I pay attention to the collector circles of some old toys I had as a kid.
A few folks have gone into business now and then to buy rights and reproduce some of these with quality reproductions. The alternative is the few attempts by some larger toy companies to do the same with lower quality than the original repros.
I saw a YouTube video of one of the recent guys who's company had bought a trademark/logo and was doing this...and he mentioned they viewed themselves as "retropeneurs".
In the Amiga community, we've had efforts to maintain the platform with Amithlon, Amiga Forever/UAE, AROS and on the hardware side we've had a few work on remaking hardware.
Because of the money involved in licensing in computer world it's hard doing this and making any money unless you clone and avoid simply reproducing.
The odd thing is that in the toy world, everyone thinks having nice, new, high quality repros is a good thing as long as the product pays appropriate respect to the original.
In Amigadom, there always seems to be suspicion and trouble over money and contracts. ..and, unlike the vintage toy world, there are so few of us still out there to buy the stuff. Makes you wonder why.
