The Energon Pub

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Wow, nominate a band that didn't even make it out of the 80's. What are they thinking, besides a throwaway nomination, that Lion will reunite for some toy convention? I'd be in shock if Doug Aldrich can/will show up.

Clearly enough voters felt Lion's contribution was significant enough to merit nominating them. Just because they've disbanded doesn't mean people won't want to celebrate their place in Transformers history.

(If Chris Latta wound up being nominated as a voice actor, would you ask "What's the point, he's dead!"? Same logic.)

Dr Va'al wrote:UPDATE: Hasbro confirms that Inferno is indeed our favourite fire ant - FOR THE ROYALTY!

My reaction after seeing this update.

Come on, Optimus Primal, this is your year! You're Cybertron's Greatest Hero. You earned that title, going from humble beginnings to well deserved greatness. This, the 20th anniversary of your debut, is your time to shine.

Everyone, vote for the Big Bot. Vote for the Boss Monkey. Vote for the heroic leader who has long since deserved his place in the Hall of Fame. The one who saved the entire planet Earth from destruction by annihilating the Vok's planet buster with a transwarp explosion, himself dying in the process. The one who saved time, space, and history itself by keeping the spark of G1 Optimus Prime alive within his (Primal's) own body. The one who infiltrated the Nemesis in a desperate do-or-die attempt to save everything that ever was and was to come. The one who carried out the will of the Oracle to bring balance to a forsaken Cybertron. The one who sacrificed his own life to finally kill Megatron and save all of Cybertron, the Allspark, and every Cybertronian spark present, past, and future. The one whom Primus himself handpicked to lead the Children of Primus against the Minions of Unicron in the Universe War. The one who joined the power of his own Energon Matrix with that of Lio Convoy to destroy the nigh-invincible Predacon WMD Majin Zarak, saving the planet Gaia in the process. The one who proved himself worth of becoming a Protector for the Alternity, combating many threats including Megatron, Cryotek, Primacron, Binaltech Black Convoy, and even Beast of Time itself, the Hytherion.

And, the one who, in spite of all of those and many more remarkable accomplishments, would never, ever, even remotely consider himself to be better, greater, or more worthy of such honor than any of his comrades, for his humility knows no bounds.

He is Optimus Primal. He is Convoy. He is Burning Convoy. He is Powered Convoy. He is Beast Convoy. He is... a hero of legends, a true warrior, a long overdue candidate for the Transformers Hall of Fame.

Sabrblade wrote:Come on, Optimus Primal, this is your year! You're Cybertron's Greatest Hero. You earned that title, going from humble beginnings to well deserved greatness. This, the 20th anniversary of your debut, is your time to shine.

Everyone, vote for the Big Bot. Vote for the Boss Monkey. Vote for the heroic leader who has long since deserved his place in the Hall of Fame. The one who saved the entire planet Earth from destruction by annihilating the Vok's planet buster with a transwarp explosion, himself dying in the process. The one who saved time, space, and history itself by keeping the spark of G1 Optimus Prime alive within his (Primal's) own body. The one who infiltrated the Nemesis in a desperate do-or-die attempt to save everything that ever was and was to come. The one who carried out the will of the Oracle to bring balance to a forsaken Cybertron. The one who sacrificed his own life to finally kill Megatron and save all of Cybertron, the Allspark, and every Cybertronian spark present, past, and future. The one whom Primus himself handpicked to lead the Children of Primus against the Minions of Unicron in the Universe War. The one who joined the power of his own Energon Matrix with that of Lio Convoy to destroy the nigh-invincible Predacon WMD Majin Zarak, saving the planet Gaia in the process. The one who proved himself worth of becoming a Protector for the Alternity, combating many threats including Megatron, Cryotek, Primacron, Binaltech Black Convoy, and even Beast of Time itself, the Hytherion.

And, the one who, in spite of all of those and many more remarkable accomplishments, would never, ever, even remotely consider himself to be better, greater, or more worthy of such honor than any of his comrades, for his humility knows no bounds.

He is Optimus Primal. He is Convoy. He is Burning Convoy. He is Powered Convoy. He is Beast Convoy. He is... a hero of legends, a true warrior, a long overdo candidate for the Transformers Hall of Fame.

I voted for Omega Supreme.

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Come on, Optimus Primal, this is your year! You're Cybertron's Greatest Hero. You earned that title, going from humble beginnings to well deserved greatness. This, the 20th anniversary of your debut, is your time to shine.

