Hot House (facility)

This article is about the building that is sometimes a character. For the small eponymous character, see Hot House (Micromaster).

Hot House is an Autobot Micromaster base or Modulator from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Hot House secretly wishes THIS was his alternate form, and not some dumb airplane.

For such an introspective warrior, defense specialist Hot House packs an amazing amount of weaponry in his fire station, the Hot House. The mobile base converts from a garage and repair station into a treaded tank with a battering ram, missiles, rockets, and a cannon that's much bigger than Hot House himself.

Sometimes, the station itself transforms into a sentient Modulator.

Fiction

Zone cartoon, comic, and story pages

Badassly awesome! Except when fighting Decepticons.

Upon the creation of the Zone Base, Hot House was put in charge of the Fire Base. Zone Part 4

When the Decepticon Generals invaded Zone, the Fire Base was a crucial part of Zone Base's absolutely useless defenses. It transformed from its innocuous fire station form into a massive artillery platform and let the Decepticons have it with volley after volley of completely and utterly pointless firepower. No matter how much firing was done, no actual damage was done to the Decepticons, who managed to make off with a sample of Energon Z, taken from Zone Base itself. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!

Wings Universe

By the year 2984, the Fire Base was in operation on Cyberion. Hoist the Flag

War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material

Would this be considered surgery or building renovation?

After Cybertron fell, the Autobots left their homeworld aboard the Ark, traveling through space in pursuit of the AllSpark. Earthrise webpage Hot House was an injured bot on Paradron, tended to by the refugee medic Lifeline and recently arrived Ark-denizen Ratchet. Encounter 1: Paradron Medics

Commercial appearances

Micromaster cities were small enough to fit inside Optimus Prime's clenched fist. The fire station was among the bases and transports held within his iron grip. Micromaster Transports and battle stations commercial

Toys

The Transformers

A fire station mounted on the Space Shuttle crawler. IT'S THE PERFECT DISGUISE.

• Hot House (Micromaster Station, 1989/1990)

• Takara name: Fire Base
• Takara ID number: C-343
• Accessories: Ramp

Released in the sixth year of Hasbro's US Transformers toyline (fifth year in European markets), the fire station unfolds into a battle tank with retracting cannon barrel. Despite the sculpted treads on its tank mode, there are no rolling wheels, so pushing it along is discouraged. In station mode, it can connect to other Micromaster stations to form larger "city" complexes via the included ramps. An opening "garage" door can conceal a vehicle mode Micromaster.

The station is unique among the four Micromaster Stations; not only is it the only one with a mobile battle mode, but it also does not have any extra accessories to be plugged in anywhere. If only it had wheels.

The set includes the Micromaster Hot House.

In Takara's markets, this set was released as the "Fire Base", released in the Zone portion of Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline. The toys are physically identical to their Hasbro counterparts.

• More information on the fire station (and Hot House) at TFU.info

Generations Selects

With "Fire Station" being too risky to trademark, Hot House now transforms into a uoᴉʇɐʇS ǝɹᴉℲ.

• Hot House (Deluxe Modulator, 2020)

• Series: War for Cybertron: Earthrise
• ID number: WFC-GS15
• Accessories: 2 barrels, blaster base

Rebranded with the name of the Fire Station's operator, Generations Selects Hot House is a redeco of Earthrise Airwave. Hot House's color layout is largely identical to Airwave's, but they only retain Airwave's orange plastic and dark gray paint, and some areas are painted white. Via part-forming, they can turn into either a treaded aircraft carrier or a gun embankment, both loosely based on the original Micromaster station. It can also transform into an airbase with tiny runways as a carry-over from Airwave. It's also possible to work it into a tank mode similar to the original toy, but lacks instructions for doing so.

Several of their pieces have A.I.R. Lock System connection points, which allow many different building configurations to link up with other toys in the line to form larger fortifications. Their parts can also be used to augment other figures as armor and add-on weapons, similar to the Weaponizers of the prior Siege toyline. Hot House features an official combination with Tigertrack, unlike Airwave, who lacks an official armor mode in their instructions.

Hot House is the only Selects toy released alongside Earthrise in 2020 and 2021 to be explicitly branded as part of Earthrise.

Amusingly, Hot House's stock photos have the 'Fire Station' sign upside down in base mode. This error is not present in the figures released at retail.

This mold was also used to make Earthrise Overair.

Notes

• This and the other three Micromaster Stations were later re-used in Takara's Brave Police J-Decker toyline, omitting the Micromasters and adding a pair of non-transforming PVC mini-figures from the series.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Fire Base (ファイヤーベース Faiyā Bēsu)