Fast_Magma wrote:Does anyone know what is the real life span of a transformer (Autobot/Decepticon)? Is it 10,000 years, 100,000 years, 1 million years, 10 million years? how long do transformers live?
This is tough....for example, in the comic continuity Xaaron has been hanging around for a long time and is not necessarily dying from old age.....yet Rodimus seems to be REALLY effing old in Aspects of Evil, which is in the year 2356...only 350 years after he was a "kid".
There are plenty of ways to retcon Rodimus Prime's intense age (for one thing, he had been hanging out for 300 odd years with bits of Unicorn all up inside him...who knows what that does to a bot), but I think it is one of those things they didn't really have a consensus on/care about.
Regarding the Constructicon construction debate; I have always felt it was a continuity glitch that lends itself quite well to retconning. Nothing in the series itself suggests it is an error...however, from the writing styles in other episodes it seems like the kind of thing the writers were usually specific about (i.e. blatantly saying they constructed new bodies). Not much was left to the imagination.
This is my OPINION based on how I perceive the writing. There is *nothing* in the fiction that shows they were constructed cold on Earth. I feel it was most likely a writing error, but it does have a nice explanation that may or may not have been intentional.
Does someone more knowledgable about the Transformers Bible know if it says anything about this?
