It's still more colors than SVT vehicles used to come in. Red black and white lol. Or HD trucks, several years have been black ONLY, and at most only 1 other non-black color option, and only 1 year at a time, never 2 in a row. So on the flip side, the Raptors color offerings aren't terrible, but I do wish there were more DIRT colors available like Sterling Gray. But really beyond black, white, silver, blue, orange, and red, not a whole lot of other colors out there other than variants on those.
As for 2012 changes, it's been out for quite a few months 2012 would end moltan orange and race red would replace it, so if you were set on orange you could have ordered an '11 quite a while ago. There's a good amount of other changes for '12 that make the wait worth while. More changes from '11 to '12 than there were for '10 to '11 at least.