Transformers Hall of Fame

The official Transformers Hall of Fame was created by Hasbro to honor those most influential creators and developers of the Transformers toy and entertainment franchise, along with some of the more popular Transformers characters.[1] The Hall of Fame contains seventeen characters and ten humans as of 2015.

Selection process

Each year, Hasbro selects which individuals will be inducted into the human portion of the Hall of Fame. Hasbro also selects certain characters which it feels are deserving of enshrining in the Transformers portion of the Hall of Fame.[2] For the purposes of the Hall of Fame, characters are not differentiated between the different continuities. Character biographies tend to reflect the characters are they are represented in Hasbro's current unified continuity.[3]

Hasbro solicits additional nominations from various Transformers fan sites for the Fans' Choice Inductee. The top five nominees are eligible for election to the Hall of Fame, and voting takes place in April on the official Transformers website. The winner is announced at the Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.[4]

Induction ceremony

The Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony occurs each year at BotCon, the official Transformers fan convention. The event is semi-formal, with inductees and presenters in formal attire, with attendees in business casual attire. In 2010, the ceremony was a dinner held at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resorts and Convention Center in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.[5] The 2011 ceremony was held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California.

Each human inductee is awarded a trophy, depicting Optimus Prime holding up the Matrix of Leadership, and is allowed to make an acceptance speech. Each character inducted, and each Fans' Choice finalist, is honored with a music video. (Erector was honored with a mockumentary, rather than a music video.) The Fans' Choice Inductee is revealed with a music video set to "The Touch."

Inductees

Human inductees

Inductee Class Contribution
Michael Bay[6] 2011 Director of the four Transformers live-action films.
Bob Budiansky 2010 Writer of the original Marvel Transformers comics.
Wrote most of the Generation One character profiles.
Peter Cullen 2010 Long-serving voice actor of Optimus Prime in several incarnations of the franchise, most notably The Transformers, Transformers Prime, and the film franchise.
Simon Furman 2012 Writer of a multitude of Transformers comics.
Chris Latta 2012 Voice of Starscream, Wheeljack, and Sparkplug Witwicky in Generation One.
Ōno Kōjin 2010 Designer of first Transformers toys.
Steven Spielberg 2011 Executive Producer of the live-action films.
Hideaki Yoke 2010 Takara's lead designer of Transformers.
Stan Bush 2014 Songwriter and vocalist of several songs from The Transformers: The Movie. [7]
Frank Welker 2015 Voice actor for several characters, most notably Megatron and Soundwave in Generation One and Transformers Prime.
Vince Dicola 2015 The composer of The Transformers: The Movie.

Character inductees

Inductee Class Continuity
Optimus Prime 2010 Multiple
Bumblebee 2010 Multiple
Megatron 2010 Multiple
Starscream 2010 Multiple
Dinobot 2010 Beast Wars
Soundwave 2011 Multiple
Ironhide 2011 Multiple
Ratchet 2011 Multiple
Waspinator 2011 Multiple
Grimlock 2012 Multiple
Jazz 2012 Multiple
Shockwave 2012 Multiple
Wheeljack 2012 Multiple
Beast Wars Megatron 2013 Beast Wars/Beast Machines
Ultra Magnus 2013 Multiple
Arcee 2014 Multiple
Rodimus 2014 Multiple
Prowl 2015 Multiple
Predaking 2015 Multiple

Fans' choice finalists

2010

Inductee Continuity
Dinobot[8] Beast Wars
Grimlock Multiple
Jazz Multiple
Shockwave Multiple
Soundwave Multiple

2011

Inductee Continuity
Waspinator Multiple
Erector Generation 1
Grimlock Multiple
Jazz Multiple
Shockwave Multiple

2012

Inductee Continuity
Wheeljack Multiple
Arcee Multiple
Beast Wars Megatron Beast Wars/Beast Machines
Rodimus Multiple
Sky-Byte Multiple

2013

Inductee Continuity
Prowl Multiple
Arcee Multiple
Beast Wars Megatron Beast Wars/Beast Machines
Rodimus Multiple
Ultra Magnus Multiple

References

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