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Va'al wrote:I keep track of everyone. Backwards.
There are atandarfs to maintain.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Hey, If Mindmaster survived then you should do just fine.
Fshep89 wrote:I know there hasn't been a toy yet, and the character is only a couple years old... But I'd love to see Rung on the ballot next year
QBKiller94 wrote:The Transformers Hall of Fame was great idea when it was born in 2010. It allows Hasbro and Transformers fans the opportunity to celebrate some of the quintessential characters that have dotted the Transformers Universe over the last 30 years.
QBKiller94 wrote:The Transformers Hall of Fame was great idea when it was born in 2010. It allows Hasbro and Transformers fans the opportunity to celebrate some of the quintessential characters that have dotted the Transformers Universe over the last 30 years.
However, Hasbro has dropped the ball. Hasbro needs to take measures to better regulate the fan voting and make the Transformers Hall of Fame induction into a premier event that will energize and entertain the fan base on a yearly basis.
Currently, Hasbro lets all the fan sites conduct the nominee voting how they see fit. I've been looking at the different Transformers sites and how they're handling the voting. It's a hodge podge with no two places following the same exact course. Hasbro should put some more guidelines in place to help these sites out. If weak candidates get into the HOF, then no one will take it seriously and it won't feel significant or important. There needs to be more direction and oversight by Hasbro to prevent this.
This is what I would do to improve the Transformers Hall of Fame process:
1) Tighten up the eligibility rules. For example: Make it so all Transformers characters who made their debut in the universe within 10 years of the vote are ineligible for HOF induction. So any character that debuted from TV, movies, video games or in the comics after 2004 would be ineligible this year. This would cut down the number of eligible characters so voters can concentrate more on the merits of who's left. This would also ensure newer characters would have to wait their turn before being considered over more established characters. (I saw Windblade getting votes on some sites and she's been around for about three minutes! ) However, this doesn't hurt characters like Arcee who are older, but were given more to do in recent series like Transformers Animated and Transformers Prime.
2) Hasbro should come up with a list of 25 nominees for the fan site's users to vote on. Voters should be allowed to pick up to five nominees via online polls. Seibertron.com does a great job using a poll to collect the data. It's clean and user friendly. But I think Hasbro should set the list of 25 nominees to keep the names uniform across all sites.
3) Hasbro should announce who the top 10 candidates are after the first round of voting and then let the fan sites have a second vote. To me, this is important. You may have voted for 3 guys the first time who didn't make the cut down to 10. Now you have the option of voting for someone else. This is similar to how the NFL makes its cuts for its Hall of Fame.
4) Hasbro should announce the top 5 from the second round of voting and have the fans vote for the winner of the fan vote on their Facebook page.
5) Finally, Hasbro should have a fancy ceremony (with an open bar!) to announce the inductees into the HOF and they should give out additional awards. Maybe give out yearly awards for top comic, top artist, best new character, best performance by a voice actor, best toy domestic, best toy international, etc., etc. Hasbro should set up a live stream feed for all the fan sites to use so even fans not in attendance could watch. Make it a REAL event to get people excited and reward your writers, artists, engineers, actors, etc. for their hard work.
Autobot tap out wrote:
i hope y'all realize once Va'al gets back from wherever and reads these post insulting his favorite character , somebody's not going to be a happy camper
LOST Cybertronian wrote: He is currently tied up in the Seibertron.com basement. When we see fit to let him go, you can be sure he will give his opinions on the subject.
D-Maximus_Prime wrote: I thought the Daleks had him?
Hellscream9999 wrote: They do
The truth is revealed
I completely agree with this, but I wouldn't quite call Devastator a "Hall of Fame character" since, well, to be brutally honest, he's not a character.QBKiller94 wrote:To me there is a big difference between a popular character and a Hall of Fame character. Guys like Lockdown, Rung and Drift have a lot of merit and are popular today, but they've only been around for a really short time. The Transformers brand is 30 years old and Hall of Fame inductees should be characters who've had a major impact on the universe over time.
