Several months ago we were informed (unofficially) that Part One Ltd, the company behind e-Hobby were going to start working with Fun Publication (The Transformers Collectors Club / Botcon) on some collaborative products for the US. Well now the official announcement has been made over on the e-Hobby news website we can le you know what we heard. At the time the talk was regarding possible exclusives for Botcon 2013. Whether this was helping them with toy design, packaging, prints could not be said, but I suspect it may be officially licensing the e-Hobby exclusives to the group and collaborating with Japanese sales.
We'd expect more news on this announcement over the coming months so stay tuned to the e-Hobby blog for more information