So I was checking the Transformers Wiki twitter account after a tweet, and noticed this had happened.
Twitter, please do not punch Derrick Wyatt. Or Eljay, that’s Lanny Lathem, he helps make BotCon toys. Or, you know, maybe just avoid the punching in general, even if you are a flock of many tiny birds that can lift a whale.
There are two different types of people, and I am going to illustrate this with two different fan wikis: BioSector01, the Bionicle wiki, and TFWiki.net, the Transformers wiki.
In 2006, Bionicle had a promotional event called “Free the Band” where the All-American Rejects were “kidnapped” by the then-current bad guys and the Toa had to go “save them.”
BioSector01 lists this as a “non-canon promotional event,” and the link to the All-American Rejects links to the Wikipedia article for them, having only one article relating to the event.
TFWiki.net has articles for:
The Lunchables Brigade
Chester Cheetah
Two Different Mountain Dew robots
Solid Snake
Darth Vader
and Captain Kirk
Just because they’ve come in to contact with Transformers characters at some point and none of it is considered “non-canon.”
Heheheh.
Just to clarify a lil…
Transformers more or less runs on the idea that if it’s officially-licensed, “everything is canon”, no matter how batshit. But just because everything is canon, that doesn’t mean it’s all “one story” that’s supposed to make any goddamn internal sense where everything lines up.
It’s not Hasbro’s goal to make everything matchy-matchy; it’s to tell the best stories we can, and if we can all squint and go ‘yeah, they connect,’ then we’re happy. Most people aren’t engaged in every aspect of what we do. — Aaron Archer[1]
Everything DID happen. Somewhere. Sometime. And in lots and lots of realities, it didn’t. Lots of alternate universes and timeline splinters (and re-merges). Quantum is heavily involved. The TF multiverse (in-universe) is a Koosh ball of reality that folds in on itself while ever expanding outward. That “timey-wimey” ball the Who fans like, writ large.
It is canon that in the G1 cartoon universe, the Constructicons were built in a cave on Earth without Vector Sigma in 1984 (“Heavy Metal War”), yet were also on Cybertron four million years or so prior. Which of those is true in-universe at the time all depends on where you are as the observer. (And if some later official fiction then No-Prizes that inconsistency, then that too is true, at least for that universe fragment.)
Am I talking out my ass? Kinda. It is, after all, pseudo-scientific gobbledygook meant to put an in-universe spin on that sage advice “it’s just a show, I should really just relax”.
But it gives us a canonical universe where Megatron has fought Master Higgins, and I think we can all agree that this is awesome.
March 30th is National Doctors Day! We’re celebrating with a look at some of the medical professionals of the Transformers world who AREN’T Ratchet! Who’s your favourite doc-bot?
Read more about our medic picks at:
Knock Out - Minerva
Unicron Trilogy Red Alert - Pharma - Scalpel
Animated Red Alert - Fixit
First Aid - Glit - Flatline
tfwiki where is ambulon WHERE TFWIKI
He WAS here, but he had to split.
that’s it that’s it you’re grounded tfwiki you’re all grounded i don’t even want you know what go to your room GO TO YOUR ROOM
I bet Ambulon would feel pretty divided about this.
He’d be positively beside himself.
I WOKE TO TFWIKI SASSING ME WITH AMBULON DEATH JOKES MAYBE I AM STILL DREAMING
challenge: your next ambulon death joke must be an MST3K riff or you lose
Okay, okay, I admit defeat. Trying to think up one has given me a splitting headache.
March 30th is National Doctors Day! We’re celebrating with a look at some of the medical professionals of the Transformers world who AREN’T Ratchet! Who’s your favourite doc-bot?
Read more about our medic picks at:
Knock Out - Minerva
Unicron Trilogy Red Alert - Pharma - Scalpel
Animated Red Alert - Fixit
First Aid - Glit - Flatline
tfwiki where is ambulon WHERE TFWIKI
He WAS here, but he had to split.
Bloggers, starrrrt yourrrrr enginnnnes! We passed 500 followers this Sunday, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!! and to celebrate, we’re holding the TFWIKI 500 IMPROVEMENT DRIVE!
The TFWiki is home to over 20,000 articles about the Transformers, their friends, their enemies and their world, but there’s always more work to be done - and sometimes, we can use a little push in the right direction! That’s what the TFWiki 500 is all about! Tell us what article YOU want to see worked up to completion! Have the IDW comics introduced you to a new character who you’d like to learn more about, but whose article is lacking in history? Have you got a long-standing favourite who you don’t think is getting enough love? Is there a ‘bot whose article is in desperate need of more images? Maybe there’s someone who doesn’t even HAVE an article yet! This is your chance to make it happen sooner, rather than later!
Just reblog this post and name your ‘bot! Or human! Or planet! Or WHATEVER! (Put your suggestion in the body text, rather than tags, so we can see them easily, please! Use the #tfwiki500 tag!)
After two weeks, an article will be chosen at random from the votes and it’ll become the subject of an improvement drive. Please keep in mind that we are still subject to certain limitations; the Beast Wars II and Neo cartoons remain largely untranslated, for example, so articles relating to those franchises would be quite difficult to handle.
Robots in Disguise #34 takes us back to the early days of Cybertron, and the life of Galvatron the Barbarian - but there’s a lot more going on in this issue, and TFWiki is here to help you untangle the mysteries of… The Thirteen Primes!
If you enjoy TFWiki having new issues of IDW’s Transformers comics written up quickly and thoroughly, please consider showing your support by contributing to my Patreon.
i demand my idw-universe the fallen
It’s kind of fascinating the way Vortex’s colours wound up so weird in Fall of Cybertron.
Step 1: G1 Vortex’s Dreamwave profile art, used as his @tfwiki mainpic, gives his grey parts a beige tint (I’m told it’s like this in print, it’s not just a bad scan).
Step 2: A concept artist for the game uses that profile art as a reference when designing the Fall of Cybertron version, leading to a beige-ish Vortex. Additionally, his flappy hip skirts seem to be derived from the Dreamwave art’s hinged waist pieces. The concept artist also happens to used a redder shade of pink for Vortex’s torso.
Step 3: In the process of turning the concept art into an in-game model, the beige-ish grey becomes a full-blown beige, and the reddish pink becomes full-blown red (and also his head changes colour for some reason).
All very butterfly effect, innit?
Another one for the “how does TFWiki affect TF media” files we talked about a couple of months back!
On August 8th 1986, The Transformers: The Movie hit theaters in the USA! Our Twitter account celebrated the 29th anniversary of the event by posting a bunch of behind-the-scenes material from the film, and now we’ll post them here as well.
Here are early models for Arcee, Blurr, Cyclonus, Galvatron, Kup, a Sweep, and Wheelie! They come from the Ron Friedman auctions of a few years back.
how did this page not exist yet
Transformers with accents are a dime a dozen. Aside from any number of regional American accents, and plenty of British ‘bots, there are French Transformers, Australian Transformers, Scottish, Russian, and German Transformers, and more! But on St. Patrick’s Day, we lament that there’s never been an IRISH Transformer!
So the best we can offer you today is a collection of green Transformers from across the continuities…. annnnd… ummm… a picture of, uh… Nick Roche, why not.
There are, however, lots of drunk Transformers.
get in the robot, shaggy
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