Putting a stud in a technic hole is not an illegal technique. The technic holes were designed to accept studs in order for Technic to fit within the Lego System.

I really like these "revisiting " videos of yours! They're very thorough and entertaining 🙂 I actually never had any deep freeze or underwater Alpha Team set because they seemed quite "unLEGO like" to me at the time. I did have a few Alpha Team sets from the first wave though: 6773 the helicopter, x2 6772 cruisers and 6774 ATV. I think I might have been a bit harsh on this theme though, there's clearly some good designs (and parts!) that can be found in it!

Such a good theme, I have that HQ. I hope you get the chance to acquire some Rock Raider sets. I think they’re quite charming. Of course the reason the theme is so beloved is for the PC game, Rock Raiders, which was an RTS with more emphasis on resource gathering and base building over the typical army building and conquering the enemy which you see in the genre.

I just recently found your channel and I can’t begin to explain the amount of nostalgia I get watching these theme revisits. I’ve watched Vikings & Pharaoh’s Quest so far and each one has been a trip down memory lane. I was to young for the early 90’s themes like Pirates or Ninja and missed out on those sets but themes like Alpha Team or Life on Mars are my classics. I’d love if you eventually got around to doing a Monster Fighters theme revisit in the future. That’s another theme that has a special place in my heart lol

These themes defiantly don't get enough content done on them. And although this era of lego is new to me, thank you for showcasing them! One cool thing about these sets is how creative the features are. Not just the transformations of the vehicles, but sometimes what those vehicles do!

At 9:10 you were talking about an "illegal" building technique. Based on that old powerpoint presentation by jamie berard this technique is legal as seen on slide 4. Since nothing is connecting between the two (for example a plate connecting both sides) this is legal. It of course offsets the side-build slightly upwards, but since the build isn't placed on a baseplate this can technically be considered legal.

These sets really are even cooler than I remember them from when I first started my Lego collecting days. I 100% agree that the helicopter transformation is incredible for the size of the set! As a die hard Bionicle fan as well, it warms my heart to see those pieces used so effectively.

I really appreciate the detail you put into this commenting on the little things. good pacing too.

Sadly I never had any set from Mission: Deep Freeze. However, Alpha Team was my most favorite series and I had almost all the sets for Mission 1 and Deep Sea and I loved them more than any other Lego. Thank you for the great video! It gave me a great nostalgia trip! Even though I never had any of the Mission: Deep Freeze sets, one of my closest friends did and I got to play a lot with him when I was a kid. Together we covered all three missions and that made for countless hours of fun!

I was just going through all of the Lego I had as a kid and found a ton of Alpha Team sets. Such a great theme!

I remember when T-V was a computer screen with legs, back when Alpha Team had a pc puzzle game. "We don't know what his big, big plan is, but we know one thing: it's big."

So glad I found your channel! It's helping me identify all my old Lego sets and is a hell of a nostalgia blast. I also just finished watching your season on Lego Masters you and your brothers builds were incredible! :)

I agree that alpha team is overlooked. It had lots of good pieces, great figures, and cool builds. It is personally one of my favorite themes because of its uniqueness, and that makes me sad that it's so overlooked. I really enjoyed this video, and I think the jacket is very cool!

This is one of the few themes that got a new gimmick each wave, and each actually improved on the last.

I love that you really liked the Ice Blade as well! I could not get enough of transforming that thing into a helicopter as a kid! I think the best part is the rotation of the cockpit which feels super deluxe. I also agree that the mobile command center was underwhelming, but dang, it had great parts. Thanks for the in-depth review of this theme.

loving these theme retrospectives, jumped straight from watching both your mars videos to this one. good stuff!

You forgot one of the main features of the Scorpion Orb Launcher: it can also transform! Also, thank you for these reviews. It's great to see them with the modern production quality

The webgame Lego made for this year was my introduction to the theme, a few years after it ended. Really fun game, really fun looking sets. I did get the Ice Blade off of ebay a few years ago--I definitely agree that it's the best transformation. The animation for it on the webgame was mind blowing to my small brain.

17:31 those exposed studs serve as floor studs for mini figures to stand in that area. Otherwise it would be the side of a brick and not too playable.

Super fun look back at this great theme. I loved the sets as a kid, though only got the helicopter myself. My younger brother had the smallest ice speeder, and those two both had a fabulous transformation for the size! The bomb squad set from the first Alpha Team wave is one of my all time favorites. So much fun to be had with the double missile launcher setup!

This is a theme where I actually bought every single set back in the day! Great to see them all together again!

