In the case of FansProject, I whole heartedly hope that they are in the beginnings of becoming they're own fully fledged company.

Think about it, how many new toy companies can you think of that have sprung up in the last 5 years and have been successful?
Now, think about the last 25 years and how many toy companies have attempted Form Shifting Robot Toys and have achieved decent levels of success?
Now, obviously FansProject have a while to go yet but they certainly have been laying the footings for quite a lot of future prosperity.

I personally think that if it gets to the point where there are enough companies/groups producing brand new IPs and said IPs are actually of a decent quality, then why shouldn't there be collectors of purely non-HasTakTom 'Transformers'?

I mean, it is almost certain that there are people who collect Bandai products exclusively - Be it Gobots, Rocklords, Power Ranger Zords and what have you, these collectors probably refuse to collect TF stuff as it would 'contaminate' their collections.
I actually wouldn't mind seeing some 3rd Party products that are based on the Old Gobots designs/characters - with some modern engineering and some sort of faction identification it could prove to be a catalyst of a revival of sorts?


We've all got to admit though, we're are living/collecting in some interesting times at the moment.