For the online journal, see Oil, Gas and Energy Law. Alpha Team is a building toy line manufactured by Lego, first released in 2001 and discontinued in 2005. Alpha Team started out as a basic top secret group, under the leadership of Dash Justice. At that time, Ogel had made evil orbs that could turn ordinary civilians into mindless drones to serve as his slaves. However, he was defeated when Alpha Team entered the picture and broke the power of the evil orbs to restore the drones back to normal. They captured Ogel and destroyed the orb machine (found in the Alpha Team video game). However, Ogel managed to escape. In 2002, Alpha Team changed slightly. The toyline is known as: Mission Deep Sea. Ogel is back with more sinister looking drones that remained from the year 2001. Ogel also had re-engineered the evil orb so that it causes mutations and uses it to mutate sea creatures to serve him. Ogel's left hand was replaced by a transparent red hook that can still hold things (the Lego minifigure).
It is uncertain of how he got the red hook. Rumor has it that he lost his left hand while battling Alpha Team. Alpha Team's helper, TeeVee (a television with legs and antennae) can now turn into a deep sea rover for small openings and scouting around the sea embankment. In the webtoon, Into the Deep, Ogel's sinister plan for the mutant sea animals was destroyed when Dash reversed the orb factory controls, thus reverting all the sea animals back to normal. However, Ogel escaped again by detaching the cockpit on his Mutant Squid vehicle. Alpha Team did not appear this year, with only a promotional set, "Dash The Diver", being released. Alpha Team went into a massive revision. The Alpha Team symbol was changed, Crunch and Cam were replaced by Diamond Tooth and Arrow (respectively), and Ogel replaced his red hook with a transparent blue hook. Alpha Team has more tech than usual. Their vehicles have a new feature: they can initiate Alpha Mode, a feature that transforms one vehicle to another without disassembling and rebuilding.
This time, Ogel's plan has gone from mind controlling to causing damage to the world. His plan was to freeze the world at his base in Antarctica with ice orbs, and as revealed later, to freeze time itself as well. Ice Orbs are completely different from the evil orbs Ogel made earlier, as they no longer cause mutations/brainwashing, but instead freeze everything on touch. Alpha Team tracked him down to Antarctica and ended up battling each other. While Alpha Team raced to Ogel's fortress in a desperate gamble to stop him from freezing time, Ogel ended up freezing almost all of Alpha Team. However, Charge and TeeVee couldn't be found in the iceboxes. When all hope was lost, drones started to behave randomly and they began to steal interesting landmarks. Then Zed, a special agent of Alpha Team, arrived at Antarctica. He melted the ice around the other agents and set off on his own mission. While the other agents were stopping Ogel's drones, Ogel appeared in the Scorpion Orb Launcher, his own vehicle that could convert into the Viper Escape.
Ogel and Zed battled. At the same time, the Lego Magazine had invited fans to write their own stories of who won and what will happen next. The Lego Magazine didn't show the results, but it was assumed that Zed had won the conflict and the world was restored to normal. While the Lego Company didn't give the 2004 subtheme an official name, (like Mission Deep Sea) fans coined the name "Mission Deep Freeze" for the series. An Evil Orb is Ogel's main tool for all the missions. There are three types. Ogel has had several bases in the series. Ogel has several bases in the form of LEGO sets. All of his hideouts have a big skull on them . 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. Main article: Lego Alpha Team (video game)
A video game adaption, Lego Alpha Team, was developed by Digital Domain and published by Lego Media in September 2000 for Microsoft Windows, with a Game Boy Color version developed by Climax Studios and published in November of the same year. Minifigures: Tee Vee, Crunch, Charge Minifigures: Ogel, Drone Minion Commanders (Two) Minifigures: Skeleton Drones (Two), Drone Pilot Minifigures: Dash, Ogel, Skeleton Drones (Two) Minifigures: Charge, Radia, Tee-Vee, Ice Drone, Arrow. Minifigures: Dash, Ogel, Arrow, Ice Drones (Two) Minifigures: Super Ice Drone, Flex. LEGO Alpha Team è un videogioco d'azione basato sull'omonimo tema LEGO, prodotto per Microsoft Windows e Game Boy Color uscito nell'anno 2000.[1] Il gioco è stato sviluppato dalla Digital Domain; pluripremiata azienda di effetti speciali in CGI per film. Il protagonista del gioco è l'agente Dash, il quale deve salvare gli altri membri del team Alpha da Mr. Ogel e fermare la produzione delle sfere di controllo mentale, con le quali Ogel vuole trasformare gli abitanti del mondo in zombie.
Quando ha salvato un agente, è possibile utilizzarlo anche in certi livelli. Nell'ultimo livello, "Mission Control", Dash deve fermare il suo razzo Boggle dal decollo per negare a Ogel dominazione del mondo. L'obiettivo del gioco consiste nell'usare le proprie abilità per risolvere puzzle ed enigmi, per permettere ai personaggi del team Alpha di arrivare alla fine di ogni livello sani e salvi. Invece di controllare direttamente i personaggi sullo schermo, è necessario posizionare dei blocchi Lego, come rampe, scale, pogo-pad e molti altri oggetti per aiutare i personaggi a schivare i nemici e le trappole. Tuttavia una volta fatto partire il personaggio, lui/lei è sempre in movimento, perciò bisogna stare attenti a posizionare gli elementi al posto giusto, perché basta una mossa sbagliata per dover ricominciare tutto da capo. Nel gioco non ci sono combattimenti, anche se ci sono droni nemici da evitare. Portale Videogiochi: accedi alle voci di Wikipedia che trattano di Videogiochi