When comes to overall continuities, we accept these:
Generation 1 Cartoon
Marvel US Comics (Both G1 and G2)
Marvel UK comics (UK exclusive expansions to Marvel US comics)
Generation 1 Dreamwave comics
Generation 1 IDW Comics
Beast Wars & Beast Machines (canon sequel to Generation 1 & 2, includes BotCon material)
Beast Wars IDW comicsUniverse (follows after Beast Machines, telling a war waged across the Multiverse and where multiple continuities are visited, ending with and tying into Cybertron. Not to be confused with the 2008 toyline of the same name)
Robots in Disguise
Armada, Energon, Cybertron (Known as the Unicron Trilogy)
Armada & Energon Dreamwave Comics
Live Action Movies
AnimatedAnd to top it off, here are the BotCon original timelines:
Classics (which follows after G1 Marvel, but ignores G2 and Marvel UK)
Shattered Glass (ties into Classics, but is a mirror Universe)
Wings of Honor & G2: Redux (Variant G1 Timeline before the Great War)
Don't even get started on the Japanese timelines. My advise on that is not to bother understanding it. As a matter of fact, ignore this post completely.
