Line #16 Toys/LEGOAlphaTeam


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Ready for your next mission?[[note]]Clockwise from top left: [[PerpetualSmiler Flex]], [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Radia]], [[TheLeader Dash Justice]], [[WrenchWench Cam Attaway]], [[DemolitionsExpert Crunch]], [[RobotBuddy Tee Vee]], [[TheEngineer Charge]].[[/note]]]]
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4	''LEGO Alpha Team'' is a Franchise/{{LEGO}} Theme first released in 2001 and discontinued in 2005, revolving around a team of secret agents who foil the dastardly plans of [[BigBad Evil Ogel]], who wants to TakeOverTheWorld.
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6	Unlike all other Toys/LEGOThemes, ''LEGO Alpha Team'' is unique in that its videogame adaptation was actually released in 2000, a full year prior to the first wave of sets. Developed by effects house Creator/DigitalDomain and released for PC and Gameboy Color, ''LEGO Alpha Team'' is a PuzzlePlatformer with the premise that, in the search for Ogel's secret bases, the entire Alpha Team has been captured, and it's up to you to move Alpha Team equipment around Ogel's bases to help Dash Justice, the last remaining agent, open doors and rescue his teammates before foiling Ogel's latest plot.
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8	The first wave of sets, closest in premise to the videogame, revolved around Alpha Team's efforts to locate the Ogel Control Center and stop Ogel's production of Mind-Control Orbs, which he uses to turn innocent people into mindless zombie minions. The second wave of sets, with the subtitle Mission Deep Sea, moved the action to deep beneath the ocean as Alpha Team battled Ogel's army of mutant sea creatures in search of the Ogel Underwater Base.
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10	The third and final wave of sets was a ReTool of the Alpha Team theme, with much of the cast receiving dramatic makeovers and Alpha Team's color scheme changing from yellow to blue. This time, Ogel plans to freeze time itself by spreading Ice Orbs across the globe, and Alpha Team must race against time to locate Ogel's Mountain Headquarters before it is too late.
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12	In 2008, ''LEGO Alpha Team'' received a SpiritualSuccessor called ''Toys/LEGOAgents''. In 2016, ''LEGO Alpha Team'' received a ContinuityNod from ''Toys/LEGOMinifigures'', which featured a Spy minifigure in Series 16.
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14	[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused with]] [[Toys/HeroFactory that other LEGO Alpha Team]] or ''Series/TheATeam'' (which appeared in ''VideoGame/LEGODimensions'').
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17	!!''LEGO Alpha Team'' provides examples of:
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19	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: This theme loves alliterative names including Trouble Train, Sea Colony Seven Science Center, Tundra Tracker, Solar Speeder, and Blizzard Blaster.
20	* AirVentPassageway: Dash uses an air vent to sneak around Ogel's greenhouses in the intro cutscene of the PC game.
21	* AllDesertsHaveCacti: The frozen desert depicted in the online Mission Deep Freeze games is populated by cacti, although the desert's location is not specified.
22	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Alpha Team, from Ogel's point of view according to the Minifigure Handbook:
23	-->'''Evil Ogel:''' They may have foiled my plans to use music to control the world’s weather, and they may have destroyed my beautiful orb machine, freed the mutant sea creatures, and saved the ocean, and most annoyingly rented the last DVD copy of [[Film/{{Jaws}} JAWS]], but my next plan is the most wickedly brilliant of all!
24	* TheBadGuyWins: At the end of the November/December 2004 ''LEGO Magazine'' comic, the entire Alpha Team has been turned into {{Human Popsicle}}s by Ogel's Ice Orbs, and Ogel fires his Time Freeze Ray, completely freezing [[Toys/LEGOCity World City]] and grinding time itself to a halt. The comic ends on a cliffhanger, as [[SixthRanger Zed]] receives Dash's emergency beacon. A contest was announced for readers to submit their own short story saying who would win in the battle of Zed versus Ogel, but the winning entry was never published.
25	* BaseOnWheels: The Mobile Command Center, as described in its name, is a large truck serving as Alpha Team's base during Mission Deep Freeze.
26	* BigRedButton: A large red button activates the SelfDestructMechanism the Arctic Command Base. Ogel accidentally pushed this button during his VillainousBreakdown.
27	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Whether it's humans, dinosaurs, or sea creatures, the Mind-Control Orbs turn their victims into Ogel's evil minions.
28	* CaveBehindTheFalls: Radia discovered a secret entrance to the Ogel Control Center in a tunnel hidden behind a waterfall.
