Talk:The Big Broadcast of 2006 (issue)

There's no exclamation point in the title of my copy. Was it added for a later printing? It should move to "The Big Broadcast of 2006 (issue)" otherwise. -- Repowers 02:30, 28 June 2009 (EDT)

US continuity "errors"

The errors section added for US continuity was unnecessary.

Rodimus Prime and Galvatron's origins are unexplored.

• The same is true for dozens of Transformers, in every continuity.

Cyclonus and Scourge are also present, but they previously appeared to US readers without explanation in Brothers in Armor!!.

• And nothing from that issue makes them being present later unlikely, so what's the problem?

Rodimus Prime mentions a past battle between him and Galvatron inside Unicron. This event is... highly unlikely in the mainline comic continuity, especially if this Rodimus Prime is a Matrix-enhanced Hot Rod.

Slingshot was consumed by Swarm in the Generation 2 A Rage in Heaven! (which happened chronologically before this issue).

• Here, you were trying to reverse engineer continuity errors, because #43 doesn't fit with stories that happened years after it. If anything, the later stories would be the "errors" because they contradict Big Broadcast.

But seriously, #43 was clearly not meant to be in continuity with the rest of the comic. So just accept it as an alternate timeline, or a micro-continuity, and let's not analyze all the different ways it doesn't quite match up with a story it was never intended to match up with. --Xaaron 22:50, 20 September 2009 (EDT)

Good points, except I personally disagree that it should reflexively viewed as an alternate timeline or micro-continuity. It (the US version) is presented straight-up as an event that happened in 2006. It may be true that the production staff didn't give much thought about continuity, but so what? - Starfield 23:05, 20 September 2009 (EDT)