Bot a Day: Daily Drawings

Ironworks is an Autobot construction engineer as well as an eccentric artist. He turns into a long-nosed semi truck. He came packed in the construction station playset, which turns from construction site with crane into a sensor station with missile launcher. He was available in 1989. 

Airwave is a Decepticon Micromaster that turns into an F-14 Tomcat. He comes packed in a playset that turns from an airport into a missile-packing bunker. He was available in 1989. 

The next Micromaster Station out in the inaugural year of this sub-brand is Greasepit. A monster truck Decepticon, his playset is a gas station that turns into a gunnery tower. He was available in 1989. 

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.