sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:how is a "notion" evidence of a connection?
*Everything* in Japan was connected to the G1 cartoon in some form before Armada came along.
Armada was the first series released in Japan that was explicitly non-G1. Before it came along, no series in Japan was seen as not being a part of the G1 continuity family (which the G1 cartoon formed the core of for them).
sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:how is coming from the future evidence of a connection?
See above.
Also, the catalog mentioned Fire Convoy's team as being a "Dimensional Patrol".
sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:what was this line, and did it confirm a connection or confirm they are time travellers?
I think it was something like Fire Convoy saying he would follow Gigatron wherever he went, "even if it's to the edge of the universe". That kinda-sorta fit in with his team being a "Dimensional Patrol", but like I said, it's pretty vague despite being the only piece related to the cast having come from another era.
Because the line was so vague, and the subject itself not really emphasized in the cartoon, Saban pretty much ignored all of it and instead dubbed RiD as a new continuity family.
sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:what do you consider little conflict?Also, what year would that battle have taken place in?
By "little conflict", I mean without intruding upon what had come before & after the year 2000 of the story's timeline.
As for the battle itself, it took place in the late 1990s.
sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:to me this presents a great conflict with J-G1 Headmasters.
I looked up what you posted above tf tf Wiki-states that Brave Max did not migrate from Cybertron with the others that he came from the futures/other dimension and landed on planet master.
The Headmaster cartoon tells a different story,Max was known on Cybertron in the past, which is confirmed by Kup.
Brave Max and Japanese Fort Max aren't the same guy. Brave Max was created on Earth in ancient times by Primus to be a guardian watching over Unicron's dormant Angolmois energy.
Gigatron and his Destrongers came to 21st Century Earth in the year 2000 to seek him out and seize his power (as shown in the cartoon).
After the transporting the Destrongers away to be imprisoned at the end of the cartoon, Brave Max returned on Earth after the cartoon, he was used to form the core of Autobot City when construction of it began in 2003. By 2007, he was being used by the Kiss Players singing group as part of a goodwill campaign to repair the ill relations between humans and Transformers that had waned during events in 2006. During this year, events involving Brave Max, the Kiss Players, and the Sparkbots sent the group on a time-traveling adventure that eventually led to an accident that scattered all members across time and space. Brave Max wound up four million years in the past, crash-landing on Planet Master. His planetfall was observed by the locals, and their leader, Fortress, used Brave Maximus' technology to refine his own "Headmaster", leading him to create the Transtectors and his own Battleship Maximus.
sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:Energon Matrix?
The lesser Matrices possessed by Japanese Optimus Primal, Lio Convoy, Big Convoy, Fire Convoy, and maybe God Magnus.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Energon_Matrixsto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:BTW, I was under the impression that takara originally wanted Armada to be part of G1 as well.
The most I can find on this is this old Hasbro Q&A question
asked twice by TFWiki:
The July 2003 issue of the magazine
NewType USA contained an article on the then-upcoming
Armada series, and featured an interview with the Japanese director of
Armada, one Hidehito Ueda. According to the preamble of the interview, and we quote:
"In the beginning, Transformers Armada was planned as a sequel to The Rebirth, the last three-part Transformers episode shown in America featuring the Autobots and Decepticons, but later, partially because of Hasbro, it was produced as a completely new series."
Is this statement true? Was
Armada originally conceived as a follow-up to the original Transformers cartoon?
To which Hasbro couldn't provide an answer, each time (in other words, they don't know).
I wouldn't be surprised if the Japanese director originally thought of it as being such before knowing more of what the story would actually entail, since as I said above, there were no non-G1 continuity family series in Japan before Armada came along. But as the final product shows, such initial speculations from the director (
if they existed) didn't come to fruition in the end.
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