Dash Justice

Dash Justice,Desktop Minifigs often simply called Dash, is an Alpha Team minifigure released physically in 2001 after debuting in LEGO Alpha Team in 2000.
== Description ==
In the video game and in the 2001 sets, Dash Justice wears an all-black jumpsuit which includes: several pockets, several lasers, the Alpha Team globe insignia, and a distinct button-up collar. His belt was blank, and his legs included pockets and two textured pads. His hair is an earth orange crewcut. Dash is the only Alpha Team agent to lack a colored right sleeve.
In the Mission Deep Sea subtheme, Dash wears nearly exact same jumpsuit, but in earth blue and with a different leg print. He has the standard "double-bar" colour scheme, with a triangular pattern running down the sides. In addition to that, he often wears a dark grey scuba tank and diving helmet with a transparent blue visor. His face was slightly changed, giving him grey eyes and a different chin.
In the Mission Deep Freeze subtheme, Dash wears sunglasses and a completely different outfit. His right sleeve is now bright blue (Charge's previous colour), and his shirt pattern is simpler, showing only a newer, triangular insignia, and several silver lines on the sides of the torso. He wears a silver belt, and several silver lines run down his pant legs. Due to earth orange being retired in 2004, his hair colour has been updated to reddish brown. In the Red Lens online games, Dash retains his original face design.
== Background ==
Dash Justice is leader and the motions expert of Alpha Team. Curiously, Dash's role as Alpha Team's leader is first stated in the manual of LEGO Alpha Team, but Tee Vee's in-game Adventure Briefing refers to the unseen player as "chief" placed in a role of "leadership" while Dash is merely described as a team member, and earlier game documents had a separate character Dirk Brick as Alpha Team's leader. Otherwise, Dash is consistently portrayed as the team's leader throughout the later toyline.
Dash Justice's birthday is August 9.LEGO Magazine July-August 2002 - page 26
In the LEGO Alpha Team video game, Dash is the only Alpha Team member who was not captured by the Evil OGEL Empire while infiltrating Ogel's hidden compounds and searching for the D.O.O.M. Machine. In the game's introductory cutscene, Dash leaves Alpha Team's orbiting satellite headquarters and rescues Cam Attaway from a Trouble Tube. He receives orders over his headset (from Dirk Brick, according to the cutscene's script draft) and they go after Ogel, who escapes in a teleporter. In the game itself, Dash's equipment caters to his role as motions expert, with his tools allowing mobility options such as turning, jumping, climbing, etc.
In The Return of Ogel, Dash pilots the Alpha Team Cruiser in Sector 5, where he is shot down by Ogel's rocket and is imprisoned in his base while Ogel targets major cities with his lasers. Dash is rescued by Cam and the Bomb Squad. When confronted with Ogel and three disguised Skeleton Drones, Dash correctly deduces that the real Ogel is the one closest to Mr. Whiskers. In Rescue From Dino Island, Dash distracts a Tyrannosaurus Rex with his Alpha Team Helicopter and arrests Ogel in the end.
In Dash's classic training assignment Volcano Rescue!, he must safely evacuate civilians with the Alpha Team Helicopter while avoiding an erupting volcano. In his Mission Deep Sea training assignment Destroy Ogel's Hdqts!, he pilots the AT Sub and uses its sonar to dislodge the Ogel Underwater Base's anchor, causing the base to surface rapidly and self-destruct.Alpha Team Training CampRaymond Doherty - Alpha Team
In Evil Music, Dash is bored during his vacation, which is interrupted by sudden brief storms. Dash and Cam trace the storms to Volcano Island, and Dash immediately suspects Ogel to be responsible. Once inside Ogel's secret cave, Dash starts playing Ogel's pipe organ, which is revealed to be the source of the storms. Upon foiling Ogel's plot, Dash declares that he needs a vacation.
