This may be useless information, but I know hard facts about where certain variations originated are hard to come by, so thought I'd post this up. I just checked my only 5 remaining childhood figures, and noticed all 5 are no COO variants, including the pop-up R2. I am a bit younger than some collectors so all my childhood toys would have been bought in the UK in the mid to late 80s, almost certainly on trilogo cards.