Variants or Running Changes?

[Crimson Twins]

OK, so I have to admit I haven't been keeping up with the ROC toys that much. But I have been noticing some variations to figures I have picked up lately. I noticed the Doctor figure is now sporting a white coat. I've seen some people list this as a variant, but it looks more like a change to me. Everywhere I look, I see those white coats. In fact, it's getting hard to find the black ones now. Same thing goes for the black tatoo Night Adder. I'm finding those more and more. And it seems that every Storm Shadow figure that used to have a mask is now running around maskless on the shelves. So, does anyone know what the real deal is?

[wolverine2281]

IMO a running change is something that is done the fix some sort of problem and the rest are shipped that way. I consider these variants as well as kind of a wave revision.

[GPM in ICT]

I'm really not sure about the Dr Rex figure as I see only the Black coat at Target, Walmarts and TRU's. But at Krogers and ALdi's all I've seen are the white coats. Just like the PP SE the first couple weeks we saw the black Timber's then followed by nothing but grey Timbers. Then last week Black Timbers started showwing up at Targets again.

[punishment-101]

I've never seen a white coat version, but suddenly I've seen about 10 black coat versions popping up

[pesatyel]

I've only ever seen like 2 or 3 of the white coated version.

 

I think the coat was a variant and the tatoos a running change.

[FlyingFigg]

I had the Doctor (black coat) on pre-order from BBTS a long time ago. They sent me an email saying that they're not getting anymore of those in and that they'd be white coats from now on, so I guess I'd call it a running change?