Universal Monster is the Dark Universe, not Zilla and friends  

Your point still stands though

 

I wasn't trying to conflate the two - sorry it came across that way in the text.

 

Ah I see, didn't notice the comma at first.

 

Eh, it happens. Lord knows I've done worse.

 

I’d watch a Rom movie.

I bet there’d be some epic CGI, though.

 

Not trying to put words in your mouth, you were wondering why I commented on the idea of a crossover if I don't care about seeing one. Just because I don't care for the idea doesn't mean I don't have thoughts on it. I'm just not sure what's wrong with stating my thoughts on it.

I don't entirely disagree (although I would think Beast Wars is popular enough to get a movie). These might not be realistic ideas, I'm just saying I find them more interesting than a crossover.

The OP's idea of crossing Transformers with GI Joe or Power Rangers might be realistic...those are pretty popular brands. But the idea of a full-blown Transformers cinematic universe is probably less realistic than the ideas I mentioned. It's not like Jem and the Holograms or Micronauts or MASK are huge moneymakers right now. And most of the really popular Hasbro properties would be hard to cross over with Transformers...how would you do a crossover with Dungeons and Dragons or Nerf or Monopoly? Would we bring in My Little Pony eventually?

The whole thing just sounds awkward...it sounds like it would be doomed to fail. I don't think most people care about seeing movies based on these Hasbro brands...and I especially don't think people care about seeing them come together. Hasbro isn't like a superhero Cinematic Universe where all the characters mesh reasonably well together. Hasbro's properties are separate entities with their own worlds that were never intended to fit together, and have very little in common. You might be able to find four or five brands that would fit together well...two of which might be popular things (Power Rangers and GI Joe). It's the sort of thing that lends itself better to a comic than a movie...which is probably why they did it in a comic.

 

Hate is too strong of a word for anything from Hasbro or within the Transformers brand. "Indifference" would be a better description.

That said, I would be totally down for a crossogre between Shrek and Transformers in the form of a Shrekformers Cinematic Onionverse! Ogrebots vs. DeShrekticons! The shapeshifting Quintesson Lord Farquaad hiring the freelance peacekeeping agent Drek's Head to hunt down all fairy tale Transformers! The Swampions, led by Shrek-Gar, acquiring the cultures of different versions of Duloc and Far, Far Away by traveling between Rumpelstiltskin's alternate realities! The Shrekformers: The Onionverse. Beyond Good. Beyond Drek. Beyond your most ogre-the-top fan fiction.

 

In that, I both envy you and hope your faith will be rewarded in the end.

 

Would be the worst mistake ever

 

I have absolutely zero interest in other brands mixing with Transformers in their movies. I'd find it distracting, and yet another excuse for "humans" instead of Transformers as main characters, even in their own movies. I get the desire for it, but I wouldn't want anything to do with it.

As separate things that Hasbro wants to work on? Sure, they can knock themselves out. I might even watch one of them.

 

I don't know if they really said that exactly, but yeah, difference is that one was a mess. BB on the other hand...

So?

Better than being negative and ignorant.

Eh, still part of my headcanon.

The Showa films had Rodan, Mysterians, Varan, Mothra, Atragon, Frankenstein vs. Baragon, War of Gargantuas, etc.

Just thought you were implying.

Well people want me to be realistic about something here.

A Nerf film, I dunno how that would go.
PR, MLP, and D&D, they can be their own thing, since they're set in full-out fantasy worlds.

I would argue that most people wouldn't care about a film solely about Wreckers, or Lost Light, or MTMTE, or even Megatron's origins.

Thank you.

Worst than giving Bay work?

Who's forcing you to?

 

Still not part of the dead before born Dark verse though, headcanon doesn't matter.

 

That question is pointless. The answer is Nobody. But, the question asks if I hate the idea. I do, because the idea would create a movie I would skip, instead of one I would watch. And there would be no other choices otherwise. I want to watch a movie primarily about Transformers without a whole lot of extra "outside stuff" mixed in.

It's not about forcing. It's about being stuck with, from my point of view, two bad choices instead of one good one. Don't take it personally--I'm fully aware this is my own opinion, just like yours is likely to mix it all together. I'm only answering for me.

 

Power rangers is not as popular as some people think.The 2017 movie couldn’t even crack 150 million which is terrible for a blockbuster and the movie had great marketing.Paramount is just wasting money.I think it would be better hasbro to make a live action show with original footage than a movie.

 

2017 PR movie is just Iron Man but a team lol, it's basically a retelling of MMPR first episode but edgier.
Special effect is good, but plot is so so.
That and why the F they open their visor inside their bot. And why they shake so much.

 

To play devil's advocate, there is nothing necessarily stopping it from being in the same universe - I should also note that, when Universal said "individualised films", that did not necessarily imply that they'd all be in different universes.

Rather than a interconnected, MCU-style approach, they could be going for mostly standalone films that exist in roughly the same world, but don't intersect or interact. Say, the Wolfman doesn't turn up in the Gill-man's movie and the Gill-man doesn't turn up in Dracula's movie.

 

Ignoring the fact that they already say about moving away from shared universe concept?

Sure.

By that point, it can't even be called a universe anymore, just number of movies with "Horror" theme.

 

Considering that you're basing you walls of quotes entirely on belief, you're calling ignorance based on what? I can point at all the fails the Hollywood endured recently trying to copypaste the concept. You can point at what? A single small movie?

 

I was not agreeing with that statement - what I was saying was that there was nothing particularly stopping them from putting Easter eggs for the Invisible Man in, say, Bride of Frankenstein.

You could, hypothetically, have a bunch of mostly standalone films that exist in roughly the same world, but who are only connected to each other via background cues or Easter eggs.

There are other ways for multiple different works to exist in the same continuity without it being a shared universe.

 

Well there doesn't seem to be anything that majorly and strongly contradicts any continuity.

There doesn't have a big crossover movie per se.

Fair point.

Not exactly a memorable name for such a franchise.

Well it's either walls, or double/triple commenting.

Exactly.
Hasbro can work a similar way, little hints and easter eggs here and there.