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Finally, a way to honor Soundwave some more, even if it took the second try.

Starting in 2010, Hasbro began honoring important characters and creators from the long history of the franchise. Each year, Hasbro selects Transformers brand creators to be added into the Transformers Hall of Fame. Initially, Hasbro would also select several characters for induction, with an additional character selected by fan vote. Starting in 2013, all characters inducted into the Hall of Fame are selected by fan vote. The new candidates are inducted into the Hall of Fame during a ceremony taking place at that year's BotCon. After the demise of BotCon, the Hall of Fame was organized within Hasbro's participation in the convention scene; 2017's Hall of Fame results were announced at that year's HasCon. With no HasCon scheduled in 2018, that year's HoF results were announced at Hasbro's Transformers panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

Current members

Fictional characters:

Arcee*
Rodimus*

2015:

Prowl*
Predaking*

2016:

Optimus Primal*
Cosmos*

2017:

Galvatron*
Barricade*

2018:

Blackarachnia*

2019:

Skywarp*

2020:

Knock Out*

2021:

Inferno*

2022:

Lugnut*

2023:

Sky-Byte*

2024:

Megatronus*

Toy of the Year:

2017:

Trypticon*

2018:

Battletrap*

2019:

Omega Supreme*

2020:

Sky Lynx*

2021:

Tigatron*

2022:

Decepticon Motormaster*

2023:

Armada Universe Optimus Prime*

2024:

2025:

Humans:

2010:

2011:

2012:

2014:

Stan Bush

2015:

2016:

2017:

2018:

John Barber

2019:

2020:

Gregg Berger

2021:

2022:

Henry Orenstein

2023:

Takio Ejima

2024:

Marcelo Matere

2025:

Ron Friedman

*Fan nomination

Individual Hall of Fame events

For details of each induction, click on the appropriate link below.

	Hall of Fame inductions:
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Nomination process

During the lead-up to BotCon, select Transformers fan sites are given the opportunity to poll their members for Transformer candidates to be entered into the Hall of Fame. The voting process varies by site, with some opting for a straight vote, and others using a method of nominating then voting. Once each site has its list of candidates, the lists are sent to Hasbro who tally them together using a weighted points system and produce the final list of nominees.

For the first five events, short profiles for the five nominees were placed on the Hasbro website, along with a poll. Fans got one vote per day until the poll is closed, and the winner remained a mystery until the big reveal. Later events typically held the vote on the official Transformers Facebook page and Instagram, with votes made by adding a comment containing a hashtag, though a side effect of this is that the vote is public and the winner can be determined by anyone who cares to tally the votes themselves. The one exception was 2015, in which the vote was done via a poll in the official Transformers mobile app. 2019-2020, the poll was held on SurveyMonkey, and since 2021 the voting has been done via Google docs survey.

Hall of Fame Ceremony

From 2010 through 2012 a semi-formal dinner was held one night during BotCon to induct new Hall of Fame members. The awards for the human recipients were given out first, with each getting testimonials and a video showcasing their work before being presented with a statuette of Optimus Prime holding aloft the Matrix of Leadership in a stylized burst of power. This was followed by the robot inductees, each of which received a video montage set to a popular hit. The final fan choice nominees likewise received their own montages, in the lead-up to the announcement of the winner of the fan choice poll.

For 2013 and 2014, the ceremony itself was scrapped, with the poll winners instead of being announced during the Hasbro panel. In 2015, however, the Hall of Fame event was merged with the Awards Dinner as a segment of that evening's events, bringing back some of the ceremonial formality of the Hall of Fame's first three years. Since the demise of BotCon, the Hall of Fame announcement has been made during HasCon or whichever other convention Hasbro participates in.

