and I think I have another one in here". I was so freaked out that I set out to proove this game could not be good. I think we as parents "know" deep down when something doesn't feel right and that is exactly why we are questioning the toy in the first place. I'm glad we can discuss things as a community of believers and pass on the info we find out. !i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif|src=i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif|border=0!

I just came across this blog site (bebo.com) that has info. abt. these demons, b/c like all of you, my 7yr old, has also played w/ these @ school. These r demons according to that blog on the characters.  My son talked his father into buying one for him today. I had already saw this and thought " I 'm glad my son isn't into that."(shame on me! I must have been having a pharisee moment) I thought since he wasn't into the pokemon and yu-gi-o thing then he would not want that.

I told my husband and son that was a demon and they took off to the deer stand before I could find any info abt. bakugan. I found that blog site and now have printed the info on the characterz ( how they spell it).

First line says " Plot Summary: Mysterious cards appear in front of the children of the world, with the powers to summon monsters from an alternate dimension."

I believe that first sentence says it all.  After they read this info sheet hopefully we will have a bakugan  burning party to send this thing right back to the pit it came from!! I'll be "Priasing the Lord the whole way!!!"!i/expressions/musicnote.gif|src=i/expressions/musicnote.gif|border=0!

Thank you Jesus for letting me see how wrong toys and I,myself, can be!  

Thank you everyone for your insight on this topic.  I have spent the last hour and a half looking this "toy" up on the internet and like most of you was not finding much out.  My 6 year old and 4 year old boys were showing minor interest until they were given Bakugan t-shirts.  I am very careful of what our children play with, wear, watch, hear and even say.  When I read the book "This Present Darkness" by Frank Peretti my spritiual eyes were opened.  Although a fictional story, the book gave me an "idea" of how the spiritual realm works.  That we truly aren't fighting people (or toys) as the case may be, but we are doing battle in the spiritual realm.  I again thank you all for your opinions as we have now decided to return these shirts to Sears and replace them with other more suitable items.

Be Blessed!!