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Great Ochoa wrote: Why wouldn't the idea of a sequel reboot work for Ben 10? Why wouldn't making a reboot of Alien Force instead not work? It worked very well for Star Wars, didn't it?

Star Wars had the Expanded Universe connected to the main continuity. When Disney took over, they declared the Expanded Universe as no longer canon and brought in a new continuity to replace it instead, starting with Star Wars The Force Awakens. The Star Wars fanbase wasn't so happy about the Expanded Universe being removed from continuity but at least most, if not all, of the fanbase sure are happy about the new continuity and are even looking forward to whatever else the new continuity has to offer.

Star Wars was even in a similar situation in regards to the Prequel Trilogy that the Ben 10 series was in with everything from Alien Force onwards.

If the idea of a sequel reboot worked very well for Star Wars, why not Ben 10?

because the Star Wars expanded universe was absolutely fricked.

Think about it, how many fans (of the literal hundreds of millions) of Star Wars actually cared for the EU? Answer: probably less than 5%. The EU did not effect the main six films enough to matter, and therefore could be retconned (arguably for the better) so that Disney had a clean pallet going forwards.

Why won't that work for Ben 10? because unlike Star Wars, Ben 10 has proven to not be timeless. We, the VERY few, are the only ones who watched the original continuity and still care. Unlike Star Wars toys, Cartoon Network would not get away with remaking figures of old Ben 10 characters for 30 years, because where Star Wars caters to generations old and new, Ben 10 catered for one. Ours.

They cannot 'sequel reboot' as you call it, because not enough people cared for the first continuity for CN to profit from catering to them. They would lose far too many watchers in the first episode if they half-rebooted, because too many people would be out of the loop and clueless to the story. Officially half rebooting Ben 10 is, objectively, a bad idea. Sure it works for fan fiction, but it is a guaranteed loss for CN if they were to make it.