Images of What Looks like Kingdom Pipes and Blue Bluestreak

I like the way pipes looks! Glad I waited on the huffer mold for this guy

Blue bluestreak looks cool too, that'll be tempting since I only have Smokescreen and Barricade rn

Rodimus Prime wrote:I wonder if Pipes will actually have 2 guns that can attach to his forearms.

Looks like he has the forearm holes, and hopefully the two guns. It'd be a shame to only have the one

More stolen toys to show off... They look great but how do these people get them so early especially when blue has not been officially revealed yet.

Some Golden Disk reveals would be great as well. Though if these are akin to the Galactic Odyssey collection of ER, I believe they were revealed a bit later in the year?

THAT'S BLUESTREAK! That's not Diaclone. That is the real Bluestreak straight off the official Hasbro G1 box. The one in the cartoon is Silverstreak. Because I don't really care about the cartoon. There are so many mistakes in the cartoon I can't be bothered with "toon accuracy". That would drive me nuts.

This is the best news! I have an extra Earthrise Prowl here that I was planning to repaint into blue Bluestreak. Thank God now I don't have to. Now I'll probably make that Prowl into Go-Shooter. I have the Takara Legends Go-Shooter head that came with Wheelie. He needs a body. Or maybe I'll make a custom Nightbeat???

Man, this is AWESOME NEWS!!!

Pipes is awesome too & automatically bought. Only problem is his arms really need to be silver. That's an easy fix.

Well I'm impressed with both...
I'd get this Bluestreak and just call the other from Walgreens Silverstreak.

Pipes has had a decent amount of re-tooling done;
Looks like there are difference on the forearms, the tops of the shoulders, the top of the torso (the "fins" to the sides of the head), and obviously the torso itself minus right above the waist.
Other than the cab, the legs and hands look to be identical, but this is nice to see.
And I won't be surprised at all if he does come with two blasters.
But what I like the most is just how different he looks than Huffer. I'm sure most of that is due to the color differences, but still, the headsculpt itself is very distinctive.
Not to mention, these two being in-between the Datsuns and Bee/Cliffjumper adds some good visual variety to the Autobots.

Man, right when I thought the checking account may get a bit of a breather after October...
Although I'm really not complaining, these two look solid.

Seibertron wrote:Love Pipes. He looks great but he needs his red eyes ... though I'm torn about that though since most Autobots have their proper blue eyes, like this toy has. But Pipes oddly had red eyes to keep with his toy. Or did he have blue in some episodes and red in others? Ugh. Funny I remember him having the red eyes, though I see screenshots of him having both so it must be the toy that makes the red eyes more prominent to me.

I'm pretty sure he had Blue eyes the cartoon. small blue eyes rather than a full visor.

There's also the "Puffer" variant of Huffer, which was sold as Pipes in some countries in Latin America and also had red eyes, but had Huffer's body and head.


From https://www.tf-1.com/articles/mini/puffer_template.html

Overcracker wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Love Pipes. He looks great but he needs his red eyes ... though I'm torn about that though since most Autobots have their proper blue eyes, like this toy has. But Pipes oddly had red eyes to keep with his toy. Or did he have blue in some episodes and red in others? Ugh. Funny I remember him having the red eyes, though I see screenshots of him having both so it must be the toy that makes the red eyes more prominent to me.

I'm pretty sure he had Blue eyes the cartoon. small blue eyes rather than a full visor.

Red eyes in both episodes he appeared in. Which is understandable, makes them stand out more against his... well, blue.

o.supreme wrote:I often forget, when I see the original seven 1984 Mini Vehicles along side any of their 1986 counterparts, that there was quite a bit of change, they weren't straight up repaints. I just wonder, was all that new tooling originated by Hasbro, or were these more of the toys Takara had intended for use in Micro Change, but were just later repurposed for Transformers?

Pretty sure they were original tooling, like the Conehead wing molds, and not leftovers. The general design team was the same I reckon, just shifted lines.

Sabrblade wrote:Plus, little known fact is that the Brawn, Huffer, Gears and Windcharger molds originally weren't first developed for Micro Change like Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, and Bumper were, but were instead originally developed by Knickerbocker Toys for a canceled line called Mysterians.

Yes! I saw a video Chris McFeely did on that a while back, that was pretty fascinating.

Sabrblade wrote:

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

o.supreme wrote:I often forget, when I see the original seven 1984 Mini Vehicles along side any of their 1986 counterparts, that there was quite a bit of change, they weren't straight up repaints. I just wonder, was all that new tooling originated by Hasbro, or were these more of the toys Takara had intended for use in Micro Change, but were just later repurposed for Transformers?

Pretty sure they were Hasbro-original tooling, like the Conehead wing molds. The general design team was the same I reckon, just shifted lines.

Plus, little known fact is that the Brawn, Huffer, Gears and Windcharger molds originally weren't first developed for Micro Change like Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, and Bumper were, but were instead originally developed by Knickerbocker Toys for a canceled line called Mysterians.

Yup, hence the big M on the front the of the vehicles. It was pretty cool to have Jim Shooter himself talk all about it to me when we were in a bar together once.