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Transformer of the Day for September 9, 2009

PIPES

-Faction: Autobot
-Era: Generation One (1984-1992)
-Function: Bulldozer
-Motto: “One Being’s Junk is Another’s Art”
-Notable Toy: Mini-Bot (Hasbro, 1986)

Notes: Pipes has always fascinated me as a Transformer. First, he seems so appropriate for collectors, his motto and bio seemingly made to describe much of our collections. But it was the clever reuse of the original Huffer form that truly intrigues me. Same vehicle, and yet, with a slight change of the head transformation (and head), there is a completely different figure sitting on the shelf. Even wilder when you can put him next to the blue version of Huffer that showed up in some markets.

(Apologies and thanks to shmax.com for the toy pic.)