Transformers Live-Action Continuities - Timelines

[selfishmisery]

The Bumblebee Prequel is canon to the Expanded Universe, which means that some version of AoE and TLK are canon.

Sector 7 #4 (Sergeant Donavan)
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Bumblebee Movie Prequel (Heath Donavan, son of WW2 Donavan)
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He even has Jetfire from RotF, who was shown to be active throughout the Sector 7 comic series. Since Bumblebee Movie Prequel is directly connected to Sector 7, which is directly connected to Transformers Movie Prequel... then Bumblebee lost his voice in 10,000 B.C., regained or replaced it, landed on Earth sometime before 1944, continued living on Earth to the 1960s, went back to space, lost his new voice, and then went back to Earth in 2003. This is the intention of the Bumblebee prequel comic, it must be because these are DIRECT, undeniable connections to the IDW timeline. There's a list of references on my timeline.

Oh, and if you're placing Bumblebee in a separate Timeline, why not make the last two pages of the prequel as 1987 (leading to an alt. version of Bumblebee in the Bayverse)?

Please don't pester me about this today. Not a good time.

 

[Pro Bot]

It's not pestering. It's me informing you that one comic book is directly connected to another comic book's events (and those comics are on different timelines here). I apologise if it was annoying to you, I'm not informed about your life and that's your business. I hope you're doing okay though.

 

[selfishmisery]

It's not pestering. It's me informing you that one comic book is directly connected to another comic book's events (and those comics are on different timelines here). I apologise if it was annoying to you, I'm not informed about your life and that's your business. I hope you're doing okay though.

No it was a panic attack, unrelated.

 

[Pro Bot]

Sorry to hear about that.

 

[selfishmisery]

The Bumblebee Prequel is canon to the Expanded Universe, which means that some version of AoE and TLK are canon.

Sector 7 #4 (Sergeant Donavan)
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Bumblebee Movie Prequel (Heath Donavan, son of WW2 Donavan)
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He even has Jetfire from RotF, who was shown to be active throughout the Sector 7 comic series. Since Bumblebee Movie Prequel is directly connected to Sector 7, which is directly connected to Transformers Movie Prequel... then Bumblebee lost his voice in 10,000 B.C., regained or replaced it, landed on Earth sometime before 1944, continued living on Earth to the 1960s, went back to space, lost his new voice, and then went back to Earth in 2003. This is the intention of the Bumblebee prequel comic, it must be because these are DIRECT, undeniable connections to the IDW timeline. There's a list of references on my timeline.

Oh, and if you're placing Bumblebee in a separate Timeline, why not make the last two pages of the prequel as 1987 (leading to an alt. version of Bumblebee in the Bayverse)?

If the events of AOE / TLK happened, the rest of the tie-in comics can't. Just an implied shared history between the two or three timelines, so the inverse of what you're saying is true. (The events of AoE / TLK are exclusive to the main timeline, with some bits of history from the comic timeline, but there is no connective tissue between the Bumblebee timeline, the comic tie-in timeline nor the Bayverse timeline.)

 

[selfishmisery]

Comparatively, I could ignore the Earth-12041 designation for the 2010s Marvel Animated Universe and shove Earth-8096 events in there with wild headcanons and theories but that goes against so many factors we're arguing against. Ultimately, common sense tells me "the simplest explanation is that they're separate timelines with some similarities."

 

[Pro Bot]

If the events of AOE / TLK happened, the rest of the tie-in comics can't. Just an implied shared history between the two or three timelines, so the inverse of what you're saying is true. (The events of AoE / TLK are exclusive to the main timeline, with some bits of history from the comic timeline, but there is no connective tissue between the Bumblebee timeline, the comic tie-in timeline nor the Bayverse timeline.)

See, that's fine, but why can't they? Maybe I'll find out as I'm going through every one of those comics. So far... it's totally okay though.

 

[Pro Bot]

Titan Magazine's Alternate Timeline (Tyran 208.28 Gamma)
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Aren't there two Titan Magazine timelines?

Oh, and I wanted to ask, do you remember where the June 23-25 timeline in Rise of the Beasts comes from?

 

[BB10]

The Bumblebee Prequel is canon to the Expanded Universe, which means that some version of AoE and TLK are canon.

Sector 7 #4 (Sergeant Donavan)
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Bumblebee Movie Prequel (Heath Donavan, son of WW2 Donavan)
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View attachment 2634

He even has Jetfire from RotF, who was shown to be active throughout the Sector 7 comic series. Since Bumblebee Movie Prequel is directly connected to Sector 7, which is directly connected to Transformers Movie Prequel... then Bumblebee lost his voice in 10,000 B.C., regained or replaced it, landed on Earth sometime before 1944, continued living on Earth to the 1960s, went back to space, lost his new voice, and then went back to Earth in 2003. This is the intention of the Bumblebee prequel comic, it must be because these are DIRECT, undeniable connections to the IDW timeline. There's a list of references on my timeline.

Oh, and if you're placing Bumblebee in a separate Timeline, why not make the last two pages of the prequel as 1987 (leading to an alt. version of Bumblebee in the Bayverse)?

I suppose Bumblebee coming to Earth in 2003 in Movie Prequel is no different than the other Autobots coming to Earth in 2007, despite the fact that they are implied to have been here far longer tham that according to the paintings in TLK.

But there is a problem (besides the fact that the main Autobot cast having visited Earth before as shown in TLK is never addressed in the Expanded Universe comics). In the timeline that the Writers' Room came up with, it says that Megatron was trapped in the ice by the Witwiccans in the Victorian Era, instead of thousands of years ago like the comics established (timestamp: 2:50).

 

[BB10]

Personally, I think the expanded universe is its own timeline separate from the TLK one. However, some elements and stories from the expanded timeline may have happened in the TLK timeline as well since they are referenced in the BB Prequel comic like Pro Bot says.

Also, since the BB prequel comic is meant to be well a prequel to a version of the BB movie, then it might be that a version of the movie is canon to the TLK timeline.

 

[Pro Bot]

But there is a problem (besides the fact that the main Autobot cast having visited Earth before as shown in TLK is never addressed in the Expanded Universe comics). In the timeline that the Writers' Room came up with, it says that Megatron was trapped in the ice by the Witwiccans in the Victorian Era, instead of thousands of years ago like the comics established (timestamp: 2:50).

I would personally count the thousands of years ago thing over that, simply because that was never established in the films, thus, no contradiction.

 

[Megatron]

I suppose Bumblebee coming to Earth in 2003 in Movie Prequel is no different than the other Autobots coming to Earth in 2007, despite the fact that they are implied to have been here far longer tham that according to the paintings in TLK.

But there is a problem (besides the fact that the main Autobot cast having visited Earth before as shown in TLK is never addressed in the Expanded Universe comics). In the timeline that the Writers' Room came up with, it says that Megatron was trapped in the ice by the Witwiccans in the Victorian Era, instead of thousands of years ago like the comics established (timestamp: 2:50).

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so in this case

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