Jeff, do we want to spin this off into a dedicated Tonnika Sisters thread?

Good idea.  I spun off these recent Tonnika-specific posts and merged them into this old Tonnika themed thread.

As far as I can tell she's done her best to monetize being a Tonnika Sister.  Her facebook page is full of this kind of stuff.





Ironically, she was also pimping the Last Figure Standing poll.  Lolz...

What I took from Victoria's interview with Angela Staines is that Lucasfilm was of the opinion that she wanted to shake them down for $$$, and that's just not how they do business. 

I went back and re-listened to the interview that Victoria did in 2017.  I really think it all boils down to this chunk of the interviews: (https://youtu.be/E8Yu1fKCDko&t=1605)

- Someone she knew saw the tiny little Galoob Action Fleet Tonnika figure in a shop
- Her husband said 'they should be paying you for that'
- Her husband's lawyer sent a letter to LFL

Then she (Angela) casually mentions that Christine (the other sister) had many interactions with LFL and they ALL knew about the letter at LFL and that was the one of the reasons there were no figures.  Again she mentions "why not give us some royalties" in reference to making the figures.

I think her story softened over time down to "I just wanted a free figure", but the more you dig into this the more it sure seems like she wanted something and like the Nicks are saying, LFL isn't going to change their standard contract/approach for one background character (even if she was in a named role on the call sheet and not just an extra) for fear of the precedent it would set.

This fits well with Nick's story about Derryl saying LFL had a 'long memory'.  She tried to shake them down and LFL isn't going to forget it apparently...

I took some of Morgan's motivation as she thought that she could only count on herself.  Night Sisters in her clan failed her.  And so did the Mountain clan.  She encountered the corruption within the Empire.  So people became a "resource" to her.

What someone says on a podcast might be completely different from their interactions with Lucasfilm.  What I took from Victoria's interview with Angela Staines is that Lucasfilm was of the opinion that she wanted to shake them down for $$$, and that's just not how they do business.  They have on screen talent (with no dialogue) sign a STANDARD release in order to produce licensed merchandise.  If someone bucks that standard?  It potentially opens the door to countless other on screen talent to attempt to negotiate their own deals.  And the legal costs alone might make the situation incredibly prohibitive from a financial and administrative standpoint - down to the point of potentially slowing production of new content.  It seems like a pandora's box of hassles.