Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24343249-20141017080826/@comment-1409915-20141029025345

Ilan01 wrote: Madlooney6 wrote: Jetray and Chamalien was replaced by Swift and Subdora. Fasttrack will not appear as it is poor mans XLR8. First, Mad that was i want to say, Second Fasttrack is only used to don't put all original aliens on UA, but as I thing Fasttrack is only a new name for a XLR8 other race for example:

Black skin human and White skin himan

Spider Monkey (Animal) and Monkey

Etc.

So.. now all understand? That would imply variation of the species. Fasttrack is clearly a different species. It's actually more akin to something found on this page http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute/WesternAnimation If you go down to the Ben 10 Ultimate Alien portion.

For simplicity I'll post the portion here

"Ultimate Alien introduces Fasttrack, who shares the exact same coloration and powers as XLR8, which is rather peculiar, as his existence could be considered redundant and unnecessary, considering Ben likely has XLR8 in his Ultimatrix, as almost every alien he's had in the previous two series is unlocked. Though he seems to be somewhat stronger and Matt Wayne did say that Fasttrack is stronger. XLR8, however, sees use in the Man of Action Studios-helmed Heroes United Crossover with Generator Rex. ◾ Though the mentality behind making another very fast character (and similar substitutes in general) could be accepted if one were to consider the idea that of the million aliens connected to the Ultimatrix, it's highly likely that several of them naturally have the same powers. This circles back to why sets of 10 were created. Variety without redundancy."

This is more of the difference between the two, or at least the nature of it.

However this does not denote that the idea of Fasttrack, from a production standpoint, was a pretty bad idea.