Third Party Products to be sold at Auto Assembly 2012

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Please use this thread to discuss the Third Party Products to be sold at Auto Assembly 2012 news story on the main site.

There were a lot of discussions about this after the Auto Assembly 2011 to see what we could do to get the 3rd Party toys back at Auto Assembly.  Well here's the official word.
For the last few years we have had an official policy here at Auto
Assembly regarding the sale of unofficial and third party products at
the convention. We know that many of our dealers do stock a wide range
of third party produced toys and toy upgrades, and a growing number of
fans do collect these alternatives to Hasbro and Takara Tomy produced
products so there is a genuine demand for them at Auto Assembly.
Since Auto Assembly 2011, we have been looking at this carefully and
we are going to be revising this policy extensively for Auto Assembly
2012 and we hope to be announcing details this week of a new policy
which we believe will be much fairer to dealers and attendees
alike, ensuring that a much wider range of third party products will be
on sale at Auto Assembly 2012. There will still be some products that
will be on our “banned” list which are in direct breach of Hasbro or
Takara Tomy’s trademarks / copyrights, but we are convinced that
everyone will be happy with what we will be announcing!
Don’t forget, Dealer Table bookings are open now for Auto Assembly
2012 and with table prices at our lowest rate for years and with cheaper
hotel rates than ever before, there’s never been a better time to come
along and trade at Auto Assembly!