In this inaugural video, OboeBot recounts the childhood trauma that 6772 Alpha Team Cruiser inflicted on him. Shoutout to the Patrons / oboeshoesgames Thanks to @Maniac4Bricks and x.com/EmeraldC... for pics and research help.
Awesome stuff! That’s wild to learn that such an important piece was missing from your original set back in the day! 😮 (This is a long shot, but if you find that you *don’t* want to keep that sticker sheet, I’ll buy it off of you! I’m always looking for more Alpha Team stickers for the upcoming series I’m working on). 👀
No joke. This video honestly made my entire week better. So I thank you greatly for this. Also unrelated note. I do have the alpha team clock, so hit me up. I made my own knockoff Slugger youtube reintroduction with it (and a microphone that buzzes like a drive thru speaker).
I love this kind of lego reviews. No unified script or going through the same points to give the score. Just a genuine video with soul, about a toy from childhood with some pleasant commentary
In 2011 I got the the Ninjago skull truck for Christmas and to my horror, it was missing one of the pieces needed to make the teeth of the skull on the truck's front. To this day, any time I can't find a piece while building a lego set I fuckin' ratatouille back to being eight years old building that set at my grandparents' house and pray that history shall not repeat itself. Funnily enough, in 2021 I got Zane's Titan Mech for Christmas, and again decided to build it while at my grandparents' house. One of the bags had torn during packaging, resulting in the set missing numerous crucial pieces needed to build the right leg. The fact that the only two sets I've gotten that were ever missing parts were predominantly white Ninjago sets that I got for Christmas and built at my grandparents' place exactly ten years apart has to be some sort of cosmic joke. Hope you continue with the channel, the production quality is great and enjoyable as always!
dude, please cover more old lego sets. showing pics of alpha adventure unlocked some memories for me. Memories that include looking at the sets in the little catalogues that came with lego sets. never got to but alpha team. I did have one artic adventure and one not indiana jones one. honestly just cover obscure old sets.
Wow, this was a phenomenally produced video, genuinely thought this was a channel with years of content under its belt with how polished this was. I absolutely can’t wait for more!
You know how people have the Bionicle dream? I keep having the dream where I find an intact #6776 and it opens my third eye. Love all the builds and dioramas in the video.
Dude, this was the very first Lego set I've ever had in my life!!!!!!! I couldn't remember the series name or what kind of vehicle was it for all these years, thanks A LOT for this video!
Not bad for a first video. Good sense of humor, good timing, and I learned something new about Alpha Team. Oh, you're a gamer and you have a bunch of gaming videos. So you've been honing your skills all this time. Nice!
I remember seeing that odd sticker on the back of one of those sets back in the day and thinking it was really weird and out of place lol. Mystery solved.
When I was a kid I bought one of those Gundam-looking sets, Exo-nauts or something, and ended up getting two left pauldrons instead of a left and right. I emailed LEGO and they responded promptly to apologise and explain that they even weigh each set that comes off the line (of course the pauldrons weigh the exact same because they're just mirrored, so that's how this error slipped through, but it was still interesting). But more importantly they happily express mailed me a replacement part, no questions asked, free of charge. Pretty amazing customer service.
I’ve really enjoyed sluggers style and seeing others take to it is wonderful!. Also the obo-bot design is so cute 😭. I’m excited to see more from you man, have a great day!
While I'm glad that the tragedy of... um, 6772 had a happy ending after 23 years, it does feel bittersweet knowing that it all could've been resolved with just a single phonecall to LEGO's customer service back in 2001. I remember my 4708 Hogwarts Express (released the same year) was also missing a piece, and LEGO very quickly shipped us a replacement part free of charge. 4:06 This color-coded feature actually returns in Mission Deep Freeze and isn't just limited to the first wave of sets! It's a shame that it was missing from Mission Deep Sea, though. I agree that it ties the team's vehicles together in a simple yet effective manner. 5:16 Fun fact, this alternate model is officially called the "Hydro Racer" and once had official instructions posted on the LEGO website's "You Build It!" page. Unfortunately, Wayback Machine did not archive these instructions.
Wow man. What a slap of nostalgia. Totally forgot about this game. I had a similar experience. No idea what was going on but I played it quite a bit anyway.
Alpha Team was my jam. One of the employees at Toys R Us told me they were discontinuing the entire line after 9/11, and my Dad was like 'He's full of crap' 😂
I never knew there was a change in the 6776 comic until years later. My instructions were printed with the original, and I haven't found another one like it.
Sorry to hear about your set with the missing part. If only you'd known you could have just contacted the company and they'd have sent you a replacement! When I was a kid I got a Fright Knights set, a little horse drawn carriage, and it was missing one of the wagon wheels. Also a very important part. I complained and my parents were able to call the company and they sent me the part. So while it was disappointing initially, they really earned my respect and loyalty by being helpful. Later on, I even had an instance where I had the Galaxy Squad Vermin Vaporizer, and I managed to lose the trans-blue minigure shield piece that goes with the robot figure. I contacted LEGO customer support, and admitted I lost the part and was just asking if I could buy another one somehow. They just sent me another one, no questions asked. I think they sent me two, actually. I need to go check because I think I ended up with a couple.
Immerdiately thought of RR Slugger when watching this and it turned out great! Foudn you through your main channel and this one got recommended to me today. Love the creativity you put into your videos and I hope this becomes a long lasting series! Thsi video made my day, keep up the good work :)
I had a whole bunch of the Mission Deep Freeze sets when I was a kid, but somehow didn't even know the first two waves had _existed_ until quite a while later! I like the aesthetic of the older Alpha Team more tbh. Deep Freeze had too many of what R.R. Slugger would call "plague parts" for my liking. I loved the "transformation" play-features all the sets had, though, and the mobile command center was one of my favorite "big" sets at the time!
I bought all the OG and Deep Sea Alpha Team minifigures off Bricklink piece by piece, and I got secondary bodies to do more modern reinterpreted versions of each character. Was my favorite theme at the time and I never got the sets beyond just one of the smaller ones. In my head canon, Alpha Team may be a superhero fighting team or whatever, but the shenanigans that go on at the home base is stupidity that you'd only see in shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
I bought a used set 6776 and instructions off of eBay sometime around 2010. Weirdly, the instructions included the original comic with Ogel attacking the city so I had no idea about this switch-up. The set itself however was missing quite a few pieces (some being swapped with similar Mega Bloks pieces) that I only recently got around to replacing a couple years ago.
Before I even got to the comment section let alone the end of the video I was feeling heavy slugger vibes and was all here for it. Definitely do a collab with slugger one day and I look forward to seeing more content!
