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This is how sad my fannishness can get.
For the uninitiated:
The Transformers fiction, right from the start, never had a singular canon, even with Marvel producing both a comic and a cartoon series for Hasbro. (One of the reasons for this is that Marvel Productions (the studio arm) and Marvel Comics were barely on speaking terms through the 1980s.) As time went on, and we had increasingly divergent storylines (such as Toei's post-1987 anime) and sequel series that were vague about just what storyline to which they were serving as a sequel (such as Mainframe'sBeast Wars Beasties), and into the 2000s various relaunches along the lines of "Everything's the same except for the fact that it's all completely different", things only got more and more complicated.
So a classification scheme was rolled out, grouping universe into clusters such as "Primax" for Generation 1/2 content or "Tyran" for the live-action movies. Universes where the Transformers exist only as fiction were referred to as "Quadwal" -- I'll give you a moment to guess what that's referencing.
But no-one ever assigned a universal stream to our own universe, though we have a "mirror"-type negative polarity universe charted.
So, I went and did the math.
For the uninitiated:
The Transformers fiction, right from the start, never had a singular canon, even with Marvel producing both a comic and a cartoon series for Hasbro. (One of the reasons for this is that Marvel Productions (the studio arm) and Marvel Comics were barely on speaking terms through the 1980s.) As time went on, and we had increasingly divergent storylines (such as Toei's post-1987 anime) and sequel series that were vague about just what storyline to which they were serving as a sequel (such as Mainframe's
So a classification scheme was rolled out, grouping universe into clusters such as "Primax" for Generation 1/2 content or "Tyran" for the live-action movies. Universes where the Transformers exist only as fiction were referred to as "Quadwal" -- I'll give you a moment to guess what that's referencing.
But no-one ever assigned a universal stream to our own universe, though we have a "mirror"-type negative polarity universe charted.
So, I went and did the math.
