At each of the regional events, Harbour Lights has worked with collector clubs to help out. 300 buttons for each event were printed up, but no club ever has gotten the buttons in advance.

Harbour Lights told the clubs that they could have all the buttons left over after the event for fund-raising purposes.

In the case of the Orlando event, 300 buttons were taken to the event and 300 were distributed, leaving no left overs.

So Harbour Lights printed up an additional 50 buttons and sent them about 2 weeks ago to the club for their fund-raising. That's when the club posted the availability of those Orlando buttons on these forums.

The Tampa Bay Club came over on a bus and were allowed to enter early because they had been invited to help. Maybe there was nothing for some of them to do, but when you have a group traveling together all prepared to help, how can you permit a few to enter early and not let the whole group enter early?

And as for Clubs and the 2001 Reunion...

The early Reunion 2001 registration for Collector Club members was decided after the Legacy was mailed and was done because the Collector Clubs have been so helpful at these Regional Events.

As Bob Scroope has noted elsewhere, Harbour Lights does not expect to sell out the Reunion on October 14. They expect anyone who calls ready to register on October 14 will be able to so so.

And, HL believes, those calling will have a better chance of getting through by phone that day with some of the registrations already handled through clubs.