If an Original Cartoon movie was made at the time?

[neatoman]

Uh... Well I don't think a "Disney budget" seems likely, it would probably look more like the Swan Princess. Secondly, since the rights to produce a movie remained with Mirage Studios rathern than Fred Wolf, I doubt Fred Wolf would be allowed to have any involvement. The sour relationship between the two companies is well documented. Then there's the matter of characters. Since Mirage Studios didn't really want characters like Bebop and Rocksteady to define the brand, I don't think it would use the "Technodrome Villains".

The closest thing I can imagine is that it would be an adaptation of less serious Mirage Studios stories, just with the aesthetic of the Fred Wolf show. Imagine the space arc, just with the show's character design.

Ignoring all that though, are you sure you didn't just make this thread because you like the idea of a hypothetical theatrical Fred Wolf movie theoretically doing well? And that you just want to read comments saying that it would have? I mean sure, financially maybe but if it was actually made by the same people who made the show, I don't think it would do well critically. Like at all. It would just be like the old GI Joe movie, relatively slick looking but narrative trash.

Go watch GI Joe the movie (1987), Transformers the Movie (1986) and My Little Pony the Movie (1986) to get an idea of what it would have been like.