What is Tobias's birthday?

[Kelly]

Yeah, no one celebrated their birthdays.

[morfowt]

Cause the series started in 1996.

there's no rule that says the year the characters are in is the current year...

[wolfev]

Also events occur in the books that sink up with current events. Pop culture references.

[morfowt]

Also events occur in the books that sink up with current events. Pop culture references.

??? coincidence?

[Chad32]

I really don't think all those cultural references are coincidental. I always assumed the books were set in present day to when they started.

[morfowt]

but the war only lasted 3 years. the books lasted 5 years...

[Terenia]

Present day more or less. Not exactly, obviously.

Here's an interesting tidbit, though.

In #35 Marco is said to be playing Playstation with his dad. According to Wikipedia the Playstation was not put out until the year 2000. According to Amazon.com #35 was published in November, 1999.

Hmmmm....

[Chad32]

Hmm indeed. Maybe Animorphs is set "ten minutes into the future", as tropes and idioms puts it.

[esplin]

Why would it be that way?

[Chad32]

I'm not sure. I'll have to read up on that again.

Edit: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture

There's the page, though it doesn't seem to say much about why people do this, instead of just putting it in present day.

[anijen21]

nah, the Harry Potter rules apply to Animorphs. Year first book published = Year one at hogwarts, and each successive book is one year later in the continuity no matter how many years it took to get published. Like LOST, and God is it a **** to figure out what year it is in that show too.

[Yarin]

forget the show it sucked the actors were too old plus no taxxons the andalites were too hairy the dracon beams were flashlights shall i continue lol

[foxglade]

please do. let me add:
Tobias (Christopher Ralph) had BROWN hair!!
That's the main thing. But I still don't like how the episodes were all mixed up, and they missed stuff, and added stuff, and... you get the picture

[TobiasMasonPark]

     I always figured it was sometime in the Fall. Something told me it was October, but that might have been due to the fact that I was reading book 23 in October. My birthday is also in October, so naturally I would think my favourite character's birthday was the same as my birthday month.