Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4440927-20150410030856/@comment-26430956-20150530102644

Superalexiy wrote: I think this theory is sort of right, think of it, the rust bucket was destroyed in the last episode(not counting what ifs) of the OG ben 10, in alien force(2nd episode) she remarks it by saying something along the lines of it's just like max to move from one rust bucket to another, which means gwen didn't know about him getting a new one, so he used a different car to find a way to get ben's omnitrix off. But in the first season of omniverse it appears the old rust bucket is still in tact and ben has not taken off the omnitrix, which makes no sense(since people would ask questions as to why he has a weird watch that isn't sold anywhere, on earth on his wrist unless, he kept taking it off and on, which I don't think so since gwen in the first episode of alien force alluded to the idea, that ben never put it on again before this point.

Actually, it was Ben who made the remark about Max losing one Rust Bucket and getting another in the third epside of AF upon seeing a picture of him, Gwen and Max in front of the first Rust Bucket. Also, look at the stripes on the Rust Bucket. The Rust Bucket 1 had a red stripe on top of a blue stripe, while the Rust Bucket 2 has two yellow stripes. The Rust Bucket in Omniverse also has two yellow stripes, so that means that is already the Rust Bucket 2.

In the first episode of AF when Ben runs into a DNAlien for the first time, he reacts by slapping his wrist, which means the Omnitrix hasn't been off long enough for him to get used to it. As for nobody asking questions about where he got the watch, nobody ever really questioned it in any of the series except for characters important to the plot. I can't remember a single episode where some random person walked up to Ben and went "That's a cool watch, where did you get it?" and even then the group could've already agreed to say that it's something Max made himself especially for Ben. Max had been shown to be handy and good with technology before, so nobody would doubt he'd be able to fabricate something like that. Ofcourse, the last part of creating a fake backstory for how he got it isn't exactly confirmed or even mentioned, but that's how I would answer that question if I were a writer.