Battle Beasts were uhh THE shit. Rock-paper-scissors x 1000 coolness factor.
Seriously, one of my favorite toys as a kid. And the best part was that everyone I knew had a few they loved and since there were 84 of them we could have our own little teams. Mine was an ape, a spider, a cat with a rocket launcher, a rhino with a mace hand, and a crab-thing.