If the Bay films are in the same universe as the 1986 animated movie, I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. 😉
Don’t worry, that’s definitely not the case. They belong to completely different continuity families entirely. The official names for their continuities are Primax 984.17 Alpha and Tyran 707.03 Delta (Yes, Hasbro had way too much fun playing to the fans’ obession with continuity and gave us an official naming scheme for Tranformers Continuities).