Quote Originally Posted by Paulbot View Post
Remember anything that is true in Japan is true for Japan, but Western Beast Wars continuity doesn't = Japanese Beast Wars continuity.
Yeah... kinda.

The Japanese Beast Wars continuity is intended to be part of Anglophone BW continuity -- much like how say UK G1 comic continuity was intended to be part of US G1 continuity.

Technically it could be argued that they are separate continuities - indeed Marvel officially classifies two G1 universes; we have Earth-91274 which is where everything in the US comics occurs, and we also have Earth-120185 which is where the UK comics are set, i.e. it's the same as Earth-91274 only with additional events like Target: 2006 and the Time Wars... so one could argue that these events only occurred on Earth-120185 and not on Earth-91274.

Now the problem with this is that at some events that occurred on Earth-91274 is dependent/reliant on events that occurred on Earth-120185. Take the Matrix Quest for example... that event could not have occurred the way it did if not for the Autobots having ejected Optimus Prime's body into space in a funeral barge (later discovered on Cameron's third moon of VsQs), as well as the whole Deathbringer story arc. Both of these events occurred in the UK comics but not in the US comics, but the US comics do flashback to them, and indeed Optimus Prime's body was still in the funeral barge when it was discovered by scientists from Cameron Space Control. And of course, the Matrix's prior contact with Deathbringer gave it its first taste for destruction -- which led it to want to experience it even more, thus the whole Matrix-Spawn, Thunderwing thingamajiggy. All key events that occurred in the US comics that relied on events from the UK comics.

At best I guess it could be argued that Earth-91274 is the universe where everything in the US comics happened plus some events from the UK comics... and Earth-120185 us a close parallel universe where the same things happened, plus additional events that may not have happened on Earth-91274. So IMHO JP and Anglophone BW continuities are kinda like comparing these two Earths.

"Too... many... Earths!"

Quote Originally Posted by Paulbot
And Fan convention stories, whoever wrote them, are pretty much fan fiction, as they are fiction for fans.
Aren't the BotCon comics printed with permission from Hasbro though? If so, then that lends them official currency as far as continuity's concern (regardless of whether people may consider the writing quality to be on par with fan fics or not).