29	* ChainsawGood: One of the Ice Drones in Ogel's Mountain Fortress carries an ice saw. In ''Drones' Menace'' and ''Ogel's Fortress'', each Ice Drone patrolling Ogel's bases is armed with one of these ice saws, which apparently electrocute Alpha Team agents.
30	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Cam Attaway and Crunch were both inexplicably removed from the cast during Mission Deep Freeze.
31	* ContainerMaze: The Ogel Island greenhouses tend to be full of crates that Alpha Team agents must either navigate around or destroy with explosives.
32	* ContinuityNod: An article in ''LEGO [=BrickMaster=] Magazine'' featured Evil Ogel giving facts about Antarctica. When discussing the orca, Ogel mentions that he is quite familiar with this species, having turned them into Mutant Killer Whales during the previous mission.
33	* ConvectionSchmonvection:
34	** Some rooms in the Goo Caverns consist entirely of catwalks above lakes of lava. If Dash, Crunch, or Radia ever fall in, [[PainPoweredLeap they just jump back out again while yelling in pain]].
35	** In Dash Justice's online training mission, he has to fly the Alpha Team Helicopter over a volcano which is constantly erupting. So long as he doesn't actually get ''hit'' by any of the fireballs, he's safe.
36	* CoolBoat: The Trouble Sub and most of Alpha Team's Mission Deep Sea vehicles serve as impressive submarines.
37	* CoolCar: The Tundra Tracker, a car that can track down missing Alpha Team agents and transform into a DrillTank.
38	* CoolPlane: The Blue Eagle, a jet that can transform into the Ice Glider.
39	* {{Crossover}}:
40	** In the November/December 2001 ''LEGO Mania'', Alpha Team joins forces with the Toys/LEGOStudios crew and Toys/LEGOLifeOnMars team to stop Ogel from [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] the LEGO Dinosaurs.
41	** In the November/December 2002 ''LEGO Magazine'', Alpha Team teams up with the VideoGame/LEGOIsland cast to rescue two LEGO Soccer teams from Ogel.
42	** In the November/December 2004 ''LEGO Magazine'', time portals inadvertently created by Ogel's Ice Orbs cause dinosaurs and Titan XP from LEGO Creator to appear in [[Toys/LEGOCity World City]], [[Toys/KnightsKingdom2 Morcia]], and [[Franchise/StarWars the jungle moon of Yavin 4]].
43	** Radia is a networker on My LEGO Network and plays a vital role in the central story campaign, along with [[Toys/LEGOAdventurers Dr. Kilroy]], [[Toys/LEGODinoAttack Shadow, Viper, and Digger]].
44	* DeathMountain: Ogel Island, as depicted in the comics included in the LEGO sets, features a lot of dangerous mountains and cliffs.
45	* DidYouActuallyBelieve: When Dash tries to shut down the D.O.O.M. machine in the PC game, Evil Ogel says the following:
46	-->'''Evil Ogel:''' Do you really think you've stopped me? You didn't turn off the D.O.O.M. machine at all! [[NiceJobBreakingItHero You kicked it into high gear]]!
47	* DiscOneFinalDungeon: Everything in the videogame builds up to shutting down the D.O.O.M. machine in the Deep Sea Orb Factory, but then you learn that there's actually a fourth headquarters, the Arctic Command Base.
48	* DitchingTheDubNames: For the video game and early [=2001=] catalogs, certain Alpha Team agents had different names in German: Crunch was Tanxx, Charge was Lexon, Cam was Cosma, Flex was Migh, and Tee Vee was AT-1 (Dash, Radia, and Ogel's names were consistent). By the end of [=2001=], these were replaced with their English names.
49	* DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: An unexpected tornado tears up a beach resort in ''Evil Music''.
50	* DontExplainTheJoke: Evil Ogel in the Goo Caverns makes a play on the phrase "make yourselves comfortable", laughs at his own joke, and then proceeds to explain what he did:
51	-->'''Evil Ogel:''' Now that you're here, make yourselves ''uncomfortable''! [[[EvilLaugh evil laughter]]] You get it? I-I said "uncomfortable" instead of "comfortable" like people always say! Heh, heh. I changed it.
52	* DrillTank: The Tundra Tracker's Alpha Mode, the Magma Drill, is a powerful drilling vehicle.
53	* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The Goo Caverns serves as the Evil OGEL Empire's underground base with Green Goo mining operations.
