While I was conversing with Bill at the Lighthouse Depot last Saturday, I asked him about some unannounced release that was going to be out in 2002. I thought someone mentioned it here at the CF so I put it right on Bill. Bill replied, "If there is one I don't know about it yet."

While Bill was signing extra Crossover Island and Hannibal pieces, I asked him about the bottom being cut out of the styrofoam mold that holds the lights. He told me Harry Hines came up with that idea. It allows Bill to sign more pieces per minute because they don't have to be removed from the box. Bill advised me he can sign 300 pieces an hour the old way. The cutout allows him to sign up to 500 pieces per hour with someone opening the boxes and putting the light in front of him. Can you spell "Writers Cramp"?

Bob