Ironworks (facility)

The construction station is an Autobot Micromaster base from the Generation 1 continuity family.

I'll blow 'em away! HAHAHAHAohgod

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

Windmills do not work that way! GOODNIGHT!

Generation 1

• Ironworks (Micromaster Station, 1989)
  • Accessories: 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 as well as stow a (non-firing) missile, 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.

• More information on Ironworks and the construction station at TFU.info

Zone

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

The construction station was sold in Japan as the "Build Base". There are no notable differences between this release and the Hasbro one.

Notes

• The construction station, so named on the instruction booklet, 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.