Battle Beasts

-In the Beging......
For those of you who don't remember these guys the Battle Beasts was a series of mini action figures from Hasbro from 1987. Each of these creatures was basically a humanoid version of an animal from the wild kingdom with a weapon and a heat sensitive icon on their chest that indicated a special elemental power (Wood, Fire or Water.)

Thing is Battle Beasts were known as Beast formers in Japan and had actually appeared on the Japanese version of the Transformers cartoon in the 80's.
I didnt figure this out, till i watched the Headmaster series  

The fought on Planet Beast, and if you look in Dreamwave's 20th Anniversary Transformers Summer Special - Megatron tracks the Predacons down to none other than Planet Beast!

ASLO - Scourge (Flame Convoy) of TFC is ruler of Planet Beast
-although for some reason, the  little creatures are no where to be found


**ps
-I loved these things.....almost had ALL of them and there was ALOT of them to get--
if you want Battle Beast repo/custome toys
http://godbeast.com/
is a VERY good place to start

-discuss

I remember those little critters.

So apparently there was a Battle Beasts comic made in 2012 by IDW - http://battlebeasts.blogspot.com/2012/04/press-release-dump-diamond-select-toys.html:

The mini-series is written by Bobby Curnow (Godzilla Legends, Night of 1000 Wolves) and penciled by Valerio Schiti (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Donatello, Dungeons & Dragons: Eberron). It focuses on a group of renegade Beasts who return to Earth to protect the ultimate weapon (and the human who activated it) from an armada of their violent brethren.

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tfwiki.net wrote:
After three decades of nothing, new toys of Beastformers characters were released in Takara's Transformers Legends toyline, as the Headmaster partners to the new Monsterbot toys. These molds were originally designed for Hasbro's Titans Return line, and while the small robots were modeled after the Beastformers characters, Hasbro chose to give them different names, treating them as Cybertronians who just happened to look that way. Takara, however, took the last step and directly named them after their sculpt inspirations, and made it very explicit that they were the same characters in the attached pack-in/online manga, and made some other toys out to be new forms for Beastformers characters as well.

Reference: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beastformers_(franchise)

on the flip side, managed to pick up a few of the figures I had when i was younger for the kiddos and I: