Quote Originally Posted by MV75
But there's those of us who never followed comic books, so the cartoon and it's toys are G1 and nothing else.
There's a difference between "Sorry I haven't read the comics" and "Only the G1 cartoon counts as G1!" - it's the latter that really irks me.

I can understand that some people's preferred G1 canonical source is the G1 cartoon, fine... but that's no excuse to blindly dismiss any other G1 source. If you don't want to include other G1 sources, then say so. If a person says, "G1 cartoon Megatron" then they're qualifying that they're only talking about Megatron from the G1 cartoon. But if a person says "G1 Megatron," then I'm sorry but it means that anything relevant to Megatron from 1984-1993 is fair game. If you only want to talk about the G1 cartoon, then say so. If you don't say so, even unintentionally, don't get mad when people mention other sources.

For example, in the original G1 question game on the old board that Turtle Boy started, he said that anything G1 was fair game. He later admitted that he only thought about the G1 cartoon but said that since he never specified that, fair's fair, anything related to G1 from any source was relevant. TheDirtyDigger later started the G1 US Cartoon question game, which very specifically said that questions could only be taken from the G1 US cartoon. That's how it should work.

Obviously I prefer the G1 comics over the cartoon, but I don't go around discounting the G1 cartoon as a source of G1 canon just because I don't like it as much. They're both equally valid forms of G1 canon. And of course, there are many other sources of G1 canon other than the comics and cartoon.