Notes

The "characters" in the Hall of Fame are not "characters" in the same sense as in this wiki. They are more like "character names, and the cross-continuity character concepts behind them". For example, the "Optimus Prime" in the Hall of Fame is considered to encompass all the major Optimus Primes from all continuities — "Generation 1", Robots in Disguise, the Unicron Trilogy, the live-action movies, Animated, Prime, and others, all considered as "one character". The Hasbro-provided bios for Hall of Fame members and nominees are thus generic in spots (describing any of the characters of that name fairly well) while mentioning specific elements from the current "Aligned" continuity in others. This deliberate ambiguity is alternately fascinating and maddening, particularly when it's applied to characters who do not otherwise exist in the Aligned-verse. However, it is possible for two characters with the same name to be elected, provided they are fundamentally different characters, as opposed to variations on the same character. For example, in 2012, Megatron from Beast Wars was nominated for the Hall of Fame because he is a separate character named after the original Megatron (who is already in the Hall of Fame). Thus, Silverbolt (the Aerialbot) from Generation 1, and Silverbolt (the Fuzor) from Beast Wars, could be separately nominated, and could even go up against each other for voting in the same year.
In later years, Hasbro turned to themed Hall of Fame inductions, starting with a "Generation 1" season 1-themed year in 2019, Prime in 2020, Beast Wars season 1 in 2021, Animated season 1 in 2022 with full cast lists eligible for both and the Thirteen Primes in 2024. The unwitting result is that characters who were already inducted into the Hall of Fame (by either the narrowest to the broadest of strokes) were allowed to get in potentially a second time, though none have yet done so.
2025 was the first year that saw no characters entered into the Hall of Fame.

