Iron Lift

Iron Lift is an Autobot Micromaster from the Operation Combination portion of 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, possibly even out-doing the Sixliner ninja Night when it comes to rooftop-to-rooftop racing.

He also has an evil counterpart running around.

Fiction

Micromaster Collection

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 – Warrior of Misfortune!?

The Micromaster Collection story was never actually concluded. However, as it has been established that its events take place as part of the normal Japanese Transformers timeline, it can be assumed that Sixbuilder and his evil half were eventually reformed into a whole being.

Operation Combination

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 Führer Scrash. Operation Combination

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

Toys

Operation Combination

• Sixbuilder (Micromaster team, 1992)
  • Japanese ID number: TF-01

The original version of Iron Lift was available only as part of a Sixbuilder gift set in Japan. Aside from the crane-truck mode, Iron Lift can form the left arm of any of the Six-Teams, though his nominal placement is as Sixbuilder's arm. (He cannot form the right arm as only the Sixbuilder left fist is properly compatible with him.) The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find.

The toy's connector socket is approximately 5mm wide, making Iron Lift compatible with Powerlinx ports.

This mold was also used to make Universe Micromaster Hightower, and the evil half of Iron Lift.

• More information on Iron Lift at TFU.info
• Iron Lift toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Micromaster Collection

• Iron Lift (Micromaster, 2003)
  • Sixbuilder ID number: 3
  • Accessories: Sixbuilder left fist

In 2003, the entire Sixbuilder team was re-released as part of the Micromaster Collection, 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. All decals were also replaced with paint applications.

• More information on Iron Lift at TFU.info
• Iron Lift toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Notes

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

External links

• Translation of Iron Lift's bio by Doug Dlin