54	* EvilPlan: In the videogame and the first wave of sets, Evil Ogel planned to TakeOverTheWorld by turning everyone into Skeleton Drones with his Mind-Control Orbs. In ''Evil Music'', Evil Ogel planned to use his WeatherControlMachine to destroy all the world's crops and force everyone to be dependent on him for food. In Mission Deep Sea, Evil Ogel planned to take over the world by turning marine life into mutant monsters and (revealed in the ''LEGO Mania'' comics) draining all water sources from the cities. In the ''LEGO Mania'' comics, Ogel planned to destroy major cities with lasers, brainwash dinosaurs into his minions, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking kidnap a pair of soccer teams so he could watch them play in his personal undersea dome]]. In Mission Deep Freeze, Ogel planned to freeze time itself.
55	* FreezeRay: The Time Freeze Ray is an upgraded freeze ray that, when powered by enough Ice Orbs, can literally freeze time itself.
56	* FullyAbsorbedFinale: Since the line never received a direct conclusion, [[https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Spy the Spy bio]] years later summarized that Dash finally defeated Ogel for good and freed his mind controlled victims.
57	* FunWithAcronyms: The D.O.O.M. machine, as explained by Ogel himself:
58	-->'''Evil Ogel:''' I call it the Device for Ominous Orb Manufacturing. That's D.O.O.M. Spells "''doom''"! Ingenious, no? ''Yes''!
59	* GameBreakingBug: The RepetitiveAudioGlitch is bad enough to listen to, but unless you turn off dialogue in the setting menu, the game will freeze after the "Trouble Train Depot" level because Tee Vee's speech will keep looping and the game will not progress.[[note]]If you turn dialogue back on afterwards, this bug also applies to "Trouble Sub Rescue" and "The D.O.O.M. Room" for the same reasons.[[/note]]
60	* GardenOfEvil: The Ogel Island greenhouses, which grow Evil Plants used in the manufacturing of Evil Orbs, are an indoors variant of this trope.
61	* HarmlessFreezing: Whenever Alpha Team agents are frozen in a block of ice by an Ice Orb, they are always just fine once thawed or broken free.
62	* HollywoodHacking: In ''Drones' Menace'' and ''Ogel's Fortress'', an Alpha Team agent can hack into one of Ogel's computers just by typing really quickly, and when they're finished, the computer screens display the word "HACKED". Only Dash Justice can hack computers with blue screens and only Arrow can hack computers with yellow screens.
63	* HumongousMecha: The Blizzard Blaster is a massive two-legged mech used by Alpha Team special agent Zed.
64	* IcePalace: The Arctic Command Base appears to have been fashioned out of ice.
65	* InsecuritySystem: It seems that Ogel created every lock in his bases to be specifically opened by each Alpha Team agent's specialty.
66	* InstantIceJustAddCold: Or rather, just add an Ice Orb and watch as snow instantly covers a desert.
67	* IslandBase: Ogel Island serves as Ogel's SupervillainLair during the first area of the video game and during the sets' first line.
68	* KaizoTrap: {{Averted\|Trope}} in the PC game. As shown in [[https://youtu.be/JrX6fj-Ex2g?t=9s this video]], a level is registered as successfully completed as soon as the door is unlocked, even if an Alpha Team agent is knocked out during the "door opening" animation.
69	* OverrideCommand: In the online Mission Deep Freeze games, Alpha Team agents can easily hack into Ogel's computers to disable security cameras or open doors.
70	* MiniMecha: The Alpha Team Robotic Diver, Aquatic Mech, and X-1 Snowbot Defender are mechs piloted by Alpha Team during Mission Deep Sea and Mission Deep Freeze. They're both larger than a standard human minifigure, but considerably smaller than the {{humongous\|Mecha}} Blizzard Blaster.
71	* MisplacedWildlife: {{Discussed\|Trope}}. In a ''LEGO [=BrickMaster=] Magazine'' article, Ogel mentions that he had a plan to parachute polar bears onto Alpha Team headquarters, but did not go through with the plan because he remembered that there are no polar bears in Antarctica.
72	* MissionBriefing: Before every level in the videogame, Tee Vee explains the mission's objective and often gives a hint for solving the level's puzzle.
73	* MonumentalTheft: After freezing time itself, Ogel sends his drones across the world to steal major landmarks. This includes the Eiffel Tower and a statue of [[VideoGame/LEGOIsland Pepper Roni]].
74	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Dash pulls a switch on the D.O.O.M. machine, hoping to turn it off and end Evil Orb production. Instead, he inadvertently kicks it into high gear.
75	* NoEnding: The January/February 2005 ''LEGO Magazine'' comic ended with the final showdown between Zed's Blizzard Blaster and Ogel's Scorpion Orb Launcher beginning... [[CliffHanger and that's it]]. There was a submit-a-story contest challenge to determine how the battle ended, but for some reason, while the contest winners' names were published in a later ''LEGO Magazine'', the winning entries themselves were never published anywhere.
