Apr 24, 2014

It's a shame that Spector and Laser-Lot had to be made in 2012

Hoo-Boy! I'm on yet another Spector Rant... 2 years later. Hey! I also included Sir-Laser-Lot to spice up things!
Like the title says: It's a shame that they had to be made in 2012 when a LOT of new parts that would have made those figures cooler hadn't been made!
Let's start with Sir-Laser-Lot:
I've often said that Man-E-Faces Shoulders with Trap Jaw Biceps would have given him a more Knightly Look. Well, Extendar's thighs would have helped him a LOT More. Not to Mention Standor's Loincloth.

Why those Pieces? Simple: The Thighs, Shoulders and Biceps are more armored, which helps break the He's wearing Blue Tights look. The Standor Loincloth looks more knightly and breaks off the Tights look. Less Superman, more Badass Laser Knight.
I tried to keep him close to Johns' figure, but some tiny changes did wonders to that character (IMO). Going Full Knight with more Extendar pieces would make SLL a lame Extendar repaint.

Spector is another character who would have benefited from post 2012 parts. I've talked a LOT about why Spector fails in past rants. Not going to tread the Mary Sue waters, but I will retread the Deadpoolness of him.

Let's start with the body. Once Again, Eliminating the Appearance of Wearing Tights on him is the first step to "remove the Deadpool" out of Spector. The easiest way to do so is teching out the body. Also, Axing the Trap Jaw Legs! It would be easy adding Roboto's biceps and calling it a day. Spector is already asymmetrical, so let's enhance the Asymmetry a bit more. For his left arm (the one with the key) let's add some more Armored Hi-tech Arm... Translation: Flipshot's Bicep. For the right Arm, I used the Roboto Forearm because if his suit is high tech due to time travel, let's emphasize the tech aspect of it. Hiding it in a "wearing tights" look doesn't scream High tech. For the Post 2012 Pieces, I'm using NA Skeletor's legs due to the cyber parts attached to them.
The Only NEW Piece would be the new Armor/Harness for Spector which eliminates the cumbersome Leg Holster for the gun and Ammo belt on the leg. Also it has some more "Tech bits" on the torso to emphasize the whole High Tech look for a Time Traveler. At the same time I tried to stay as close as possible to Neitlich's creation.
Swapping the Lower Torso for the Hordak Flat Abs helps sell the "Armored" Look for the body better than the Normal Ab piece.

Now the remaining Piece I swapped was Blade's Right Forearm. There is a simple reason for that piece. The two Little Barbs on the back part of it remind me a bit of Batman.

With all that said, there's a bunch of people who believe that you CAN'T MAKE Spector or Loser-Lot cool no matter what. I kinda agree with them from a canonical point of view and also with the parts that they had back then. (I did  try over 50 variations of Spector Redesigns and variants for kicks.)

I feel it sucks that the year that MOTU had a great celebration with a Create a Character contest, we did NOT had access to a LOT of the pieces we have now. (also it sucks that I couldn't participate on it, otherwise I would have sent at least 10 entries)

I did not touch Cy-Chop because he is nearly impossible to make cool. Photog, well he needed to be as is since the 80s contest and all that and Draego, well, The Horsemen KNEW what they were doing.

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