Canon

[Sky Shadow]

If I was under attack from the greatest warship in Transformers history, I wouldn't care where I crashed, as long as it was far away from it.

He doesn't crash to get away from a warship, he crashes because the Decepticons have boarded the Ark and he wants to end their lives and save the universe from the Megatron. It's pretty psychotic if he crashes into an inhabited planet to do.

[Verno]

The episode synopsis on the TF Wiki says "Both ships spin out of control, crashing on nearby Earth." Doesn't sound like Prime had much of a choice.

And just watching a quick clip on youtube, Prime's last words before the Ark crashes into Earth is "We're out of control" and he grabs the controls, presumably to try and take back control of the ship and steer away.

So ultimately, in this telling of the crash, Prime is as powerless as everyone else to stop The Ark crashing into Earth.

Is there a different telling somewhere? I'd be interested to read/watch it.

[Verno]

Haha, and that 4 million year timeframe was right. Looks like some of these G1 details are sticking.

[LordCyrusOmega]

Granted it was millions of years ago does anyone know exactly what region on Earth the Maximals and Predacons landed on. I know they end up in North America but prior to that?
I always thought the Maximals landed in Africa as the animals they scanned inhabit that area.

[griffin]

Rhinox's fart in 'The Low Road' was shown as a mushroom cloud in central Africa, while they were at the Pred Base.

[Paulbot]

Is there a different telling somewhere? I'd be interested to read/watch it.

The Marvel G1 comics. Prime presses the "crash" button. This is what Sky Shadow was referring to.

[Verno]

The Marvel G1 comics. Prime presses the "crash" button. This is what Sky Shadow was referring to.

Sounds like The Ark had controls like a simple playschool toy with only 4 or 5 buttons. 'Take off', 'Land', 'Shoot', 'Crash'...

Africa is a pretty safe bet. Though the Maximals and Preds set some land and air speed records in getting around the planet during BW.

Megs runs from Africa to Siberia in 2-3 minutes.

Megs flies to Mount St. Hilary in a few minutes. But is shown to have visited ths site before, as BA and S'Bolt find parts of his exo-structure in the rubble at the front of the mountain. He must be a strong swimmer to cross the Atlantic in his pre-Transmetal T-Rex mode.

[Hursticon]

So if BW was set 70 odd thousand years ago, could it not be possible that a number of the world's oceans were caught in the grip of one of the many Ice ages?
If so, that'd make circum-navigating various regions of the globe a little easier I'd imagine.

[griffin]

The shots of the world from space appeared to have all the land masses and oceans looking as they do today (which was how Africa was able to be recognised).

[Hursticon]

The shots of the world from space appeared to have all the land masses and oceans looking as they do today (which was how Africa was able to be recognised).

This was an in-show reference was it?
If so, have you got an episodes reference?