ZeroWolf wrote:RodimusRex wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Ultra Markus wrote:what previous events are they talking about i seriously doubt BM or G2 have any part
Most likely it's just a nebulous Autobot/Decepticon war whose exact events are unimportant to expound upon, much like how Beast Wars and Animated each took place in a post-war setting.
The "rule by triumverate" sounds like Prowl, Ironhide, and Silverbolt, aka Magnaboss. I can't think of another example of three rulers sharing leadership of Cybertron, particularly in a setting 40 years after the great war and several years after the deaths of Optimus and Megatron.
My guess would be that the convention comic this last year was directed to lead into the Combiner Wars show, albeit VERY loosely. Not the same continuity but one parallel to it in some key ways.
Actually the triumvirate is likely to be Starscream, Windblade and one other. Maybe bumblebee, unless they killed him off in this timeline as well. I highly doubt it will have anything to do with the comic from bot con as combiner tech has already been introduced there.
I got the vibe that Windblade was more of our Bot on the Street, our point-of-view character.
I kinda suspect this will be in an alternate G1 kinda like Devastation but, much like Devastation, will treat some characters as new who might seem odd to be that new. Or when they say that combination is new, maybe they're saying that almost all Transformers are combiners in this setting, not that there were never combiners before. Like, maybe it's an oversimplification to get the point across.
The difference being that Devastation seems to take place a few years before its version of the Battle for Autobot City (they foreshadow TFTM throughout it) whereas this seems to be set in a version of the second Pax Cybertronia.