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Alpha Team
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Years:

2001 - 2005

Related themes:

Agents

Alpha Team is a theme centering around secret agents. It was released in 2001 and officially discontinued in 2005.

Background

2001: The very first Alpha Team consisted of seven members: Dash Justice, the team leader; Cam Attaway; Flex; Radia; Charge; Crunch; and a robot named Tee Vee, who resembled a television set with legs. The Alpha Team fights a criminal mastermind named Ogel, whose name is LEGO spelled backwards. Ogel first fought the Alpha Team with Mind Control Orbs. These orbs turned people into mindless Skeleton Drones that Ogel could command. Ogel was eventually defeated, and the drones went back to normal with the destruction of the orbs. The pieces themselves were similar to those of some of the space themes. Ogel wore the armour from UFO and in the 2nd and 3rd years the Skeleton Drones featured helmets from Insectoids. Ogel could also control weather and create storms using a special organ.

2002: In 2002, the line was renamed "Alpha Team: Mission Deep Sea". This time, Alpha Team had to battle Ogel and his army of more evil-looking drones underwater. Ogel had created a new type of Mind Control Orb, which mutated sea creatures to carry out his bidding. He mutated many creatures, such as octopi and killer whales. The Alpha Team had to make use of submersibles and underwater robots to fight Ogel and his army of sea creatures. Alpha Team defeated Ogel when Dash reversed the factory controls, causing all the mutant creatures to revert to normal.

2003: In 2003, no Alpha Team LEGO sets were created. It was assumed by many fans that the line was cancelled.

2004 - 2005:

The Alpha Team logo as of "Mission Deep Freeze".

In 2004, Alpha Team was massively revised. The team symbol was changed, many of the characters had different appearances than in previous years, and Cam and Crunch were omitted in lieu of Agents Arrow and Diamond Tooth respectively. However, it could be that Alpha Team has more agents than previously thought (this is evidenced by Zed and Gearbox), and Crunch and Cam were merely not assigned to this mission. TeeVee became a humanoid robot, and Ogel's hook color was changed from red to blue. Alpha Team vehicles were given a new feature, known as Alpha Mode: Vehicles could be transformed without disassembling them.

This year, Ogel had a completely different plan, in which he was using new Ice Orbs to freeze the world. Alpha Team tracked him to Antarctica, where he succeeded in freezing Alpha Team, the rest of the world, and even time itself. The Team were saved by Zed, an Alpha Team special agent, who was protected from the time freeze by his vehicle, which was equipped for such an event. He defrosted the Alpha Team agents, and then battled Ogel's Scorpion Orb Launcher.

The LEGO Magazine invited members to send in submissions of what they thought would happen in the battle, although they were not published in the magazine, and members did not see the end of the battle. It is assumed that Zed defeated Ogel.

Ogel's new base was an arctic mountain fortress but, unlike in previous subthemes, the Alpha Team did not have to destroy the base to defeat Ogel.

Characters

Alpha Team

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  • Dash Justice: Motion Expert and Team Leader, Dash is very brave, but quite cocky. He loves the seaside. His colour is Black in the 2001 and 2002 missions, and Blue in 2004.
  • Crunch: Explosives Expert; replaced by Diamond Tooth in 2004. His colour is Green in the 2001 and 2002 missions, and was appropriated by Diamond Tooth in 2004.
  • Radia: Alpha Team's Lasers Expert, Radia is extremely beautiful. Her colour is Purple. She has also appeared in My LEGO Network.
  • Charge: Charge is the team's Electricity Expert. His gloves apparently allow him jet-assisted flight, as shown on the cover of the Alpha Team Video Game. His colour is Blue in the 2001 and 2002 missions, and Red in 2004.
  • Cam Attaway: Cam is the Team's Motors Expert and mechanic. She was replaced by Arrow in 2004. Her colour is Red in the 2001 and 2002 missions.
  • Flex: Flex is the Team's flamboiyant Ropes Expert. His colour is Orange.
  • Tee Vee: Tee Vee is the robotic advisor for Alpha Team. Tee Vee's colour is Cyan in 2004.
  • Arrow: Arrow is Alpha Team's Motors Expert and mechanic in 2004. His colour is Yellow.
  • Diamond Tooth: Diamond Tooth is Alpha Team's Mining Expert in 2004. His colour is Green.
  • Gearbox: All that is known about this agent is that he built the Tundra Tracker.
  • Zed: Special agent and the pilot of the Blizzard Blaster.

