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A logical answer as to why there isn't a very large variety of Reaper designs in the cutscene at the end of ME2 is quite possibly because they didn't want to have to design 1000s of different ships for that one cutscene. Four or five would be enough to give the illusion that there are hundreds of different designs. In ME3 though, there are only two major Reaper designs.
Also, the reason why this question continuously gets posted is quite simple, and it's because Bioware neglected to explain much of anything in the actual game. They for some reason think that it's acceptible to post important lore points on blogs and twitter, hence why no one could figure out what happened to whatshername the reporter, or why all Reapers suddenly look the same, yet the human Reaper was surprisingly distinct from its cousins.
It makes sense that you'd only see two. As already pointed out their are only 5 variants. Harbinger, the original reaper created in the image of Leviathan. Capitol ships, a reaper created from the greatest race of a cycle (in this case the humans). Destroyer ships, a reaper seemingly created from "lesser races" or simply races who do not have a large enough population to create a Capitol Ship (it is a maximum of half the size of a Capitol afterall). Trooper Transport (non-sentient build for transporting troops, obviously). And Processing Ships (for processing captured races into shock troops or reapers).
It makes sense that you would only see two variants as why would Harbinger send non-sentient ships that are designed to create and carry troops into a battle? Destroyer and Capitol ships are created for war. Processing and Trooper Transport ships are created for aiding the war effort. If they lose Processing ships then they take a huge hit as they can no longer churn out the massive enemy numbers.
As for the OP it's already been stated that the inside of a Reaper is designed to look like the race it is processed from. This makes sense given how the Catalyst managed to trick itself into thinking the best solution is to harvest the races, capturing their memories and lifespan in the form of a Reaper. However the hull of a reaper is designed to look like Harbinger. This is most likely because it is the most efficient ship design. You wouldn't created a war machine to look like a television would you?
Oh yeah, and the inside of the reaper from ME2 did have a unique design. It's core resembled a amphibious species, possibly something resembling a hanar-like species. You can see by actually examining it closely. The only thing I hate about BSN is how they trust the word of EDI. She was speculating, she is designed to. How could she of known for definite that that wasn't the core? The only reaper we had seen was Sovereign and the remains of him were quickly disposed of by the council or taken by opportunists. The council wouldn't want the public knowing of the core and the opportunist wouldn't know it was a core.
Yes the idea was probably retconned because of time constraints. Most of Mass Effect 3's plot holes and issues are down to time constraints. Do you think BioWare wanted to photoshop a stock photo of Tali? Because I don't. They didn't do Mass Effect 3 as a middle finger to the fans. Mac Walters changed the story mid-way through it and it just never worked out. BioWare wanted to make the Reaper even more awe-inspiring by giving them each a variant of what they looked like. However it never worked out and they had to go to their contingency. That is the only thing to say.
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. I would agree with you that there are more varients here than mentioned in ME3, but only a few more (6 is probably about right including harbinger). Perhaps bioware originally planned for there to be more than the 4 reaper varients + harbinger they used in ME3. But none the less, there are multiple "clones" of the same reaper varients, all of which have a cuttleshell like design. Unless the reapers only reaped cuttlefish up until our cycle, i'd also say that the human reaper was going to be a reaper "core", as Mac has confirmed. 
