Hot House (facility)

The fire station is an Autobot Micromaster base in 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 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.

Japanese name: Fire Base

Fiction

Commercial animation

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

Zone cartoon

Badassly awesome! Except when fighting Decepticons.

The fire station made a few appearances early in the Zone OVA. It can also be seen in the opening sequence, transforming.

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.

After that the fire base stayed on Zone (it's uncertain whether it could leave.)

Zone story pages and manga

In this version of the story, when the Decepticon Generals attacked they stole the Energon Z, then the Zone Base transformed; Hot House's fire station was part of this transformation. The Autobots unleashed enough firepower to force the Decepticons off the planet.

Despite this more successful rain of death, the Decepticons still got away with the Energon Z

Toys

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

Generation 1

• Hot House (Micromaster Station, 1989)
  • Japanese ID number: C-434
  • Accessories: Hot House Micromaster, ramp

The fire station was sold in a small boxed package, along with Hot House. Ramps allow it to connect to other Micromaster stations to form larger "city" complexes. An opening "garage" door can conceal a vehicle-mode Micromaster.

Trivia

• All four 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.