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An unusual form of getting around, primarily found in video games. Hop in one end of the tube, get shuttled through in some manner, and come out the other end. Instead of taking a direct route, the tube may take a complicated snake-like path to the destination.
Not to be confused with using the London Underground.
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== Literature ==▼
== [[Film]] ==
* In [[EE Doc Smith]]'s ''[[Skylark]]'' series, the largely-aquatic humanoids of Dasor use systems of pipes filled with rushing water as their mass transit system.▼
* In ''[[Kingsman: The Secret Service]]'', a pneumatic-tube subway connects the sub-basement deep below the Kingsman's tailor shop on Saville Row in London with an estate many miles distant which serves as the headquarters and training facility for the Kingsmen.
▲== [[Literature]] ==
▲* In [[
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* Years before ''Project M'' the ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Brawl]]'' mod, there was [http://www.dkoldies.com/blog/april-fools-5-incredible-nintendo-power-pranks/ "Project M" the April Fool's joke]] in ''[[Nintendo Power]]'', about ''Super Mario Bros.''-inspired pipe travel.
* In ''[[Bionicle]]'', there's the chute system of Metru Nui.▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* "Bounce tubes" connected the different sections of the ''Earthship ARK'' in ''[[The Starlost]]''. Enter one and you are immediately propelled all the way to the far end, as Devon discovers in the first episode.
== [[Music]] ==
* ''City Hall'' by [[Tenacious D]] has this as one of the decrees of the "Two Kings":
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or ocean dumpage. From now on, we will travel in tubes!
Get the scientists working on the tube technology, immediately.
(Tube technology.) Chop, chop, let's go! }}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ''[[
* The warp pipes in the ''[[Super Mario]]'' series are iconic. However, in some cases (such as the warp zones) you appear to be [[Teleporters and Transporters|teleporting]] instead of traveling a path. The latter was never clearly shown in the games until ''[[Super Mario
* ''[[A Link to The Past]]'' has this in the Turtle Rock dungeon.
* ''[[Clydes Revenge
* A frequent method of travel in ''[[Strider
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]'', this is how you advance in the [[Bonus Dungeon]] complete with a Nifty [[Mini Game]]
* In the game ''[[Alpha Centauri]]'', the technological advance of Monopole Magnets grants tube travel to your faction.
* Happens in ''[[
* ''[[Drill Dozer]]'' has many threaded tunnels that require drilling one way or the other to enter and navigate. Defeating the boss of Area 5 involved being able to navigate tunnels within a time limit.
* Very common in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games. ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Earthworm Jim (
* Happens briefly at one point in ''[[Portal (
** Is built up on more in ''[[
* ''[[Mr. Gimmick]]'' has these.
* ''[[Command
* ''[[
* Sackbots are transported this way in ''[[
* ''[[Cosmos Cosmic Adventure]]'' has these, though it's a bit odd since the pipes look too thin for Cosmo to fit.
* ''[[F
* ''[[X-COM (Video Game)#Apocalypse|X-COM: Apocalypse]]'' "The People Tube network is the mass transit system for the whole city. The anti-gravity pathways suspend the traveler above the floor and safely propels them at speeds of about 25 miles an hour." That's the means by which your newly recruited staff usually arrives to the base. It's also a bunch of fragile tubes on supports, that tend to be the first thing destroyed by stray shots, leaving the whole sectors of Mega-Primus disconnected.
* This is how vertical connections in bases work in ''[[Subnautica]]'' -- you click "climb up ladder" or "climb down ladder", and suddenly you're at the other end, no matter how long a climb it is.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* This is how John Freeman gets into {{spoiler|
* In V8E2 of ''[[RWBY]]'', Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Nora and Penny get into the Atlas command center using a Schnee company supply line that is essentially a giant pneumatic tube.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Futurama]]'' has the Tube Transport System.
* Spoofed in "Rocket Squad", a ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' parody of ''[[Dragnet]]'' [[Recycled in Space|set in space]], where the
== Multiple Media ==
▲* In ''[[Bionicle]]'', there's the chute system of Metru Nui.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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