Meiji

Meiji is a Japanese candy company. In 1988 they released small, super-deformed, articulation-free versions of the Beastformers via Gachapon machines. They also released a series of gold-foil "Battle Cards," featuring the painted character art from each character's original bio card and available in randomly-packed sets of cards that came with ramune-flavored candy tablets. The back of the cards featured severely truncated bios, with data for the game from the Meiji chocoball SD figures' packaging.

Merchandise

1988

Beastformers Gashapon/candy-toy 1 - White Leo 2 - Flykick 3 - Hedgehog 4 - Badshark 5 - Bowdog

6 - Rabbit Kid 7 - Bluehorse 8 - Giader 9 - Violethorn 10 - Bombsheep

11 - Deaspider 12 - Crabhit 13 - Killer Fish 14 - Devilbat 15 - Alligatron

16 - Beafox 17 - Flying Attacker 18 - Platinum Tiger 19 - Koala Gray 20 - Zebra Ball

Each character could be found in red, blue or green plastic, representing the Fire, Water and Wood elements (even though they still had a rubsign). All of the Meiji Beastformers come with a different Beastformer's weapon attached to their shoulder by a snippable sprue.

Beastformers Ramune Battle Card 1 - White Leo 2 - Flykick 3 - Hedgehog 4 - Badshark 5 - Bowdog 6 - Rabbit Kid 7 - Bluehorse 8 - Giader 9 - Violethorn 10 - Bombsheep

11 - Deaspider 12 - Crabhit 13 - Killer Fish 14 - Devilbat 15 - Alligatron 16 - Beafox 17 - Flying Attacker 18 - Platinum Tiger 19 - Koala Gray 20 - Zebra Ball

21 - Big Serow 22 - Golder 23 - Snakebomb 24 - Drillfrog 25 - Elephan 26 - Graysharp 27 - Grayox 28 - Rabbit Kid 29 - Power Jaguar 30 - Bonga

31 - Wildthunder 32 - Yellow Giraffe 33 - Iguanamonss 34 - Brown Gyro 35 - Wavemoose 36 - Green Chameles 37 - Jungaroo 38 - Power Nozzle 39 - Beavop 40 - Cobrander

While the cardbacks from cards #21-40 show line-art of SD-styled Beastformers toys, no such toys were actually produced.