Skritz wrote:If GoBots exist as a work of fiction within the Bumblebee movie universe then does it mean Transformers doesn't and if so: did something else (which is similar) replace it or did GoBots go unchallenge? Does that mean in their universe that Michaeal Bay made GoBots movies?
AGH META FICTION HURTS MY HEAD!
Okay, I've got it:
Animax got its full first wave of toys produced in 1987, then wave 2 introduced a vehicle to animal transformation gimmick, making it dead last to jump on the transforming robot bandwagon, but it became regarded as the only true competition to GoBots, with a lasting cult following.
Years later, Animax becomes the basis for Beast Wars, the big difference being that once they realized they'd traveled back to prehistoric Earth, the AniMaximals realized they
had to change history to prevent the disaster that created Animax's post-apocalyptic setting, even if it meant neither they nor the AniMotor-Mutants ever existed!
But the new timeline leads to the present day being Lionel's Power Masters cartoon, which went on for 10 seasons because the lack of any TF Powermasters meant is didn't seem like a lame rip-off, and the hellscape brought about by the evil aliens' use of Death Gold leads to the cataclysm that produced Animax in the first place! See, Bob Forward would be working on the still-running New Adventures of He-Man in 1996, so the late Larry DiTillio's partner on Beast Wars would be Karl Macek, who'd taken to editing western cartoons together after Robotech: Odyssey left him burnt out on doing it to anime, and...
...and even if no one would have gotten it, I'd have laughed harder if Memo was a fan of Convertors.
Which could have served as yet another continuation of Robotech if Macek had added in stuff from Orguss, and then --
(I know, I know, I lost that battle)
