Emperor’s Royal Guard
DON’T RELY ON JUST THE COO TO IDENTIFY A FIGURE. Mould, paint colour, plastic colour and figure assembly traits are also needed to confirm your figure’s origins.
Wolff
The ERG came with different slit cloaks it seemed, but after examining more closely ROG found out that the cloaks on the LL ERGs are not glued and can be rotated easily. So it can not be proven how these left the factory until a carded one turns up with the slit the other way around. But even then you can “configure” every ERG like you want it. So this needed an entry, but cannot be called variant anymore.
Also difficult is the staff on that one. There is dark grey ones and light grey ones. The mold is present as Kenner produced staff also. The dark grey ones are easy to spot, but the lighter ones can be always Kenner ones too. Most carded examples that survived show the lighter staffs.
Beyond the colour of the helmet, there’s not much to differentiate the figures, although the Kader MIHK figure can feature a more menacing concave shaped visor.
The belt/torso section in particular deserves attention as mentioned previously. The rope belt is a completely different sculpt for each factory.
Unitoy ERG has some sculpting variations noted in the graphic below. There’s been two minor cavity variations noted in the arms, legs and and torso. These parts are mixed across the ERGs produced at this factory from HK through to the NCOO figure.
