This looks like a fun set! Can anyone tell me if that tube for the back of the hover vehicle turned out round as in the photo, or did it end up being ovular? I’m getting negative 4737 vibes.

I nearly bought a number of Agents and Ultra Agents set purely on the strength of the villain minifigs.

This theme and Space Police 3.0 took out all the stops when it came to baddies. The Lego team had fun and it shows.

@CarolinaOnMyMind: I'm still a fan of General Chang's eyepatch from Star Trek VI. A diamond has nothing on an eyepatch that's bolted to one's skull. Although, on close inspection of the figure, it may be less of an eyepatch and more that he replaced an eye with a diamond, which *is* pretty badass.

@GBP_Chris:
Back in those days, rivers were much smaller, to the point that they could easily be carried one-handed while reading a pulp novel with the other. And also chewing gum.

@CarolinaOnMyMind:
I believe Aemond Targaryen was showing off a sapphire that he used to plug the hole (and it was pointed out that you’d expect him to use an emerald). We won’t discuss what was suggested in Archer: Danger Island.

One of my favorite sets from this theme, great fun to mod and play with :)

That gold gun looks really cool.

@MeisterDad said:
"This looks like a fun set! Can anyone tell me if that tube for the back of the hover vehicle turned out round as in the photo, or did it end up being ovular? I’m getting negative 4737 vibes."

I had this set and I think it ended up pretty circular. The flex tube in this set is a lot easier to shape than the ones from 4737.

@thor96 said:
"That gold gun looks really cool."

As cool as that gold gun was, it was actually more like a black gun with gold paint or coated with a gold lacquer (I don't remember the exact terminology). Overtime as I let other minifigures hold the gun or used the gun for MOCs, the paint on the gun's attachment points were fading.

They heisted a whole river? Wow they really are evil...

It's great how Dollar Bill's face is literally the City criminal face but with a diamond for the eye!

I also love his back torso print, which is just a huge $.

@Agent00Z said:
" @thor96 said:
"That gold gun looks really cool."

As cool as that gold gun was, it was actually more like a black gun with gold paint or coated with a gold lacquer (I don't remember the exact terminology). Overtime as I let other minifigures hold the gun or used the gun for MOCs, the paint on the gun's attachment points were fading. "

It's called 'drum lacquered' and I have some gold and silver pieces with this type of paint, they all wear off. But it's still cool nonetheless!

Alpha Team, Agents and Ultra Agents were all solid themes. I’d love to see more someday.

Ah, it's that ol' song: "Heist me up a river...Steal me up some water"...the classics:)

Seriously, didn't get these sets, but did get a couple 'Ultra Agents' sets...think something like this is overdue (again) or are the 'Police' and 'Crooks' in Lego City Adventures the 'sub-in'...

@Agent00Z:
The two terms I’ve seen used are “drum-lacquered” and “gold ink”.

@Vladtheb: Maybe they could come out with a line called Alpha Agents that could have references to all three lines.

I've ended up with the two villain minifigs at some point. I don't collect minifigures. They're just that cool!

The build in this set is pretty nice, judging from the instructions. The propeller spins by cheater wheels in the back. There seems to be plenty of room on the conjoined catamaran style deck. There's room for a safe, and even a launch platform for a barrel of... ooze? Explosives? Explosive ooze?

@Murdoch17 those backstories are fun! Personally I always saw Dollar Bill as someone who was once a common city criminal but who somehow got a vast, VAST fortune that changed him into a faux high-class villain. Now his literal superpower is being rich.
His abilities? Bribing, changing the rules, hiring more goons etc. And in a fight he of course uses stuff like tricked-out money bills made from the actual thing, rare coins as ammo in guns, burning cash, razor sharp credit cards, super-powered collector's items etc.
I think he's probably responsible for a good deal of the funding behind Dr Inferno's enterprise. Capturing him here would be important in shutting down Dr Inferno in the long term.

Fun fact: you can see a dbgrey 1x1 round brick propping up the barrel! These are often used to stage the photo's. They just forgot to airbrush it away here.

Getting major Joker and Harley Quinn vibes off these two…

Love this set.
And it was also the first set I ever ended up buying with Bricklink!! I was very happy to have this set after so much time! The function to make the propellers spin is amazing. I have to look for more Agents sets!

The only problem with the set is the stickers on the propellers have the tendency to peel off very easily. :(

@Murdoch17 said:
"You just gotta love a theme with fig names like Dollar Bill and Dyna-Mite. It's like their straight out of a Incredibles movie, or the 1970's Super Friends TV show. (It works either way) I can imagine the backstories go like this:
- Dollar Bill: A compute genius and senior executive at First United World Bank of Legoland until he was passed over for a promotion to CEO. Became bitter and obsessed with payback to those who he thinks wronged him. Secretly became a bank robber and stock market manipulator, all the while keeping his activities hidden from authorities under his Dollar Bill persona. He funds other supervillains with his ill-gotten loot, and uses a A.I. eyepiece shaped like a diamond to hack computers systems / security cameras while actually doing his crimes, erasing the fact he was there until it's too late."

The best part of Agents is the amount of space to work on your own story-telling! I have a friend that wants to make a stop-motion series based on Agents! I really hope he gets to finish it one day!

Oh how I wish we could go back to the days when the majority of Lego sets were original IPs. So tired of all the licensed sets/themes these days...

It always drove me crazy that dollar bills diamond eye was sideways when it makes more sense for it to be in his the round way

@Kalhiki said:
"Oh how I wish we could go back to the days when the majority of Lego sets were original IPs. So tired of all the licensed sets/themes these days..."

Same. Variety is the spice of life. There sure is variety, but it's like now we only get the most popular brands. So it's the same few flavors you get anywhere else, every time. There's so little room for lego to be creative itself beyond Ninjago, City, Creator, Monkie Kid and Friends.
And those have very specific design styles and tropes. A Ninjago submarine or temple is not equivalent to ones from a dedicated theme. I just miss the times when we got both plenty of one-off in-house themes AND some licensed themes.
Lego feels more like a corporate subcontractor now.

It's been two years since MK was introduced. In that time the closest we got to a new in-house minifig theme was Vidyo. And that was a co-partnership with Universal Music with almost no proper building sets. Last year.

I also miss sets of this size packing so many features. Now it would be like one motorbike that's super detailed or something.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Vladtheb: Maybe they could come out with a line called Alpha Agents that could have references to all three lines."

I’d absolutely love that

@Vladtheb said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Vladtheb: Maybe they could come out with a line called Alpha Agents that could have references to all three lines."

I’d absolutely love that"

Agreed!
Side note: If we ever get to know how Alpha Team actually ended, I can die happy... they never said if Ogel or Agent Zed won the final battle!