As I know how long the creative, design and engineering processes is in designing an action figure, I can't imagine the process to make a transforming toy. Thus to denounce third party toys as fake or the sort, I just.. It's sort of lame. I'm going to define my collection as something that I enjoy, and not stick to silly guidelines like "fake or real".
I'd enjoy Hasbro taking 3Ps under their wing as that would 1/2 or 1/3 the prices we are seeing. Maybe it's a pyramid scheme to take our money and 3Ps are actually subsidiaries of Hasbro.
But really, toys are toys and I'm going to care less about what label is on the back and care more about how good the Transformer is and what his character or persona means to me.