Iron Lift

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Iron Lift is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'!

Iron Lift (アイアンリフト Aian Rifuto) is the hand-to-hand combat expert of the Build Team. Well-versed in any number of combat forms, he frequently practice-spars with Atlan of the Train Team, in bouts that draw big audiences among the Autobot Micromasters. He also has incredible jumping power, racing effortlessly from rooftop to rooftop... even more ninja-like than the Liner Team's resident ninja Night (especially since he doesn't yatter away the whole time).

He also has an evil counterpart running around.

Fiction

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Micromaster

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Iron Lift was one of several Cyberdroids in stasis at the Autobot Micromasters' Earth base. During a particularly pitched battle with the Decepticon Sixwing in Berserker Mode, the capsules containing the Build Team took a shock, activating them. A little while later, Micromasters resembling the Build Team were spotted wrecking human construction sites. The Build Team soon confronted them in Sixbuilder mode...only for the impostors to do the same! The green Decepticon Sixbuilder announced that the two teams were actually halves of the original whole, and that he would rejoin with Sixbuilder only after all the other Autobots had been destroyed. Sixbuilder the Ill-Fated Warrior!?

Later, the Build Team helped excavate at Mount St. Hilary, finding some mysterious Cybertronian relics and technology. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!

Operation Combination

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Years later, Iron Lift and the rest of the Six-team Micromasters joined Guard City and the Road Corps in defending Earth from the forces of the Decepticon High Regent Scrash. Operation Combination

None of the combiner team individuals ever actually show up as individuals, only as components of the combined robot modes.

Toys

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Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

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  • Sixbuilder (Micromaster Six-Team, 1992)
  • ID number: TF-01
Released in the eighth and final year of the original Takara Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers line under the Operation Combination banner, Iron Lift transforms into a Coles Hydra 18T 6x4 crane truck. He can also form the left arm of any of the similar-build Six-Teams (Sixturbo and Sixwing), though his nominal placement is as Sixbuilder's left arm (he cannot form a right arm because only Sixbuilder's left fist will attach to him).
The toy's connector socket is approximately 5mm wide, making Iron Lift compatible with loads and loads of toys and accessories.
He was only available as part of a complete Sixbuilder gift set, packed with his teammates Crush-Bull, Digger, Gran Arm, Mixing, and Treader.
The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find, due to their final-year release well after Transformers had faded from relevance in Japan, and thus command some hefty prices even with the molds' later re-releases.
This mold was also used to make Universe Micromaster Hightower and the evil half of Iron Lift.

Micromaster

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  • Iron Lift (Micromaster, 2003)
  • ID number: 3
  • Accessories: Sixbuilder left fist
In 2003, the entire Sixbuilder team was re-released as the fourth wave of The Transformers: Micromaster, in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. For this release, the team was extensively redecoed; Iron Lift went from white to red, with his yellows getting brighter. Instead of stickers, he was instead covered with a whole new set of paint applications.
On top of this, two out of every twelve toys in the shipping/display case were in mostly-bright-green decos, as part of the Destron Sixbuilder chase figure. The evil half of Iron Lift came in the same box and with the same packaging as the normal version.

Notes

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  • Iron Lift, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster release a decade after his original Operation Combination release.
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