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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2009, 07:20:30 PM »
Yeah, no one celebrated their birthdays.
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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #16 on: July 09, 2009, 07:30:20 PM »
Cause the series started in 1996.
there's no rule that says the year the characters are in is the current year...

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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2009, 07:43:20 PM »
Also events occur in the books that sink up with current events. Pop culture references.
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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #18 on: July 09, 2009, 07:44:42 PM »
Also events occur in the books that sink up with current events. Pop culture references.
??? coincidence?

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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #19 on: July 09, 2009, 08:46:41 PM »
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.


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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #20 on: July 09, 2009, 09:32:15 PM »
but the war only lasted 3 years. the books lasted 5 years...

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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2009, 11:34:30 PM »
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....

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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #22 on: July 10, 2009, 07:49:59 AM »
Hmm indeed. Maybe Animorphs is set "ten minutes into the future", as tropes and idioms puts it.


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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #23 on: July 10, 2009, 09:07:00 AM »
Why would it be that way?

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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #24 on: July 10, 2009, 09:09:24 AM »
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.
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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #25 on: July 10, 2009, 01:36:45 PM »
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.
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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #26 on: July 14, 2009, 12:22:01 AM »
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
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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #27 on: July 22, 2009, 02:59:59 AM »
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Re: What is Tobias's birthday?
« Reply #28 on: December 04, 2010, 09:31:30 PM »
     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.
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