History Main / TubeTravel

* The [[Comicbook/{{Micronauts}} Micronauts']] Rocket Tubes playset worked like this.

* ''Series/ComeBackMrsNoah''. After the lift stops working, the crew attempt to use the suction tubes to travel around the space station. Unfortunately being in the tube [[AssShove when another item is shooting up behind you is a bad idea]].

* In Season 4 of ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', criminal mastermind Elias restores an obsolete pneumatic tube delivery system and uses it for [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou communication that can't be intercepted]] and smuggling weapons inside government buildings.

** [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog28Bit the 8-bit version of]] ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog28Bit Sonic 2]]'' has it in the Aqua Lake, Gimmick Mountain, Crystal Egg, and especially Scrambled Egg Zones.

* ''Tinhead'' has tubes to travel through in many levels.

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* In ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'', they appear appear mostly in the Tubelectric stages (hence, the planet's name), but other stages such as Labrat from the second game have these as well.

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* Very common in the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games. ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' has it in the Chemical Plant and Metropolis Zones, and Aqua Lake, Gimmick Mountain, Crystal Egg especially Scrambled Egg Zones in [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog28Bit 8-bit version of]] ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog28Bit Sonic 2]]'', Crazy Gadget in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', Secret Base and Egg Rocket in ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance'', and others.

* In Edward Bellamy's ''Literature/LookingBackwards'', tubes are the primary method of transferring goods worldwide in the year 2000.

* Creator/JulesVerne's ''Paris in the Twentieth Century'' describes submerged tubes which carry groups of people across the Atlantic.

* In Edward Bellamy's ''Looking Backwards'', tubes are the primary method of transferring goods worldwide in the year 2000.

* ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Half-Klingon''. While in the [[Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton Captain Proton]] program, Tom Paris dives into a vacutube and emerges out the other end in a [[RealityEnsues cloud of dust and household vermin]].

[[caption-width-right:350:I hope Mario doesn't [[ThePeepingTom stare at something below her skirt...]]]]

Please note that this does not include using UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground (colloquially referred to as "the Tube") to travel.

* The warp pipes in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series are iconic. However, in some cases (such as the warp zones) you appear to be [[{{Teleportation}} teleporting]] instead of traveling a path. The latter was never clearly shown in the games until ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', where some levels scroll up or down while Mario is inside the pipe. ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' actually lets you control this in the Clear Pipe segments by letting you choose your path, usually to dodge enemies.

* Happens briefly at one point in ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
** Is built up on more in ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''. Tube travel is the main way ''everything'' in Aperture Science gets into test chambers, it is ridiculously inefficient and expensive, and there are so many props in the facility that no one even cares.

* Spoofed in "Rocket Squad", a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' parody of ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' [[RecycledInSpace set in space]], where the pneunatic tube system provides a bumpy ride for Daffy and Porky, with the latter remarking how people used to use elevators.

[[caption-width-right:350:I hope Mario doesn't [[ThePeepingTom spend his time staring at something below her skirt...]]]]

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* Very common in the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games. ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' has it in the Chemical Plant and Metropolis Zones, and Aqua Lake, Gimmick Mountain, Crystal Egg especially Scrambled Egg Zones in the 8-bit ''Sonic 2'', Crazy Gadget in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', Secret Base and Egg Rocket in ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance'', and others.

* In ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'', they appear appear mostly in the Tubelectric stages (hence, the planet's name), but other stages such as Labrat from the second game have these as well. The former example is the page image.

* In ''Series/OddSquad'', agents travel by being "ensquishinated" into balls and then fired through a series of tubes to their destination.

* In the ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' fanfic ''[[FanFic/StarlightSeries Alpha and Omega]]'', the gym in Jumba's labs has an automated tube system that sends each experiment to their respective changing rooms.

* In ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'', tube travel is often used to get around the Robinsons' house.
* In ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', the area of the city known as Little Rodentia has buildings connected by hamster tubes to allow its rodent-sized residents to travel between them.

* A frequent method of travel in ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}'' for the UsefulNotes/{{NES}}.

%%* The ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'' series has these, most famously in the Tubelectric stages.