External links

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-[[Image:TransformersHallofFame.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Finally, a way to honor Soundwave some more. Or so we thought.]]
+[[File:TransformersHallofFame.jpg|upright=1.6|thumb|Finally, a way to honor Soundwave some more, even if it took the second try.]]
-Starting in [[2010]], [[Hasbro]] has begun honoring important characters and creators from the long history of the franchise.  At [[BotCon 2010]], they honored five characters to be inducted into the Hall of Fame: [[Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee]], [[Megatron]], [[Starscream]], and the fifth character determined by fan vote, [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]].
+Starting in [[2010]], [[Hasbro]] began honoring important characters and creators from the long history of the franchise. Each year, Hasbro selects [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]] creators to be added into the '''Transformers Hall of Fame'''. Initially, Hasbro would also select several characters for induction, with an additional character selected by fan vote. Starting in 2013, all characters inducted into the Hall of Fame are selected by fan vote. The new candidates are inducted into the Hall of Fame during a ceremony taking place at that year's [[BotCon]]. After the demise of BotCon, the Hall of Fame was organized within Hasbro's participation in the convention scene; 2017's Hall of Fame results were announced at that year's [[HasCon 2017|HasCon]]. With no HasCon scheduled in 2018, that year's HoF results were announced at Hasbro's Transformers panel at [[San Diego Comic-Con]].
-The inaugural creators inducted include: [[Bob Budiansky]], [[Peter Cullen]], [[Hideaki Yoke|Yoke Hideaki]], and [[Ōno Kōjin|Kojin Ohno]].
+__TOC__
+{{--}}
+==Current members==
+{|
+|-
+|valign="top"|
+{{chapters|align=left|float=left|title=Fictional characters:|content=
+<div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2010|2010]]:</div>
+*[[Optimus Prime (disambiguation)|Optimus Prime]]
+*[[Bumblebee (disambiguation)|Bumblebee]]
+*[[Megatron (disambiguation)|Megatron]]
+*[[Starscream (disambiguation)|Starscream]]
+*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]*
-Each year another Transformers character and creator will be added to the Hall of Fame.
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2011|2011]]:</div>
+*[[Ironhide (disambiguation)|Ironhide]]
+*[[Ratchet (disambiguation)|Ratchet]]
+*[[Soundwave (disambiguation)|Soundwave]]
+*[[Waspinator (disambiguation)|Waspinator]]*
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2012|2012]]:</div>
+*[[Grimlock (disambiguation)|Grimlock]]
+*[[Jazz (disambiguation)|Jazz]]
+*[[Shockwave (disambiguation)|Shockwave]]
+*[[Wheeljack (disambiguation)|Wheeljack]]*
-== Nomination process ==
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2013|2013]]:</div>
+*[[Megatron (BW)]]*
+*[[Ultra Magnus (disambiguation)|Ultra Magnus]]*
-The nominations began with various Transformer fan sites (including this wiki) polling their members for five names to submit to Hasbro. Hasbro then tallied these results to present the fandom with five final choices on which to vote.
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2014|2014]]:</div>
+*[[Arcee (disambiguation)|Arcee]]*
+*[[Rodimus (disambiguation)|Rodimus]]*
-On [[May 3]], 2010 Hasbro began announcing the final nominees, leading up to the [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Poll.cfm fan vote] on [[May 10]]th. The fan vote was limited to one vote per day, until voting ended three weeks later on [[May 28]].  Each of these nominees were presented with all new bios (which interestingly tended to conflate multiple versions of the characters and were not adverse to creating new backstory points as well).
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2015|2015]]:</div>
+*[[Prowl (disambiguation)|Prowl]]*
+*[[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]]*
-== Hall of Fame Ceremony ==
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2016|2016]]:</div>
+*[[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]*
+*[[Cosmos (disambiguation)|Cosmos]]*
-[[Image:BotCon2010-HOFkeepsake.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Take that Van Gogh off your wall and frame ''this'' mother!]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2017|2017]]:</div>
+*[[Galvatron (disambiguation)|Galvatron]]*
+*[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]*
-The Saturday night of [[BotCon 2010]] was allocated to a Hall of Fame semi-formal dinner.  After a short cocktail dinner period (read: cash bar), Primus package attendees filled into a large auditorium with several dinner tables assembled in front of a stage with cardboard standees of Optimus, Megatron, Starscream, and Bumblebee.  Two large screens magnified the stage's events to those further away.
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2018|2018]]:</div>
+*[[Blackarachnia (disambiguation) |Blackarachnia]]*
-The robot and human inductees were introduced by a combination of video testimony and personal introductions by [[Aaron Archer]] and [[Greg Lombardo]].  One by one, clips were played and testimonies given, and human inductees came onstage to receive their reward and give a short speech.
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2019|2019]]:</div>
+*[[Skywarp (disambiguation)|Skywarp]]*
-The Fan Choice robot nominees had animation clips from across various franchises set to a piece of appropriate music.  (For example, Grimlock's clips were set to the "Godzilla" theme.)  After these were all introduced, Dinobot was announced to be the winner of the Fan Choice nominees.  Before attendees filed out for the evening, a keepsake print with the names of all the inductees was distributed.
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2020|2020]]:</div>
-{{-}}
+*[[Knock Out (Prime)| Knock Out]]*
-==Nominees==
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2021|2021]]:</div>
