www.popculturen... In this week's video review, Pixel Dan takes a look at an obscure yet awesome toy line from the 80's: Hasbro's Battle Beasts! Fire! Water! Wood!
My favorite toys in my childhood. And I lived in northern Sweden in a small town ... but we had a toy shop. As I visited every day ... To watch or buy Battle Beasts and Laser beasts.
Fun fact: Battle Beast weapons were the same size as Lego weapons! So most of my BB's ended up armed with regular old Lego swords and axes. I had a lot of fun looking at their armor and picking out what bits represented lasers, rockets, and whatever other weapons one would find on a techno suit. Suffice it to say, I enjoyed my (admittedly small) collection.
I never got into the "wood,fire,water" game , I made different factions led by Lion and Gorilla and later on Shark. I think my top five are Shark, Rhino, Fox, Lion and Raven.
To go back to those days. I remember i used to play for hours making up my own little world with crazy encounters with my Muscle Men, Battle Beast and whatever other assortment of toys I may have had at the time.
I remember going down to Florida and my grandmother bought me a ton of these in 1987 I think they were packaged 2 in 1 pack but I remember not opening them all cause I had older brothers saying “they maybe worth something o e day” well I did but sadly years later living in NYC my apt caught fire in 1995 and lost a lot of packaged toys not to mention all most all my other possessions most wa replace but vintage toys can’t and it sucks cause I see all these cool channels and I had a nice amount but I’m glad other people did it and good for them
I was really little when these came out but their commercial was one of the first things I can remember. Only had to figs but man did I play with them constantly :D
Due to my love for anthropomorphic animals, this is a toy line that would be able to appeal to me for sure, and I wish it was still around when I was a kid. :D
What a perfect video for me to find in my Subscription box today of all days. My favorite toys as a kid as the sponsored review posted on my 27th Birthday! Thanks Pixel Dan for the perfect birthday present!
Got a bunch of these for my third birthday back in '92 as hand-me-downs from my cousin. Still have all of the ones I had as a kid. And I picked up the remaining ones I needed.
Back then in early 90s in Indonesia, I used to play with the bootlegged rubber version of these guys. The arms were detachable so we usually mix the parts up. Now I know their name :D
loved these toys when i was a kid, my parents use to take me to toys r us and these would be one of my favorite toys. I had maybe close to 20 of them. Man the good ole days, those were the times of the old school joes and transformers as well.
Brother, I lover Battle Beasts when i was a boy!! Do you know some reliable webpage where I could buy them? And how much is it? I'll send you a rivate anyway...thanks a lot!!
For my 9th or 10th birthday party I asked everyone I invited to get me these. I still have probably 20 of them. I didn't care one bit for the fire/water/wood thing, but the detail on them was great. I used to stage elimination tournaments between them all. I still have a lot of the weapons too. I had the foresight in my early teens to pack up my remaining toys and hide them in the basement where my parents wouldn't mess with them.
I was never sure how wood beat water unless they had time to build a dam lol. I have the Lobster laserbeast. I never knew they made playsets and vehicles.
I loved these guys as well. I had the fortress you showed and the Ram vehicle as well. I wish I had kept them in better condition, but all I have now are the figures. I also have some Transformers and He-Man as well. My three fav toys from my youth.
the best was the crab one. he had a claw for a hand and you could use it to choke another battle beast.. .. awesome.. i never did get to collect them all
I kept mine too from my childhood, and my favorite was the Tiger cause he was my character when we made up a RPG of them back in the day. Hasbro still has the license? Why don't they try to reboot these??? Wish Mega Bloks/Construx could get a shot of making this line!
It's always been that way, even going back to the old Tobacco Cards for baseball. Make a set of 200 cards and purposely short print (or even just not print at all) a couple cards to encourage people to keep buying until they could collect them all.
Awesome toys. I had the Lion, the Ape, a Rhino, and I believe a giraffe. And don't forget, they eventually made child sized weapons of the Beasts. I had the lion's sword. It was just awesome.
