USA Today reports on the outcome of the National Toy Hall of Fame 2017 induction. Transformers was one of the twelve toys to break through to the finals this year once again, along with the likes of the Magic 8 Ball, fellow Hasbro property My Little Pony, and Matchbox cars.
We’ve been here before, though, and once again, Transformers was defeated in the final vote by this year’s three inductees, the Wiffle ball, the equally classic whodunnit board game Clue, and paper planes. Yes, we scratch our head at exactly what is defined as a toy here (sand was also a nominee), though given the thought that paper planes date as far back as 500BC we can’t begrudge its recognition.
With two years running now for Transformers making the final twelve, maybe next year will finally see Transformers break through? Let us consult our Magic 8 Ball; “don’t count on it”.
GOLD5
No surprise, what with the Magic 8 Ball movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch coming soon and the special cruise ship line themed after Mr Potato Head.. I personally cant wait for the Risk opera from Andrew Lloyd Webber..
TexasBEAST
Leader Class Unicron. Or Vector Sigma!
Venixion
So help me if it lost out to pez or sand…
Smitty.1981
Well the stick was inducted some years back so… yeah.
bellpeppers
It is always a pleasure to come across such ‘well played’ posts.
I salute you!
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I’d be pretty perplexed and upset if I discovered my wife had….
bellpeppers
That is actually not a bad idea.
No pain, cheap stickers and a price of $29.99
boomerdave
Surprised someone asshat hasn't made "My imagination" the #1 toy of the year on these lists.
RKillian
Sooner or later they have to run out of dumb stuff like blankets and sticks.
TCJJ
Joke's on you, girls don't talk to me anyway.
Wait, I think that means the joke's on me…
What's this thread about again?
Oh right, paper airplanes and friggin' Wiffle Balls (not "wife balls", autocorrect) won.
You know, I would be less upset if they just said "fuck it, sand is the winner. Sand is the best toy ever. Everyone can just suck it."
HotRhinoximus86
This… does not seem well-considered.
Murasame
Well, as someone who is friends mostly to girls: trust me, the way guys are talking about girls is harmless. What girls are talking about men and especially in what detail is much worse. And they do that, because they think we would do the same anyway. But we're mostly just joking. So there's a difference. If you knew what girls are talking about us, you'd never touch a girl again
Murasame
"amazing, a booby trap that actually catches boobies"
Murasame
Reminds me of yelling "BEAST MODE!", when switching positions
Murasame
Now I'm imagining starscream transforming into a paper plane
MetalStorm
We can make our own Toy Hall of Fame, with Blackjack and Hookers.
In fact, forget the Toy Hall of Fame.
Feralstorm
Dat's what I've been saying. For as much as people like to bitch about the legitimacy (or lack) of Hasbro fan-vote stuff, this one seemed far more obvious about it
HotRhinoximus86
Ok – I'm only pursuing this 'cos it's kind of silly, but in small part 'cos it's kind of serious, so…
Talking about girls like they are "items" is taboo anywhere, but (and here's where it's relevant to TFW!) *ESPECIALLY* taboo in cool/niche places where there are suddenly a small amount of awesome girls & could either be "more girls" or "no girls ever, suddenly."
(TBF: on TFW, we don't "talk about guys." So…)
I think it's even better to say "I prefer playing with girls to playing with Transformers" than it is to say "Let's induct 'Girls' into the Toy Hall of Fame" (jocks have been saying that to me since Middle School!
).
Personal weird-af story: I am a guy, but I play girl characters in videogames 'cos they're faster/lighter, and IRL, I'm not a bulky dude, like most male characters. Thought I had this figured, but then MMO's came around; for a while, there were no problems, and lots of people actually just *KNEW* I was a guy (and I didn't do any "girly" stuff or "guy" stuff, I just played the character – a healer in WoW). I'm not much for FPS, but Destiny was such a big deal that I picked it up, and, sure enough, made a magic-lady character. Sure enough, some dude came around while I was in the headquarters/merchant/upgrade area, got behind my character, and started crouching/un-crouching, repeatedly. At first I was confused, but then I moved away, 'cos I realized he was, umm – humping me. So, after he wouldn't leave me alone when I moved a few times, I wrote him a message saying that if he was so excited to see a girl playing Destiny that he had to hump her on sight, and would like to perhaps see *MORE* girls play Destiny, he oughtn't hump them on sight, because that's not behavior they consider encouraging for a return visit.
— and also told him he'd just humped a dude.
So, I submit to you that, even though it is sometimes much better to play with girls than to play with Transformers, we probably all shouldn't make "girls" the topic of conversation, or equated to an "item," 'cos that kinda talk [rightly] pisses them off.
(Although as a Transformers fan (knowing the context) I can see it as the highest of compliments, let's err on the side of caution, here!)
WishfulThinking
Okay, that's big fat hairy balls. Anyone watching the vote knows it was a shoot-out between PEZ and Matchbox with Wiffle Ball bringing up the rear. The fact that the first two were left out either means one of two things.
1. Someone figured out how to spam for PEZ and MAtchbox and those votes weren't counted.
or
2. Our votes never mattered to begin with.
Hadlen_Weltall
Maybe next year the THOF will choose a better character to represent the franchise than Twin Twist?
KnightHawkke
Who booked this crap?