My guess is it?s a likeness approval issue, especially if Ford has to approve it. If that?s the case, he might be rejecting whatever Hot Toys is sending over, or he may have the prototypes just sitting around until he decides to even take a look at them, which could be a year, two years, or whatever. He probably couldn?t care less. The idea of Hot Toys holding a grudge over a figure being broken on TV makes little to no sense. Nobody even knew it was a HT figure except a handful of collectors. Not to mention the free PR exposure of being able to show Harrison Ford holding your product is invaluable (just edit out the destruction part). Given how much HT has been reusing the Luke and Leia base sculpts, I?m sure they are itching to get a portrait or two approved, not only for Star Wars, but Indiana Jones and maybe even Blade Runner. Then the flood gates would open? ANH Han (reissue), Bespin Han, Hoth Han, Endor Han, Han in Carbonite, RotA Indiana Jones (Reissue), Tanis Map Room Indy, Temple of Doom Indy, Last Crusade Indy, Deckard.
If this assumption is close, that means sure Ford would have had to have approved the previous HT portraits. However the scope of use was probably limited so HT couldn?t just reuse for variants. Also the current Han (and original Indy for that matter) aren?t that great and there are several much better customs. Of course i could be wrong and the lack of Han figures could fall solely with Hot Toys.
Anyway, whatever the hold up, hopefully it will be resolved soon. The fact that Bespin Han and Baspin Lando continue to go unproduced is crazy.
