Thread:Trigger009/@comment-27530109-20170517133430/@comment-31420441-20170601060142

Aaronbill3 wrote: It boggles the mind that something shown in the show is considered an error and dismissed. Animation errors are things that slipped by by mistake, like when Galapagus had an Omnitrix symbol. When drawing aliens the animators weren't just told to "draw whoever" they were told to draw specific aliens by the storyboard artists. Which means they were told to draw Heatblast. The Galapagus situation would have come up because the animators probably assumed the storyboard artists forgot the Omnitrix symbol and thought they were drawing Terraspin. This is almost certainly done on purpose.

Could be. I get your point here. But see, what I think is that, when you are asked to make a couple of holograms of Ben's aliens before he turns into one of them, I don't think the writers would go that much in detail to specify them. They will be like Ben's goes through three or four holograms before turning into Jetray (for example). See, here who would go into that much depth like "first he sees Swampfire's hologram, then Humungosaur's, then Jetray. Then he turns into Jetray. (for example).

That's why I think that the artists were asked to throw in a couple of the aliens for the hologram. So they would naturally use the model sheets. As Alan mainly features a plumber badge (which UAF smartly kept identical to the Omnitrix symbol), the writers must have been confused about Alan's model sheet thinking it to be one of Ben's aliens (just like your example of Galapagos) and threw him in there. That's what I personally think.