Dates

1968 - dylan gould is born to daniel gould and an unknown mother

1979 - dylan meets soundwave and ravage (age 11, jesus he would have just entered middle school)

1984 - dylan gets a ford thunderbird for his birthday (age 16)

1990 - the hubble space telescope launches, and someone checks in; dylan has his bachelor's degree/BBA (age 22)

end of 1993, beginning of 1994 - first servicing mission for the hubble telescope (age 25)

1995 - dylan gets his MSF degree (Master of Science in Finance) (age 27)

beginning of 2002 - daniel gould dies, scalpel visits (age 33)

2006 - soundwave returns to earth and checks back in with dylan a bit less than a year before the rest of them hit the planet (age 38)

2007 - the events of the first movie happen (age 39)

2009 - the events of rotf happen; ravage dies; does scalpel disappear here??? (age 41)

2010-2011 - sometime in here dylan poaches carly (in her early 20's) from the british embassy (42-43)

2012 - the events of dotm happen (age 44)

2017 - the events of aoe happen (age 49)