Everyone, vote for the Big Bot. Vote for the Boss Monkey. Vote for the heroic leader who has long since deserved his place in the Hall of Fame. The one who saved the entire planet Earth from destruction by annihilating the Vok's planet buster with a transwarp explosion, himself dying in the process. The one who saved time, space, and history itself by keeping the spark of G1 Optimus Prime alive within his (Primal's) own body. The one who infiltrated the Nemesis in a desperate do-or-die attempt to save everything that ever was and was to come. The one who carried out the will of the Oracle to bring balance to a forsaken Cybertron. The one who sacrificed his own life to finally kill Megatron and save all of Cybertron, the Allspark, and every Cybertronian spark present, past, and future. The one whom Primus himself handpicked to lead the Children of Primus against the Minions of Unicron in the Universe War. The one who joined the power of his own Energon Matrix with that of Lio Convoy to destroy the nigh-invincible Predacon WMD Majin Zarak, saving the planet Gaia in the process. The one who proved himself worth of becoming a Protector for the Alternity, combating many threats including Megatron, Cryotek, Primacron, Binaltech Black Convoy, and even Beast of Time itself, the Hytherion.

And, the one who, in spite of all of those and many more remarkable accomplishments, would never, ever, even remotely consider himself to be better, greater, or more worthy of such honor than any of his comrades, for his humility knows no bounds.

He is Optimus Primal. He is Convoy. He is Burning Convoy. He is Powered Convoy. He is Beast Convoy. He is... a hero of legends, a true warrior, a long overdo candidate for the Transformers Hall of Fame.

I voted for Omega Supreme.

Same here. The choices seem rigged. If Optimus Primal wins, they announce something for the Beast Wars anniversary or that we're getting the Masterpiece toy because "the fans voted for Optimus Primal". If Omega Supreme wins, they announce that they're doing an Omega Supreme toy because "the fans voted for Omega Supreme". And we're already getting Galvatron.

I feel like the HOF, at least in recent years, isn't really left to the fans to vote and also think that the "fan choice" is rigged or presented in such a way that it limits the actual options to something that they're already working on.

If you work at Hasbro, and this isn't true, please accept my apologies. I used to work for a major radio broadcasting company here in the midwest and saw "winning callers" rigged all the time to match the demographic of the radio station. If the 100th caller was a 65 year old man on a hip young station, guess who was no longer the 100th caller any more and now the 21 year old female college student (who was the 101st caller) is now the winning "100th caller".

All shall be revealed in 10 days or so at Botcon!

Seibertron wrote:Same here. The choices seem rigged. If Optimus Primal wins, they announce something for the Beast Wars anniversary or that we're getting the Masterpiece toy because "the fans voted for Optimus Primal". If Omega Supreme wins, they announce that they're doing an Omega Supreme toy because "the fans voted for Omega Supreme". And we're already getting Galvatron.

I'm not sure there - the choices seems congruent with past years, voting/chatter on the most of the fansites etc. Primal's been a runner-up in the '14 and '15 line-up, while Galvatron was in the running in '15. I don't think we've seen Omega Supreme as a finalist before, but some variation's normal, and the giant cool megarobot who's a rocket and a train and had some episodes focusing on him probably has great stock in the nostalgia market.

We've always seen a lot of interest in Beast Wars in the Hall of Fame votes - 3 out of the first 4 fan's choice Hall of Famers were Beast Wars guys, so it doesn't seem unusual that another beloved Beast Wars character's in the running. The only role I see the anniversary playing is increased Beast Wars fan interest in Primal winning.

RevTibe wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Wow, nominate a band that didn't even make it out of the 80's. What are they thinking, besides a throwaway nomination, that Lion will reunite for some toy convention? I'd be in shock if Doug Aldrich can/will show up.

Clearly enough voters felt Lion's contribution was significant enough to merit nominating them. Just because they've disbanded doesn't mean people won't want to celebrate their place in Transformers history.

(If Chris Latta wound up being nominated as a voice actor, would you ask "What's the point, he's dead!"? Same logic.)

I'd love to see Lion win and maybe one or two of them show up. My issue is they're clearly a filler and either Jablonsky or Weird Al is going to win.

Unpopular opinion time: I think Beast Wars is already over-represented in the Hall of Fame. I can see adding Primal, but if both Primal and Inferno go in idk, that's just too much. I know the characters were great but there's thirty years of characters to work with, gotta mix it up some!

ScottyP wrote:I don't have the energy to figure out how they came up with these choices, but man, for the robots only our site's third place finishers showed up in the final listing :/

Put another way: Rung was robbed

Indeed. However, the mighty Rung will have his revenge in the end.

