The Energon Pub

http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF/table.html

hopefully the link works (there is alot of flash on their web site w/ frames), but it is an offical G1 timeline according to takara.. very interesting read (assuming you casn read it)

Wait, are they trying to say that this how everything flows in one giant universe, & that everything connects w/each other w/out any contradictions & that even series that have nothing to do w/another are in fact related? If that's what I'm getting from this, then I'm not too keen on Takara trying to mash all this together. We all know that BW/BM have no relation to anything past it, but they do have relation to everything before them. Still, this is what they wanna do, so whatever.

Hm, weren't all the Japenese versions of RID, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron directly in relation to G1?

And that here in America they were altered so RID was it's own, and then Armada/Energon/Cybertron were together?

Senor Hugo wrote:Hm, weren't all the Japenese versions of RID, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron directly in relation to G1?

And that here in America they were altered so RID was it's own, and then Armada/Energon/Cybertron were together?

That might be true, but I don't see how it would work. G1 Season 3 was set in 2010, and yet so was Armada. Unless Micron Legend wasn't set in 2010 and was set at some point in the future. All I can make from this is that it looks like there are two universes, each with their own timeline.

One starts with Fight! Super Robot Life, then to RiD in 2000, then to Alternators in 2003, then to BW II (?) in 2004, then the movie in 2005, then Kiss Players, then the new movie in 2007, then 2010, then Headmasters, Masterforce, Victory and Zone, ending with BW and BM.

The other timeline seems to be Micron Legend (which seems to be in 2003), Superlink and Galaxy Force, with various events ordered in a chronology.

That "timeline" really hurt my head.

I'm sure I'm not reading that right...but do they have Victory as taking place before Season 1?

how do they intend to correct the bot form inconsistencies???Or the first time reactions to the transformers??? Or the whole Unicron thing?? it must be some point that an alternate reality wave hits or something like that...

would be nice if that was translated...you know for ppl like me who cant read jap...like me lol.....pics are nice but hard to understand when thats all i know.

Bombus distinguendus wrote:would be nice if that was translated...you know for ppl like me who cant read jap...like me lol.....pics are nice but hard to understand when thats all i know.

dude i agree!!!

It's confusing because they only use one calendar/timeline even though the events referred to are still divided by the sereis that they showed up in. So it's not an actual attempt to mix everything together into one histroy.
But, yeah, it's still confusing.

skywarp-2 wrote:

Bombus distinguendus wrote:would be nice if that was translated...you know for ppl like me who cant read jap...like me lol.....pics are nice but hard to understand when thats all i know.

dude i agree!!!

Yeah.

I prefer LINEAR timelines. Not this cross-universe wormhole $***.

But hey, that's me.

So is the timeline which has Car Robots and the live action movie in with gen 1 implying that they take part in that universe, or at the same time but in a different universe? I'd really like to find out, because it's been bugging me ever since I saw that timeline!!

I'm surprised no one has bothered to post the answers about the awkwardness of this timeline. Allow me to take a crack at it.

There are two timelines on this page. the first is for the Japanese G1 cartoon continuity, and the second is for the Japanese Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity.

In the first timeline, it shows the the creation of Unicron by Primacron and the Quintessons ruling Cybertron, followed by the creation of Megatron and Optimus Prime, followed by the Autobots and Decepticons crash landing on Earth and the pre-Headmasters arriving on Planet Master. Then comes the description of how the Headmasters became Headmasters and the sealing of Deszaras' fortress into the Dark Nebula by Star Saber. Then the Beast Wars occured. After that, Devil Z stole the Godmaster transtectors from the G Nebula 89 and hid them on Earth, and the Autobot Pretenders sealed away the Decepticon Pretenders into some Earth ruins. Then the Voyager probe, which contained the Golden Disk, was launched from Earth in 1977. Then the Autobots and Decepticons awakened on Earth in 1985 (1984 in the U.S. version) and restarted their war. Then in 2000, the events of Car Robots happened (NOT Robots in Disguise, Car Robots). In 2003, the events of Binaltech started and continued into its own splinter timeline that was severed from the regular timeline. 2004 was when RobotMasters occurred. 2005 is Transformers the Movie. 2006 is (*shudders*) Kiss Players. 2007 is when the Live Action moive premiered in the real world; the red background means its in the real world (our world, "our" as in us, the people viewing this webpage) rather than the cartoon one. 2010 is the 2010 cartoon (G1 season 3 in America, which took place in 2006). "~2011" covers all the following G1 series: The Headmasters, Super-god Masterforce, Victory, Zone, Battlestars, Operation Combination. The last bit covers the lauch of the Axalon & the Darkside; as well as Beast Machines.

The second timeline starts with info on Primus, Vector Prime, and the four ships that left Cybertron. Next comes the creation and escape of the Mini-Cons. Following that is Rodimus' team leaving Cybertron. Then comes Planet X's attack on Gigantion. Next is the events of Armada as well as Alpha Q's planet(s) getting eaten by Unicron. Then comes the events of Energon. Following that comes the events of and the ending of TF:Cybertron.