Well, Jakks Pacific seems to just be...not really having exact lines or releases of figures in 2021. They're just seemingly letting out figures modern or classic willy-nilly and hoping they get into stores. Keep in mind most people NEVER got the chao out of line 1, because of the bad release.
Now, here is "Gold Chao" and Moto Bug, both on modern styled cards. Motobug is arguable whether it's modern or not, but really Eggman just kept remaking this badnick so, ok. The so called 'gold' doesn't look that gold though? It looks like a faded blue rather than the metallic gold of the special one in the Sonic Adventure game. Moto Bug looks good though. Hopefully fan photos can appear here as well with them out of the package. 

In the main image you can see the factory photo for the so-called 'gold chao' which is seen above in the fan photo in the store. And...it looks signifigantly more gold? The one in this photo looks like the one from the game, where you hatched it out of the special shiny metallic egg to get this color. The one above just kind of doesn't.
So which is it? Are all of them poorly, or is the gold paint not showing up in the fan photo? If you have bought this and have it loose, you can add a photo for credit here.
*This thing is difficult to find. It's supposed to be a winter 2021 item in Target, but they don't sell it online/at their website so if it isn't in your local store, you can't have it. It seems the distribution on the small figures wasn't as good as everyone was hoping, as some stores never got anything past the 2nd line while others report only ever being able to find the small Sonic figure, regardless of the line that was supposed to be out.