well hot damn, thanks transformer wiki
well...unbeknownst to me, a series of toys I used to get when I was little was SUPRISE Hasbro owned , but what I didn't know is that they were pseudo related to the transformers, Battle Beasts were itty bitty figurines who were plastic and anthropomorphic animals with "rubsigns" on their chests to let you know what their affinty was ( you put em in water to reveal the rubsign's element). I have a fuckton of them upstairs and for WEEKS now I have been trying to remember what they were called. who would have guessed pokin around on the transformers wiki would have given me the answer.