4748 Ogel's Mountain Fortress

4748 Ogel's Mountain Fortress is an Alpha Team Mission Deep Freeze set released in 2004.
== Description ==
The set contains Ogel's Mountain Fortress with several Ice Drones, one manning a snow crane which can mine Ice Orbs; Ogel on his Ogel Sky Spider; the Solar Speeder, manned by Dash Justice, with a thermo-blaster; two Ice Orbs; and Arrow.
The Ogel Sky Spider is a simple and small vehicle, mostly dark red and black. It has a pair of chainsaws in front, and there are three sets of legs along the sides. For propulsion, it has a small propeller which can angle up and down. Ogel sits in the center of it with a few controls.
The Solar Speeder is simple and a bit larger than the Ogel Sky Spider. The back of the vehicle has a thermo-blaster cannon pointing backwards and a pair of lasers/lights pointing forwards. The cockpit is positioned at an obtuse angle from these. The angle difference can be changed to an acute angle so that the cannon nearly points straight up.
The largest part of the set is Ogel's eponymous base. The fortress's external facade is designed to resemble an enormous medium stone grey skull: the "nose" is a target, the "cheeks" and "forehead" are BURPs, the "teeth" is the entrance gate, and the "eye sockets" are windows.
Two pits in front of the base are covered with a plate with an ice block. One ice block contains Arrow.
The fortress's entrance gate is a comprised of four black flame parts which swing up when a skull-decorated target in the "nose" is hit, i.e. with the thermo-blaster's rocket. A pair of beams connect tall parts to the entrance to stabilize the entrance and the parts above it. There is a guardrail facing the inside of the base. In between the BURPs is a target, which causes the flame gate to raise when hit. There are angled beams and guardrails on top of the eyes. There are a pair of claws with flames on the other end, which extend down towards the "eyes". If the flames are hit, they flip the claws to launch Ice Orbs. There are also some transparent medium blue bricks attached to the top.
There are two pits inside the base. One is covered up with a dark stone grey grille. In the other pit, there are a pair of transparent fluorescent blue beams and a staircase leading down to them. There are guardrails to prevent one from falling into them. There is a red window piece blocking the entrance to that pit. At the entrance of the pit, there is a red magnifying glass which can be angled up and down. It can be focused directly over a red lens area. Two of the BURPs have removable platforms: one has an Ice Orb and a red lens, and the other has a control panel and a chair. There is a crane in the fortress, whose base can rotate and is controlled directly with a pair of levers. It is on the platform inside the base.
== Background ==
Ogel's Mountain Fortress is located at the South Pole, and Alpha Team spends Mission Deep Freeze searching for it among Ogel's various decoys. This base is where Ogel amasses his Ice Orbs in preparation to freeze time itself.
According to Alpha Team comic writer Greg Farshtey, the black flames in the fortress's "eyes" are named "Ice Flames" by a LEGO Magazine puzzle,Official Greg Discussion | Page 80LEGO Magazine 5.04 - Page 3 (when solved, the message reads "BEWARE THE ICE FLAMES OF OGEL!!!") and they burn incredibly cold.Alpha Team Qs-&-as From Gregf..
In the set's comic, Dash Justice arrives at Ogel's Mountain Fortress in the Solar Speeder and rescues Arrow, who was frozen. They infiltrate the base and force Ogel to escape in the Ogel Sky Spider.
In the LEGO Magazine comics, Alpha Team confronts Ogel and his legion of Ice Drones at the Mountain Fortress, but they are frozen by his Time Freeze Ray. Zed arrives in the Blizzard Blaster and vows to melt the Mountain Fortress to a puddle after defeating Ogel.
== LEGO.com Description ==
== Minifigures Included ==
== Notes ==
* This is the only set in which Part 3957 is trans blue.
* This is one of three sets in which Part 2569 is trans blue.
* Part 30271px6 is unique to this set.
* Part 30152c02 appears in three sets.
* This is one of two sets in which Part 4865 is trans red.
* This is the only set in which Part 4215b is trans red.
* This is the only set in which Part 6583 is dark red.
* This is one of three sets in which Part 41539 is trans medium blue.
* Part 50193 is unique to this set.
* This is the only set in which Part 3040b is trans medium blue.
* This is the only set in which Part 32558 is black.
* This is one of three sets in which Part 44036 is black.
* Part 3069bpx76 appears in two sets.
* Part 3069bpx75 appears in two sets.
* This is one of three sets in which Part 30355 is dark red.
* This is one of three sets in which Part 30356 is dark red.
* It is similar to the set 7093 Skeleton Tower, due to the fact it is in the shape of a skull, and has a crane is similar to the cage from Skeleton Tower.
== Gallery ==
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== See also ==
* 6776 Ogel Control Center
* 4795 Ogel Underwater Base and AT Sub
== External links ==
== References ==
Category:2004 sets
Category:4000 sets
Category:Alpha Team