I had purchased 4 at Goodwill in the mid 90s and I actually found a Toy Store in Portland Oregon called Rogue Toys. I am going to continue my collection
I was not a rich little boy at all so these and my Legos were the absolute play gems of my boyhood. I was gifted like 24 with 2 vehicles and one fortress. You could pour so much imagination into them. Little boys want to do wars with their figures. Each figure being a different animal made them really unique (because animals are so different). And a lot of them also had a unique characteristic which I'd use to give advantage in battle. The water-buffalo had these big antlers which could do a suplex. The walrus had a fin which I would do a mighty backhand. The snake had lasers on his chest for a ranged attack. The hawk had flight for hit and runs. And all of them being encased in cool advanced armour meant they could take a lot of punishment, merging melee and ranged combat. Hand-to-hand combat with the strength of beasts and ranged attack with advanced weaponry. The strength and agility of beasts merged with technology. There were three factions that I would do wars with.
LOL, cool story. I was never into Battle Beasts, though I had a few. I agree that toys back then really did have a great impact. Objectively speaking and not just because it was when I grew up, but I think the 80s were the best time for toys. Transformers, GI Joe, Star Wars, BAttle Beasts, Sectaurs, M.U.S.C.L.E, Army Ants, Wheeled Warriors, Masters of The Universe, etc.
My dad had a pacman lunch box filled with some of these toys. Me and my brother would always play with them and would divide them into good guys and bad guys (I always played as the bad guys). I remember having loads of fun playing with them and the rabbit one was always my favorite (he was the leader of my villain group).
I loved my Muscle Men and Battle Beast toys back in the day. Never had a whole lot but the ones i did have, i loved them all. The kids of today no nothing of fun a decent toys. The 80's toys ruled.
Hey Dan, great video mate...guess your around my age 33?. I had a heap of series 1 as a kid I dont think series 2 or 3 came out here in Australia. I recently bought all of series 1 and some series 2 and 3 on ebay, got like 40 of them...there the best and my kids love them.
you americans are so lucky! here in Greece battlebeasts were one color and instead of the changing icon on their chest we had stickers to put on them :( which like the weapons were lost imidiately :(
i hade like over 100 of them i wonder if my parents still have them in a box some where. i had a couple of the orb ones too. shit im goin to check and see now! thanks for reminding me about them. those were the days!
I've got the Armadillo seen at the bottom left here: 3:59 He's still on my computer desk. I don't remember ever having a 2nd one, even though they were sold in pairs. Maybe my brother got the other one?
I'm still wondering why there hasn't been a Pokemon-style Battle Beasts game. I mean… Collectible monsters that fight? Element-based gameplay? I mean, there should at least be a cheap, licensed knock-off shovelware title somewhere. But no, the BB seems all but forgotten - a very cool franchise with some really neat designs, but that's not likely to get a reboot or revival anytime soon…
loved these so much. in fact, looking back, probably my favorite action figures ever. I had tons of them, I think all the ones in your all-together shot and more, though I regret never having had Squid. I never cared one bit for the fire/water/wood gimmick, i could see that it was for like poke style battles with friens but that was dumb. It was an interesting gimmick in the commercials but oince you owned them, they were pointless. The awesomeness of the figures was enough on it's own. Kangaroo was awesome. Punched so many of my other guys so hard.
You forgot the human sized battle beast weapons. Like the he-man sword and sheild. There was an axe a gun and a crabclaw. Or crusty crabs weapon. Furthermore the rock lords were amazing i still have magmar.
I'm looking for info on some thing called something like Starios. They had giant robots called Wasters. You could take them apart and mix and match parts on any one to another.
Yeah, Starriors. I had several. They were like robots and they had motorized tools in their torsos. There was also a dinosaur-like thing that was remote-controlled maybe. I remember another that looked like a bird. You pulled its ripcord and it would run, flip over and change into a vehicle.
i dont want to 1UP ya but when i was young we were moving i was told to pack all my shit up i was like ok i will it pissed my mom off so bad she gave them away to the neighborhood kids as i was spending time with my friends cuz i was moving i was pissed so pissed off i got into some fights over these before i left it was worth my dad beating that night i to bad i had to return all of them cuz i didn;t listen to my mom lolol oh well there's always ebay
I once came home to find my dog had chewed up the head of Admiral Ackbar. "It was a Trap!". His head was still all one piece, but it looked like the T-1000 in T-2 when Arnie had fired a grenade in to him!!! >XD
I have some bootleg mexican battle beast, the toys I buy in a "tianguis" little street markets in my country in the 90's , the toy are the same but are a one solid piece of raw and cheap plastic, no paint, no articulated.
i remember that purple one @ 1:33 ... but i thought that them damn things had like some marbles in the center of them also? or am i thinking of another brand.
My favorite toys in my childhood.
And I lived in northern Sweden in a small town ... but we had a toy shop.
