View Poll Results: Combiner Wars Pipes - worth getting?

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  • Yes

    8 53.33%
  • Only if cheap

    3 20.00%
  • Only if...

    0 0%
  • Na

    2 13.33%
  • No - Pipes deserved better than this lazy recolour

    2 13.33%
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Thread: Toy Review - CW Pipes

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  1. #1
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    Default Toy Review - CW Pipes

    PIPES
    Series - Generations
    Sub-line - Combiner Wars
    Size/class - Legends
    New/remould/redeco – Redeco of CW Huffer
    Wave – Wave 5
    Released here - not yet
    Approximate Retail Price - $18
    Approximate Size – 8cm
    Allegiance - Autobot
    Alt-mode – Truck Cab
    Main Features/Gimmicks – n/a
    Main Colours – Blue, Grey
    Main Accessories – n/a




    Robot Mode
    His weakest mode. Nothing about this figure really says ‘Pipes’. No backpack, no pipe arms… heck they even gave him a full face which they made red for some damn reason that I can’t fathom - makes him look like Huffers even more grim Spark Brother or something. It’s a good enough robot toy, just like Prime and Huffer before him, just not really Pipes.




    Truck Mode
    A nice little truck. Could have used a darker blue paint job and some… well… pipes/smokestacks. But certainly passable for Pipes. Quite nice really.




    Transformation
    Same as Prime and Huffer before him – pretty easy.


    Overall
    I’d say Pipes beats out Scattershot and Blast Off for the ‘Least effort put into a Combiner Wars figure’ Award . Besides a new paint job change – and not a massively accurate one at that – nothing about this figure says Pipes. I know he’s a minor character but we’ve been waiting for a CHUG version of Pipes for years so it’s disappointing this is what we got in the end. On a personal note G1 Pipes was one of my first dozen ever TF’s and the first one I ever had two of so I was extra disappointed at the lack of effort here – considering how many years it will probably be before we get another Pipes I may end up looking of the 3rd Party market for a better one.

    Only recommended if you want a CHUG version of every G1 character you can, even then I'll be keeping him in truck mode.

  2. #2
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    I've decided that my Pipes will be a Hispanophone.
    "Ven conmigo, mi amor. Yo te mostraré las maravillas de la galaxia y vamos a derrotar el mal con nuestro amor."

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    Sounds like some bad telenovela Gok nice work
    WANTED BOTS: G1: Horri-bull, Snarler, Mainframe, Chop Shop, Ransack CHUG: Spin Out, Cordon, Brotropolis Rescue MASTERPIECE: Acid Storm
    ENERGON: Six Shot

  4. #4
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    Just opened my Pipes. I like him, I feel Pipes in the toy, even if there are no... pipes. But I feel I'm missing something. What are the lift - up shoulder pads for?


    Eagerly waiting for Masterpiece Meister

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirge View Post
    Just opened my Pipes. I like him, I feel Pipes in the toy, even if there are no... pipes. But I feel I'm missing something. What are the lift - up shoulder pads for?
    To give him extra shoulder articulation i.e. you can lift the flaps up to gain more outwards motion of the shoulders.

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    I'll be honest, I've never bought one of this mold and I don't plan to. The IDW Optimus wasn't my thing and Huffer and Pipes are pretty lazy and not G1 enough for me to use them as filler in my display.

    That said, given that, besides some 3P stuff, my display is mostly MPs (with a notable exception for Takara Legends Arcee), I suppose that's not saying much, although I do own a tonne of CW things (Prime, all the Combiners/limbs and a heap of the Legends - Powerglide nearly made it in as a MP stand in, but I decided to use him with Superion's gun to match the G2 team).

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