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Encyclopedia > Alpha Team

Alpha Team is a building toy line manufactured by LEGO, and first released in 2001. Lego Group logo The classic red 2x4 Lego brick. ...

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Storyline

2001

Alpha Team is composed of Dash, the team leader, Cam, Flex, Radia, Charge and Crunch, along with a robot named TeeVee, who looks like a television with legs. Alpha Team fight a criminal mastermind named Ogel. In the original storyline, Ogel was brainwashing people with Mind Control Orbs. These Orbs turned normal people into mindless Skeleton Drones. Ogel was defeated, and the Drones were reverted to normal with the destruction of the Orbs. ASIMO, a humanoid robot manufactured by Honda. ...


2002-2003

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 he used to mutate sea creatures that served him. Ogel's left hand was replaced by a transparent red hook. It is unknown how he got this, but it is assumed he lost his hand in a battle with Alpha Team. TeeVee could also turn into a ROV for underwater travel. Ogel was defeated when Dash reversed the orb factory controls. This reverted all the sea creatures to normal. There was a webtoon reflecting this story, with included sound (the characters actually spoke) Alpha Team is also revealed to work for an organization known as the "World Council", a UN-esque group. The name went back to "Alpha Team" in 2004. Remotely operated vehicles (ROV) are mobile tools used in environments too dangerous for humans. ... This article is about the United Nations, for other uses of UN see UN (disambiguation) Official languages English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic Secretary-General Kofi Annan (since 1997) Established October 24, 1945 Member states 191 Headquarters New York City, NY, USA Official site http://www. ...


2004-present

The Alpha Team line went through a massive revison in 2004. The Alpha Team symbol was changed. Many of the characters had different appearances than in previous years. Cam and Crunch seem to have been replaced by agent's Arrow and Diamond Tooth. 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 as well. Alpha Team vehicles were given a new feature known as Alpha Mode: Vehicles could be transformed without any dissasembly. See Alpha Mode Chart. This year Ogel had a completely different plan: 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. They were saved by Zed, an Alpha Team special agent, who was protected from the time freeze due to his vehicle which was equipped for such an event. He defrosted the 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. The term humanoid refers to any being whose body structure resembles that of a human. ... LEGO Magazine is the Official Magazine for LEGO, or, more specifically, the LEGO Club. ...


Characters

Alpha Team

The original Alpha Team (Minus Flex) Image File history File links Meet_Alpha_Team. ...

  • Dash Justice: Motion Expert and Team Leader.
  • Crunch: Explosives Expert. Replaced by Diamond Tooth in 2004.
  • Radia: Lasers Expert. She controls the cockpit area in the Mobile Command Center.
  • Charge: Electricity Expert. His gloves apparantly allow him to fly with jets in them, as shown on the cover of the video game. It is also said that Charge is the second in command because of Dashes and Charges alikeness in suits.
  • Cam Attaway: Motors Expert. Replaced by Arrow in 2004
  • Flex: Ropes expert.
  • Tee Vee: Robot assistant of Alpha Team.
  • Arrow: Motors Expert. Replaced Cam in 2004.
  • Diamond Tooth: Explosives Expert. Replaced Crunch in 2004. He drives the Tundra Tracker.
  • Gearbox: All that is known about this agent is that they built the Tundra Tracker.
  • Zed: Special agent and the pilot of the Blizzard Blaster.

Ogel

  • Ogel: The ruthless supervillain of the series [1]. He has been the main villain in each year of the series, constantly coming up with schemes to defeat Alpha Team. His first plot was to use Mind Control Orbs to turn regular people into mindless skeleton-like Drones. These Drones were reverted to normal when the Orbs were detroyed. Ogel returned the following year with a new plan to use mutated sea creatures to control the world's oceans. That plan was thwarted when Agent Dash reversed the controls to the Orb making machine. Ogel's underwater base was destroyed, but Ogel escaped before it exploded. His most recent plan for domination was freezing the world with new Ice Orbs that could freeze anything. His plan succeeded, but he was then stopped by special agent Zed in his Blizzard Blaster. He is (or at least was) in love with Radia.[2] Greg Farshtey, the writer of Bionicle, Lego Exo-Force, and Alpha Team, among others, has stated that he is his favorite non-Bionicle villain.
  • Skeleton Drones: Ogel's minions, who are people who have been effected by Mind Control Orbs. Their appearance changes numerous times during the series.
  • Super Ice Drone: A Skeleton Drone with a black head that pilots the Scorpion Orb Laucher. Possibly a robot.

