I dislike refering to RiD as a first-contact story, as in episode 3, the train station personel recognized Optimus Prime, and seemed ot have a fairly good grasp of him being the good guy to Preds' bad guy. A perponderance of evidence within the cartoon would appear to indicate that RiD was not first-contact, but that there had been some previous period of public TF activity on Earth. (That activity being based on parts of the G1 cartoon.)
Also, the description of the Unicron Trilogy, though factually accurate, is muddled. I was glazing over while reading it.
- I've made some minor modifications to address your concerns. I at least partially agree with you about the RID thing -- the story told in the cartoon is clearly not the Transformers' first contact with humans in that timeline, as a big part of the story centers around TF contact with ancient humans. My original wording was a little clumsy.
- Also, I removed the mention of the manga that XBob put into the "prominant g1 continuities" list. If I'm mistaken about this, somebody should feel free to put it back in again, but I was under the impression that the manga wasn't, in general, in-continuity with the TV shows. I had already made mention of the manga's existence in the Japanese continuities section, and I think that is probably sufficient. Certainly among English-speakings fans at least, the G1 manga is not a "prominant" continuity.
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- --Steve-o 05:55, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
That's good to know. Thanks.--G.B. Blackrock 18:29, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
>>Also, I removed the mention of the manga that XBob put into the "prominant g1 continuities" list. If I'm mistaken about this, somebody should feel free to put it back in again, but I was under the impression that the manga wasn't, in general, in-continuity with the TV shows. I had already made mention of the manga's existence in the Japanese continuities section, and I think that is probably sufficient. Certainly among English-speakings fans at least, the G1 manga is not a "prominant" continuity.<<
IIRC The G1 Manga's plosts were so simple(Save the animals from the Destrons!!!) that theres hardly any chance for contradiction, same thing goes for 2010 and Headmasters. The masterforce, and the victory manga however do conterdict. And the Zone-Operation Combination mangas seem to be in contuity with the TV show If I'm not mistaken X-BoB58
- A note in the final paragraph (the one mentioning the manga) about how those fit into continuity would be appropriate, then. But you should also find out about the other, non-G1 manga if you want to include that, so readers aren't confused. But the in-continuity status of those is worth at least a brief mention. --Suki Brits 21:20, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
The beastwars II and Neo Manga's arn't in continuity, and I don't think the UT mangas are either(withn the exception of linkage)
XBob, everything Takara or Hasbro publishes is "canon" in that it's "official." Transformers has no singular canon other than the recent notion of a unified multiverse. The phrase "aren't in canon" has basically no meaning pertaining to Transformers fiction. --ItsWalky 01:04, 15 March 2006 (UTC)