Years ago I asked one of them about it T some convention and she said she love to have an action figure made of her.  The other one had already died I think. 

Could be fluff, but she was asked about it all the time and always said go for it.

The Star Whores thing is the only plausible explanation I’ve heard but also Hasbro wouldn’t ever talk about it, like it would have been so terrible for someone like Depriest or Evans to just say, we can’t touch that one with a ten foot pole because of some inappropriate backstory jokes from the 70’s.

There are a lot of resellers out there.  I unload a bunch of my Hasbro stuff to one of them.  He was also interested in my Lego and SS stuff, but I didn't go down that road with him.  It all depends on what they offer you.  I just had a FB marketplace guy try to lowball me on one of my listing.  He wanted to pay $100 for a set that was fairly priced at $225.  I replied "you are offering less than half?" and he replied "bro, I do this for a living" and then proceeded to send me a listing for around $130 for an open set.  When I replied that mine was factory sealed and priced fairly, I didn't anything further.  You will get a bunch of this nonsense.  I sold a bunch of my carded figures with Star Cases.  I had one guy lowball me on a set.  I told him I could sell at a lower price without the Star Cases and he replied, "how am I supposed to resell them without the cases".  Many of the resellers feel entitled to get your stuff for cheap so they can make their own profit.  Told that guy just to send me his buyers names and I would sell direct to them.

As for FB marketplace, you need to give it time.  There is an ebb and flow.  I will go months without a sale, and then get a bunch in a two week period.

Well, I haven’t had any luck with the FB groups but I have sold a few things on eBay.

I have had two people now reach out to me trying to get me to sell them all my Legos outside of eBay. This seems shady to me and I know eBay frowns on it, so I have rebuffed these kinds of questions so far. Even though it would be nice to forego the 15% seller fees, I feel like this would be opening myself up to more risk as well.

I’ve never had this happen in many years of selling other stuff, so I guess it must be a Lego thing?

Just got an update saying May 30 now.  🤷‍♂️

Tonnika's would be a PERFECT Pulse exclusive...

They'd be available to purchase widely, but also not at any major retailers so any weird 50 year old notion that they're whores wouldn't be something Target would care about...
It would tie in with the Haslab...
They could re-use most of the sculpt so it's right in line with their efficiency goals...
They could charge a small fortune two figures and people would still gobble it up...

It's a no brainer, they just have to stop being babies about it.