As I visited every day ... To watch or buy Battle Beasts and Laser beasts.
Fun fact: Battle Beast weapons were the same size as Lego weapons! So most of my BB's ended up armed with regular old Lego swords and axes.
I had a lot of fun looking at their armor and picking out what bits represented lasers, rockets, and whatever other weapons one would find on a techno suit. Suffice it to say, I enjoyed my (admittedly small) collection.
Battle Beasts could also hold G I Joe weapons, we bought several G I Joe Ninjas just to re-equip our battle beasts with swords and daggers
I never got into the "wood,fire,water" game , I made different factions led by Lion and Gorilla and later on Shark. I think my top five are Shark, Rhino, Fox, Lion and Raven.
To go back to those days. I remember i used to play for hours making up my own little world with crazy encounters with my Muscle Men, Battle Beast and whatever other assortment of toys I may have had at the time.
I wish Mattel would bring these guys into the Masters of the universe line.
also some my favorite toys from my childhood! i cant get enough of them!!!!
I remember going down to Florida and my grandmother bought me a ton of these in 1987 I think they were packaged 2 in 1 pack but I remember not opening them all cause I had older brothers saying “they maybe worth something o e day” well I did but sadly years later living in NYC my apt caught fire in 1995 and lost a lot of packaged toys not to mention all most all my other possessions most wa replace but vintage toys can’t and it sucks cause I see all these cool channels and I had a nice amount but I’m glad other people did it and good for them
Beautiful collection. I just ordered a Musky Ox and Leapin Lizard :)
I was really little when these came out but their commercial was one of the first things I can remember. Only had to figs but man did I play with them constantly :D
Due to my love for anthropomorphic animals, this is a toy line that would be able to appeal to me for sure, and I wish it was still around when I was a kid. :D
What a perfect video for me to find in my Subscription box today of all days. My favorite toys as a kid as the sponsored review posted on my 27th Birthday! Thanks Pixel Dan for the perfect birthday present!
I had these and the Laser Beast ones. They were pretty cool.
Me too. I had the Fly* and Rhino Laser beasts. My favourites were Rocky Rhino*, Bloodthirsty Bison and Gruesome Gator.
*coolest ones!!! >XD
My favorite was the Kangaroo. He's got that clenched fist
I love collecting battle beasts. My favorite is the shark.
Got a bunch of these for my third birthday back in '92 as hand-me-downs from my cousin. Still have all of the ones I had as a kid. And I picked up the remaining ones I needed.
Back then in early 90s in Indonesia, I used to play with the bootlegged rubber version of these guys. The arms were detachable so we usually mix the parts up. Now I know their name :D
loved these toys when i was a kid, my parents use to take me to toys r us and these would be one of my favorite toys. I had maybe close to 20 of them. Man the good ole days, those were the times of the old school joes and transformers as well.
Brother, I lover Battle Beasts when i was a boy!! Do you know some reliable webpage where I could buy them? And how much is it? I'll send you a rivate anyway...thanks a lot!!
Still have a bunch and one of my fav toys and memories collecting!
For my 9th or 10th birthday party I asked everyone I invited to get me these. I still have probably 20 of them. I didn't care one bit for the fire/water/wood thing, but the detail on them was great. I used to stage elimination tournaments between them all. I still have a lot of the weapons too. I had the foresight in my early teens to pack up my remaining toys and hide them in the basement where my parents wouldn't mess with them.
I was never sure how wood beat water unless they had time to build a dam lol. I have the Lobster laserbeast. I never knew they made playsets and vehicles.
Wood does not sink in the water.
I knew a guy who had a ton of these and I never heard of them before he showed me them. I played with them it was pretty fun.
The battle beast pc game was amazing
There was a game!?!? Sweet
I found one of these a couple years ago, it's cool to finally find out what it actually is
I loved these guys as well. I had the fortress you showed and the Ram vehicle as well. I wish I had kept them in better condition, but all I have now are the figures.
I also have some Transformers and He-Man as well. My three fav toys from my youth.
Really loved these toys as a child. They were called Dragonauts in France.
they are one of my favorites too... I love them tiny, easy and cool :)
These were cool. I remember them well.
I had a few of these,my favorite was the Bat,for some reason I always thought the ones with wings were the coolest
the best was the crab one. he had a claw for a hand and you could use it to choke another battle beast.. .. awesome.. i never did get to collect them all
Takara brought back the battle beasts as BEAST SAGA..(insert dramatic music)
I love Battle Beasts! I still have some of mine, somewhere.
love some battle beast!! best toy ever!!
