{"id":3219,"date":"2017-11-09T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T00:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2017-11-09T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T00:24:33","slug":"transformers-finalists-for-toy-hall-of-fame-do-not-make-the-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/toysandcollectibles\/3219","title":{"rendered":"Transformers finalists for Toy Hall of Fame, do not make the cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/hasbro-brand-tf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Transformers <em>almost<\/em> made it to the The National Toy Hall of Fame, according to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/nation-now\/2017\/11\/09\/national-toy-hall-fame-class-2017-paper-airplanes-clue-and-wiffle-ball\/848061001\/\">USA Today article.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The annual inductees are chosen on the advice of historians and educators following a process that begins with nominations from the public.\u00c2\u00a0To make the hall of fame, toys must have inspired creative play across generations.\u00c2\u00a0Historic and modern versions of the winners are displayed in the hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finalists were: the board games Risk and Clue, the Magic 8 Ball, Matchbox cars, My Little Pony, the paper airplane, PEZ candy dispenser, play food, sand, <strong>Transformers<\/strong>, the card game Uno and Wiffle ball.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, Optimus and Megatron lost out to paper airplanes, Clue and the Wiffle Ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transformers almost made it to the The National Toy Hall of Fame, according to this USA Today article. The annual inductees are chosen on the advice of historians and educators following a process that begins with nominations from the public.\u00c2\u00a0To make the hall of fame, toys must have inspired creative play across generations.\u00c2\u00a0Historic and modern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/toysandcollectibles\/3219\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transformers finalists for Toy Hall of Fame, do not make the cut<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toysandcollectibles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}