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Transformers - Origin of Dinobots (canon)


Does anybody know what the accepted origins are for the Dinobots? In the (original) cartoon Wheeljack & Rachet created them on Earth, but the tech-specs on the original toys (and a lot of the other stories we see) indicate that they came to Earth from Cybertron.



So what is the accepted origin?



Answer



Ugh. Transformers Canon...


There are over a dozen Transformers Continuities, and none of them are really more canon than the next.


Some of the primary ones include:



  • Gen 1 TV Show/Beast Wars/Beast Machines

  • Gen 1 Marvel Comics

  • Gen 1 Dreamwave Comics

  • Gen 1 IDW Comics


  • Unicron Trilogy (Armada, Energon, Cybertron)

  • Movie-Verse

  • Animated


The origins of the Dinobots and everyone else differs from one continuity to the next. Thus, there is no universally accepted origin.


That said... Hasbro has more recently decided to try to create what it's calling The Aligned Continuity, which tries to rectify all of the other continuities into a new one. Changes have been made to the histories of some characters to bring them in line with others as best as possible. This new continuity is largely made up of



OK, with all that "cleared up", we can loosely define the new aligned continuity as being the "most canon" (as of now). So what about the Dinobots?


This is addressed in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.


The five Autobots which make up the Lightning Strike Coalition are a subgroup led by Grimlock. They are sent to investigate Shockwave and his energon sources, but they are all captured by Insecticons and taken to Shockwave's lab.



Meanwhile, Shockwave was experimenting with a damaged Space Bridge and got it functioning as a view-portal. Using it, he saw pre-historic Earth and the dinosaurs. Being a genetic engineer, he decided to turn the captured Lightning Strike Coalition members into Dinobots.


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