Eww.Originally Posted by Seraphim Prime
They all regretted it the next morning...
Technically it is in continuity. Transformers was originally intended to occur in Marvel's Earth-616 (the "main" Marvel universe at the time) but after #3 it became apparent that it wasn't; especially because of Nick Fury's refusal to battle Godzilla. Transformers occurs in Marvel's Earth-91274 and Earth-120185, both of which, as far as Transformers continuity is concerned, are really the same universe. The two universes exist simply because Marvel US created Earth-91274 whereas Marvel UK created Earth-120185, but as we all know, the Marvel UK Transformers stories are really an expansion of the Marvel US stories (just like how the Clone Wars series is an expansion of the Star Wars movies and not a separate reality). At first one could have argued that Earth-91274 was G1 _without_ all the extra events that occured on Earth-120185, but that would've all been retconned after #56 when Simon Furman took over from Bob Budiansky in writing the Marvel US Transformers comics, after which he essentially fused Marvel US continuity with Marvel UK (e.g. the Matrix Quest could not have occured on Earth-91274 if not for events that occured on Earth-120185 (e.g.: Deathbringer)). And certain contradictions between the two (e.g.: Earthforce Saga) have since been retconned as being in alternate realities.
I personally consider Earths 91274 and 120185 as being the same universe anyway. Oh yeah, and G.I. Joe also exists in this universe(s) (although in Earth-120185 they're called Action Force, which is what Hasbro marketed G.I. Joe as in the UK).
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