Ice Blade was my absolute favorite Alpha team set. Transformation was super fun. Thanks for bring back the fond memories.

Nice nostalgic review - good job!

Even though I prefer agents and ultra agents, mission deep freeze was definitely a really cool (pun not intended) theme to me I even have the last two 2005 sets That I describe as the final boss fight sets Great video only confused why you didn’t mention the transformation for the scorpion launcher because that’s what its main distinction was, it was the only Ogel vehicle to have the transformation which looked really cool even if it isn’t that stable Still great video hope you do more wave retrospectives

These videos are really well made I’m surprised you don’t have more subs

Hey again! love the alpha team sets. I just finished my Home Alone house set!

Thanks for this video. I have so many fond memories of the alpha team. I had the blue eagle vs snow crawler set. Love the blue eagle!

Thank you for doing this theme

Wow! this review was very in depth! I liked it!

I've got the Mobile Control Centre in pieces that I was trying to rebuild a few years back but couldn't find a bunch of pieces. I've never thrown any away so they must be somewhere in my box o bricks. Really fun set when I was a kid and I regret originally cannibalising it. I'm quite torn on the MDF aesthetic restyle - AT1 and MDS moth had very industrial heavy styles with glowy neon lasers, and MDS is a lot more sleek. Both are really solid aesthetics, but I'm kind of a sucker for the original and MDS. Still got the Cruiser, ATV and Sub, and Chopper from the o.g. wave, wish I had the bomb squad to round them out. Maybe I should change that once I've unpacked my lego.

I have such nostalgia for this theme, even though I only had the cheapest option for most of it, I’ll always remember getting Blue Eagle vs Snow Crawler as a gift from my grandma right before she passed when I was little. Snow Crawler and it’s design is one of my all time favorite things I played with in my childhood

One of my favorite themes as a kid! Nice overview.

I had the Blue Eagle vs. Snow Crawler when i was younger and it was my most coveted set

A bit late to the party, since I just found your channel, but I'm binging through your videos riding a thick wave of nostalgia :D Keep it up, love your content. 🥰 Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze was one of my favorites back then. My cousin and I had the entire collection, we would expand the team creating a whole department of agents, each with a different sleeve color. We even made them their individual handdrawn ID cards. Another big part of my Lego love back then were all the little flash games they had on their websites, tying into the lore of the diffierent series and increasing the immersion. I'll visit my parents soon again and hope to find time to dig around in the garage. I need to build some of my old stuff again. ✨

Wow this unlocked a deep memory… I can now vividly recall building the snowmobile set and and loving the transformer aspect of it… and flex was such a cool character with that orange arm.

11:33 i had so much fun with that set, getting it for christmas and actually being out doors playing with it in the now. great times.

Agreed on the look and functions of the HQ in comparison to the other sets from this wave, though it is unique in that it was originally a magazine contest winner lego released as a set! Now imagine if they had done that with the winners for bionicle..

IIRC, the stud-in-technic-hole connection is only illegal because a technic pin hole is at a very slightly different height than a SNOT stud and thus affects connections around it (like if there were a brick going across, for example). I don't think it counts here because it's the only thing connecting those parts.

Ice blade was my favorite too!! The helicopter transformation was so fun as an kid

This was one of my first themes when I was young as well. I eventually had almost all the sets except for the Blizzard Blaster and Mobile Command Center. Definitely agree that the Ice Blade is probably the best vehicle, but seeing the commercial as a kid and watching the Blue Eagle transform from a weird sled to a slick jet was what sold me on the theme. The Tundra Tracker's smooth technic transformation was very fun even if it mostly just shifted the mass around. The web game for this theme was pretty fun and did a great job showing the strengths of each vehicle (even the Mobile HQ served a purpose as an artillery platform of sorts for neutralizing Ice Orbs). Lots of fun times and nostalgia from this theme. All the sets I had have been disassembled and filtered off into my collection, but I still have the instructions if I ever want to mess with these again!

The transforming vehicles were soooo good, and they actually like transformed too! The slider to helicopter was my favorite

I'm subscribing! Your channel is so cool! Damn this is epic I am Tfol but I like these sets! Great job keep it up

I actually found the helicopter set in my great grandmas basement it was in a toy box I got to take it home not realizing what it was from I took it apart to use it’s pieces for other stuff. But I had that exact reaction trying to figure out what it was and what it did then I realized holy cow why doesn’t LEGO do stuff like this anymore?

