Talk:Canon

I was quite surprised that nobody had done this article yet so I thought I’d have a go. Given the potential arguments that this topic might cause, I have tried to be as uncontroversial as possible and stick to the ‘facts’.

I have never heard of (and been unable to find) any official canon policy from Hasbro (beyond the Universe thing mentioned in the article) and so until someone enlightens me otherwise I assumed that there isn’t one.

There is a G1 bias to the article as that’s where my knowledge mainly lies so someone might want to add in some later stuff for balance.

I look forward to the inevitable rewrites.Omnisvalidus 20:19, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

The main reason you've not been able to find any offical canon policy from Hasbro is that there is none. With Transformers, the closest thing to "Is this cannon?" is "Is this piece of fiction licensed or produced by Hasbro or TakaraTomy?" --FortMax 20:37, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I think this page definately needs a note that it's not spelled "cannon".--66.237.45.7 00:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Ask and you shall receive. Omnisvalidus 10:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Blogs and Q&A sessions as canon.

I disagree with events that happen only in a blog or Q&A session being treated as canon. I am thinking of event "Rodimus Prime (Animated) survived the cosmic rust attack and is recovering". "Rodimus in recovery" is an event that only happened in a Q&A session. The event never happened in fiction. Now I agree that a blog or Q&A session can clarify something that was seen, like, "was that Alpha Trion we saw?" but I don't think it can introduce a new event.

Another example would be Hail and Farewell. Simon Furman explicitly said that was canon in a blog post, but now the editors say it was never canon and the events have been contradicted all over the place. - Starfield 12:42, 28 April 2009 (EDT)