Title:
WFC Pipes
Description:
Autobot Pipes (Deluxe Class, 2021)
Hasbro ID number: WFC-K32
TakaraTomy ID number: KD EX-15
TakaraTomy release date: June 25, 2022
Accessories: 2 pipe blasters
Part of the final wave of War for Cybertron: Kingdom Deluxe Class toys, "Autobot Pipes” is a retool of the Huffer from the same line, using new shoulders, forearms, hands, wheels, chest, crotch, and head (which deviates slightly from the cartoon, as the mouthplate is taller and covers the nose more), and an additional transformation step to turn the cab upside down in robot mode. He transforms into a cab-over truck in 16 steps, and the pipe blasters can store on the back or as smokestacks. His robot mode is covered in 5 mm ports as part of the C.O.M.B.A.T. System/F.O.S.S.I.L. Technology. He also has a torso transformation joint that functions as an ab-crunch.
As an extra feature, Pipes can tow Earthrise Optimus Prime’s trailer (or any of its redecoes), a carryover from Huffer.
Unfortunately, due to a fan-coloring of Pipes’s unfinalized model using colors eye dropped from cartoon screen captures being shared around on the internet, Pipes features a gray rear-window on his cab, which doesn’t actually appear on his finalized model (see "Notes” below). This model originated from the Ukrainian fansite Transformers.kiev.ua, and appears often in top Google Image search results due to it being shared around on Pinterest and it being used as the main image of his Transformers wikia page.
Pipes’s instructions depict his cab-backpack in robot mode being angled at 45-degrees on his back. While this does compress his backpack into a manageable size, it also leaves the backpack inaccurate to his design. The cab-backpack CAN be set to the cartoon-accurate design, but this leaves it jutting out very far from his body. The cab-backpack is also prone to easily popping off its mushroom swivel-peg while trying to move it around during transformation.
Pipes was officially revealed via preorder listing pages at BigBadToyStore and Entertainment Earth in late September 2021, with no public announcement from Hasbro. Though Pipes’s wave was scheduled for a first quarter 2022 release, they in fact arrived on U.S. store shelves in December 2021.
In Japan, Pipes was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive.
Pipes was retooled into Autobot Puffer for the Amazon/Hasbro Pulse exclusive "Golden Disk Collection”.
Hasbro ID number: WFC-K32
TakaraTomy ID number: KD EX-15
TakaraTomy release date: June 25, 2022
Accessories: 2 pipe blasters
Part of the final wave of War for Cybertron: Kingdom Deluxe Class toys, "Autobot Pipes” is a retool of the Huffer from the same line, using new shoulders, forearms, hands, wheels, chest, crotch, and head (which deviates slightly from the cartoon, as the mouthplate is taller and covers the nose more), and an additional transformation step to turn the cab upside down in robot mode. He transforms into a cab-over truck in 16 steps, and the pipe blasters can store on the back or as smokestacks. His robot mode is covered in 5 mm ports as part of the C.O.M.B.A.T. System/F.O.S.S.I.L. Technology. He also has a torso transformation joint that functions as an ab-crunch.
As an extra feature, Pipes can tow Earthrise Optimus Prime’s trailer (or any of its redecoes), a carryover from Huffer.
Unfortunately, due to a fan-coloring of Pipes’s unfinalized model using colors eye dropped from cartoon screen captures being shared around on the internet, Pipes features a gray rear-window on his cab, which doesn’t actually appear on his finalized model (see "Notes” below). This model originated from the Ukrainian fansite Transformers.kiev.ua, and appears often in top Google Image search results due to it being shared around on Pinterest and it being used as the main image of his Transformers wikia page.
Pipes’s instructions depict his cab-backpack in robot mode being angled at 45-degrees on his back. While this does compress his backpack into a manageable size, it also leaves the backpack inaccurate to his design. The cab-backpack CAN be set to the cartoon-accurate design, but this leaves it jutting out very far from his body. The cab-backpack is also prone to easily popping off its mushroom swivel-peg while trying to move it around during transformation.
Pipes was officially revealed via preorder listing pages at BigBadToyStore and Entertainment Earth in late September 2021, with no public announcement from Hasbro. Though Pipes’s wave was scheduled for a first quarter 2022 release, they in fact arrived on U.S. store shelves in December 2021.
In Japan, Pipes was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive.
Pipes was retooled into Autobot Puffer for the Amazon/Hasbro Pulse exclusive "Golden Disk Collection”.
Theme:
Kingdom
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2021
Country:
United States
Series:
Kingdom
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2022-04-03 16:06:00
