Flip-Face Gordon and Percy, Toby with an odd car

I would like to revive this thread because i may have a tiny bit more info and a few theories on the infamous Flip Face Percy

Percy at the ice cream factory:
this set was supposed to be released in 2007, appearing in fun guides and on the back of boxes. The set was cancelled for reasons unknown. the fun guide description says how this set would have worked. The Percy featured would have had a face change mechanism like Toby, James and Thomas. He also would have pulled a brown car with a YELLOW barrel. however in 2008 the RC HiT Toys Percy was released with a tired expression & blue coach. no other RC engine had an exclusive face and the tooling from the RC Percy is near identical to the Flip face one as Ffarquar Developer mentioned in another post. Somebody mentioned lead paint and multiple people claim that they have seen one, a logical explanation would be that he was released as A: an exclusive item to a certain store (spooky Stanley style) or B: a few accidentally slipped out. it would make sense for them to be recalled by HiT as they weren't supposed to be released, maybe for that exact reason: lead paint. A few wooden railway items were recalled in the same year so it all lines up perfectly...

Singular flip face Percy?: In a tweet from SidekickJason he said he had contacted HiT with questions about their line, on numerous occasions he brought up the flip face engines (this is in 2009) The employee (Amy) said that they would be released in the future as singular engines without sets like Toby or James. They did release the Flip face Hiro singularly as well as James and Thomas. In the email they mentioned Gordon several times and a singular Gordon was featured in the image that muddy posted at the beginning of the thread as well as a Percy without windows but the Ice cream factory Percy DID have windows therefore they are not the same model i think. Fisher Price bought HiT out in 2010, the emails are from 2009 therefore i think that the Gordon and Percy were supposed to be released separately in 2010. Also the car that Percy pulls is different in both his images (one sloping inwards. The barrel is also pink in this version...i have no idea why.