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Day 293: Hot House

In 1989, the Transformers toy assortment could be split right down the middle: Pretenders and Micromasters. Micromasters were Hasbro's answer to Micro-Machines, the hit toy from Galoob that offered a lot of play value for your buck, and you can get a bunch of vehicles for the price of a single Transformer. So, Transformer-scaled Micromasters dominated the final two years of Generation One.


This starts off a series of Micromaster Stations -- small bases that transform into battle stations with a pack-in vehicle/robot toy. Hot House here is an Autobot that turns into an A-10 Thunderbolt plane. His station is a fire house (because fire houses have A-10 Thunderbolts?) that turns into a treaded combat station. 


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