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Tuesday, July 11, 2000 Today’s new members... Matt Brooks, Brian Bacher, Harvey Henkelman, Frank Buiting, Franklin Cain, Craig Hamilton, Bob Parker.    Harry Potter and the LEGO Company annoucement   An official announcement was made today that the LEGO Company will be associated with Harry Potter. I am sure more details will become available but here is the latest... (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego) !     Images of Civilian Space Freighter   I have posted some pictures on Brickshelf of a mini-fig scale freighter that I made. The project started from the desire to use the transparent UFO saucer sections as a windshield. The ship has one large cargo compartment that is accessed through (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.build) !     Shop at Home Specials to now run Wednesday to Tuesday   I just got off the phone with S@H. The specials for this week will be announced tomorrow. The rep also indicated that, because Monday is their busiest day, going forward the S@H specials would be announced on Wednesdays (25 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.announce.lsahs)      [ANNOUNCE] LegoVision release 0.0.3 (alpha)   LegoVision provides a framework for adding vision to LEGO Mindstorms. More information can be found on the project homepage at (URL) the approach is quite narrow at the moment due to hardware restrictions - I only have a Video For Windows compatible (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)      Team USA 1999 Women's World Cup Soccer Champions   I finally finished the Team USA Jersey details for the 1999 Women's World Cup Championship Soccer Team. I used up most of my Paradisa female heads, solid white minifigs, and black and brown hair pieces. I used some X-Treme Team and Arctic sunglass (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.general)      Harry Potter Lego Line   I found this posted on the website. Lego has announced the purchase of construction toy rights to Harry Potter and will release nine sets in conjunction with the release of the Harry Potter Movie in Fall of 2001. Anyone care to speculate on what (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.technic)      Re: Engine Idea -- but seriously   Jeff Elliott wrote in message <396A151F.B78216AD@t...es.com>... (...) I tend to try and keep it pretty simple. Take an antimatter engine/storage-cell - I just postulate a pseudo-science where you can contain an anti-matter plasma (of any mixture of (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.space)      Re: 1200 Blue Tub - price increase?   (...) Too bad TLG decided to call a $7 bag of 50 2x4 bricks "bulk", when they could have sold a $10 bag of 200, and made about the same net profit. With the possible exception of light grey, I think the guy who's breaking up tubs and service packs (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)      New trains   3x center beam lumber cars, 2x PNLTC box cars, 3x tank cars, 1x propane tank flatbed, 2x small gondolas, 1x spool flatbed. (URL) reduced the thickness of the purple stripe to one row of bricks on the Rhiengold coaches. Here's a few shots on my (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)   Yesterday: Monday, July 10, 2000

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