Who was on the ark!?

[Paulbot]

Which continuity?

Quick answer is the original 1984 toys (plus Hauler in the cartoon or plus the Dinobots in the comic)

Oh and in the comic Smokescreen, Tracks, Hoist, Skids, Grapple were aboard the ark in a fashion... but seemed to have been either cloned or just aboard in spark format and given new bodies on earth.

Possibly Red Alert too based on the UK comics.

And in the cartoon it's unknown if many of the 1985 Autobots came to Earth via the spacebridge or were aboard the Ark.

In Dreamwave continuity they include an extra Autobot aboard the Ark but never said who that was (and seemed to imply it was Superion, or maybe Red Alert again?).

[kup]

It also possible that several of the Season 2 Autobots were in the Ark too but not 'onscreen' in the 1st season since they appeared out of no where. For the new Season 2 Cons they could have come through the space bridge.

[lcz128]

I meant the cartoon.... but thanks so far for the responses - am slowly going through it XD

Dang - I want an Ark display

[GoktimusPrime]

Autobots on the Ark!

So... Who are they?

Original crew of the Ark in the G1 cartoon:
Optimus Prime
Bluestreak
Brawn
Bumblebee
Cliffjumper
Gears
Hauler
Hound
Huffer
Ironhide
Jazz
Mirage
Prowl
Ratchet
Sideswipe
Sunstreaker
Trailbreaker
Wheeljack
Windcharger

and I suppose a similar question would be which Decepticons should make the cut into a like-themed collection?

The original crew of the Nemesis in the G1 cartoon:
Megatron
Buzzsaw
Frenzy
Laserbeak
Ravage
Rumble
Skywarp
Soundwave
Spectro
Spyglass
Starscream
Thundercracker
Viewfinder
Warrior

[roller]

O
Warrior

er er i dont know, personally i cant decide whether id count him as a seperate entity. Lazy animators, or whoever, why not just have the actor say "Reflector" or animate a generic

[GoktimusPrime]

Jhiaxus and Monzo present evidence that Warrior is a separate character from Viewfinder, Spectro and Spyglass (Reflector) here.

"D'oh!"

One odd occupant of the Nemesis from the G1 comics is G1 Nemesis Prime!

...this character was never named, but it is a black Optimus Prime who led the Decepticons' boarding attack on the Ark!

For me personally, G1 is pretty much cartoon all the way but I do wish I had have got into the comic way back when.
The way Gok mentions it makes it sound brilliant.

IMHO the G1 comics are a lot better than the cartoon. Far less campy and a lot more mature. They're doing a lot of reprints now. IDW are reprinting the Time Wars soon - that's a must-have for G1 fans IMO.

[STL]

One odd occupant of the Nemesis from the G1 comics is G1 Nemesis Prime!

...this character was never named, but it is a black Optimus Prime who led the Decepticons' boarding attack on the Ark!

Whoa, that's awesome. You could make a case for it all tying together.

I like to think of the G1 toys as mix of cartoon/comics/toyline.

[lcz128]

Original crew of the Ark in the G1 cartoon:
Optimus Prime
Bluestreak
Brawn
Bumblebee
Cliffjumper
Gears
Hauler
Hound
Huffer
Ironhide
Jazz
Mirage
Prowl
Ratchet
Sideswipe
Sunstreaker
Trailbreaker
Wheeljack
Windcharger


The original crew of the Nemesis in the G1 cartoon:
Megatron
Buzzsaw
Frenzy
Laserbeak
Ravage
Rumble
Skywarp
Soundwave
Spectro
Spyglass
Starscream
Thundercracker
Viewfinder
Warrior

That's awesome gok- Just that this will be quite painful to fill up as classics, then :b

Thanks for all the contributions dudes

[GoktimusPrime]

Personally I don't use Classics as G1. I usually see them as the "alternative G2" - i.e.: an evolution from G1 after the Battle of Klo, as per their portrayal in the Classics comics. To me, my G1 toys are G1 and Classics belong in the Classics universe and never the twain shall meet.

Generation One


Classics

Just that this will be quite painful to fill up as classics, then :b

And there's your other problem. Some of the original crews of the Ark and Nemesis may never be made as Classics/Universe/Henkei and another reason why I keep them separate.

[STL]

where did that second image, come from Gok? Looks awesome.