Thread:Trigger009/@comment-27530109-20170517133430/@comment-24922135-20170601111659

Shocker03 wrote:

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.

This chimes in to my other point. Someone who worked on this episode, at some level, gave Ben Heatblast. The furthest along this alien could have been added is at the storyboarding stage. Who else worked on storyboards? Derrick J Wyatt in Omniverse. Considering how often his opinions on the universe are cited to fill in blanks, it's fair to say that storyboard artists still have a say on the show.

Heatblast being present also suits the fact that (I believe it was Dwayne McDuffie) said that Ben begun passively scanning aliens he encountered to unlock them, like he did with Ripjaws in UA.