Vote for your 2022 Transformers Hall of Fame Inductees

Funny how most of the Legacy toy options aren't even out yet.

Went with Animated Lugnut. I also enjoyed him on the show. He was very loveable and had a lot of funny moments. He was also a fan favorite that would go on to appear in other media later after his initial animated appearance. I feel like his Autobot equivalent Bulkhead will get more love however.

Favorite legacy toy? I went with Jhiaxus. We finally got an G2 accurate Jhiaxus, that isn't just a redeco or retool, after years of waiting for one, and he doesn't disappoint.

The "Other" option in the Animated character poll is much appreciated, I used it to vote for Sentinel Prime. It is a shame that the Legacy toy poll only allows you to vote for one, because there are so many toys in Legacy that I love, but I decided on Elita-1.

Both polls have some glaring omissions (Road Rocket gets named, but Cybertron Override and RiD Scourge are both reduced to write-ins?!), and the Legacy character poll is flat-out invalid and needs to be redone (which I wish I'd realized before voting on it).

Beast Wars Inferno and Megatron are already in the Hall of Fame. G1 Optimus and Megatron are already in the Hall of Fame. Knockout is already in the Hall of Fame, as is Prime Arcee thanks to Arcee's entry covering all incarnations. Their new bodies are not separate characters. They're valid for a Toy of the Year poll, but this is a character poll.

That's SIX invalid entries named while multiple characters who are valid entries have been reduced to write-ins. Hasbro needs to discard and re-do the poll. End of story. If they want their pwecious new pwoduct voted for, they should make a Toy of the Year poll (a category whoever was handed this seems to be unaware of) for it because that's where it's actually valid.

And until Hasbro replaces the bad poll with a valid one, we should remove our link.

Captain Fanzone.



This is why I hate machines... .

I wrote-in Yoketron

It's that time of year again.

Voting for the Transformers Hall of Fame 2023 has opened up. Voting closes on September 17, and the winner will be announced on the 22nd in a Hasbro Pulse livestream.

https://go.hasb.ro/480wmSB

This year, the categories are:

"Favorite Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon series) character"

And

"Legacy: Evolution toy of the year"


Now, Sky-Byte was the indisputable breakout star of the RID 2001 series, and made it all the way to the final voting of 2012 Hall of Fame (but lost to Wheeljack). If anyone deserves the win this year it's him, and this could be his last chance.

And, the Hall of Fame has never guaranteed a new toy for the winner. The only fan polls that have resulted in new toys have been the non-Hall of Fame ones, like the ones that yielded Windblade, Victorion, Titan Trypticon, some of the Vintage G1 reissues, etc. So no matter who wins this vote, it won't directly result in a new toy for the winner. All that the Hall of Fame really results in nowadays is a little tiny icon in the top-right corner of a TFWiki page.

Also, Sky-Byte winning this year would be even more meaningful because... well... his voice actor, Peter Spellos, is current battling Stage 3 pancreatic cancer. He's set up a GoFundMe for anyone to help him in this literal fight for his life.

Pretty sure the write-in option is there so that if you are literally Sideburn, you can vote for Kelly's car

Silver Wind wrote:Sky-Byte was the unironic hero of that show.

This.

Razorbeast88 wrote:I'd love a legacy update to Sky Byte but I'd also hate to set aside my thrilling 30 Sky Byte.

No worries about that. The Hall of Fame winners never get a new toy as a direct result of their win.