I don't think its the quality of work at all.. but you have stated that you are releasing this as a freebie, so what would be the incentive of Daz or SM to contact you?

To rig or develop another figure? What kind of time frame would you be delivering it to them? Keep in mind they have time constraints, and budgets that have to be met for developement. They don't have the luxury of working on one figure for 3 or 4 years to perfect it.

Not only that, most new figures have a hot "shelf life" of about a year.. after that, the community wants more/better, and the stores need more/better in order to drive additional sales volume, and improve sales numbers.

I supposed one of the stores could make him a new free "flagship" figure, but since you are so entrenched at Rendo, you are talking to the "competition". Maybe talk to Rendo as using this as a marketing driver?

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.