Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Generation 1 cartoon continuity consists of the events depicted in The Transformers, the cartoon that ran for four seasons from 1984 to 1987 and The Transformers: The Movie, which took place between seasons 2 and 3 of the cartoon.

If you saw it in the show or movie, it's "Generation 1 cartoon continuity" canon, but on the MUX, only pre-movie episodes are MUX canon. We steal characters from the movie and beyond, but their activities on the MUX are all-new.


 * Several of Hasbro's other cartoons had minor crossovers with The Transformers, most notably the character Hector Ramirez. These shows were canon in the cartoon universe. The shows include: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, C.O.P.S., Inhumanoids, and Jem, and (almost) My Little Pony.

Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The events of seasons 1 and 2 took place in the current time of when the episodes aired — that is in 1984 and 1985. The movie jumped the setting twenty years into the future and took place in 2005. The third and fourth seasons followed from there. Some of the events of the 20 year gap can be inferred, but, for the most part, have gone unexplored.

The purpose of the Secret Files of Teletraan II was, in part, to fill in viewers who may not be familiar with the movie. Some of the historical events it depicts are different than the events of the movie. For instance, the Secret Files state that the Decepticons had lost the war by the year 2000 and have been exiled to Chaar from that time to the start of season 3. In the movie, the Decepticons controlled Cybertron in 2005 and were exiled to Chaar by the events of the movie.

On the MUX events start to diverge at the end of the cartoon series, and really break away from the cartoon continuity when Unicron attacks Earth in 1997, instead of Cybertron in 2005.