2012 Hall of Fame awards has begun

[griffin]

That's the unfortunate thing about the HOF now that it has gone beyond being a one-off event. The first one it was more about the name over the ages... so the displays and presentation videos would include all toys with that name.
What they should have done is specifically induct an actual character, kinda like what they do with the Human inductees. That way, the HOF concept can actually go more than a few years, as the most famous characters would all be eliminated by just a dozen names. See... just like the Beast Wars characters with Gen1 names are popular and iconic, there are characters from other series since Gen1 that are iconinc enough for HOF on their own, but will either be eliminated by the name already being inducted, or wont get inducted because the other versions of that name aren't iconic enough. I'd think BW Inferno, BW Silverbolt, Movie Barricade... would all eventually deserve to be inducted, but under the current system, the earlier toys that shared that name would have to be included, or even featured as the primary Inductee.
If I remember it, I'll see if I can talk one of the Hasbro people at BotCon into maybe reworking HOF into inducting specific characters instead of "global names".
Otherwise they are going to keep having people getting frustrated for not having different characters of the same name being honoured.

The Hall of Fame is a Hasbro thing though isn't it?

Yes, this is a Hasbro thing, not FunPub. They instigated it and utilise BotCon as the best event to host it (which they usually do themselves - at least last year's was all Hasbro hosted).

[Hursticon]

Yes, this is a Hasbro thing, not FunPub. They instigated it and utilise BotCon as the best event to host it (which they usually do themselves - at least last year's was all Hasbro hosted).

Thought so, cheers for the clarification as usual dude.

It certainly would be worth while putting that forward to them (Hasbro) and getting their thoughts on the matter though, as it will certainly in time start to really cause deeper divisions and confusion, more so than what is seemingly occurring with some fans at the moment.

I don't think it helps that a lot of people seem to have it in their heads that a successful Nominee will equal a new toy, which is silly as there is absolutely no evidence for this... yet.