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Well, this has been a hot topic before, so I figured i'd write it up (and expand more as new series, mangas and suchlike are produced) so everyone can debate. Now, first off, we confirm that Tomino said that he wanted the Turn-A Timeline to show the series were related. We see a flash of wing gundam, and Zaku are up and roaming, not to mention Turn-X's shining finger. This proves that it mixes them up. But then the question of "do the new series mess things up"? comes along.

From the top. Universal Century. Mobile suits are researched and built, increase in size, and the beam gun is invented. All pretty standard, we see evolution of size, speed and suchlike happening throughout the wars.
NewType numbers increase then decline.
Next we place the After War timeline. It pays reference to a number of wars equal to that seen in UC. We expect that the end of the final war had some unseen problems, driving the world into a small shithole to put it nicely. NewType numbers at a low amount. Next, we place Cosmic Era. Seed gives us the N-Jammer, and a new full scale military force. Also, the battery tech to counteract this N-Jammer means mobile suits take a step backwards in development. The number of NewTypes is few, infact we assume that at the end of Seed, all NewTypes are dead.
The Zaku returns. But, where was Zaku during after war? Did they obtain a Zaku blueprint from some ancient ruins of a base on Earth or something? Next up, After Colony. No artificially enhanced people or NewTypes here. Just a computer system to simulate the advanced skills needed. Weapon tech has gone forward, and they've recovered from using batteries. The Zaku has myseriously gone into hiding again...
Ends the long eras of war.
Future Century now. Years later, mobile suits are bing used as giant gladiators. Problem with continuity here was the line at the end of endless walts "Mobile suits, including the Gundams were never seen again", but anyway... This happens. No Zakus here, no designs even vaguely similar. Nations build their own custom units and fight for control. But of course, something goes wrong. (OH NOES!) The Devil gundam evolves and becomes all evil. It's beaten. Now, the data on that tech was probably started. Also we see Wing Gundam nice and safely locked away with several UC Gundams.
Correct Century. Problem here is theres a war. Endless Waltz said there were none. Meh. It's theorised that the events of FC there with Devil Gundam probably brought back man's hunger for battle.
Now, Turn-A is last generation, having the higher generator output and everything. The Moonlight Butterfly could be modified from the nanoprobes Devil Gundam once used. Turn-X Uses a "shining finger" type attack. The Zaku makes his comeback! Buried underground for centuries and centuries, He's dug up, repaired and put back into service. Still outclassed even with the backward jump in technology from it being erased... WaDOM are a shocking flashback to their own BigZam project.. only better and mass produced.
The other problem here is the guy with the Wing Gundam flashback... this could be a dream, hollucination, or something similar... but he had it.

I think this is it for now.

I think I pointed out most of them there plot holes. 3nodding But this is as complete as I can get the timeline continuity..

I know. but, it's a topic that'd be brought up here eventually. As a gundam guild, we owe it to the people to at least HAVE the pre-written discussion about it. Cuz I won't be bothered enough to retype it.

You have to remember, when Turn-A WAS made, several of the timelines didn't exist.
They do now... They made more plot holes. But there's still no bypassing the endless waltz "never seen again" thing.

I'm more inclined to believe that each timeline is separate, if only because having a series of wars that went on for as long as a consolidated timeline would require them to would just be . . . unfeasible, in terms of supplies and people's patience. Plus, yes, the technologies differ greatly and they don't seem to get better along the chronology you propose - and, if nothing else, the methods of dating the years are different. I can't see people coming up with new systems of numbering the years so frequently.

I just don't see the advantage of one big timeline, anyway. I don't like to think of the deeper series linked in any way to the more eye-candy-ish series.

' the endless waltz "never seen again" thing.' can be seen as history documentary that didn't get retrivied cause of the out brake of war....

but any way after watching Turn A and trying to figure how things fit together i came to the conclusion that when Tomino was thinking up the story he was probably just or finish playing a version of GGeneration... or thinking something in relation....

with that said i think it would be better thinking that a lot of things happened at the same time... ignoring some minor commentary details of course...

i think it makes more sense then having series following series one after another for continuity sake

Hmmm Turn A and it's strange yet easy to pick at ability to connect all series........ ::CHEER:: Actually I've met a few true and blue Gundam fans that never heard of this theory..... It makes sence..... yes they are probably things that make it seem a lil funky or not true but the fact remains that it's there.....

I'd have to say that since everything was somewhat old styled in Turn A that it could be possible for the Seed to fit in as sort of an evolutionary phase within all of the Gundam Universe...... You know the old addage Hisory Repeats itself.....

IF one is to believe the continuity time line theory of Turn A..... then I would say that Seed is in their far distant future...... in which the events of first Gundam are semi-sorta happening again......... Kinda like an evolution circular theory of war......

O_o I think that makes sense sweatdrop