User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter Explore Discussion/@comment-26421638-20160909202354/@comment-26532315-20160909211228

Those are the mighty "Explore Variants" - no, jokes aside. MHXR is not like any othet MH, as the Event Quests actually feature recolored, reskinned monsters. Most of them are no different in terms of attacks and stuff, save for the environment they are found in. That's all.

We have the following re-skinned variants (not counting Flame Rathalos and Frozen barioth, as those are legit MH-ish):


 * Pumpkin Uragaan for Halloween last year
 * Christmas Volvidon
 * Witch Lagombi and Gobul (Collab with Madoka Magica I guess)
 * Watermelon Uragaan
 * Fate/Stay Night Golden Diablos
 * Evangelion Gore Magala

They're just re-skins for collab events/events during the year.