I kept mine too from my childhood, and my favorite was the Tiger cause he was my character when we made up a RPG of them back in the day. Hasbro still has the license? Why don't they try to reboot these??? Wish Mega Bloks/Construx could get a shot of making this line!
Oh man, I loved those toys! I had so many of them! I would collect those and Rocks and Bugs and Things.
You had me at "anthropomorphic animals", Dan. ;D
I want some!
It's always been that way, even going back to the old Tobacco Cards for baseball. Make a set of 200 cards and purposely short print (or even just not print at all) a couple cards to encourage people to keep buying until they could collect them all.
Awesome toys. I had the Lion, the Ape, a Rhino, and I believe a giraffe. And don't forget, they eventually made child sized weapons of the Beasts. I had the lion's sword. It was just awesome.
I have all of them with 80% of the weapons. The good guys leader was the Kagaroo. The bad guy leader was the Elephant!!!
I loved these as a kid
I have a few of these, some have the orbs in the chest.
Right at the end, you reminded me of other toys I had forgotten about! The Rock-Lords, a proper blast from the past!! :D
I even have some Laser Beasts.
I had purchased 4 at Goodwill in the mid 90s and I actually found a Toy Store in Portland Oregon called Rogue Toys. I am going to continue my collection
Been thinking of buying some of these as I owned quite a few as a kid, this video has helped seal the deal..I'm gonna get a few - thanks
I was not a rich little boy at all so these and my Legos were the absolute play gems of my boyhood. I was gifted like 24 with 2 vehicles and one fortress. You could pour so much imagination into them. Little boys want to do wars with their figures. Each figure being a different animal made them really unique (because animals are so different). And a lot of them also had a unique characteristic which I'd use to give advantage in battle. The water-buffalo had these big antlers which could do a suplex. The walrus had a fin which I would do a mighty backhand. The snake had lasers on his chest for a ranged attack. The hawk had flight for hit and runs. And all of them being encased in cool advanced armour meant they could take a lot of punishment, merging melee and ranged combat. Hand-to-hand combat with the strength of beasts and ranged attack with advanced weaponry. The strength and agility of beasts merged with technology. There were three factions that I would do wars with.
I had the Rhino in yellow armour! if they came in a pair, I don't remember what my other one was.
Freakin awesome!! I remember these!!
I used to switch the stickers around cuz I wanted all fire only....
I have a couple of those around damn!😂 i almost cried when I saw this video! Thanks
Great review, interesting about them being in Transformers.. I never knew that!
Loved these toys I miss the 80s
The "laser" versions, with glassballs, i can tell you where also released in Sweden, i had several of those :)
LOL, cool story. I was never into Battle Beasts, though I had a few. I agree that toys back then really did have a great impact. Objectively speaking and not just because it was when I grew up, but I think the 80s were the best time for toys. Transformers, GI Joe, Star Wars, BAttle Beasts, Sectaurs, M.U.S.C.L.E, Army Ants, Wheeled Warriors, Masters of The Universe, etc.
I still have some of these..and the lunch box xD
*I WANT ONE!*
Great video. Cheers.
My dad had a pacman lunch box filled with some of these toys. Me and my brother would always play with them and would divide them into good guys and bad guys (I always played as the bad guys). I remember having loads of fun playing with them and the rabbit one was always my favorite (he was the leader of my villain group).
I loved my Muscle Men and Battle Beast toys back in the day. Never had a whole lot but the ones i did have, i loved them all.
The kids of today no nothing of fun a decent toys. The 80's toys ruled.
God I miss these
Too damn cool!
I had these.
bring them back into production,im 26 and ill be all up in this
Had some of these, gonna pick up some glyos that are a homage
there are some new ones coming
Hey Dan, great video mate...guess your around my age 33?. I had a heap of series 1 as a kid I dont think series 2 or 3 came out here in Australia. I recently bought all of series 1 and some series 2 and 3 on ebay, got like 40 of them...there the best and my kids love them.
I loved the ram and shark...
been trying to talk every glass artist ive even known and met to replicate battle beasts.
you americans are so lucky! here in Greece battlebeasts were one color and instead of the changing icon on their chest we had stickers to put on them :( which like the weapons were lost imidiately :(
i hade like over 100 of them i wonder if my parents still have them in a box some where. i had a couple of the orb ones too. shit im goin to check and see now! thanks for reminding me about them. those were the days!
