Ironworks (Micromaster)

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 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.

French-Canadian name: Cuirassé

Italian name: Radar

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 However, when the Nine Great Demon Generals attacked, Zone Base was unable to prevent them from stealing the Energon Z. Zone (manga) 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 comics 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

Toys

Generation 1

• 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.

• 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.

Trivia

• 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.

• The "RI" on the "RI Construction" decal on Ironworks' trailer hitch most likely stands for Rhode Island, the location of Hasbro's headquarters.

• In Dreamwave's More Than Meets The Eye encyclopedia, his name appears as "Iron Works", two words.