Talk:Rescue Bot

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Oh my god. Not shortening "Rescue Bots" to "RB" is not some sort of strange exception to our rules. We tend to only shorten the disambiguations that a) don't conflict with any other abbreviations and b) are well-accepted or known abbreviations. There are plenty of disambiguations that aren't shortened! In fact, MOST of the disambiguations on Optimus Prime's disambig page ARE NOT ABBREVIATIONS. I'm not going to go back and revert everything back immediately, but know that I am not happy at all of this being moved around right from under me as I put this stuff together. --ItsWalky 15:50, 14 February 2011 (EST)

What are you on about? All of the multiple-word franchise disambiguation parentheses are abbreviated, from Robot Masters to Machine Wars to Return of Convoy. Some multiple-word disambigs aren't abbreviated, yes, but that doesn't matter because they're not franchises and the customary rules don't apply to them in the first place. —Interrobang 18:31, 14 February 2011 (EST)

Those were instated only once it was established that fans-in-general knew at a glance what the abbreviation stood for. If you don't remember, all of our Shattered Glass stuff used to be unabbreviated. We changed it after we realized that, well, people just use SG and it's understood. Nobody knows what the heck "RB" is. --ItsWalky 18:48, 14 February 2011 (EST)

I'm with Interrobang on this. I don't think we've ever had a minimum-reader-familiarity requirement for parenthetical abbreviations. I don't even know how we'd establish that. The point of abbreviating, I thought, is just to make the parentheticals as short as possible, since they only exist to separate identically-named pages, not to convey important information. They're barely a step above calling pages "Optimus Prime (1)", "Optimus Prime (2)", etc. If the reader doesn't know what "RB" is, well, that's why we start articles with a disambig note.

Edit: Looking at Optimus Prime (disambiguation), I see what you mean about the many unabbreviated two-word parentheticals. But those are all storyline titles and suchlike, which we've always treated as a special case. Multi-word franchises, as far as I can tell, are abbreviated by default. (Or you can look at it as franchises being the special case because the disambig-notes tend to spell things out immediately. Either way.)

- Jackpot 20:31, 14 February 2011 (EST)

I can't help but think we should disambiguate all the various "Rescue Team" groups. We have a Rescue Force, a Rescue Patrol, a Rescue Patrol Team, and now the Rescue Bots, who are likely to be referred to as the "Rescue Bots force" or "Rescue Bots team" or something at some point. (...Rescue doesn't look like a word anymore.) --Andrusi 15:17, 16 February 2011 (EST)

Heck, then there's Takara's Rescue Hero Go-Bots. --Salt-Man Z 16:24, 16 February 2011 (EST)

Leading inevitably to the quote "Rescue Bot heroes, go!" --Andrusi 11:28, 17 February 2011 (EST)

Continuity Family

I'm just dying to know how this fits into our confam/universal stream hierarchy. --Khajidha 11:45, 24 March 2011 (EDT)

I'd wager it's its own little corner of the multiverse. --Detour 12:34, 24 March 2011 (EDT)

Well aparently its toon is going to involve them as trainees too young to work with Prime so its not imopossible it'll link to Prime but it IS a bit of a stretch. Well just have to wait and see...

All of its characters already get their own page because it's its own continuity family. If they were attached to anything else, the characters would go on existing pages. --ItsWalky 12:43, 24 March 2011 (EDT)

The Autobots in the show are all stationed on a secluded island, FAR from Nevada, and the show only features cameo appearances from Optimus Prime, and Bumblebee is only a toy, and not mentioned in the show. Perhaps the show takes place in an already established continuity? Maybe Aligned, as is Hasbro's current "agenda", and it takes place during the three year period when there was no Decepticon activity in the Prime timeline? Perhaps it is in the Aligned continuity family, but not aligned with Prime, but rather WFC and FOC? The Autobots leave Cybertron for Earth, and the Decepticons never bother them afterwards? Maybe it's G1, and takes place after "The Rebirth". It's all quite interesting to think about. --Kaymac192 23:13, 1 December 2011 (EST)

There's evidence in the episodes to point to the Aligned Continuity family. --Sabrblade 14:40, 18 December 2011 (EST)

No. There's very small bits that might suggest a link to Prime but could mean a billion other things or nothing at all. That's not evidence. Not unless we get loads more of it or something more concrete. --76.28.76.206 15:24, 18 December 2011 (EST)

Sorry, wrong word. "Hints" is what I meant to say instead of "evidence". --Sabrblade 12:54, 19 December 2011 (EST)

I think a better way to look at this is to demand proof that RB is NOT in the Aligned continuity family. Hasbro has said that all of their new properties, going forward from WFC, are spawned from the same Aligned treatment Bible. To place RB outside of that sphere, one is gonna have to provide evidence. As stated before, the reason RB stuff was its own continuity family on this site before was because early information (from Toy Fair reps) indicated that RB was taking place in a universe where Decepticons did not exist. This is proven to not be the case, and so there is no longer anything keeping RB from being part of Aligned. --ItsWalky 14:08, 19 December 2011 (EST)

Name

Shouldn't this be "Rescue Bot" (singular)? Just like Autobot, Decepticon, Wrecker, Triggerbot, etc. --Khajidha 22:27, 13 December 2011 (EST)

Are there more members?

What about Ratchet, Lazerbeak, Citadel Secundus, Perceptor, and the three Dinobots that are in Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy? Shouldn't they be in here too? I do believe that they all were depicted as Rescue Bots in the show, but I must admit I'm not fully sure. Besides that, I don't recall Bumblebee specifically being called one. I recall it being implied, but not specifically stated that he was. Am I just being stupid, or is that an error of sorts? Beetle Bug (talk) 23:38, 11 August 2021 (EDT)