Last I check, the licensing agreement has expired, with Conan's last involvement in Marvel books being with the 2nd Savage Avengers run.

Seems like a legit strategy to me.

Do have to agree with that, feels outright counterproductive for a creative at his level to be mucking around with that stuff, even if it doesn't end up in commercial products.

Appears the linked message got deleted as someone followed up with Yuzo himself who clarified the voice placeholder thing that was cited was replaced with proper voice acting for the actual retail release.

Just got this recreation just the other day; they did release a version of this with the original figure's old color scheme right on the heels of an official rerelease though, so maybe from that?