Flux Convoy wrote:I know logistics, minutiae and technicalities are your thing but come on. For the sake of argument they are the same thing. You can nitpick it out all you like. Go crazy. Same difference though. Simply put, Transformers continuity, as a whole, is a nightmare.
The English dub of RiD rewrote a lot of things from the original version Car Robots to make it stand out on its own. And, combined with the Universal Streams system, both can exist as different realities. One that is set in the Viron Cluster, where the inhabitants speak English and all have one set of names and identities, and one that is set in the Primax Cluster where they all speak Japanese and have a different set of names and identities.
Why, Brave Max got a whole unique history and origin story of his own that RiD Fort Max never got.
It's like how Scramble City, The Headmasters, Masterforce, Victory, Zone, etc. are all set in the same continuity as FSRLTF and 2010, but not the English G1 cartoon.
Or how Beast Wars Second, Beast Wars Neo, Beast Wars Reborn, and Beast Wars Diorama Story are all set in the same continuity as Beast Wars SLTF, Beast Wars Metals, and Beast Wars Returns, but not the English versions of Beast Wars and Beast Machines.
Certain aspects of different language versions differentiate them from other dubs enough to make them stand on their own, as well as tie them to other series that other dubs don't relate to. Like, The Headmasters and Masterforce couldn't possibly fit in with the English G1 cartoon since The Rebirth occurs instead of The Headmasters and "G1 season five" has Optimus Prime as a Powermaster at some point during/after 2007, when Convoy is still dead by that point in the Japanese cartoon continuity.
It also doesn't help that G1 season 3 takes place in 2006, while 2010 is set in 2010, leaving a five-year gap of events between the Japanese dub of the G1 movie (2005-2010) that is acknowledged in other Japanese G1 cartoon material. A five-year gap that is otherwise nonexistent in the English version.
A new dub creates a new universe/reality/universal stream/etc. That's how the Transformers multiverse work.