Puffer

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Puffer is an Autobot from the War for Cybertron Trilogy portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
From the people who brought you "Bumblejumper" and "Blast"...

Puffer was created from a time anomaly, fusing the Autobots Pipes and Huffer into one being. Despite his rather bizarre origin, he can still tussle with the best of them.

Fiction

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War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material

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Due to the effects of the quantum surge, a vortex in time and space was torn open which not only fused Huffer and Pipes into a single being but also sent them hurtling back in time to prehistoric Earth alongside the GoBot Road Ranger. Golden Disk Collection Chapter 1 The pair eventually met two more victims of the vortex, Puffer's fellow Autobot Jackpot and his partner Sights, and joined them in their efforts to stop Terrorsaur and the mutated Tigatron from stealing the Transwarp cell aboard the Nemesis. Golden Disk Collection Chapter 2 The four of them managed to reach the ship before the beasts and delivered a surprise attack upon their arrival. After helping to defeat Terrorsaur, the restored Tigatron enacted a plan to prevent the vortex from ever opening by sending the Nemesis back in time to the moment of the quantum surge. Puffer would be the only one to survive Tigatron's plan, as he and the Transwarp drive were launched in a pod away from the Nemesis before the quantum surge hit and completely destroyed the ship, lessening the surge's impact on the planet below and putting history on its proper path. Lucky him? Golden Disk Collection Chapter 4

Toys

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War for Cybertron: Kingdom

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  • Autobot Puffer / Autobot Road Ranger (Golden Disk Collection 2-pack, 2021)
  • Chapter 1: Through the Vortex
  • Accessories: 2 pipe blasters
Part of the first release in the Golden Disk Collection, War for Cybertron: Kingdom "Autobot Puffer" is a redeco and retool of Kingdom Deluxe Class Autobot Pipes in colors based on Pipes's Generation 1 European variant release. His head is accurate to Pipes's Generation 1 toy head, sporting a visor, instead of the animation-influenced eyes and nose of Kingdom Pipes. Puffer transforms into a cab-over truck in 16 steps, and includes a pair of pipe blasters that can store on his vehicle mode's 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 play patterns. He also has a torso transformation joint that functions as an ab-crunch.
As a carryover from Huffer, Puffer can tow Earthrise Optimus Prime's trailer (or any of its redecoes).
Puffer was only available in a multi-pack with his mold-mate "Autobot Road Ranger". This set was revealed and made available for pre-order on September 27, 2021, and was the first of four daily announcements concerning the Golden Disk Collection; as with the other sets in this series, Puffer and Road Ranger's packaging is printed with a portion of a Golden Disk graphic, and customers are encouraged to collect all four packs to unite the full image. The set is an Amazon and Hasbro Pulse exclusive in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Despite originally being scheduled for a March 2022 release, the set started to be released in December of 2021.

Notes

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A fusion of Huffer and Pipes… So he collects American consumerism then complains about it?
  • Puffer is loosely based on the toy Pipes received during "Generation 1" only in some parts of Europe, which was a straight redeco of Huffer's toy in Pipes-ish colors. We say "loosely based" because, rather than using the concurrent Kingdom Huffer "G1 toy" version of the mold, Puffer is (mostly) a straight redeco of Kingdom Pipes, except for the head (which is still based on Pipes's original toy, rather than any version of Huffer)… essentially making it Pipes in slightly-off Pipes colors. This was likely done not just to avoid putting two of the exact same mold in the two-pack, but so as to ensure all pretooled parts of the mold saw use, as was the case for Siege Irontread and later releases like Legacy Burn Out and Galaxy Shuttle.
  • The name "Puffer" is a deliberate portmanteau of Pipes and Huffer, a concept taken very literally by the published bio. The name had been devised by fans to refer to said European Pipes variant (as well as the similar, but distinct, IGA Pipes released in Mexico), with the earliest known usage dating back to a post made in 2000 on alt.toys.transformers.<ref> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.toys.transformers/c/YkR6bBAj9ww/m/bpGU4XDJkVoJ</ref> Its use in the Golden Disk Collection marks another instance of a fan nickname being canonized, which the product description for the set notes with the baffling turn of phrase that it "features a fun fan nod (insert nod here)".

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