This is probably a common one but I can't find any mention of it through searching google or on other R5D4 variant threads. Hopefully someone can help with info on whether this is common.
Just looking at my loosies tonight and noticed quite a significant difference in the leg sculpts on my two R5D4's, one on the left is a 1977 NCOO and one on right is a 1978 Hong Kong. As you can see from the pics the legs are quite different, the 78's a fair bit taller with a thinner red stripe on the side. Other differences of note are on the head where you'll notice the difference in sculpt where the silver stripe is set in you'll notice on the left it tapers from the top narrow to wide at the bottom where as on the 78 on the right it is the opposite.
I know the heads are a different as previously mentioned but I haven't seen the legs or these side piece shown before. This figure came in a lot I managed to score on Ebay over a year ago which was quite an odd set. They came from someone with zero knowledge on Vintage where thrown loose into a box with no padding and every single figure in the lot was absolutely mint with no weapons. I mean not even a hint of missing paint on any of them bar the LXW fig which has very minor rubbing on his helmet strip.
Oddest part was that all of them were No COO figures.
Just looking at my loosies tonight and noticed quite a significant difference in the leg sculpts on my two R5D4's, one on the left is a 1977 NCOO and one on right is a 1978 Hong Kong. As you can see from the pics the legs are quite different, the 78's a fair bit taller with a thinner red stripe on the side. Other differences of note are on the head where you'll notice the difference in sculpt where the silver stripe is set in you'll notice on the left it tapers from the top narrow to wide at the bottom where as on the 78 on the right it is the opposite.
I know the heads are a different as previously mentioned but I haven't seen the legs or these side piece shown before. This figure came in a lot I managed to score on Ebay over a year ago which was quite an odd set. They came from someone with zero knowledge on Vintage where thrown loose into a box with no padding and every single figure in the lot was absolutely mint with no weapons. I mean not even a hint of missing paint on any of them bar the LXW fig which has very minor rubbing on his helmet strip.
Oddest part was that all of them were No COO figures.
