The Energon Pub

[Simes]

Transformers fandom has been buzzing the last few days with discussion about third party products and the fact that they will no longer be available for sale from some events. As with many of our friends at other conventions such as Savcon, Slagacon and Dairycon, we believe that Transformers fans should be able to make an informed choice for themselves over whether or not to purchase unofficial third party products.

We have spent the last seven months looking at our policy in relation to these and while we will still prohibit the sale of some items, we will be adopting a more open approach which we believe will be much fairer on dealers and attendees alike and provide a much more enjoyable convention and a better trading experience for everyone.

For more details, you can read our official statement here in full:- http://www.autoassembly.org.uk/AA2012/A ... tement.pdf

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[Court Jester]

This sounds fantastic. Well done Auto Assembly. I'm sure your attendees appreciate the consideration, and will support you for years to come. Cheers!

[Simes]

We have had people ask us quite recently what our position was regarding third party products as there has been a lot of confusion recently, including our existing dealers and some who had never attended the convention before so we knew that it was something that we needed to clarify for everyone.

We had been working on our new policy for some time (we first mentioned that we were working on a revised policy on our website back in September 2011) but it has taken us this long to get everything just right because of all of the grey areas with a lot of products.

We think that we have managed to get the balance right though between banning products that are in clear breach of copyright and common sense with what we are allowing.