In Into the Deep, Dash receives Tee Vee's message from Madam President of the World Council and is assigned to rescue the Sea Colony 7 Scientists. After learning that Ogel is responsible for mutating sea creatures in a bid to take over the ocean, Dash and Cam eventually enter the Ogel Underwater Base, where Dash destroys his evil orb machine by inputting the codes backward. After the events of Into the Deep, the Minifig Handbook's Alpha Team Intelligence Database includes Dash's "to do" list (including picking up a tuxedo for the Ambassador's Ball and calling his mother) and journal entry.
In the Mission Deep Freeze LEGO Magazine comics, Dash flies his Blue Eagle over frozen deserts and into battle against Snow Crawlers. Prehistoric Creatures Vs. Team Titan XP ends with Dash using his emergency beacon just before Ogel freezes time, allowing Zed to come to their rescue in the following issue's comic.
In the Red Lens training assignments, Dash briefs the player on using Alpha Team's Red Lens decoders. He appears on the beach in Red Lens 3, smiling whenever the player locates an Ice Orb or frowning if the player fails and the beach is covered with snow.
In Drones' Menace and Ogel's Fortress, Dash pilots the Blue Eagle. When infiltrating Ogel's bases, Dash is the only Alpha Team agent capable of hacking into computers with blue screens.
== LEGO Description ==
== Gallery of Variants ==
== Appearances ==
* 6773 Alpha Team Helicopter
* 4789 Alpha Team Aquatic Mech
* 4795 Ogel Underwater Base and AT Sub
* 4800 Jet Sub
* 3391 Dash
* 4745 Blue Eagle vs. Snow Crawler
* 4748 Ogel's Mountain Fortress
=== Comic Appearances ===
* Adventures in LEGO World: The Return of Ogel
* Adventures in LEGO World: Rescue From Dino Island
* Коварный план Огела
* Секретный остров Гело
* Вот так провалилась!
* Adventures in LEGO World: Danger in the Deep
* WATER, WATER... Nowhere?
* Alpha Team Comic 1
* Alpha Team Comic 2
* Prehistoric Creatures Vs. Team Titan XP
* Alpha Team Comic 3
=== Online Game Appearances ===
* Evil Music
* Volcano Rescue!
* Into the Deep
* Destroy Ogel's Hdqts!
* Drones' Menace
* Ogel's Fortress
* Red Lens 1
* Red Lens 2
* Red Lens 3
* Red Lens 4
=== Video Game Appearances ===
* LEGO Alpha Team
== Behind the Scenes ==
LEGO Alpha Team lead designer Tom Mott described difficulty in getting Dash's character design approved. The final design was based upon Mattel's producer, who approved it.Very Surreal Alpha Team Prototype - LEGO Action and Adventure Themes - Eurobricks Forums
== Notes ==
* Dash Justice, or a lookalike wearing a white version of his jumpsuit, makes a cameo appearance riding a sailboat in The Lost Treasure of Ancient Greece.
* The Series 16 Spy appears to be an updated version of Dash's original minifigure. However, the Spy's character description, which refers to him as "Agent A" rather than Dash Justice, makes it ambiguous whether they are canonically the same character.
== Gallery ==
Video Game Dash 1.png|Dash in LEGO Alpha Team
Video Game Dash 2.png|Dash in LEGO Alpha Team
Desktop minifigs dash justice.png|From the LEGO Desktop Minifigures
AT 2004 characters.png|Dash on the Mission Deep Freeze website, depicted with his original face
AnimationDash.png|Dash in a cutscene of Drones' Menace
2001 2016 comparison.jpg|2001 Dash minifigure vs. Series 16 Spy
2001 2016 comparison no accessories.jpg|Comparison without accessories
2001 2016 comparison no accessories 2.jpg|Comparison without accessories
2001 2016 comparison no accessories 3.jpg|Comparison without accessories
All Dash minifigures.jpg|All Dash minifigures with the Spy
== See Also ==
* Spy
== References ==
Category:Alpha Team Minifigures
Category:Minifigures introduced in 2001
Category:Minifigures first introduced in Video Games