Factory Error Plarail Percy?

So I got this painted face plarail Percy (the one with the iconic flange) with some freight cars for $15 last august, and upon further Inspection, the part under his face is inverted have a look

Anyone have any idea if it’s a factory error or a specific variant?

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That is odd. Is that piece somehow removable and just put back wrong?

its painted to the smokebox and from what I can gather its a early version of the plarail Percy with gray running board but the face is molded into the smokebox this was changed sometime after 03 around 06 here is a thread about this 
https://www.blueplastictracks.org/thread-4564.html

Yes that’s a semi well known weird variation that’s been discussed here before.
No one knows why it would or could have been produced that way but the green is white and the white is green, and it’s it’s considered very rare!

WOW, I got it for $15!!!

Great score! 🤑

Can't say both the conditions may be possible.
But as per my knowledge I observe that this is specific variant.

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Peter, I think you posted that on the wrong post, The one you are linking is for Thomas w/o Blush, this post is for Percy
But it's ok, we are all imperfect