TFW's Combiner Wars Pipes In-Hand Gallery

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  1. Sol Fury

    Sol Fury The British Butcher Veteran

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    Next up in our coverage of the Combiner Wars Legends Wave 5, we've got a look at Pipes!

    Pipes is destined to be that unfortunate member of the assortment who gets overlooked in favor of his brethren. We'll get the bad bit out of the way first, yes, Pipes is a straight up redeco of Huffer, with no new head, and as Huffer was a remold of Optimus Prime, this one is Pipes in name and being a blue truck only. On to the good points, Pipes is a very nice blue truck. The deco is nicely done and looks good, bringing out all the details of the mold. The mold also has great poseability, and great balance for holding those poses. The inclusion of a rifle - a rarity in the Legends size class - just adds to the posing options. He's overall a nicely done little redeco, and the red face is different and striking among Transformers. It just does not look much like the Pipes we know.

    Check out this destined to be underrated Autobot's gallery at the link below:

    Generations Combiner Wars Pipes Gallery


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    Combiner Wars Pipes Robot Mode

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    Combiner Wars Pipes Truck Mode

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    Combiner Wars Pipes Robot Mode Jumping Pose

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    Combiner Wars Pipes with Generation 1 Pipes

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    Combiner Wars Pipes with Cybertron Armorhide - yup, that's who Pipes will become for me.

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    Combiner Wars Pipes with Generation 1 Overlord's foot
     
  2. shadowfall1976

    shadowfall1976 The Alpha and the Optimus

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    Why can't Huffer and Pipes actually get a good new mold that is based on G1 like Powerglide, Cosmos and Gears? Pipetimus Prime here looks nothing like Pipes.
     
  3. ShanLan

    ShanLan I is a WerWilf

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    Too soon, man. Too soon. :cry 
     
  4. Bass X0

    Bass X0 Captain Commando

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    Because it would be pointless to make a new truck mode when a truck already exists. I'd rather see this and get a new Kickback or someone completely different to every other mold of the same size class.

    At least Bumblebee, Blackjack and Tailgate look different enough to each other in vehicle mode. A new Huffer and Pipes would just look identical to the toy we are getting in vehicle mode.

    I think we will be seeing Brawn and Outback repainted from Gears and Swerve since I doubt Hasbro will think its worthwhile making new molds for them. Repaints have to exist as well, even without a new head each time. As far as the ratio of retail repaints getting new heads vs. retail repaints reusing an existing head, we're currently at the best its ever been for new heads.

    Yes, but I see this toy as an upgrade for Pipes. Not all new toys have to be a 1:1 accuracy with the 80s either.
     
  5. AutobotAlvaron

    AutobotAlvaron Autobot

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    The truck-mode is OK, but why not at least make a new head for Pipes? I don't care about the "gang-molding" excuse, the CW line takes economies to the extreme. Even a reversal of the paint scheme on the face would have helped, like making the eyes red-orange and the face a lighter blue. Oh well, this line seems to be tapering off with a whimper and not a bang.
     
  6. Starscream 91

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    Its a shame this guy gets all this hate, once in hand I love this guy, that blue is striking and its always been a decent mold.
     
  7. YoungPrime

    YoungPrime Herald Of Primus

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    This figure gets a lot of hate but I like Pipes and Huffer in this mold. The Head reminds me of G.I.Joes Beachhead for some reason.
     
  8. Bass X0

    Bass X0 Captain Commando

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    Nothing to do with gang-molding. Just that Hasbro isn't willing to give every new toy a new head. If Pipes got a new head then Chop Shop would have to keep Skrapnel's head. I think Chop Shop is more deserving since the Optimus Prime mold already received one new head, while the Skrapnel mold had yet to do so before Chop Shop.
     
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  10. Windsweeper II

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    Too true, bring him back Roberts and Trailcutter too !
    He looks great, but why on earth didn't they use Prime's head ?
    At least it has a faceplate.
     
  11. PredaConvoy

    PredaConvoy Rogue Tripredacus Agent

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    I'd have liked his blue to be a tad darker, but I do like this mold on Huffer so I'll probably get Pipes too. I may kitbash him a faceplate if 3rd party doesn't do him a head, and I'll be painting his front bumper and top cab lights. I really like the minibots in legends scale, they're lots of fun.
     
  12. artiepants

    artiepants Transformers '84!!!

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    I guess he works as Micromaster Overload. A nice repaint, but Not even close for Pipes.
     
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    The blue is really close to the blue on Prime. One could probably chop the ears off, strip the paint, and paint the eyes red and swap it with Pipes.
     
  14. shadowfall1976

    shadowfall1976 The Alpha and the Optimus

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    When you have other Legends made with G1 style in mind, even if it's a mix of G1 / IDW G1 then I think it's not too much to ask for such a thing to be done for Pipes and Huffer, doesn't need to be the 1:1 Geewun BS that gets always tossed out just because someone wants something that at least looks like the character, it just should have some characteristics of the original character...this does not. That's what I'm saying.

    I don't care about the truck looking like another truck thing especially when it's bot modes I'm referring to, and this still looks nothing like Pipes, not even as an update, it's a Blue (even too light a blue) IDW Prime with a new head. That is my opinion on it.
     
  15. Lody666

    Lody666 Brother of Bruticus

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    Didn't they die ?
     
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    If they would just commit to doing a little more remolding on these legends (like how some deluxe remolds get like 90% new parts) some of these would work more. Just change maybe the feet and chest for Pipes & Huffer so they don't seem so much like Optimus. Same thing for Brawn & Outback if they are made from Swerve/Gears, at least give them new legs... But Pipes could've benefited from being a darker blue, and Huffer could've got black windows and they would be slightly better gap fillers.

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  17. Tarphedon

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    This is an opportunity for a legends scale diaclone powered convoy/ultra magnus trailer/armor.
     
  18. Dinobot Snarl

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    It's not bad, I like the colors here but one day, for the reason I wanted a space ship BlastOff, I want pipes with arms that turn into huge exaust pipes....its one of the reasons he's named pipes I'm sure
     
  19. G1Prowl

    G1Prowl Prick, apparently

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    Get a Nemesis Prime and do some part swapping, it'd be pretty damn nice as Powered Convoy's cab.

    I was actually thinking Blackjack's head would work well if it fits on the same mounting. Just paint it blue.
     
  20. rosewater

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    I don't think they can die.