Canada
Canada is like the United States of America, but bigger, politer, and health care-ier. Toronto is Canada's largest city.
Non-fiction, eh?
Canada has had a surprisingly large behind-the-scenes role in producing Transformers. It is home of Mainframe Entertainment, who produced the Beast Wars and Beast Machines television series. It was also home to the now-defunct Dreamwave Productions whose top-selling 2002 Generation 1 revival comic led directly to the production of the 2007 movie. Several Transformers voice actors and comic artists also call Canada home.
During the tail end of Generation 1, Canada received several toys the U.S. did not, like the Turbomasters. Generally speaking, U.S. exclusives tend to turn up at Canadian retail, with Wal-Mart and Toys R Us keeping their exclusives and Target exclusives winding up at Zellers, a Canadian chain.
Due to Canada being a bilingual country, it's always had multilingual packaging. The toys also required multilingual character names for a long time.
Fiction, eh?
Marvel Comics continuity
There are lots of polar bears, eh?
When Ratchet blew up the Ark like a shaken-up bottle of beer, it crashed somewhere in northern Canada. The Ark, not the beer, 'cause that'd be a waste of good beer. But Galvatron survived the crash, and since he's like, a big hoser, he killed a bunch of Canadian army guys. Then Spike Witwicky and Fortress Maximus came and beat him up and tossed him in a lake, and that was pretty much it for Galvatron. The Last Autobot, eh?
Japanese cartoon continuity
The Autobot group led by Ginrai first met up with Ranger in the vast Canadian forests and Lightfoot at his father's motor company. Both learned aboot their ability to "God On" with their Transtectors soon after. An Enemy? The Third Godmaster, Ranger
Lightfoot's father moved from England to Canada to fulfill his dream of starting a car company, this apparently being more achievable in Canada. The resulting company is the prestigious British Motors, which is a perfectly logical name for a company started in Canada. Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter
Dreamwave Generation 1 comics continuity
Lazarus has a secret base there, eh? The Canadian army attacked the Autobots for trying to save them, eh? Prime Directive
They have clone armies, eh?!
Unicron Trilogy
Kicker and Ironhide work to install Base Unit 1 with the Omnicons not really helping. Omni-Potent
Later, an evil army of Divebomb clones invade Toronto in a co-ordinated attack. Multiplicity The Autobots defend the city, and when they reserves run low, Megatron comes to their rescue. After purging the world of the Terrorcon clones, Megatron heads to the planned site of Base Unit 1 for an intense battle against Scorponok No Exit
Mudflap roams aboot the frozen wastelands like a pale blue force of nature, eh?
Titan Magazines (2007 Movie)
In an alternate universe, Canada may have been conquered and occupied by Decepticons for a brief period. Revolution Part 1
Transformers Animated
Canada is very close to Detroit. However, despite what a certain pompous windbag thinks, there are no "international" waters in Lake Erie. Just American and Canadian, eh? The Return of the Headmaster
Titan Magazines (Revenge of the Fallen)
Skids and Mudflap arrived on Earth over Toronto, then happily swam to Ball's Falls where they picked up alternate forms. On the way in, Mudflap accidentally hit this big pointy thing, but that won't cause any problems, right? Dogfight!
Trivia
- Transformers Animated episodes air earlier in Canada, eh?
- There are no Target stores in Canada, eh?
- Transformers Animated toys were released a month sooner, eh?
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