Greasepit (facility)

This article is about the building that is sometimes a character. For the eponymous small character, see Greasepit (Micromaster). For a list of other meanings, see Greasepit (disambiguation).

The Greasepit is a Decepticon Micromaster base or Modulator from the Generation 1 continuity family.

You can trust a name like Greasepit! It's an upstanding American name!

Hey buddy, yeah, you. You need a fill-up? Come on in! Yeah, come on in, just drive on up the ramp to the Greasepit! It's Greasepit's very own gas station! Naw, don't worry, the ramp ain't too steep. Naw, buddy, c'mon, would I lie to yas? It's fine! It's not too steep! It's A-D-A compliant! Yeah, ADA, and FHA, too, and FDA, yeah, and NBC. It's safe! Pull on up!

Alright, there ya go, come on in. Fill 'er up! What, those things down there? Naw, those ain't ion cannons, naw. They're, uh, gasoline storage tank cannons, yeah, that's the ticket. What's that? Your fuel gauge is going down? Don't worry, don't worry, that's normal, it's normal. It'll fix itself once you start drivin'. Siphon? Whaddaya talkin about? Greasepit don' lie!

So, yeah, since you're a special customer, I'll tell yas a little secret. This here gas station? It can turn all kinds of energy sources into Transformer-friendly energon. And get this — it can also turn itself into a battle station. Yeah, a battle station! It's got ionic cannons, rail-launched incendiary missiles, a sonic disrupter tower, the whole shootin' works. Ha! "Shootin' works". Dat's pretty good, eh?

Sometimes, the station itself transforms into a sentient Modulator. Ain’t that great?!

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

The Gasoline Base was operated by Greasepit on a post-war Cybertron. After an anti-government faction, the Resistance, sprung up to overthrow the status-quo, Greasepit integrated the base into the city of Micropolis. From there, he would normally only give out partial rations, due to the fuel shortage the planet was in the midst of. However, when the Maximal rebel Grimlock stole the G-Virus, Greasepit was issued an order to fill up the tanks of several government agents so that they could more readily deal with the crisis at hand. Micro-Aggressions

Toys

The Transformers

Gas Station Brand Gas Stations, now operating in affiliation with the Convenience Store chain of convenience stores.

• Greasepit (Micromaster Station, 1989)

• Accessories: Sign, missile, missile launcher, ramp, gun emplacement, gas pumps

Released in the sixth year of the The Transformers toyline (fifth year in the European line), this tiny gas station features stickers along the "building" portion to simulate the inside of a garage repair bay and a convenience store, and advertise Super Gasoline Z-1. Two simulated gas pumps and a "Gas Station" sign complete the operation. It unfolds into a tall "battle mode" with a quad-gun, three blaster cannons, a non-firing missile and floodlights, plus the "GAS" sign becomes a radar panel. Ramps allow the gas station to connect to other Micromaster stations to form larger "city" complexes.

The set came with the Micromaster Greasepit.

In Japan, the station was sold without changes as the Autobot Glasspit's "Gasoline Base".

• More information on the gas station with Greasepit at TFU.info

Generations Selects

Now the gas station can come to you!

• Greasepit (Deluxe Class, 2020)

• Series: War for Cybertron: Earthrise
• ID number: WFC-GS12
• Accessories: Blaster, Gas pumps, sign

Rebranded with the name of the Gas Station's operator, Generations Selects Greasepit is a redeco of Earthrise Ironworks with a couple of new accessories. As a Modulator redeco, Greasepit can assume many different building configurations and connect to other Earthrise bases, while their parts can also be used as weapons or armor. Instead of the crane hook that Ironworks came with, Greasepit has a new fuel pump and gas station sign parts that can both connect via a 5 mm post. What used to be a crane arm is now used to mount the sign for gas station mode. Unlike most War for Cybertron Trilogy toys, stickers are used on the toy, specifically for the gas station windows and the sign's contents.

The deco of its head and chest is inspired by the Micromaster Greasepit.

Unlike Ironworks and the previous toyline's Weaponizers, Greasepit's instructions do not specify a method to use their components to augment other toys, instead showing two additional base modes that weren't in Ironworks' instructions (but were in Ironworks' stock images). Both toys can also assume modes from the other's instructions, due to being redecos of each other. Greasepit can also form a gun emplacement mode seen in the instructions of the Earthrise Botropolis Rescue Mission set, which contains a Sky Lynx-decoed Ironworks.

This toy was repurposed as the Gasoline Base in Generations Selects Special Comic.

This mold was also used to make "Botropolis Rescue Mission" Ironworks and heavily retooled into Kingdom Slammer.

Notes

• This and the other three Micromaster Stations were later re-used in one of Takara's Brave lines, omitting the Micromasters and adding a pair of non-transforming mini-figures from the series.
• The gas station is one of a handful of Micromaster bases that lack any sort of transport mode.