Hello guys. I have made some research on how Bakugan began for my project (name of the project is BakuKatsu, I made a post about it before) some time ago, and I would like to share what I know.

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Well, as some of you may know, the Bakugan started when an American inventor Aldric Saucier with help of his  representative Sheldon Goldberg pitched the idea of marbles transforming into monsters to Spin Master. There is a post on Reddit about it, as well as Bakugan Wiki page (actually, there is two):

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Bakugan/s/zqcpq4Oe1q

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https://bakugan.fandom.com/wiki/Bakugan\_(history)

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https://bakugan.wiki/wiki/History\_of\_Bakugan

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If you look in the comments of the reddit post, the op (Adept-Double156, I deeply appreciate what this guy found by the way) also posted a low quality pic of what should be the original patent of Aldric Saucier (pic 1). I have also found a better quality picture of the schematic (pic 2k on one page, but I couldn't view the full document, as, if I am not mistaken, it has paid access.

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If you want, you may try it out yourself:

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https://patentlyo.com/patent/2020/02/example-picture-claim.html

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It is laso stated in Wikis that Aldric Saucier drawn the first prototype on a napkin, but I couldn't find any info on what it was exactly. The only thing found is the patent. You can clearly see that the schematics are really simple, and that the transforming ball figure doesn't have magnets and can't be transformed while "standing" as normal bakugan by design. At least that is what it looks like I amy be wrong. Yet it definitely feels like the first ever Bakugan, isn't it? 

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Well, if look at the date of the petent, you'll see that it is dated by December 11, 2007. It was even after the launch of anime in Japan (April 5, 2007) and Canada (July, 2007). So... Is this giant dude in a ball the first known bakugan? No, of course not. But what were actually the first Bakugan? Well, there earliest bakugan toy lines I found were the Japanese ones. They came out originaly even before the airing of anime. The earliest of them was released in July 22, 2006 and was named Ver 1.00

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\[VER 1.00 PRODUCTS\] (https://bakugan.wiki/wiki/List\_of\_Bakugan\_Battle\_Brawlers\_Waves\_(Sega\_Toys))

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1) Battle Packs. A big box with 6 Bakugan and 18 cards, enough for two players to start playing right out of the box.

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There werre 2 battle packs: Light vs Dark (pic 3) and Fire vs Water (pic 4)

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2) Tournament Packs. Smaller packages that contained 3 Bakugan and enough cards for 1 player. 

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There were 1 Tournament Pack for each attribute. The example shows the Earth one (pic 5)

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3) Monopacks. These had only 1 Bakugan and 1 Card.

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There were also 1 Monopack for each attribute. The example is Earth again.

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As you can see, I am using different names for attributes, uust naming the elements that they represent. What gives? Well, there were no special attribute name at first.

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Pyrus — 火属性 (hi zokusei) Fire Attribute

‎Aquos — 水属性 (mizu zokusei) Water Attribute

‎Subterra — 土属性 (tsuchi zokusei) Earth Attribute

‎Haos — 光属性 (hikari zokusei) Light Attribute 

‎Darkus — 闇属性 (yami zokusei) Dark Attribute  

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That's how it was back then. Oh, and I haven't forgot Ventus. There were just no wind attribute in the game until anime came out. 

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So, it was just 5 attributes and there also were 4 Bakugan in ver 1.00. Their names are different originaly in Japanese, so I'll give you both the version you might now and the old one:

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‎Garrison (Robotalion)

‎Lucifer (Reaper)

‎Shredder (Fear Ripper)

‎Dragonoid 

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The first three could be found in Battle Packs and Tournament Packs. Actually, the Packs Bakugan were basically the same. It was always a team of Garrison, Lucifer and Shredder. The only difference was the attribute. Battle Packs had the same team but in two elements, and Tournament Packs had just one team and one attribute.

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Monopacks had only one possible Bakugan — Dragonoid. 

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So, these are actual first bakugan ever came out as a product. 

The First Ever Bakugan