+*[[Inferno (BW)| Inferno]]*
-===2010 Nominees===
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2022|2022]]:</div>
+*[[Lugnut (Animated)| Lugnut]]*
-*'''[[Soundwave]]''' [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-1.cfm]
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2023|2023]]:</div>
+*[[Sky-Byte (RID)| Sky-Byte]]*
-*'''[[Grimlock]]''' [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-2.cfm]
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2024|2024]]:</div>
+*[[The Fallen| Megatronus]]*
+}}
-*'''[[Jazz]]''' [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-3.cfm]
+|valign="top"|
+{{chapters|align=left|float=left|title=Toy of the Year:|content=
+<div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2017|2017]]:</div>
+*[[Trypticon (G1)#Titans Return|Trypticon]]*
-*'''[[Shockwave]]''' [http://www2.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-4.cfm]
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2018|2018]]:</div>
+*[[Battletrap (G1)#Power of the Primes|Battletrap]]*
-*'''[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]''' [http://www2.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Nominee-5.cfm]
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2019|2019]]:</div>
+*[[Omega Supreme (G1)#War for Cybertron: Siege|Omega Supreme]]*
-'''WINNER: Dinobot!''' (Holy scrap!)
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2020|2020]]:</div>
+*[[Sky Lynx (G1)#War for Cybertron: Earthrise|Sky Lynx]]*
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2021|2021]]:</div>
+*[[Tigatron (BW)#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Tigatron]]*
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2022|2022]]:</div>
+*[[Motormaster (G1)#Legacy|Decepticon Motormaster]]*
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2023|2023]]:</div>
+*[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys#Legacy|Armada Universe Optimus Prime]]*
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2024|2024]]:</div>
+*[[Magmatron (BW)#Legacy|Magmatron]]*
+*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Optimus Prime]]*
+*[[Party Wallop]]*
+<br/><div class="list-header">[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2025|2025]]:</div>
+*[[The Fallen/toys#Age of the Primes|The Thirteen Megatronus the Fallen]]*
+*[[Megatron (G1)/Generations toys#Studio Series|Megatron]]*
+*[[Sideways (Armada)#Age of the Primes|Sideways]]*
+}}
+|valign="top"|
+{{chapters|align=left|float=left|title=Humans:|content=
+<div class="list-header">2010:</div>
+*[[Bob Budiansky]]
+*[[Peter Cullen]]
+*[[Hideaki Yoke]]
+*[[Kōjin Ōno]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2011:</div>
+*[[Steven Spielberg]]
+*[[Michael Bay]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2012:</div>
+*[[Chris Latta]]
+*[[Simon Furman]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2014:</div>
+*[[Stan Bush]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2015:</div>
+*[[Frank Welker]]
+*[[Vince DiCola]]*
+<br/><div class="list-header">2016:</div>
+*[[David Kaye]]
+*[[Judd Nelson]]
+*[["Weird Al" Yankovic]]*
+<br/><div class="list-header">2017:</div>
+*[[Susan Blu]]
+*[[Lorenzo di Bonaventura]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2018:</div>
+*[[John Barber]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2019:</div>
+*[[Flint Dille]]
+*[[Takashi Kunihiro]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2020:</div>
+*[[Gregg Berger]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2021:</div>
+*[[John Moschitta]]
+*[[Guido Guidi]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2022:</div>
+*[[Henry Orenstein]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2023:</div>
+*[[Takio Ejima]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2024:</div>
+*[[Marcelo Matere]]
+<br/><div class="list-header">2025:</div>
+*[[Ron Friedman]]
+}}<div style="clear: left"></div>
+|}
+:<nowiki>*</nowiki>Fan nomination
+==Individual Hall of Fame events==
+For details of each induction, click on the appropriate link below.
+{{chapters|align=left|title=Hall of Fame inductions:|content=
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2010|2010]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2011|2011]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2012|2012]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2013|2013]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2014|2014]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2015|2015]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2016|2016]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2017|2017]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2018|2018]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2019|2019]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2020|2020]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2021|2021]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2022|2022]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2023|2023]]
+*[[Transformers Hall of Fame/2024|2024]]
+}}
+==Nomination process==
+During the lead-up to BotCon, select ''Transformers'' fan sites are given the opportunity to poll their members for Transformer candidates to be entered into the Hall of Fame. The voting process varies by site, with some opting for a straight vote, and others using a method of nominating then voting. Once each site has its list of candidates, the lists are sent to Hasbro who tally them together using a weighted points system and produce the final list of nominees.
+For the first five events, short profiles for the five nominees were placed on the Hasbro website, along with a poll. Fans got one vote per day until the poll is closed, and the winner remained a mystery until the big reveal. Later events typically held the vote on the official Transformers Facebook page and Instagram, with votes made by adding a comment containing a hashtag, though a side effect of this is that the vote is public and the winner can be determined by anyone who cares to tally the votes themselves. The one exception was 2015, in which the vote was done via a poll in the official ''Transformers'' mobile app. 2019-2020, the poll was held on SurveyMonkey, and since 2021 the voting has been done via Google docs survey.
