Dingbot Prime/Mad

Two Dingbot Primes?
In Castle Heterodyne, Gil a Dingbot, recovered in Sturmhalten, which appears to be Dingbot Prime.

Dingbot Prime was in Sturmhalten, and we do not see it becoming reunited with Agatha after activating the projection device in Tarvek's laboratory. However, when Agatha was in Mechanicsburg building the coffee machine, in one panel she and the machine are shown surrounded by dingbots, one of which appears to be Dingbot Prime.

How can this be explained? Several theories are possible:


 * Before Agatha lost her locket, she was working on a device which strongly resembled Dingbot Prime, but which did not work. Thus, while Agatha was  when she constructed Dingbot Prime, and did not remember building it, it quite conceivably was still based on plans of which she had been consciously aware, to which she then applied corrections during her sleep-Sparking state. Hence, having lost Dingbot Prime in Sturmhalten, she could have constructed a second one, which was identical to the first because she made it according to her original plans, and from standard parts, unlike the ones made by the dingbots themselves.


 * Somehow, Agatha could have arranged for Dingbot Prime to be conveyed to Gil, and Gil is simply lying to Zola and her minions about where it came from. This seems unlikely for three reasons:


 * Agatha had no reason to think Gil would have a specific need for Dingbot Prime,


 * For her to have a means of contact with Gil appears to contradict some of the plot we have seen, and


 * For Gil to mention having been in Sturmhalten presents at least some slight risk of exposing him as Gilgamesh Wulfenbach, and thus if it was not the truth, and he were making up a story out of whole cloth, there would be no reason for him to mention Sturmhalten in that story.


 * We have seen Agatha, with Gil and Moloch, looking into the past through a time window. Could Gil's Dingbot Prime be the same Dingbot Prime we saw in the coffee shop, but sent back to Gil, in Sturmhalten, from the future? (Of course, the danger of a time paradox might lead one to consider this a relatively wild speculation, at least.)


 * While the dingbots we have seen have all been diverse in appearance, it could well be that some of the second-generation dingbots were identical or nearly identical to Dingbot Prime in appearance, and it is one of those we saw with Agatha in the coffee shop.