Question about Takara's G1 continuity
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:03 pm
So, I have a question about Takara's G1 that's been bothering me for a while, and I think I may need a living Transformers encyclopedia to help clear this one up.
When in the balls is Cybertron restored?
Obviously it's destroyed in The Headmasters, and never restored throughout the subsequent two shows. Nor, to my knowledge, is it restored using the Zodiac energy of Zone or Battlestars, because presumably using energy known to be able to restore planets to restore their own would make too much sense.
So, when does it happen? Or does it? TFWiki states the following: "When the Autobots and Decepticons finally laid down their arms and forged the Cybertron Alliance, they rebuilt and restored Cybertron, using the energy known as Nucleon, which Optimus Prime recovered from the core of a black hole."
But, unusually, it doesn't cite a source. I'm also pretty sure I've read through most of the G2 story pages and don't remember this getting a mention. In fact, I don't remember them specifically stating whether Megatron and Optimus were on Cybertron at all.
So, what piece of fiction does this come from? Was it part of the original G2 run, or was it a later retcon meant to appease the addition of the Beast era?
Finally, what does it actually say about Cybertron? Was a new one created, or was the original one restored? Because either explanation wreaks a certain amount of havoc on the revelations regarding Cybertron we get in Beast Machines/Beast Wars Returns, which is otherwise ostensibly in cartoon continuity.
Anyone?
When in the balls is Cybertron restored?
Obviously it's destroyed in The Headmasters, and never restored throughout the subsequent two shows. Nor, to my knowledge, is it restored using the Zodiac energy of Zone or Battlestars, because presumably using energy known to be able to restore planets to restore their own would make too much sense.
So, when does it happen? Or does it? TFWiki states the following: "When the Autobots and Decepticons finally laid down their arms and forged the Cybertron Alliance, they rebuilt and restored Cybertron, using the energy known as Nucleon, which Optimus Prime recovered from the core of a black hole."
But, unusually, it doesn't cite a source. I'm also pretty sure I've read through most of the G2 story pages and don't remember this getting a mention. In fact, I don't remember them specifically stating whether Megatron and Optimus were on Cybertron at all.
So, what piece of fiction does this come from? Was it part of the original G2 run, or was it a later retcon meant to appease the addition of the Beast era?
Finally, what does it actually say about Cybertron? Was a new one created, or was the original one restored? Because either explanation wreaks a certain amount of havoc on the revelations regarding Cybertron we get in Beast Machines/Beast Wars Returns, which is otherwise ostensibly in cartoon continuity.
Anyone?