How so? Judging from all that's been shown by the trailers, there doesn't seem to be anything at odds with either Bumblebee or ROTB. They're even keeping the name "B-127" from Bumblebee.
I'm talking about the prequel material for the first film which depicts Optimus as the head of Cybertron's science academy and Megatron as the planet's "Lord Protector" before he decides he wants the AllSpark and kicks off the war.
This movie seems to depict Orion and D-16 as nobodies before assuming the mantels of Optimus Prime and Megatron which clashes with the backstory of the 2007 movie.
It really wouldn't surprise me if the AllSpark does turn up at some point in either this movie or a sequel, since it's pretty integral to the Aligned backstory lore that TF One's story is so heavily based on.
I have my doubts because while TF One seems to burrow a lot from Aligned it's not a 1:1 copy. Orion wasn't a miner in the Aligned canon for example. And I feel like if the AllSpark were central to the movie it would have featured in the trailers by now.
I may be wrong. It may be involved. I'm just saying that if it isn't it's going to be impossible to reconcile this movie with the 2007 film.
And I guess that's my outlook. If this thing makes money they're going to want to ride it as far as they can, and "well we have to respect the canon of the 2007 movie" won't be on anyone's mind making future stories set in One's continuity.
Yeah, there's definitely gonna be some talk on the wiki about whether or not TF One should remain in the same or a new family. Truth be told, the wiki tends to automatically default to a new family for every new cartoon series that starts over new, but it seems like the wiki is unwilling to do the same for any of the Paramount films. It'd probably have to take something pretty drastic for the wiki to classify a new movie in a new continuity family; the question being just what that drastic something would be. It's done for each new-continuity cartoon because of ease of organization, but if I'm being honest, I could see some compelling arguments for both Cyberverse and EarthSpark being reclassified as part of the Generation 1 continuity family, but the main pushback against that seems to mostly boil down to space and page size. As in, G1 Optimus Prime and Megatron's pages are both already pretty enormous, even likewise are their various subpages suited out from the main page.
There's a method to the madness at play, here, and TF One is definitely going to spark up some new madness.
I think it ultimately falls on creators and execs not caring about continuity as much as we do. I mean the Bay movies didn't even last one sequel before it was retconning itself.
They're given a chance to make a movie or show and they draw from other stuff that came before. Both Animated and Earthspark drew on the G1 show (or at least very G1 backstory animation) as wink to the past but got fans asking it was "in continuity"
Likewise I don't think anyone writing TF One was intentionally leaning on Aligned as much as they were just... referencing the most recent writeup for Optimus and Megatron's origins.
I don't say this to hate on the Wiki- they do good work for fans who want a place to find this information- but it just reminds me of the time someone at BlizzCon asked Chris Metzen what the Horde symbol represented and he had no idea. Sometimes fans think more about this stuff than creators do and it makes it messy to then try and categorize it.
