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:

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.

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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