I've got the Armadillo seen at the bottom left here: 3:59 He's still on my computer desk.
I don't remember ever having a 2nd one, even though they were sold in pairs. Maybe my brother got the other one?
@Mandalorian30
oh ok
i see i just checked episode 29, you guys just touched up on it not a full or using the new show format
I have a ton of these guys.
@bryant24ownsU It floats on top instead of sinking.
had the one @ 2:30 too.
I was never sure how wood beat water unless they had time to build a dam lol.
i think i had the lion and the skunk as a kid... the skunk was always the bad guy... :D
now i know where they came from... after all these years...
What type is the Rabbit guy?
Liked
I thought you´ve already done a review of the Battle Beasts. Any way, they´re awesome and I´m very excited about their return!
If you popped a GI Joe arm out of its socket, it fit on a battle beast. I had a bunch with GI Joe arms.
I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THESE ME N MY COUSIN LOVED THEM
The owl was my favorite.
I'm still wondering why there hasn't been a Pokemon-style Battle Beasts game. I mean… Collectible monsters that fight? Element-based gameplay? I mean, there should at least be a cheap, licensed knock-off shovelware title somewhere. But no, the BB seems all but forgotten - a very cool franchise with some really neat designs, but that's not likely to get a reboot or revival anytime soon…
i wish i had mine still:(
WHALE??? Killer Carp is not a whale, he's... A CARP!!! other than that great review.
@Mandalorian30 Yeah, I know. It´s so weird, total deja vu. I really think I´ve alredy watched this vid.
i have a whole box of these in my garage, wonder how much i can get for 'em..
how much do you want for 'em?
loved these so much. in fact, looking back, probably my favorite action figures ever. I had tons of them, I think all the ones in your all-together shot and more, though I regret never having had Squid.
I never cared one bit for the fire/water/wood gimmick, i could see that it was for like poke style battles with friens but that was dumb. It was an interesting gimmick in the commercials but oince you owned them, they were pointless. The awesomeness of the figures was enough on it's own.
Kangaroo was awesome. Punched so many of my other guys so hard.
Didn't mention the "Sunburst" emblem that was supposed to beat the other three? I remember seeing that on some of the packaging.
You forgot the human sized battle beast weapons. Like the he-man sword and sheild. There was an axe a gun and a crabclaw. Or crusty crabs weapon.
Furthermore the rock lords were amazing i still have magmar.
Once the rub signs fell off it became a battle of apex predators lol
very nice
I'm looking for info on some thing called something like Starios. They had giant robots called Wasters. You could take them apart and mix and match parts on any one to another.
fire squid, gotta catch 'um all!
I think the toy line was called Starriors I owned 3 to 4 figures back when I was youger.
Yeah, Starriors. I had several. They were like robots and they had motorized tools in their torsos. There was also a dinosaur-like thing that was remote-controlled maybe. I remember another that looked like a bird. You pulled its ripcord and it would run, flip over and change into a vehicle.
I had a bunch of these when I was a kid. Once I came home and found my dog ate all but one. Man did that dog take a beating for it.
i dont want to 1UP ya but when i was young we were moving i was told to pack all my shit up i was like ok i will it pissed my mom off so bad she gave them away to the neighborhood kids as i was spending time with my friends cuz i was moving i was pissed so pissed off i got into some fights over these before i left it was worth my dad beating that night i to bad i had to return all of them cuz i didn;t listen to my mom lolol oh well there's always ebay
I once came home to find my dog had chewed up the head of Admiral Ackbar.
"It was a Trap!". His head was still all one piece, but it looked like the T-1000 in T-2 when Arnie had fired a grenade in to him!!! >XD
I ALSO LOVED ROCK LORDS
Cool Video! Man is that music soothing. What is it? Never knew about the Transformers connection...makes sense though with the stickers and all.
I have some bootleg mexican battle beast, the toys I buy in a "tianguis" little street markets in my country in the 90's , the toy are the same but are a one solid piece of raw and cheap plastic, no paint, no articulated.
The rabbit was my favorite
Dan, PLEASE, do a Gormitti episode
i remember that purple one @ 1:33 ... but i thought that them damn things had like some marbles in the center of them also? or am i thinking of another brand.
BATTLE BEASTS CAN ALSO BE THE YAOJINGS（妖精/CHINESE GOBLINS）IN THE OLD CHINESE STORY "JOURNEY TO THE WEST（西遊記）"