Talk:Mars Attacks: The Transformers - Revision history

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	:::::::"''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.''"		:::::::"''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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|Sabrblade]] 21:08, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		:::::::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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|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.		:::::::: 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. [[User:Terrortron\|Terrortron]] ([[User talk:Terrortron\|talk]]) 05:33, 16 May 2014 (EDT)

Terrortron: /* Continuity */ Authorial intent

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	:::::::"''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.''"		:::::::"''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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|Sabrblade]] 21:08, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		:::::::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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|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.

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	:::::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. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 19:01, 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. --[[User:Abates\|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 "[[The Agenda (Part III)\|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. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 19:28, 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 "[[The Agenda (Part III)\|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. - [[User:Starfield\|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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|Sabrblade]] 21:08, 20 July 2013 (EDT)

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	::::Don't forget that I noted [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=93772&view=findpost&p=2346624 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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|Sabrblade]] 18:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		::::Don't forget that I noted [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=93772&view=findpost&p=2346624 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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|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. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 19:01, 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. --[[User:Abates\|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 "[[The Agenda (Part III)\|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. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 19:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)

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	:::It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		:::It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
	::::Don't forget that I noted [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=93772&view=findpost&p=2346624 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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|Sabrblade]] 18:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		::::Don't forget that I noted [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=93772&view=findpost&p=2346624 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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|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. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 19:01, 20 July 2013 (EDT)

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	::So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? [[User:Mimi\|Mimi]] 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		::So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? [[User:Mimi\|Mimi]] 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
	:::It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		:::It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
			::::Don't forget that I noted [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=93772&view=findpost&p=2346624 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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|Sabrblade]] 18:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)

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	:Throwing this in - the Continuity map in the latest Fan Club magazine places this in the cartoon continuity. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 07:22, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		:Throwing this in - the Continuity map in the latest Fan Club magazine places this in the cartoon continuity. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 07:22, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
	::So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? [[User:Mimi\|Mimi]] 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		::So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? [[User:Mimi\|Mimi]] 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
			:::It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)

Mimi: /* Continuity */

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	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 (book)\|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? - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 20:33, 28 January 2013 (EST)		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 (book)\|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? - [[User:Starfield\|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. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 07:22, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		:Throwing this in - the Continuity map in the latest Fan Club magazine places this in the cartoon continuity. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 07:22, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
			::So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? [[User:Mimi\|Mimi]] 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)

Abates: /* Continuity */

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	== Continuity ==		== Continuity ==

	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? - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 20:33, 28 January 2013 (EST)		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 (book)\|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? - [[User:Starfield\|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. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 07:22, 20 July 2013 (EDT)

Starfield: /* Continuity */ new section

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	::The mistake's definitely in the digital version as well. Kinda weird since I'd have thought it'd be the easier of the two to fix. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 15:10, 27 January 2013 (EST)		::The mistake's definitely in the digital version as well. Kinda weird since I'd have thought it'd be the easier of the two to fix. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 15:10, 27 January 2013 (EST)
	:::Nah, they got a guy with a Sharpie to go through all the print copies. Simple. :P [[User:Jalaguy\|Jalaguy]] 15:24, 27 January 2013 (EST)		:::Nah, they got a guy with a Sharpie to go through all the print copies. Simple. :P [[User:Jalaguy\|Jalaguy]] 15:24, 27 January 2013 (EST)

			== Continuity ==

			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? - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 20:33, 28 January 2013 (EST)

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	::::Don't forget that I noted [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=93772&view=findpost&p=2346624 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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|Sabrblade]] 18:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		::::Don't forget that I noted [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=93772&view=findpost&p=2346624 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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|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. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 19:01, 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. --[[User:Abates\|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 "[[The Agenda (Part III)\|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. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 19:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)

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	:::It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		:::It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
	::::Don't forget that I noted [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=93772&view=findpost&p=2346624 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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|Sabrblade]] 18:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		::::Don't forget that I noted [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=93772&view=findpost&p=2346624 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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|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. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 19:01, 20 July 2013 (EDT)

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	::So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? [[User:Mimi\|Mimi]] 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		::So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? [[User:Mimi\|Mimi]] 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
	:::It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		:::It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
			::::Don't forget that I noted [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=93772&view=findpost&p=2346624 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. --[[User:Sabrblade\|Sabrblade]] 18:28, 20 July 2013 (EDT)

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	:Throwing this in - the Continuity map in the latest Fan Club magazine places this in the cartoon continuity. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 07:22, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		:Throwing this in - the Continuity map in the latest Fan Club magazine places this in the cartoon continuity. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 07:22, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
	::So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? [[User:Mimi\|Mimi]] 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		::So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? [[User:Mimi\|Mimi]] 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
			:::It seems so. Like the Madman comic and the Wings Universe. - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 18:10, 20 July 2013 (EDT)

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	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 (book)\|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? - [[User:Starfield\|Starfield]] 20:33, 28 January 2013 (EST)		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 (book)\|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? - [[User:Starfield\|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. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 07:22, 20 July 2013 (EDT)		:Throwing this in - the Continuity map in the latest Fan Club magazine places this in the cartoon continuity. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] 07:22, 20 July 2013 (EDT)
			::So should we move the Mars Attacks sections to the G1 cartoon sections? [[User:Mimi\|Mimi]] 07:57, 20 July 2013 (EDT)