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Originally Posted by IzzyTipsy

Interesting that Weathers apparently had a high price for likeness rights given we got a decent amount of figures from him for Mandalorian. And Hiya seems to be doing Apollo Creed.

NECA had that little money?

With Star Wars, Lucasfilm requires actors to sign likeness agreements so actors don't have a say in how their Star Wars characters are used by licensees (has been that way since the original trilogy).

As for Hiya, their deal was for the Rocky license, which included Carl Weather's likeness. With Rocky, the only character you can't easily do is Thunderlips, since Hulk Hogan kept his likeness rights for that one. NECA wanted his likeness for Predator, which had no actor likenesses included. Which is why they never did most of the cast there.

Also, the owner of NECA is crazy rich. From what I understand, NECA's problem wasn't a money thing, but more of an issue getting his reps to finalize a deal.