Reliving some deep memories seeing the Ice Blade set, i had that one as a kid and god damn

35 mins of Cheese Studios content!!!?!? What a way to spend a Saturday!

Loved this theme growing up. Would love to see Alpha Team (not Agents) return in some way. Great feature!

The flash game series for this was so fun, I remember playing that back in 2006 and being so impressed by the sets portrayed there and yet sad that I missed out on the theme. Now I've obtained the helicopter and it is just so good, that transformation is ingenious.

Ah what a throwback! I'll have to search my lego bins and rebuild some of these sets

Alpha Team Deep Freeze was one of the themes that captivated me the most as a kid, but I unfortunately never got any of the sets. I did manage to pick all of them up sealed at BrickFair last year though, with the exceptions of Ogel's Fortress and the Blizzard Blaster and they're still just as awesome as I imagined when I was younger.

Alpha Team really feels like an action saturday morning cartoon. Wonderful video!

I'm so happy finally someone made a video on these sets! They were def some of my favs as a kid. Any chance you could do a video for the Orient Expedition Dragon Fortress set?

I remember thinking alpha team was so cool. had alot of imaginary spy type adventures with them. the online game was also a really fun one I remember playing at the boys and girls club. had some nice drift physics. People can be disappointed at symple themes, but I like how dynamic they can be as templates. and this one had a nice style to boot.

I've always had a soft spot for the first Alpha Team wave of sets just because I associate it with a bunch of captivating childhood memories - pretty sure they had a few Flash games just like Adventurers... and I'm almost certain I had a set from both of those themes at around the same time; something really special about experiencing something on screen and then getting to extend that experience in a physical form :)

That magnifying glass would be perfect for train signals.

I forgot about this theme! The sets definitely looked a lot cooler when I was a kid!

Ogel's minions were always my favorite thing. I got the shark sub which had maybe 4 of the guys? Love it.

I miss those old Lego skull heads the decals on them were way better than the ones we have now

Good memories from this series

I got the mountain fortress set for deep deep discount at Walmart as a kid in the clearance section. It was in $20 range from what I remember. I loved the baseplate and would use the set as a James Bond villain lair

No way! I’ve always had a couple Lego sets my older brother had that didn’t make it into my childhood, and the helicopter set was one of the ones I never saw built! Only thing that triggered the memory was the mini figure. No way I can forget that face lol

"You realize you paid $100 dollars for a wall". That right there is mercilessly. Out of all the Lwgo Enthusiasts I've subscribed to or watched videos of...yours is the most passionate. So thank You!

The space shuttle set #1682 used two 1x3 plates inserted into either side of a 1x4 technic brick. I remember as a kid really struggling to get those pieces out when I wanted to take it apart and rebuild it as something else. But every time anyone brings up putting studs into technic holes set 1682 always springs to mind as an official set that took that building technique to the extreme!

I got the smallest set as a gift from the parents of my best childhood friend fir always bringing him his homework when he was sick. I treasure it till this day.

My very first ever LEGO set was that $20 4x4. I remember distinctly dropping my set on the floor and taking it over to a caretakers home before I realized I no longer had all the pieces. Then 3 years ago I was able to manage a completed copy on bricklink and now I own the set yet again

Watching this and getting slapped in the face with the realization that I have Ice Orbs and Tundra Tracker and Iceblade in pieces in my old childhood Lego boxes and I always had no idea what they were from and now I know!!! Crazy, had no idea I ever got anything from a theme like this

Didn't have any of the alpha team (minus maybe the little underwater mech suit?)growing up. Figured it was time to learn about it!

Alpha team was always my favorite theme, especially the ice blade. Absolutely adored that thing when I was a kid.

Ogel do be pondering his orb

The Walker was the first lego set I ever got as a kid.......Core memory unlocked

Such a well made theme

Man that jet, that was awesome.

That Ice Blade set just happens to be the first lego set I ever owned! I was too young to understand any of the story, but the helicopter transformation and streamlined design was an excellent first impression for lego.

Had one or two of these sets and for the time they felt revolutionary. Using all those newish curved elements that plagued those years' sets and the transformation features the were incredibly smooth and didn't end up tearing apart the set while playing with it (an issue even exo-force many years later still struggled with). I can't speak for the bigger sets that I didn't get (especially the evil base looks kinda empty) but the smaller ones still hold up crazy well by today standards

I remember seeing these sets in the magazines and really wanting them, I only ever got the smallest set though. But yeah I also played those online games too.