Ogel

  • Ogel: The ruthless villain of the series. He has been the main villain in each year of the series, constantly coming up with schemes to defeat Alpha Team.
  • Skeleton Drones: Ogel's minions, who are people who have been affected by Mind Control Orbs. Their appearance changes numerous times during the series.
  • Skeleton Drone Commander (Conjectural Name): This is a Skeleton Drone which comes with Ogel's Base.
  • Super Ice Drone: A Skeleton Drone with a black head that pilots the Scorpion Orb Laucher. Possibly a robot.

Vehicles

Original

Mission Deep Sea

  • The Alpha Team Command Patrol Sub is Alpha Team's largest undersea vehicle. It can fire off two Robot Divers, similar to Charge's, if necessary. A unique feature of the vehicle is somewhat similar to the 2004 Alpha Mode: the front and rear end of the Sub could split from the middle and combine to form a smaller sub.
  • The Sub-Surface Scooter is a small and nimble craft piloted by Agent Flex. His expertise in roping is evidenced by the spool of cable on the rear of the craft.
  • The Aquatic Mech is a large undersea robot operated by Dash and the Tee-Vee ROV.
  • The Wing Diver is a small scout vehicle operated by Cam.
  • The Navigator/ROV is a moderately-sized patrol craft with two robot arms. It is manned by Cam and Tee Vee in ROV format, and is similar in shape to the Command Patrol Sub, except for the omission of the main deck.
  • The Jet Sub is a small sub piloted by Dash.
  • The Robot Diver is a small vehicle that features Charge, consisting of a mech suit with robot arms and a flamethrower.

Mission Deep Freeze

  • The Mobile Command Center is the most heavily armed vehicle of the Alpha Team. The four Agents on board are Tee Vee, Charge, Arrow, and Radia. The Mobile Command Center contains two solar lasers, tools, and a missile launcher. When it is in "Alpha Mode", it turns into a heavily armed command center. Two Snow Scooters accompany the vehicle. This vehicle is used to locate Ogel's bases, spy and/or give information. It also has an Ice Orb Claw used to deactivate Ice Orbs.
  • The Blizzard Blaster is equipped with twin solar lasers, dual energy lasers, an ice missile launcher, and a heat energy beam. Zed, a special agent of Alpha Team, uses the machine to battle Ogel's Scorpion Orb Launcher and the Super Ice Drone. The Blizzard Blaster transforms into the Ice Shark when in Alpha Mode.
  • The Tundra Tracker contains twin solar lasers and a drill. It converts to the Magma Drill when in Alpha Mode. The vehicle is used for a variety of drilling missions. In a LEGO Magazine, it was said that an agent called Gearbox built and designed the vehicle. Agent Diamond Tooth pilots this vehicle.
  • The Chill Speeder: is a small, swift speeder mainly for Alpha Team's recon missions. When Alpha Mode is activated the speeder transforms into a light all-terrain walker called the X-1 Snowbot Defender. It is equipped with twin solar lasers and is used by Agent Flex. Its code is 4742.
  • The Ice Blade is a swift snowmobile with tracks and skate. In Alpha Mode, it transforms into the stealthy IC-2 Helicopter. It is equipped with twin solar lasers and piloted by Charge.
  • The Blue Eagle is a fast, highly maneuverable jet with dual wing tipped claws, and in Alpha Mode becomes the Ice Glider. It is piloted by Agent Dash.
  • The Solar Speeder Snow Mobile is a fast, wheeled vehicle that is more or less used to infiltrate Ogel's Mountain Fortress. In Alpha Mode it reveals a missile launcher which is aimed a pillar on Ogel's fortress to open the gate. It is also used by Dash.

Ogel's Vehicles

  • The Ogel Command Striker is a small water/aircraft piloted by Ogel. It fits in the waterway of the Ogel Command Center.
  • The Ogel Mutant Squid is a machine made to look like a squid, but when it opens it's mouth it can fire a missile. Ogel used this to escape at the end of Mission Deep Sea. When it reached the surface, the cockpit flew off with Ogel in it.

Evil Orbs

An Evil Orb is Ogel's main tool for all the missions. There are three types.

