Talk:Mars Attacks: The Transformers
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Full stop error
[edit]I was going by the image on The General. Maybe we need a better image on that page, if an image without the mistake is available? --Flicky1991 05:39, 27 January 2013 (EST)
- The error isn't in the printed copy, there's a clearly visible period after the word 'any', the error was only in the preview. - Cattleprod 14:51, 27 January 2013 (EST)
Continuity
[edit]I probably wouldn't have said anything if I wasn't minor edit-no explanation-reverted, but why do we list a continuity family under the "continuity" line? For reference, the Transformers Legends stories uses things like "Generation 1 (Unique)" and "Beast Machines (Unique)." Can't we get any closer than the G1 continuity family which includes IDW, Beast Wars, and Marvel Comics? Are we pretending it is just some random Generation 1 universe where Spike wears yellow oil rig work boots? - Starfield 20:33, 28 January 2013 (EST)
- Throwing this in - the Continuity map in the latest Fan Club magazine places this in the cartoon continuity. --abates 07:22, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
- So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? Mimi 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
- It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - Starfield 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
- Don't forget that I noted a bunch of issues with that continuity map, so it ain't perfect. This issue, while heavily influence on the cartoon continuity, feels more like a parody of that continuity, poking fun at it instead of feeling like a legitimate component of it. --Sabrblade 18:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
- I don't think anyone's arguing it should be part of the cartoon continuity in the way we treat IDW's Animated comics as part of the Animated cartoon sections, but it at least should go at the same level as Wings. --abates 19:01, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
- I would argue that. It crosses over with the G1 cartoon. Like GI Joe and the Marvel Comic, or The Avengers and IDW Transformers. The burden of proof would be for people who think it is not a legitimate crossover. It feels like a parody? I don't think so. It is a real story. Does a general yelling at Spike for wearing yellow oil rig boots make it a parody? No, that is just a sly in-joke, like "Die-cast construction! It's a lost art." I didn't know about your issues list, Sabrlade. But this doesn't seem like some kind of oversight. Mars Attacks was put in continuity with the cartoon because it pretty obviously is. - Starfield 19:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
- "The story... serves as a broad parody of the Generation 1 cartoon, using minimally-altered versions of its character models and playing on more than a few of its tropes and eccentricities."
- At most, I could see it being an alternate version of the cartoon universe a la abates's Wings Universe comparison, rather than the very same one. I think I can agree with it being treated like how we treat Wing Universe, so, abates, I'll concede to your points. --Sabrblade 21:08, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
- Authorial intent: https://twitter.com/Shane_McCarthy/status/293757604935651329 Shane McCarthy on Twitter. To me it sounds like it's in the G1 cartoon universe and makes fun of it. Terrortron (talk) 05:33, 16 May 2014 (EDT)
- I would argue that. It crosses over with the G1 cartoon. Like GI Joe and the Marvel Comic, or The Avengers and IDW Transformers. The burden of proof would be for people who think it is not a legitimate crossover. It feels like a parody? I don't think so. It is a real story. Does a general yelling at Spike for wearing yellow oil rig boots make it a parody? No, that is just a sly in-joke, like "Die-cast construction! It's a lost art." I didn't know about your issues list, Sabrlade. But this doesn't seem like some kind of oversight. Mars Attacks was put in continuity with the cartoon because it pretty obviously is. - Starfield 19:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
- I don't think anyone's arguing it should be part of the cartoon continuity in the way we treat IDW's Animated comics as part of the Animated cartoon sections, but it at least should go at the same level as Wings. --abates 19:01, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
- Don't forget that I noted a bunch of issues with that continuity map, so it ain't perfect. This issue, while heavily influence on the cartoon continuity, feels more like a parody of that continuity, poking fun at it instead of feeling like a legitimate component of it. --Sabrblade 18:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
- It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - Starfield 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
- So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? Mimi 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)