Ironworks (Micromaster)

This article is about the Autobot. For his base which sometimes shares his name, see Ironworks (base).

Ironworks is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Yes, my chest is, in fact, asymmetrical, it's a very tender subject, thank you so much for bringing it up. Jeez, why not just pour some sugar in my gas tank while you're at it? [grumble]

Ironworks (aka Iron Works and Irontread) is an eccentric hermit, guarding and maintaining his construction station, far from the front lines. He indulges his artistic side by building bizarre devices on the land around his station.

Fiction

Zone cartoon, manga, and story pages

Upon the creation of the Zone Base, Ironworks was put in charge of the Build Base. Zone Part 4 However, when the Nine Great Demon Generals attacked, Zone Base was unable to prevent them from stealing the Energon Z. Zone Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!

Later, when Violen Jiger kidnapped Galaxy Rocket and fled to the Tenth Planet, all the Micromasters (Ironworks included) promised to keep Zone safe while Dai Atlas and the Powered Masters pursued the villain. Zone Part 10

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Ironworks was seen at the Micros-only bar in Little Iacon. He tried to warn Trip-Up that the chair he was going for belonged to Roller Force. Trip-Up responded by taking the chair anyway, and pushing Ironworks out of his own chair for good measure. The Gray Race He was later seen trying to fight off a group of Decepticons who invaded the Micros' territory. Recipe for Hate

Classics

By 2012, Ironworks's base had become a major fortress to the Autobots in Oregon, housing Rarified Energon. Ironworks came under attack from Gigatron's Decepticons, who were fended off. Invasion Prologue Not long afterward, the base became a battleground for the fight against evil Autobots from another dimension. Invasion

Some time later, Wheeljack and Perceptor were in the lower levels of Ironworks when they observed the Rarified Energon behave strangely, as though it were alive. Soon afterwards, the dark god Primus destroyed Ironworks, and with it the heroic Autobots' shuttles. Fortunately, Grimlock came in his own ship to evacuate all his comrades. Meanwhile, the Rarified Energon itself turned out to be the lifeblood of Gaea. The Future Buried...

Beast Wars: Uprising

Ironworks had the Micro-Weight Boxing Championship till Caliburn took it from him. Broken Windshields

Commercial appearances

When Zarak Maximus attempted to stomp Micropolis, Ironworks was among innumerable Autobot and Decepticon Micromasters that swarmed and toppled the colossus. Micromaster transports commercial

Toys

The Transformers

• Ironworks (Micromaster Station, 1989)
  • Accessories: Construction station, crane/rocket launcher, crane staging, ramp, rocket

A redeco of the Off Road Patrol member Powertrain, Ironworks transforms into a longnosed semi truck cab of undetermined model. He came with a "communications bay", a construction station that unfolds into a communications tower with a (non-firing) missile launcher.

As the Powertrain mold he is recolored from is "gang-molded" with its Off Road Patrol teammate Mudslinger, Ironworks and his fellow Micromaster Station recolor Greasepit by necessity share plastic colors.

• More information on Ironworks at TFU.info

Zone

• Build Base (Micro Transformer Station, 1990)
  • Japanese ID number: C-344
  • Accessories: Construction station, crane/rocket launcher, crane staging, ramp, rocket

Ironworks was made available in the Japanese Zone line, with no notable changes from the Hasbro version.

Generations

War for Cybertron: Siege

• Autobots vs. Decepticons (Micromaster multi-pack, 2019)
  • ID number: WFC-S60

Siege "Irontread" is a retool of Powertrain, featuring a new head and torso based on Generation 1 Big Hauler. He transforms into a barely-Cybertronian long-nosed semi truck cab. As part of the C.O.M.B.A.T. System, he can also combine with Ricon (or any iteration of that mold) to form the "Dual-Port Scrapegrinder" double-barreled blaster. His new name is presumably thanks to the Earthrise Ironworks toy, based on the original construction station, released a few months later.

He was only available as part of a Target exclusive ten-pack of Micromasters, which includes the Autobots Ground Shaker, Overair, Ricon, Road-Police, and Wheel Blaze, and the Decepticons Cratermaker, Fireline, Nightflight, and Slyhopper.

Notes

• The "RI" on the "RI Construction" decal on Ironworks' trailer hitch most likely stands for Rhode Island, the location of Hasbro's headquarters. Decades later, "Ricon" would become a character name in War for Cybertron: Siege. Odd.
• The name "Irontread" was also used in 2004 for Demolishor's new dump truck body in the Japanese Super Link edition of Transformers: Energon.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Ironworks (アイアンワークス Aianwākusu)
• French: Chantier (France, "Construction Site"), Cuirassé (Canada, "Armored")
• Italian: Radar