Hasbro — Battle Disc: Variants (Documentation by Region)

Expert source: a Battle Disc collector (Hasbro collection nearly complete, missing <10 discs, all European). He documents each disc by figure/disc combo + packaging/region variant. *(Reference photos, not his own; usage permission pending — for now only the variant knowledge is being documented.)*

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Photos we do publish: @pokeshinyfinds (full permission, own credit).

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Full investigation and recount (16-Sep-2026): docs/marcas/hasbro_battle_disc_investigacion.md · inventory data/hasbro_battle_discs.json · concordance docs/marcas/hasbro_battle_disc_concordancia.md.

What the Battle Disc is

Hasbro (1999-2001) Pokémon figures came with a "Battle Disc": a spinning POG-style disc. The Battle Figures pack included the figure (sometimes TOMY), its disc, and in some lines a Game Boy-shaped launcher/blaster.

Not Tazos (Frito-Lay), not the Hasbro Battling Coin Game (150 coins), not Jazwares Battle Spinner.

The disc is an accessory of the figure, not another catalog row: if seeded as a figure, Aipom + disc would count as two Aipom.

The number is not the disc's. It is the blister's.

Codes BF-1 … BF-59 identify the two-figure blister, not the pog. BF-39 is Pichu and Aipom; chasing "complete BF-39" means two discs.

Discs on Kanto Red / Target / Blaster / Grabber cards print #NNN Name. From Collectible Blue, Series 1 Gold, JLC and Master Quest they print the English name only — even for Kanto species (Grimer, Graveler, Pikachu). The rule is the card era, not the generation.

Test case: BF-41 Graveler + Feraligatr (photo p-042) — both name-only. Jigglypuff is #39 on Kanto Red (p-014) and plain Jigglypuff on Series 1 Gold (p-038).

The key: SAME figure+disc, different PACKAGING/REGION

The same Pokémon + disc exists across cards/regions. That is the dimension to track (packagingVariant), as a list/enum, not a concatenated phrase.

Collector's note (quote, NFS/NFT — do not reproduce photos): The collector showing the set again after years: *«Hasbro battle disc collection that came with TOMY figures. Still missing less than 10 discs to finish it all, all the ones I'm missing are European. […] vinted and other french-german markets»*. The hard ones are European; they surface in FR/DE, not US. He did not publish which <10.

WhatsApp 16-Sep-2026 (Oscar forwarded; zero of his photos): if a French-German pack exists, there is always an EU-EN with cm/kg on the front and the name in English only. EN/ES/IT is on the box, never on the pog. He said he does not have a photo of the grass/fire starters, Fat Pikachu, Chansey, Scyther and Brock+Zubat — that is noPhoto (a photo gap), not the unpublished <10 list. Grabber: the hardest axis (red / pin / FR-DE, independent).

Catalog caveat (16-Sep-2026): 19 of our own posts are tagged EU / multilingual, but 7 captions say North America/Canada and 4 are ambiguous. Only ~8 actually say Europe. Creating region: EU rows from those 19 would invent SKUs. Today: 0 `region: EU` rows in figures.json; 14 packagingVariant values as a phrase, not an enum.

Disc variants (beyond the card)

Own captions already document that the pog itself changes: red vs pink discs (Sandshrew/Sandslash Season 1 vs 2), silver vs gold (Jigglypuff/Wigglytuff Gold), MX red disc on some Blasters. The CamScanner scan describes ★1–6 stars (power rating) and color=type.

The collector's binder (31 pages, batches 1–2 of the NFS/NFT post — knowledge only, zero page photos reproduced) shows both faces. The 16-Sep-2026 WhatsApp refines the EU split: it is not a single European disc.