Ironhidensh wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I don't have the energy to figure out how they came up with these choices, but man, for the robots only our site's third place finishers showed up in the final listing :/

Put another way: Rung was robbed

Indeed. However, the mighty Rung will have his revenge in the end.

He'll have to step up his game.

Dr Va'al wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I don't have the energy to figure out how they came up with these choices, but man, for the robots only our site's third place finishers showed up in the final listing :/

Put another way: Rung was robbed

Indeed. However, the mighty Rung will have his revenge in the end.

He'll have to step up his game.

Did you read that one in IDW's Transformers: Punishment?

RevTibe wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I don't have the energy to figure out how they came up with these choices, but man, for the robots only our site's third place finishers showed up in the final listing :/

Put another way: Rung was robbed

Indeed. However, the mighty Rung will have his revenge in the end.

He'll have to step up his game.

Did you read that one in IDW's Transformers: Punishment?

Nah, it was in Chaos. Which, as we all know, is not a pit but a ladder.

Dr Va'al wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I don't have the energy to figure out how they came up with these choices, but man, for the robots only our site's third place finishers showed up in the final listing :/

Put another way: Rung was robbed

Indeed. However, the mighty Rung will have his revenge in the end.

He'll have to step up his game.

Did you read that one in IDW's Transformers: Punishment?

Nah, it was in Chaos. Which, as we all know, is not a pit but a ladder.

Might be hard for Rung to climb with all those little fingers.

ScottyP wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I don't have the energy to figure out how they came up with these choices, but man, for the robots only our site's third place finishers showed up in the final listing :/

Put another way: Rung was robbed

Indeed. However, the mighty Rung will have his revenge in the end.

He'll have to step up his game.

Did you read that one in IDW's Transformers: Punishment?

Nah, it was in Chaos. Which, as we all know, is not a pit but a ladder.

Might be hard for Rung to climb with all those little fingers.

ScottyP wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:

He'll have to step up his game.

Did you read that one in IDW's Transformers: Punishment?

Nah, it was in Chaos. Which, as we all know, is not a pit but a ladder.

Might be hard for Rung to climb with all those little fingers.

Your doubts in Rung's ability to rise to the occasion is getting higher.Too much?

The Transformers Hall of Fame ceremony was held at Botcon 2016 where Judd Nelson and David Kaye were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Pictures are below.

They also revealed who won the fan poll:

Favourite Character: Optimus Primal

Underrated Character: Cosmos

Musical Act: Weird Al

Well that's just Prime!

Was this held in a freezer or something? How cold can it be in Kentucky in April indoors?

Still don't see how Cosmos is underrated having two new recent figures. Inferno was robbed!

Emerje

Glad to see Primal made it in for the anniversary. I was hoping it would be tarantulas or inferno with Galvatron but oh well. Weird Al was my choice even though Lion or Steve Jablonsky probably deserved it more.

Emerje wrote:Was this held in a freezer or something? How cold can it be in Kentucky in April indoors?

Still don't see how Cosmos is underrated having two new recent figures. Inferno was robbed!

Emerje

The Hall of Fame ceremony was held outside on 4th Street. Yes, it is super cold here in Kentucky. No, this is not normal.

I was at the HOF and the concert. It was definitely brisk there outside, althro there was a permanent cover over the concert area. No seats, but I had a rollator so no problems there, except most of my pictures were too far away to be of much good.

Interesting how it's the one who predominantly does voice work which has the leading man good looks.

Emerje wrote:Still don't see how Cosmos is underrated having two new recent figures. Inferno was robbed!

I feel it was Tarantulas who should have gotten it... Which makes me think that having them both on the ballot divided the vote and let Cosmos sneak in and run off with it.

I note that nobody is complaining about Weird Al. It's because Weird Al is the bomb. Easiest choice ever.

Zeedust wrote:

Emerje wrote:Still don't see how Cosmos is underrated having two new recent figures. Inferno was robbed!

I feel it was Tarantulas who should have gotten it... Which makes me think that having them both on the ballot divided the vote and let Cosmos sneak in and run off with it.

But Tarantulas got a bunch of figures in the BW days and has had two back-to-back figures from the club, how is that underrated? Inferno only ever got one figure (and a custom class figure, but I don't count those) despite being a regular on the show.

Weird Al got my pick so no complaint here. Not just because he was on the original movie soundtrack, but he also got bonus points for actually voicing a character, too.

Emerje