My top choice for the next human inductee is Susan Blu. As the most frequent voice director, she has contributed enormously to the great voice acting that we've had in various TF shows over the years. But I'll also add my vote to the Forward/DiTillio camp. With a BW character winning the fans choice two years in a row, it would be the perfect time to recognize them for their contributions. As for the robot inductee, I'd love to see Sky-Byte get a chance. But I'm not sure he's popular or well known enough among the general fandom to get the percentage of votes that he needs to win over a better known G1 or BW character. And after last year's Erector thing, Hasbro is probably going to be policing the fan choice more strictly than they have been up till now. Worst case scenario would be a fan-favorite oddball winning the vote, but Hasbro throws it out because they mistakenly think it's another dumb joke.
Beast Wars incarnations of Primal and Megatron were not included in the Prime and Megatron montages, because they are considered separate characters rather than iterations of the same guy. It's because they share the universe with G1, it's not a different timeline. Loving the Susan Blu recommendation, and the Welker. I also think if not this year, then next year David Kaye, Garry Chalk and Scott McNeil need some appreciation. I'm guessing this year will follow last years pattern of four robots and two humans.
I wouldn't mind seeing Prowl as one of the auto-inductees, alongside Shockwave. Oh, you're sooo funny.
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Doesn't it work like all HoFs? A grace wait period before induction? I thought this was why it was G1 through Beast Wars. I don't know the whats or whys of HoF but could this be the reason?
I'm just glad I went to the inaugural HOF in 2010. Hard to beat the first one, I'm really not that interested in the rest.
I don't see where they're going with this HOF thing. The first year was really, really fun. The second year got watered down with the Erector thing and how Hasbro thinks it's "serious business." It just doesn't seem like there's any real substance to it. My suggestion would be to have one, just one, human and transformer inducted each year and it's by fan vote only (yes, we're opening up the doors for a "joke" character, but if Erector would have gotten in last year it would have a remarkable feat to achieve). I would personally feel like it mattered then. Right now it feels like nearly every G1 character will be enshrined soon no matter what and a Beast Wars character will get thrown in there too. It'd just feel like MORE this way and maybe, just maybe the fans would truly take it "serious" as Hasbro wants.
I take it seriousily. The point of a Hall of Fame is to give appreciation to people or err also robots in this case that have helped make the franchise what it is now. Charecters like Dinobot, Waspinator, Soundwave and all them are great charecters who represent different aspects of Transformers and have done many great things. Erector on the other hand is a dick joke. Aside from his name he is not at all important and has no true charecter. Besides their are much more deserving robots like Scourge, Sky-Byte, Bulkhead, Wheeljack, Lugnut, Arcee...etc...etc.)
I get all that and I'm not saying no one takes it seriously. I too take it seriously in my votes. My point was I think it'd benefit the HOF more if it was entirely left up to the fans to vote in both the human and robot inductee. Again, this could potentially leave the door open to another Erector type vote (which, again, if it happened then congratulations to Erector), but having only one (or even two) slots open each year would give fans more incentive to want to vote for Grimlock, Hot Rod, etc. because it takes away the element of auto inductee (we don't know if that'll be around forever, but it looks that way). IMO, the voting should be the fans. It'd feel so much more personal that way.