  • Mind Control Orb: This orb takes control of ordinary Town citizens and turns them into skeleton-like mindless drones.
  • Mind Control Orb 2.0: Same as first, only it also allows Ogel to take over sea creatures minds as well as humans (in the Into The Deep webtoon on the Alpha Team website, Cam mentioned that Ogel re-engineered the orbs so that they caused mutations).
  • Ice Orb: Freezes anything it touches.

Ogel's Bases

Ogel has had several bases in the series.

  • Ogel Island Laboratory: Ogel grows the plants used in the evil orbs here in his massive greenhouses and ships them out in Plant Shipping Crates. They are sent out by his Trouble Train.
  • Goo Caverns: Ogel harvests the goo used in the evil orbs here which are put in barrels. Both Plant Shipping Crates and barrels of goo are put in his Trouble Sub and shipped to the next base.
  • Ogel's Undersea Base: The plants and goo are unloaded from his Trouble Sub. Also, all the components of the evil orbs are put together here, at the D.O.O.M. (Device for Ominous Orb Manufacture) Machine.
  • Ogel's Hidden Arctic Base: Ogel loads the evil orbs from his undersea base onto the Boggle Rocket here. His plan was to launch them all over the world and turn everyone into his slave.

Bases Found in Sets

Ogel has several bases in the form of LEGO sets.

  • Ogel Control Center: Ogel and his drones load Evil Orbs into Ogel's rocket, allowing him to drop them on civilians and turn the world's population into his slaves. This set differs from other bases, as Dash usually makes a second appearance in a smaller vehicle. In this base he was not featured as such.
  • Ogel's Mission Deep Sea Base: This base allows Ogel to fire menacing Evil Orb Missiles at unsuspecting AT agents by surprise. It sports a missile launcher, 2 Skeleton Drones, 2 Orb Missiles, and Evil Orb, and Ogel as defense forces. This set also featured Dash in his AT Sub.
  • Ogel's Mountain Fortress: This is where ice orbs are created and where Ogel hatches the plan to freeze the world. In the set, it includes Ogel, two drones, and two Alpha team agents: Arrow and Dash. The set also includes the solar speeder: the Alpha team scout vehicle equipped with only a missile launcher that can open the gate of Ogel's fortress.

Sets

Main article: List of Alpha Team sets

Games

The Alpha team storyline has been mainly told through various games.

The cover for the Alpha Team video game.

Video Games

A video game was released in 2000, in which Agent Dash was tasked with rescuing the other Alpha Team members from Ogel and stopping production of the mind control orbs. As he rescued each Agent, these Agents could be used in certain later levels. The last level, "Mission Control", involved stopping Ogel's Boggle Rocket from takeoff to deny Ogel world domination. The original Alpha Team video game was developed for LEGO Media by the award-winning special effects company Digital Domain. When the original video game was in development, its working title was "LEGO Logic," and the team was called "TILT (Trans-International LEGO Team)."

Online Games

There were also several online games made using Macromedia Flash.

  • The first, Evil Music, centred around Dash and Cam thwarting Ogel's plan to control the world's weather with an evil organ. The player used a special organ to send out good weather signals to thwart the evil weather signals that Ogel was sending out. Link: 1.
  • Other Alpha Team games were available in 2001. All had different goals and playing modes.
  • The second starred Dash, Cam, Radia, Tee Vee and the Mission Deep Sea game. This game has included sound (the characters spoke instead of using dialogue bubbles).
  • The next was a three-part game centering around the 2004/2005 Deep Freeze storyline. The three missions were named The First Encounter, Drones' Menace', and Ogel's Fortress respectively. Unlike the other two games, which centered around Agents solving various puzzles, this game concentrated more on vehicular activity, although Agents could debark at special pads to infiltrate Ogel's bases. The biggest feature of this game was Alpha Mode, which allowed vehicles to transform to gain a different set of skills.
  • Other small activities and features were also available in 2004.

Gallery

Notes

  • Ogel is LEGO spelled and pronounced backwards.
  • Ogel is a direct descendant of Vladek.
  • LEGO never revealed whether Ogel or Zed won the final battle of the 2004 theme, although it is widely accepted that Zed was victorious, and the world was saved.
  • Cam and Radia's names were often confused. This also applied to the 2004 minifigures, Arrow and Charge.

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