76	* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Dash Justice addresses the speaker of the World Council as "Madame President", though it's unclear whether she's president of a nation or president of the council. Either way, though, it falls under the President Minority category.
77	* PainPoweredLeap: Dash, Crunch, and Radia will do this if they fall in the lava during the Goo Caverns levels.
78	* TheParalyzer: Cam Attaway used a stun gun to put several mutant sea creatures to sleep, saving a group of scientists and allowing them to bring in the monsters for study.
79	* PlayerHeadquarters: Orbiting Satellite Headquarters in the PC game, albeit it's not actually a level and just the backdrop of the main menu. However, training missions appear to take place in the Orbiting Satellite Headquarters.
80	* {{Prehistoria}}: In the November/December 2001 ''LEGO Mania'' {{crossover}} comic, Alpha Team's mission takes place on Dinosaur Island.
81	* ProductionThrowback: Crunch's explosives in the 2000 PC game use the same design as the explosives in the 1999 ''Toys/RockRaiders'' theme.
82	* PuzzlePlatformer: The videogame adaptation can be best classified as this genre. You don't actually control any of the Alpha Team agents, but you place down tiles telling them where to go, and you set up equipment to help them get past obstacles or open locked doors.
83	* ReTool: Mission Deep Freeze gave a complete makeover to most of the cast, changed the color scheme, added a transforming feature to most Alpha Team vehicles, and gave an [[AnimalMotifs arachnid motif]] to Ogel's vehicles.
84	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The red/black color scheme of Ogel's bases, vehicles, and Skeleton Drone uniforms helps convey that they are ObviouslyEvil.
85	* RepetitiveAudioGlitch: A rather infamous case for the PC game. When ran on Windows XP, all dialogue and music would loop over and over again.
86	* SapientCetaceans: In ''Into The Deep'', if you don't stun enough mutant sea creatures before the timer runs out, a dolphin will start {{Animal Talk}}ing, with a provided translation telling players to try again and advising them not to shoot any dolphins.
87	* SelfDestructMechanism: Ogel accidentally activated the Arctic Command Base's mechanism in a fit of rage. He later intentionally self-destructed the Sector 5 headquarters.
88	* SharkPool: The second half of the Ogel Island levels and the Arctic Command Base levels in the PC game are filled with shark-infested waters.
89	-->'''Evil Ogel''': I must say, it looks like you're in rare form. Excellent. That is how my sharks like their meals. Rare! ''Very'' rare!
90	* ShoutOut:
91	** One of the levels in the Goo Caverns is titled "[[Literature/SnowWhite Mirror Mirror]]".
92	** Mr. Whiskers is an {{Expy}} of [[Film/JamesBond Ernst Stavro Blofeld's]] RightHandCat.
93	** In the Alpha Team Intelligence Database, Crunch is going to rent a DVD of ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', Tee Vee tries to convince him to rent ''Film/LostInSpace'' instead, and Ogel is furious that Crunch already rented the last copy of ''Jaws''.
94	* SinisterSurveillance: In the online games ''Drones' Menace'' and ''Ogel's Fortress'', Ogel's bases are filled with security cameras that will shoot lasers at Alpha Team agents on sight.
95	* SlippySlideyIceWorld:
96	** The Arctic Command Base in the PC game is located in the Arctic, although fortunately it {{averted\|Trope}} any annoying ice physics puzzle.
97	** The entire setting of Mission Deep Freeze as Ogel uses Ice Orbs to freeze over entire portions of the globe. In the online games, large patches of ice made it difficult to control grounded vehicles.
98	* SnowMeansCold: During Mission Deep Freeze, a few Ice Orbs could completely blanket an entire desert in snow.
99	-->'''Radia:''' Hard to believe this was a desert an hour ago!
100	* SonicStunner: As shown in Flex's Mission Deep Sea training mission, the Alpha Team Sub-Surface Scooter is equipped with one of these. It doesn't actually stun the mutant sea creatures, but it breaks Ogel's control over them, reverting them to their natural, peaceful state.
101	* SpaceStation: Alpha Team Orbiting Satellite Headquarters is a base located in orbit of the Earth.
102	* SpiderTank: The Scorpion Orb Launcher is an enormous mech modeled after a scorpion.
103	* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Toys/LEGOAgents'', which is also SpyFiction with the premise of a team of secret agents trying to stop an EvilGenius from [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]].
104	%%* TheSquad: Alpha Team.
105	* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: Even if you already know that Dash's attempt to turn off the D.O.O.M. machine will only [[NiceJobBreakingItHero kick it into high gear]], you cannot continue the game without doing so.