You should revisit Agents! I loved those sets as a kid

I never got any set from this theme, but man I wanted one. Maybe someday I can find the chance to buy one or two

What’s interesting is that the baseplate of ogles mountain fortress is that it’s the same mold as the adventures jungle temple set just a different plastic and prints

More adventurers!! A revisiting would be awesome

I remember this line very vividly, but specifically for the (surprisingly solid) browser game on the Lego website. It used the vehicle mode switching gimmick to great effect in the gameplay.

I love this theme! I actually have the complete Alpha Team collection sealed, all three waves

many CIS vehicles from star wars have the sand and dark blues and they're so cool

The helicopter was also my favourite as kid. 😊 That, and the Flash game that was released alongside the series.

I have a local 2nd hand lego store and I was helping the owner sort figures, cause he got a new box in and being a cool local place he let me take a look and help him sort in trade for a discount if I found anything i wanted. Deep freeze Ogel was my big pick from there, but I also found an original jango fett which I totally would have gone for if it wasnt so damn much.

alpha team wave 1 was the only theme that I collected every set for! They may have been generic but I loved all of them.

I got Ogel's Mountain Fortress and honestly I love it, the facade looks so could, but yeah it's skin-deep although on the other hand it also offers some great places for minifigures. Would love to rebuild the thing and fill it with ice-themed minifigures like Anna, Elsa, and Star Wars Hoth figures

This theme is pretty interesting, I want to get a couple of these sets just for the rare pieces lol

I have several of these sets and I agree that the helicopter and the scorpion are by far the coolest of the two. Also good to know that there are, in fact, old Lego sets that you can buy that aren't a minimum of 200-300% mark up from original price.

When I think of Lego, this is what comes to mind I know weird cause it’s been years but this has stuck with me just like bionicle and space theme. This theme though is exactly what my answer would be why I like legos. Cool mini figures and awesome models !

I like alpha team a lot, I have one set, the truck thing with the submarine and I must say I’m surprised by how playable it is for such a small set. Also the minifigs are great, agent flex from the ATV has such a cool face print.

Interestingly, the Blizzard Blaster seems to also be the only set that came with a White cannon along with the unique Blue tipped projectile :D Never seen one in white before, so that exclusive detail intrigued me!

i grew up really poor so my mom could only afford like 2 sets per year for me. i vividly remember getting that tiny speeder and the big transforming ice blade chopper for my birthday and i'd play with them almost every day for months on end and i even took them to school with me. good times :') also does anyone remember the flash games for this theme on the lego site?? those were really good too ahah

i remember the old game for deep freeze, i played that a lot on the old lego site... ahhh, childhood memories...

becuase no one has just done a video of conbining just the 2001 and reviewed interer

My gosh. I loved this LEGO archetype. I’m actually jealous that you have access to all the sets. I never dismantled the mobile command center. I think LEGO’s standards have gone way up, but for the time, I thought it was great. 20:02 well, now I see why the back side of the fortress was never shown in LEGO magazines. Lol Now that I think of it, a lot of these sets don’t look as great as I thought they did.

That blade on the front of the second one was also in an agents set if I'm remembering correctly? The ice speeder 8631

The OGEL minions are my favourite henchmen I think. Nothing beats scary skulls, uniforms and bubble glas helmets!

Ogel got his hook hand from a bite from one of his cybernetic, mind controlled sharks if I remember properly. This was in gen 1 lore, back when he had a cybernetic arm, which never showed up in the sets if I remember; only showing in the comics. This information is purely coming from memory, and since I was a gen 1 Alpha team-er, I might be mistaken after the 2 or 3 years it's been since gen 1 came out. I still have the comics I think...

Love the Ice Blade.

Might not be super interesting but I read one paper about Lego on those years and the prices for those sets were based on the design time that went into those sets rather than the pieces. Back then Lego had some serious design hubs in cities like New York, San Francisco, London and Paris where designers created pieces, play features and of course, unique pieces that Lego would then translate into actual sets. That’s why some sets had unique, useless and super expensive pieces such as the Mars theme with the air thingies to make the tubes work. So that’s what brought Lego to the brink of bankruptcy. Then they made a huge bet on Gallidor with even a live action show but in terms of sales, Bionicle was the ONLY profitable line. Sadly that wasn’t enough. Lego shut down all the design studios and hubs I mentioned and brought all design processes to an in house studio in Billund. Lego also sold Legoland back in the early 00s and recently bought them again. So Lego had to get a new CEO and reestructure the company and their operations to survive.

I will defiantly be buying thrice blade set, its pretty cheap nowadays, sealed its around 35 USD in feb 2024