• Name face (Red Disc): #NNN Name + dots. US = English. EU is two paired prints: EU-FRDE = EN + FR + DE on the same disc (Bulbizarre/Bisasam, Carapuce/Schiggy, Simsala, Racaillou/Kleinstein, Miaouss/Mauzi… — transcribed from the binder) and EU-EN = English only + cm/kg on the front of the pog (metric on the front, not only SET JUNIOR reverse). If FR/DE exists, EU-EN exists. That is not the EN/ES/IT cardback, nor NA/CA EN/FR/ES.
• Box vs pog: EN/ES/IT (Gloom PSF) and Power Pokés FR/NL/DE go on the box. The collector: ES/IT never on the pog.
• Art face (SET JUNIOR): artwork, height/weight, type-colored ring. Metric (cm/kg) vs imperial (HEIGHT 1'4"). EU-EN also puts cm/kg on the front.
• Uncut strips of the same 5 species on both faces (Wartortle, Charizard, Poliwag, Sandshrew, Pikachu): front/back, not two SKUs. The 5-strip is not a BF 2-pack.
• Blue/purple colorway on the name face (Pikachu, Rattata, Pidgeot, Sandshrew, Sandslash, Meowth, Nidoran♀/♂; batch 2: Golem, Gengar, Eevee). Pikachu shows 1 to 5 dots: the ★ is not unique per species.
• "Poliwag missing!", "Mew Loose", "Larvitar" (and Lanturn slips) are variant gaps, not species gaps. They are not the <10 EU list. Neither is noPhoto (EU starters, Fat Pikachu, Chansey, Scyther, Deluxe Brock+Zubat): he said photo, not "I'm missing these discs". Fat Pikachu = chubby/sitting Hasbro mold / a specific disc art, not a new species. Brock+Zubat = Deluxe Trainers, not a BF 2-pack.
• Batch 2: numbered name face ~#74–#151 (Gastly, Haunter, Ditto, Voltorb, Electrode, Jynx, Magmar, Omanyte — they were in the 12 "no disc" BF list). Graveler NAME-ONLY on a numbered sheet (era rule). Johto/MQ/Hoenn = NAME ONLY, no #NNN. EU-FRDE continues (Galopa, Ramoloss, Canarticho, Ectoplasma, Noadkoko, Minidraco, Artikodin, Voltali, Ronflex, Mewtu, Sulfura…).
• There are pogs for species without a Battle Figures 2-pack (Golbat, Nidorino, Nidoqueen, starters, Abra/Machop/Poli lines…, Gastly/Haunter/Ditto…). Seven from batch 1 have no Hasbro row (Caterpie, Weedle, Nidoqueen, Nidoking, Golbat, Dugtrio, Persian). Batch 2 adds Gastly, Haunter, Voltorb, Electrode, Jynx, Magmar, Ditto, Porygon2, Lugia, Ho-oh and other Johto. Do not invent a figure just to hang the disc.

MX vs normal (the collector, 5 packs): Geodude+Golem = BF-7 (they skip Graveler). Geodude+Graveler+Golem = MX Blaster. The other four MX: Abra-line (already «Exclusivo MX»), Gastly+Haunter+Gengar (own PSF photo, 0 rows for Gastly/Haunter), and the two red-disc packs (Ninetales/Oddish/Pidgeotto = #4; Tauros/Porygon/Kangaskhan = #5). No sixth. Machop-line is not one of the five: CA/US/MX only, never Europe (Machoke is in the blister). EN/FR/ES cardback ≠ EU; do not create region: MX yet.

How to model it (when approved)

• packagingVariant as a list of values from the enum above (never join(" · ")).
• Split EU-FRDE (disc), EU-EN metric-front (disc) and EU cardback EN/ES/IT (box) from NA/CA trilingual and from MX (3-pack Blaster / red disc) before creating region rows. Do not collapse into eu-multilingual.
• Grabber: three axes (red / pin / FR-DE) on the same SKU family. Do not invent a checklist. If FR/DE exists, EU-EN exists.
• Disc in figure_accessories.json hung off the figure (k: "disc", label Aipom (BF-39)). First candidate batch: 36 JLC (BF-39–50) + Master Quest (BF-54–59) figures. Today 0 discs are seeded.
• Combat Figures — Shining: no disc (own PSF photo of Charizard: two flames). Do not seed a pog.
• V-Trainer, Power Bouncer, THINKChip, Advanced Battle Figures, Battle Trainer: no evidence — do not touch.
• Credit a collector as the documentation source (once he gives photo permission, his images go with his credit). Zero of his photos until then.

Concordance (17-Sep-2026)

Where the collector, our photos and the investigation agree, that fact is documented — and we cite our photo (CamScanner / @pokeshinyfinds). The collector is never a catalog photo source.

Solid matches (pack + disc on our blister/PSF): BF-7 vs the 3-figure Geodude Blaster; the five MX packs by *contents*; Grabber with #87/#19; EN/ES/IT on the box with an English pog; print-follows-card-era (p-014 vs p-038 / p-042); Combat Shining with no pog.

His photo gap is not the <10. We cover the NA starters (p-065, p-059), R3 Chansey/Scyther/sitting Pikachu (p-063) and Deluxe Brock+Zubat (#41). Oscar listings 17-Sep-2026 (not the collector): EU-FRDE on the pog for Power Pokés BF-16/18/12/9/2; BF-4 Power Pokés with EN discs; blue BF-25 card; FAO 1998 (already PSF); EU Power Blaster purple GBC 3×Pikachu (new SKU) and teal Pikachu+Raticate+Pidgey. Photos at /figures/hasbro-listings/. EU-EN cm/kg on the front still has no photo. Zero region: EU. MX vs NA/CA caption tension: do not create region: MX.

Detail and 31 items: docs/marcas/hasbro_battle_disc_concordancia.md.