Gasoline Base - Transformers Wiki

The Gasoline Base is an Autobot installation from the Zone portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Manned by Glasspit, the Gasoline Base (ガソリンベース Gasorin Bēsu) is the "mess hall" of the Zone Base, supplying energy to the Micromaster warriors stationed on planet Zone. Additionally, as the energy center of the Zone Base, it is the station in which the powerful Energon Z is stored. Like all the components of the Zone Base, the Gasoline Base can transform into a defensive battle station, and is armed with the tremendously powerful "Energy Missile Z" to repel attacks.

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Zone cartoon, comic, and story pages

Upon the creation of the Zone Base, Glasspit was put in charge of the Gasoline Base. Zone Part 4

When the Decepticon Generals invaded Zone, the Gasoline Base attempted to fend the villains off. It transformed from its innocuous gas station form into a massive artillery platform and let the Decepticons have it with volley after volley of completely and utterly pointless firepower. Undamaged even by this ungodly amount of ammo, Overlord cleaved the tower off the Gasoline Base with his staff and tore out the Energon Z within it. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga) Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!

Generations Selects Special Comic

In the year 2050, a new and improved Gasoline Base could be spotted amongst the mighty works of the second Cybertron Alliance. Volcanicus comic 1

Wings Universe

By the year 2984, the Gasoline Base was in operation on Cyberion. Hoist the Flag

Toys

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

• Gasoline Base (Micro Transformer Station, 1990)

• ID number: C-341
• Accessories: "Energy Missile Z", sign, ramp

Released in the Zone portion of Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline, the Gasoline Base is identical to the Hasbro-release Decepticon gas station, transforming from a blue and yellow gas station into an assault tower featuring flip-out searchlights and lasers.

The universally-sized ramp packaged with the station allows it to link up to every other Micromaster Station and Micromaster Transport, but is only useful in gas station mode.

The set comes with the Micro Transformer Glasspit, similarly identical to the Hasbro Decepticon Micromaster Greasepit.

• More information on the Gasoline Base/gas station, with Glasspit/Greasepit at TFU.info

Generations Selects

• Greasepit (Deluxe Class, 2020)

• ID number: WFC-GS12
• Accessories: Blaster, Gas pumps, sign

Generations Selects Decepticon Greasepit was repurposed as the Autobot Gasoline Base. No word on whether the robot is named after Glasspit.

Rebranded with the name of the Gas Station's operator, Generations Selects Greasepit is a redeco of Earthrise Ironworks with a couple of new accessories. As a Modulator redeco, Greasepit can assume many different building configurations and connect to other Earthrise bases, while their parts can also be used as weapons or armor. Instead of the crane hook that Ironworks came with, Greasepit has a new fuel pump and gas station sign parts that can both connect via a 5 mm post. What used to be a crane arm is now used to mount the sign for gas station mode. Unlike most War for Cybertron Trilogy toys, stickers are used on the toy, specifically for the gas station windows and the sign's contents.

Unlike Ironworks and the previous toyline's Weaponizers, Greasepit's instructions do not specify a method to use their components to augment other toys, instead showing two additional base modes that weren't in Ironworks' instructions (but were in Ironworks' stock images). Both toys can also assume modes from the other's instructions, due to being redecos of each other. Greasepit can also form a gun emplacement mode seen in the instructions of the Earthrise Botropolis Rescue Mission set, which contains a Sky Lynx-decoed Ironworks.

This figure (and Exhaust) appeared on eBay in late June of 2020, and was also immediately offered with an instant "in stock" purchase option by several online retailers (mostly based out of Europe) despite not being officially acknowledged by Hasbro until the following month.

Notes

• This and the other three Micromaster Stations were later re-used in Takara's Brave Police J-Decker toyline, omitting the Micromasters and adding a pair of non-transforming PVC mini-figures from the series.