Just want some opinions on the best way to organise a handful of figures.
My CHUG displays are sorted left to right with the characters on the left debuting in the G1 cartoon in season 1. As we go to the right we go through the seasons till season 4 ends then we go by year of G1 toy till we get to 1989 which is the last G1 year CHUG toys are based on at this moment. I also have a small section for IDW CHUG characters, but try to not put character designs that predate IDW in it.
Which leaves me contemplating where I should place CHUG characters like Darkmount/Straxis, Crosscut and Stripes that are "G1" characters but never were released in a G1 toyline or seen in a G1 episode and yet predate their IDW appearance?
How I'd sort those particular 'bots:
Darkmount with season 2 (introduced in the comics in the same issue as 13 characters from the 1985 range)
Crosscut with season 2 (if he'd been released in G1 it would have been in 1985)
Stripes with Movie/season 3 (as he was originally intended to debut in TFTM)
Are there and differences on the boxes between the Japanese and USA releases of MPM-04 Optimus Prime?
And are there any known differences between the figures themselves? I tried Googling but it became confusing.
Which brings us to where we are today...
The Japanese version has some extra paint details, but has a lighter grey plastic, so the darker Hasbro grey plastic makes it look nicer to most.
This image has the Japanese one with the yellow paint apps on the abs.