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Wild speculation time of whatever happened from 1998 to 2005
>Alpha Team was created using surplus parts from Insectoids (the neons) and Res-Q (black and Yellow vehicles)
>9735-1: Robotics Discovery Set too, it's basically Mindstorms Insectoids
>AT became a successor to Aquazone and Space even up to 2005, due to similar pieces, specially transparent antennas
>the community workers sets 9247-1 and 9247-2 were made to get rid of surplus Town(-1) and World City(-2) minifig designs to make way for Lego City
>the first one may have been made too to get rid of unsold Lego Island minifigs (hence why Pepper and the Infomaniac are there), and oldschool minifig faces without detailed pupils
>Pretty much the same with the second one, only this time they either got rid of enough Lego Island Surplus or didn't wan't any more association with it