I read in the OWI Art book that the reason for the Mudokon Pop change was "another long story we don't have time to tell" in reference to the problem with Abe having 4-fingers in Japan (they had to change it to 3 to prevent offending Japanese people and to prevent being fined). It does say that it looks much a tastier treat, so I assume that's why they kept it different (as well as Japanese problems still) in AE when Abe sees it.
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