+==Hall of Fame Ceremony==
+From 2010 through 2012 a semi-formal dinner was held one night during BotCon to induct new Hall of Fame members. The awards for the human recipients were given out first, with each getting testimonials and a video showcasing their work before being presented with a statuette of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] holding aloft the [[Matrix of Leadership]] in a stylized burst of power. This was followed by the robot inductees, each of which received a video montage set to a popular hit. The final fan choice nominees likewise received their own montages, in the lead-up to the announcement of the winner of the fan choice poll.
+For 2013 and 2014, the ceremony itself was scrapped, with the poll winners instead of being announced during the Hasbro panel. In 2015, however, the Hall of Fame event was merged with the Awards Dinner as a segment of that evening's events, bringing back some of the ceremonial formality of the Hall of Fame's first three years. Since the demise of BotCon, the Hall of Fame announcement has been made during [[HasCon]] or whichever other convention Hasbro participates in.
 ==Notes==
-[[Image:BC2010Su-dinobotdisplay.jpg|right|thumb|300px|]]
+*The "characters" in the Hall of Fame are not "characters" in the same sense as in this wiki. They are more like "character names, and the cross-continuity character concepts behind them". For example, the "Optimus Prime" in the Hall of Fame is considered to encompass all the major Optimus Primes from all continuities — "[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Generation 1]]", [[Optimus Prime (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'']], [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|the Unicron Trilogy]], [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|the live-action movies]], [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|''Animated'']], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|''Prime'']], and others, all considered as "one character". The Hasbro-provided bios for Hall of Fame members and nominees are thus generic in spots (describing any of the characters of that name fairly well) while mentioning specific elements from the current "Aligned" continuity in others. This deliberate ambiguity is alternately fascinating and maddening, particularly when it's applied to [[Erector (G1)|characters who do not otherwise exist in the Aligned-verse]]. However, it is possible for two characters with the same name to be elected, provided they are fundamentally different characters, as opposed to variations on the same character. For example, in 2012, Megatron from ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' was nominated for the Hall of Fame because he is a separate character named after the original Megatron (who is already in the Hall of Fame). Thus, [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbot]]) from Generation 1, and [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] (the [[Fuzor]]) from ''Beast Wars'', could be separately nominated, and could even go up against each other for voting in the same year.
-*Soundwave's bio [[retcon]]ned his cassette partners into [[Mini-Con]]s, and restated an earlier retcon that they were also [[Deployer]]s.  It also revealed that he had deleted his emotions for more efficient information processing. Additionally, Soundwave's bio also included ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]]'s weakness to "too many sonic booms" from the [[Cyber Missions]].
+*In later years, Hasbro turned to themed Hall of Fame inductions, starting with a "Generation 1" season 1-themed year in 2019, ''Prime'' in 2020, ''Beast Wars'' season 1 in 2021, ''Animated'' season 1 in 2022 with full cast lists eligible for both and the [[Thirteen]] Primes in 2024. The unwitting result is that characters who were already inducted into the Hall of Fame (by either the narrowest to the broadest of strokes) were allowed to get in potentially a second time, though none have yet done so.
-*Grimlock's bio is largely based on his comic book personas, rather than the dumb, childlike version from the original cartoon.  It also revealed that his vocal quirks are the result of damage caused by [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]].
+*2025 was the first year that saw no characters entered into the Hall of Fame.
-* Jazz is now [[Optimus Prime]]'s best friend from before the war, plus the ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' aspect of him training to be a [[Cyber-Ninja]] is added.
-* Shockwave's bio offers no real surprises, but it spells "intentions" wrong.
+==See also==
-* Dinobot's entry was originally posted with no bio, but one was quickly added afterward. The final sentence is a grammatical mess. (Seriously, try to diagram that puppy.)
+* [[Source:Transformers Hall of Fame bios|Archived copy of the Transformers Hall of Fame bios]]
-*The release of [[Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron|Transformers: Exodus]] reveals that several of these bios (particularly Soundwave's and Jazz's), were almost certainly written with the new continuity of the novel in mind. This was later confirmed in the [[Hasbro Q&A/July 2010#TFViews.com|July 2010 Hasbro Q&A]].
-{{-}}
 ==External links==
-*[http://www.allspark.com/content/view/6892/20/ Hasbro "Rolls Out" Transformers Hall of Fame" press release.]
+*[http://web.archive.org/web/20140123021606/http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/hall-of-fame/ Official page]
-*[http://www2.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-INAUGURAL-MEMBERS.cfm Hasbro announces the inductees.]
-*[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/TRANSFORMERS-HALL-OF-FAME-Poll.cfm Fan vote for the fifth character inductee.]
-[[Category: Hasbro]]
+[[Category:Hall of Fame| ]]
+[[Category:Hasbro]]