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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

The thing is, we don't know exactly how it works. It could have been that Toho offered the others and NECA turned them down, but because the Godzillas sold so well they wanted to get the other monsters and Toho told them it was too late.

Given NECA's track record with God of War, Legacy of Kain, Castlevania, Hitman, Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed, and Resident Evil, I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case.

NECA has said that Toho won't allow them to, it doesn't sound like Toho offered and they turned it down as much as it seems Toho only ever let them use Godzilla. For all we know they were only going to do the 2014 Godzilla, but they had to get character license from Toho (which they obviously did) however the figure sold well enough and they still had the license so they decided to make more. If that's what happened then it's entirely possible that Toho doesn't want to make anymore deals leaving NECA with only Godzilla, or Toho could just be really fussy about it, or maybe Bandai has some kind of agreed exclusivity on rights with Toho on the other monsters. Whatever the case NECA would like to do some of the other monsters but can't and there's nothing changing about it anytime soon.

Talking about the video game licenses they did in short bursts is weird. They made all of those figures a good while back (except for Assassin's Creed which they let go to McFarlane whenever) as part of their Player Select series which was kind of like their Cult Classics line but for games instead of movies so only getting one or two characters/figures from each license wasn't so much "we're limited to this" as it was "let's do as many licenses as we can and not stick with one for too long." They really picked their shit up around 2010 though and became what they are now focusing more on lines and less on singular somewhat sporadic figures.