Radia

Radia is an Alpha Team minifigure released in 2001 after making her video game debut in 2000.
== Description ==
In the LEGO Alpha Team PC game, Radia wears a black jumpsuit, with the left side of her torso being colored white and the right side of her torso being colored violet. Her right sleeve is bright violet, and her gloves are grey. Her legs featured pockets and two textured kneepads. She has a white Mini U.S. Cap textured with the Alpha Team logo, and two modeled violet pigtails. Her face is printed with red lipstick, violet eyeliner, violet hair, and a headset with a microphone.
On the box art for LEGO Alpha Team, the black portions of Radia's torso (including her left sleeve) are colored white instead. The title screen of the GBC version and the cover of the instruction manual are based upon an older render of Radia, which depicted her with a black shirt, light pink instead of violet, different tools on her belt, no eyeliner, and no logo on her hat.
When Radia made her physical debut in 2001, her minifigure design was based upon her video game model with some changes. Her torso print was given greater detail, including the Alpha Team logo and what appears to be black drawstrings, although one piece of equipment on her belt was changed to a pouch. Her hip also features a bit of violet printing on the right side to continue the pattern from her torso to her leg. However, her right sleeve has been changed from violet to black, her hat no longer sports the Alpha Team logo, and her pigtails have been removed.
Radia's Mission Deep Sea variant retains much of her 2001 minifigure design, with the most notable changes being switching black to earth blue and different leg printing that matches other Alpha Team agents in the subtheme. In Into the Deep, Radia retains her violet pigtails from the video game, and is briefly seen wearing dark grey scuba gear.
As with other Alpha Team agents, Radia's design was significantly overhauled for Mission Deep Freeze. She wears a generic black snowsuit with silver printed lines and the new Alpha Team logo on the chest, which is shared with Diamond Tooth and Arrow. Her grey gloves and white Mini U.S. Cap have been changed to black, while her right sleeve is now medium lilac. Her face now sports black hair, violet lipstick, and silver-rimmed sunglasses.
== Background ==
Radia is the lasers expert of the Alpha Team. According to Evil Music and the Minifig Handbook, she is also a science expert and satellite tracker, and her favorite subject is science. My LEGO Network also portrays her as a race car driver and solar power engineer.
In the LEGO Alpha Team video game, Radia is captured by the Evil OGEL Empire while infiltrating Ogel's hidden compounds and searching for the D.O.O.M. Machine. She is held captive in a Trouble Tube in Ogel Island, where she is rescued during the mission "Trouble Train Depot" (in the PC version) or "Power Down" (in the GBC version). Her equipment focuses largely on lasers and mirrors.
In The Return of Ogel, Radia reports a sighting of Ogel in Sector 4. In Rescue From Dino Island, Radia arrives in the Alpha Team Cruiser to distract Ogel's mind-controlled Dinosaurs.
In Radia's classic training assignment Orbs in the Power Grid!, she must shoot Mind-Control Orbs with her laser, which bounces off the power grid's wall shielding, while carefully avoiding the orbs and her own reflected lasers. In her Mission Deep Sea training assignment, she pilots the Alpha Team Command Patrol in its mini-sub configuration, avoiding deadly hook fish and using the sub's laser cutter to cut mutant weed surrounding the Alpha Team Research Base.Alpha Team Training CampRaymond Doherty - Alpha Team
In Into the Deep, Radia and Cam Attaway discover a new Mind-Control Orb that washed up on the beach. They go on a mission with Dash Justice to rescue the Sea Colony 7 Scientists. While Dash and Cam take a more active role in the mission, Radia spends most of the mission staying aboard the Alpha Team Command Patrol. After the events of Into the Deep, the Minifig Handbook's Alpha Team Intelligence Database includes Radia's "to do" list (working on an expert-level crossword puzzle and returning Advanced LASER Technology Vol. 4 to the library) and journal entry, in which she laments having missed the previous mission Evil Music.
In the Mission Deep Freeze magazine comics, 4744 Tundra Tracker comic, Red Lens 1 training assignment, and Drones' Menace online game, Radia's role remains consistent: she discovers the true location of Ogel's Mountain Fortress and his plan to freeze time itself, but is frozen by an Ice Orb before she can relay this information to the rest of the team, requiring her teammates to rescue her from an icy fate. Radia is not playable in the online games, instead relegated to a role in cutscenes and periodically appearing on the HUD.
Radia is a Rank 4 NPC networker on My LEGO Network, in which she helps the player get the blueprint for building the Speedy Motorcycle Masterpiece. Her friends include fellow racers Pedalman O'Wheelie, Scrap Yard Joe, Jen Juniper, Viper, and MacRacer.
== LEGO Description ==
== Gallery of Variants ==
== Appearances ==
* 6772 Alpha Team Cruiser
* 4794 Alpha Team Command Patrol
* 4744 Tundra Tracker
* 4746 Mobile Command Center
=== Comic Appearances ===
* Adventures in LEGO World: The Return of Ogel
* Adventures in LEGO World: Rescue From Dino Island
* Коварный план Огела
* Секретный остров Гело
* Adventures in LEGO World: Danger in the Deep
* Into the Swirling Sargasso!
* Alpha Team Comic 1
* Alpha Team Comic 2
* Prehistoric Creatures Vs. Team Titan XP
* Alpha Team Comic 3
=== Online Game Appearances ===
* Orbs in the Power Grid!
* Into the Deep
* Alpha Team Training Camp
* Drones' Menace
* Ogel's Fortress
* Red Lens 1
* Red Lens 2
* My LEGO Network
=== Video Game Appearances ===
* LEGO Alpha Team
== Behind the Scenes ==
LEGO Alpha Team lead designer Tom Mott partially based Radia's design upon a raver girl that he had briefly dated several years earlier.Very Surreal Alpha Team Prototype - LEGO Action and Adventure Themes - Eurobricks Forums When the game was titled LEGO Action Game, Radia's hat had a different logo that resembled an atom.:File:Large UK 2000 c00uk2 Action Team and Stunt Rally.jpg
== Notes ==
* Radia is one of only two female Alpha Team agents, the other being Cam Attaway.
* In Red Lens 2, upon completing the training assignment, Radia is described as the correct answer since she is the only agent who knows the location of Ogel's real Mountain Fortress. This corroborates Radia's role in other Mission Deep Freeze stories, including Red Lens 1. However, selecting Radia will prompt a mission failure, while Diamond Tooth is the "correct" solution to the assignment.
== Gallery ==
Video Game Radia 1.png|Radia in LEGO Alpha Team
Video Game Radia 2.png|Radia in LEGO Alpha Team
18070-lego-alpha-team-windows-inside-cover.jpg|Radia's design in LEGO Alpha Team renders
AnimationRadia.png|Radia in a cutscene of Drones' Menace
== References ==
Category:Alpha Team Minifigures
Category:Minifigures introduced in 2001
Category:Minifigures first introduced in Video Games