HEISS HAUS
Series - War for Cybertron
Sub-line - Trilogy
Size/class - Deluxe
New/remould/redeco - Repaint of Earthrise Airwave
Wave - Sure, why not?
Released here - ??
Approximate Retail Price - US$19.99 (AU$26)
Approximate Size - 12.5cm
Allegiance - Autobot
Sub-Group - Macromaster
Alt-mode - airport
Main Features/Gimmicks - Modulator, A.I.R. Lock system
Main Colours - blue, grey, amber
Main Accessories - 3-part blaster/lance

NOTE: This toy is a straight up repaint of ER Airwave. See the Airwave review thread for more comments and discussion about the original mould; this review thread will focus on differences made.















THOUGHTS
Out of the four CHUG Micromaster Stations, Hot House is the weakest as an homage of the G1 toy. It works fine as an airport; objectively even better than G1 with the longer runway. But the battle station mode is clearly Airwave and doesn't remotely resemble G1 Hot House's tank. Greasepit works better even as a repaint of Ironworks as they've done a decent job in reconfiguring the station mode as a servo (even including petrol pumps and a sign); and the battle station mode also works better because there's a tower and main cannon, same as G1 Greasepit. And I acknowledge that this is also a happy coincidence because both G1 Ironworks and Greasepit's stations incidentally have towers and a main cannon/launcher. Having Airwave/Hot House share a mould was always going to be more challenging; while they both share an airport mode, they have very different looking attack modes. I might see if I can muck around with Hot House to see if I can fan mode a tank out of it; but as it is with it's official configuration, the attack mode doesn't work as Hot House.

Honestly... unless you're looking to complete the G1 Micromaster Stations as CHUG toys, you can easily skip Hot House, especially if you already have ER Airwave. The robot and airport modes work fine (the robot is a new design and doesn't resemble either G1 Airwave or Hot House), but the battle station mode is a let down.