106	* SubStory: Mission Deep Sea takes place largely underwater, with Alpha Team and the Evil OGEL Empire employing submarines and sea creatures in combat with one another.
107	* SupervillainLair: The villainous Ogel's bases include [[IslandBase Ogel Island]] (complete with greenhouses and the [[VolcanoLair Ogel Control Center]]), the [[ElaborateUndergroundBase Goo Caverns]], [[UnderwaterBase Deep-Sea Orb Factory and Ogel Underwater Base]], [[IcePalace Arctic Command Base]], Volcano Island, Ogel's Sector 5 base, and Ogel's Mountain Fortress.
108	* TakeOverTheWorld: Each of Ogel's {{Evil Plan}}s ultimately have world domination as the end goal.
109	* ThisIsADrill: Alpha Team's DrillTank, the Magma Drill, can use its drill in close quarters against Snow Crawlers in the online games. It's risky and leaves the Magma Drill vulnerable to enemy laser fire, but it can very quickly defeat Snow Crawlers.
110	* ThreateningShark: In the videogame, some of Ogel's bases have [[SharkPool shark-infested waters]], and the mission is automatically failed if any agent falls in. In Mission Deep Sea, Ogel's forces included the Ogel Shark Sub, evoking the shark's iconic threatening shape in the form of a submarine.
111	* TimeBomb: In Charge's training mission on the Alpha Team website, he must defuse a bomb before its timer runs out.
112	* TimeTravelersDinosaur: In the ''LEGO Magazine'' November/December 2004 crossover comic between ''LEGO Alpha Team'', ''LEGO Designer'', ''[[Toys/LegoCity LEGO World City]]'', ''Toys/KnightsKingdom2'', and ''Franchise/StarWars'', the Prehistoric Creatures from ''LEGO Designer'' appear in the other themes as the result of time portals created by Evil Ogel's tampering with time. This also includes a mastodon and sabertooth tiger that interrupt Ogel when he is just about to fire the time freeze ray.
113	* TrackingDevice: In the online game ''Ogel's Fortress'', a Satellite Tracking Bug was attached to Ogel's Sky Spider to reveal the location of his real Mountain Fortress.
114	* TransformationSequence: In the online Mission Deep Freeze games, the first time the player initiates a particular vehicle's Alpha Mode, it will undergo a TransformationSequence.
115	* UnderTheSea: The Deep Sea Orb Factory is an UnderwaterBase serving as the third area in the video game. The various Mission Deep Sea online games likewise take place underwater.
116	* UndergroundLevel: The Goo Caverns are an ElaborateUndergroundBase serving as the second area in the video game.
117	* UnderwaterBase: The Ogel Underwater Base and the Sea Colony 7 Science Center are both located underwater.
118	* VoiceGrunting: Played straight in the intro cutscene of the PC game, in which the characters only "speak" through grunts, but otherwise completely {{averted\|Trope}} in the game itself by Tee Vee and Evil Ogel, as well as ''Into The Deep'' and [[http://youtu.be/XlWN6XtIFOU the commercial for Mission Deep Freeze.]]
119	* VolcanoLair:
120	** [[AllThereInTheManual According to one of the LEGO Shop@Home catalogs]], the Ogel Control Center is located inside a volcano.
121	** Ogel's WeatherControlMachine in ''Evil Music'' was located inside a secret base inside the titular geographical feature of Volcano Island.
122	* WeNeedADistraction:
123	** In the "Dash's Decoy" level of the PC game, the only way to get around a Lurcher is by using Flex as a decoy to distract the Lurcher from Dash.
124	** In ''Into The Deep'', Dash and Cam know that they cannot get to the orb machine with Ogel in the room, so Cam offers to go distract him with her "irresistible charms".
125	* WeatherControlMachine: Ogel's pipe organ in ''Evil Music'', which caused WeatherDissonance whenever played.
126	* WeatherDissonance: In ''Evil Music'', a sunny day on the beach was unexpectedly interrupted by a thunderstorm, a blizzard, and a tornado, all in quick succession.
127	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ogel's RightHandCat Mr. Whiskers only appeared in ''The Return of Ogel'', [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome and was never seen or even mentioned again]]. We don't even know if Mr. Whiskers survived the self-destruct mechanism of Ogel's base.
128	* WireDilemma: In Charge's online training mission, the player must memorize the correct order of colors presented on a blackboard, then defuse a TimeBomb by cutting only those colored wires in that order.
129	* YouFool: Evil Ogel calls Dash Justice a fool at the start of the PC game.
130	-->'''Evil Ogel:''' Fool! You'll never get past my security doors! Your rescue efforts will be futile!

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