I really hope we get more than a passing flashback sequence to see pseudo-G1 designs. If that's the standard for these movies moving forward, then I'm going to have to see them even if they are as atrocious as the prior ones were from a writing, acting, and directing standpoint.
I remember watching the 86 flick. I was in absolute horror. Not at the deaths. But that the Autobots and Decepticons were being replaced with horrible looking G2 designs.....