Transformers Hall of Fame
Starting in 2010, Hasbro has begun honoring important characters and creators from the long history of the franchise. At BotCon 2010, they will unveil five characters to be inducted into the Hall of Fame: Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, and a fifth character to be determined by fan vote.
(So, Soundwave.)
Each year another Transformers character and creator will be added to the Hall of Fame.
Nomination process
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.
On May 3, 2010 Hasbro began announcing the final nominees, leading up to the fan vote on May 10th. 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).
Nominees
2010 Nominees
Notes
- Soundwave's bio retconned his cassette partners into Mini-Cons, and restated an earlier retcon that they were also Deployers. It also revealed that he had deleted his emotions for more efficient information processing. Additionally, Soundwave's bio also included Revenge of the Fallen Soundwave's weakness to "too many sonic booms" from the Cyber Missions.
- 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.
- Jazz is now Optimus Prime's best friend from before the war, plus the Animated aspect of him training to be a Cyber-Ninja is added.
- Shockwave's bio offers no real surprises, but it spells "intentions" wrong.
- 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.)
