Mystery time: Beast Hunters Ultimate Beast Fire Predaking, Canadian/Latin American version

Nevermore

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Preface: This is a Nevermore thread. Please read the following carefully on order to avoid answering a question I didn't ask. I'm asking a very specific question, so please make sure you understand the question I'm actually asking.

If you think I'm going overboard with this, I'm speaking from experience. I've had well-meaning people stumble into my threads and mistake a very specific deep dive question for an easy-to-answer basic level inquiry.

Aaanyway.

I was under the impression that the story of the Beast Hunters line's Ultimate Class Beast Fire Predaking figure was fairly straightforward: The figure was released as part of the (Target exclusive) "Predacons Rising" subline imprint in the United States (in English-only packaging), but whereas the "Predacons Rising" subline imprint was available outside the US (though exclusive to stores other than Target), Beast Fire Predaking was not part of the line-up. Instead, the figure was available in standard "Beast Hunters" packaging in most of Hasbro's worldwide markets outside the US.

That was my level of understanding until a few hours ago.

So here are the various packaging versions of Beast Fire Predaking:


The "standard" English-only version was available in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the Philippines etc..
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In Canada, he was available in trilingual packaging (English, French and Spanish). This version was found at Toys"R"Us, among other places.
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Nevermore

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The European version also isn't a mystery. Released at general retail in a plethora of countries, the packaging features texts in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Greek, Polish, Turkish and Russian.
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The Chinese version isn't widely documented, but it does exist. The packaging is bilingual, featuring texts in English and Chinese.
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Nevermore

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As mentioned before, in the United States, Beast Fire Predaking was given a somewhat different treatment. The packaging was also English-only, but it was branded as part of the Target exclusive "Predacons Rising" subline imprint, featuring a considerably different packaging design.
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All of the above was what I was certain about up until a few hours ago.

Then I stumbled across this. And did some more digging and found more specimens.

Beast Fire Predaking in "Predacons Rising" packaging... but a trilingual version. Featuring texts in English, French and Spanish.
Beast Fire Predaking Predacons Rising English French Spanish 1.jpgBeast Fire Predaking Predacons Rising English French Spanish 2.jpgBeast Fire Predaking Predacons Rising English French Spanish 3.jpgBeast Fire Predaking Predacons Rising English French Spanish 4.jpgBeast Fire Predaking Predacons Rising English French Spanish 5.jpgBeast Fire Predaking Predacons Rising English French Spanish 6.jpg

This seemingly makes no sense. In Canada, he was available in standard "Beast Hunters" packaging (see above), whereas in the United States, where he was released in "Predacons Rising" packaging, the packaging featured texts in English only.

I've managed to pinpoint one of these to Panama, and another one to Canada?

Does anyone have any idea?
 
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Sabrblade

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Some kind of Caribbean release, perhaps?
 
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