Vintage Horror Movie Series
The Vintage Horror Movie Series (ビンテージホラー映画シリーズ Vintage Horror Eiga Series) was a proposed subline to the Generation 1 toyline which never made it past the conceptualization phase (more specifically, the concept art phase).
The series would have seen several monsters from classic horror movies realized as transforming robots. Exactly what fiction, if any, might have been devised to explain why these monsters were suddenly turned into giant robots and how they might interact with the Autobots and the Decepticons is unknown.
Known monsters within the Vintage Horror Movie Series include:
- Dracula
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon
- The Fly
Sorry, no Frankenstein's monster.
Concept art of the toys was printed in the Deluxe edition of Transformers Generations.
Oddly, the legal feasibility of this proposed series is highly questionable. While the character of Count Dracula dwells within the public domain, the Creature from the Black Lagoon is owned by Universal Studios, while the Fly is owned by 20th Century Fox. Generations identifies the toys as being these characters specifically, not parodies or approximations. Whether any actual attempts were made by Takara or Hasbro to obtain rights from the proper studios is unknown, though that fact may have contributed to the series' cancellation at the early concept art phase.