Putting Lockdown or Rung in the Hall of Fame over characters like Prowl or Devastator is like putting Mike Trout in the baseball Hall of Fame before Babe Ruth or Ted Williams. It's like putting Ahsoka Tano in the Star Wars Hall of Fame before R2-D2 or Chewbacca. I'm not saying they're bad characters, just that we need more time to review their importance in the overall universe.
A LOT of what you describe is how it used to be done. For the first two or three years, what you're asking for was the standard (though, Point #1 was never going to happen).QBKiller94 wrote:The Transformers Hall of Fame was great idea when it was born in 2010. It allows Hasbro and Transformers fans the opportunity to celebrate some of the quintessential characters that have dotted the Transformers Universe over the last 30 years.
However, Hasbro has dropped the ball. Hasbro needs to take measures to better regulate the fan voting and make the Transformers Hall of Fame induction into a premier event that will energize and entertain the fan base on a yearly basis.
Currently, Hasbro lets all the fan sites conduct the nominee voting how they see fit. I've been looking at the different Transformers sites and how they're handling the voting. It's a hodge podge with no two places following the same exact course. Hasbro should put some more guidelines in place to help these sites out. If weak candidates get into the HOF, then no one will take it seriously and it won't feel significant or important. There needs to be more direction and oversight by Hasbro to prevent this.
This is what I would do to improve the Transformers Hall of Fame process:
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
G.B. Blackrock wrote:
In general, the idea of tightening the rules has merit. But some of these things... it just obvious that Hasbro won't ever do.
G.B. Blackrock wrote:Re: #1, Hasbro's not about to implement a rule that would leave all of the live-action movie characters out.
G.B. Blackrock wrote:I'd rather vote according to a point system or some such. Say, if I get three votes, I can give 3 points to my top choice, 2 to my second, and 1 to my third. Highest number of points (not votes, per se) would win. I'm sure there are other ways this could be done, and it's worth discussing.
G.B. Blackrock wrote:#4: A lot of fans are already upset that the final vote is going to be on Facebook (rather than a more universally accessible web page). Personally, it's no great problem for me, and Facebook is pretty widely used, but I think it's worth mentioning.
Sabrblade wrote:There used to be a wide fan vote on each site with each user posting their top 5 choices, and then once those were tallied, the result of that first round were sent to Hasbro to create a second round of voting, in which Hasbro.com would post the top five nominees of tallied up from the results of every fansite, and let users come to vote on which of those five they wanted to win, every day.
Then at BotCon, there would be a fancy ceremony with speeches, video montages, and other goodies.
It went on like this for three years... then came 2013. By this point, Hasbro had laid off many employees, including Rik Alvarez and his entire department, which was the very group of people who were previous responsible for handling the Hall of Fame. Ever since then, the Hall of Fame has felt like a pale comparison of what it once was. A poorly imitated shadow of the past.
Now the voting process comes so much later, is far less organized in unison between all the sites, and far more time-constrained than it used to be. Gone are the second rounds and the ceremonies as well. Same with the auto-inducted characters and humans. No more human inductees, period.
Now the whole thing has been reduced to an offhanded mention in the larger Hasbro panel, which focuses more on toy reveals and other media.
Needless to say, the glory days of the Transformers Hall of Fame seem to have come and gone before they had a chance to really take off.
vectorA3 wrote:Okay here goes:
Since they're not getting any love, my first 2 votes are for
1) Jetfire(Skyfire)
and
2) Alpha Trion
Now for my picks that lean toward the 'majority':
3) Devastator (if your gonna allow any combiner in, he should be first, no question!)
4) Astrotrain
5) Sideswipe (my 1st TF, so I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for him )
This is too hard to pick just five!!!!
Counterpunch wrote:Devastator is five bots.
Right now, 92 people are cheaters.
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