Ironworks (facility)
- The construction station is an Autobot Micromaster base in the Generation 1 continuity family.
Communications expert Ironworks, stationed far from the front lines, has a lot of spare time on his hands. He's prone to creating strange bits of structure around his post. Perhaps that same eccentricity explains why his construction station contains so many diverse and random elements—a crane, a windmill interstellar communicator, an iron forge, and a missile launcher. The station normally functions as a construction site, but can convert to a heavily armed communications tower mode.
- Japanese name: Build Base
Fiction
Zone OVA, manga and story pages
Upon the creation of the Zone Base, Ironworks was put in charge of the Build Base. Zone Part 4
When the Decepticon Generals invaded Zone, the Build Base attempted to fend the villains off. It transformed from its construction 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. Zone (manga) Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!
Toys
- Ironworks (Micromaster Station, 1989)
- Japanese ID number: C-344
- Accessories: Ironworks Micromaster, crane/rocket launcher, crane staging, ramp, rocket
- The construction station was sold in a small boxed package, along with Ironworks. It contains a crane which can rotate and elevate, a spinning three-bladed "radar dish", and a basket for Ironworks to stand in when the base is converted to its radar station mode.
- Ramps allow the construction station mode to connect to other Micromaster stations to form larger "city" complexes.
Notes
- The construction station, so named on the instructions, was redubbed communications station in Dreamwave's More Than Meets The Eye profile series.
- 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.
- It is one of the very few Micromaster accessories that lacks an actual vehicular mode.
