Quote Originally Posted by kup
Although saying that X-Men movie influenced X-Men evolution is a bit of a stretch it still serves to make your point
Well there are varying limits of influence - and there is some influence in X-Men Evolution visually... e.g. the uniforms are darker; Wolverine isn't wearing yellow spandex.

Quote Originally Posted by TheDirtyDigger
Transformers now has so many totally different continuities (which I don't like) and with the movies we can expect 3 x 2 hr (approx) episodes. If the cartoon was in movie continuity we could have so much more from one Universe.
To be fair, Transformers has never had a single universe/continuity.

Quote Originally Posted by Paulbot
The Movie did influence Animated that's why Animated has characters named Bumblebee and Ratchet and a macguffin called the AllSpark.
When I spoke to Eric he told me that a lot of those were "last minute" decisions. Initially Hasbro intended for Animated to be entirely unrelated to the movie - and it is - but then much later on in the developmental stage they decided to put in references from the movie, such as naming their Cosmic MacGuffin(TM) the AllSpark(R). I'm not sure if the inclusion of Ratchet was influenced by the movie or not - we've had Red Alert (who was called Ratchet in Japan) in the Unicron Trilogy. But I read somewhere that Bumblebee was originally slated to be Hot Shot, but they later changed him to Bumblebee - I think that was a later decision made that was influenced by the movie.

So there are influences from the movie, but as TheDirtyDigger said, it's a relatively minor influence. I would have preferred a greater/stronger influence.

Again - JMHO yo.

Quote Originally Posted by i_amtrunks
Story wise, if the Animated series expanded on the movie it would have more or less a blank slate as the movie had about as much plot and characterisation in it as the AHM comic series.
Oooh! A double janglies-kick to Bay and McCarthy!