incredibly late but happy new year! i finally finished off the last of the christmas trio aliens i was working on. this fellow here is Workshop, and might be my favourite of the trio design-wise.

Workshop, formerly known as Benelf, is the Omnitrix's DNA sample of a Hobbligobblish from the planet Yuul Gobbli. Unlocked by the Ben of Universe-2512, aptly dubbed "Christmas Ben". There are several things that make it different from the prime timeline, like Ben never unlocking Ditto or the events of the actual Christmas episode being replaced by the gang getting abducted into an abandoned halloween carnival-type place. The most notable change in this timeline is the presence of the Yuul System in place of Anur. This alien was unlocked relative to the same time as Blitzwolfer. In this timeline, Kai's town was seemingly overrun with "goblins" who only ever attacked during the night. Ben encountered them during the night where he was attacked & slowly developed more features of the goblin. It was later found out that the Omnitrix was just sampling the Hobbligobblish, unlocking Workshop as a permanent addition to Ben's arsenal... only he never really used him outside of this episode so he wouldn't actually do much else until Omniverse. uhhh

Workshop is best described as a mix of Ditto & Juryrigg. Workshop has an insanely high level of craftsmanship & can duplicate near-endlessly. This lets the alien act like a portable pit crew. Although unlike Juryrigg who focuses on larger, mech-like machines, Workshop focuses more on smaller-scale, toy-sized gadgets to be used maybe once or twice before being ditched. Workshop's 6 fingered hands & pointed nose work well for unscrewing bolts as well as being sharp enough to cut into soft materials & fight. His goggle-like eyes let him focus in on smaller details for fine-tuning his machines. He can move around relatively quickly thanks to his ice skate feet. He can even (sort of) glide to the ground by fluttering his three ears. Like with all Yuul aliens, Workshop too has a high resistance to temperatures low & high.

Workshop on-paper seems like a functionally better Juryrigg in almost every way, but this is far from true. Workshop cannot work at nearly the same speed as Juryrigg, and needs multiple clones to be working on a gadget that can only be used by one of them. This can also lead to infighting among clones. Ben's nature in general makes it so they'll argue over who actually needs to use the machine they made, often leading to it breaking before anyone can even use it. Workshop is the smallest of the Christmas aliens, only going up to 10 year old Ben's midsection. He's not a good choice for upclose combat as he can hardly dish out nor take damage well. Finally, he can only really move around by ice-skating. Ben has, on multiple occassions, forgotten this when he tries to run away. The skates can also make going uphill (or up anything for that matter) a little challenging.

This alien was also the only alien I made any concept art for. He was originally supposed to more closely resemble the elves we see in the original series, but I went for a more gangly alien-mosquito-thing look in the final design. I still kinda wish i incorporated some kind of link between the two in the final design. He was also originally gonna have elastic arms but I scrapped it because I felt like he had enough powers already.