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Vehicles

  • The Mobile Command Center: is the most heavily armed vehicle of the Alpha Team. It has four agents controlling it. The Mobile Command Center contains two Solar Lasers, some tools, and a common missile launcher. When it is in "Alpha Mode", it turns into a armed command center. Two Snow Scooters accompany the vehicle. This vehicle is used to spy and/or give information. It's code is 4746.
  • The Blizzard Blaster as another battle machine of the Alpha Team. It has twin Solar Lasers, dual energictic lasers, an ice missile, and a heat energy beam. Zed, a special agent of Alpha Team, uses the machine to battle Ogel's Scorpion Orb Launcher. In this case, the LEGO magazine didn't show which vehicle won. The Blizzard Blaster is also a type of winter sled. The Blizzard Blaster changes into the Ice Shark
  • The Tundra Tracker contains twin lasers and a magma powered drill. The code name is 4744 and is one of Alpha Team's original vehicles. The vehicle's Alpha Mode has a magma drill. The vehicle was used for a variety of drilling missions. In a Lego Magazine, it was said that an agent called Gearbox built the vehicle.

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 Lego Town citizens and turns them into zombies.
  • Mind Control Orb 2.0: Same as first, only allows Ogel to take over sea creatures minds as well as humans.
  • Ice Orb: Freezes anything it touches.

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Ogel Bases

Ogel has had several bases in the series.

  • Ogel Island: Ogel grows the plants used in the evil orbs here in his massive greenhouses.
  • Goo Caverns: Ogel harvests the goo used in the evil orbs here.
  • Ogel's Undersea Base: All the components of the evil orbs are put together here, at the D.O.O.M. Machine.
  • Ogel's Hidden Arctic Base: Ogel loads the evil orbs onto the Boggle Rocket here, to launch them all over the world and turn everyone into his slave.

Games

The Alpha team storyline has been mainly told through various games. There was a video game released in 2000 in which Agent Dash had to rescue the other Alpha Team members from Ogel and stop production of the mind control orbs. As he rescued each agent, you could use them too, in certain levels. There were also several online games made using Macromedia Flash. // == Macromedia Flash == ==]] Using Macromedia Flash 8 (bundled in Studio 8) in Windows XP. Maintainer: Adobe Systems (formerly Macromedia) Latest release: 8 / September 30th, 2005 OS: Windows (no native Windows XP Professional x64 Edition support), Mac OS X, Linux (i386 only, via wine [1]) Use: Multimedia Content Creator License: Proprietary Website...

  • The first centered around Dash and Cam stoping Ogel from controlling the worlds weather.
  • The second stared Dash, Cam, Radia, TeeVee and the Mission Deep Sea, this one has included sound (the characters spoke).
  • The next was a three-part game centering around the 2004/2005 storyline. Unlike the other two games, which centered around the characters solving various puzzles, this game centered more about the vehicles, although agents could get out to infiltate Ogel's bases.

Trivia

  • "Ogel" is LEGO spelled backwards. In an issue of the LEGO Club Magazine, it was explained that this was due to him representing the exact opposite of LEGO (LEGO is fun, Ogel hates fun, etc).
  • 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)."
  • Ogel has also mentioned as being a direct descendant of Vladek, the villain in LEGO Knights Kingdom series. [3]. It states that Vladek is his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.

Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used in the film, television, and entertainment industry to create effects that cannot be achieved by normal means, such as depicting travel to other star systems. ... Digital Domain is a computer graphics company located in Venice, California that provides visual effects for film, commercials and music videos. ... Knights Kingdom is a new LEGO line, aimed at six to twelve year-olds, and was launched in Spring, 2004. ...

External links

  • Official Website
  • Brickset: List of Alpha Team sets
  • Mugshots of Alpha Team figurines 2001-2005
  • Brickwiki Alpha Team Article
  • Alpha Team fansite

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Alpha Team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1155 words)
Alpha Team is a building toy line manufactured by LEGO, and first released in 2001.
Alpha Team is composed of Dash, the team leader, Cam, Flex, Radia, Charge and Crunch, along with a robot named TeeVee, who looks like a television with legs.
Alpha Team tracked him to Antarctica, where he succeeded in freezing Alpha Team, the rest of the world, and even time itself.
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Alpha Team proceeded west to the structure located in the northwestern region of the fenced yard.
Alpha Team and Charlie Team were positioned in the Plantation Area and began proceeding to the Second Objective.
Alpha Team took up a prone/assault position to the north of the building that houses the First Package with an arc of fire directed at the doorway of this building.
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