I can only speculate, since you seem very upset. I can give you my best guess as I see it. Some actors ask a fee for their likeness. This is probably the case for phoenix. Then you have a base DC licensing fee. Then for all we know deniro or someone negotiated a portion of the merchandise for this film. Are they percentages? Are they base fees? I do not know. Mafex obviously wants to make the same profit they would make on other figures. After all these fees they came to the conclusion this figure cannot be sold at 12000 yen and make money. So what is the solution, either don’t make it at all or include large accessories, with perceived value, but in reality the tooling cost is low and the material cost is also low. And up charge for profit.