#mixel rant

I’m honestly kinda doubtful that was the reason Mixels died out, the original run of Bionicle also had a shitton of figures and characters and that series lasted like almost an entire decade. So Mixels dying out due to there being too many characters and figures is kinda unlikely if you ask me (especially when you consider the fact that Mixels were made with the normal system bricks that Lego would already be making a shitton of anyway for other sets).

A far more likely explanation for Mixels getting cut short is likely just sheer negligence from both parent companies (mostly on CN’s part but Lego is still guilty of it too, just to a slightly lesser extent.), as is often the cause of death for many beloved toy lines and cartoons sadly, Lego likely had too much of a boner from all the money those stupid Star Wars sets were making them to give a shit about the vastly superior Mixels franchise, so they decided to axe the series after wave 9.

IKR? Honestly though why the actual fuck are the Nindjas orange? It makes basically no goddamn sense why a ninja tribe would be orange. Is it because Naruto? It’s probably because Naruto. But anyway yeah the Nindjas having a basically identical colour palette to the Flexers was always something that really bugged me, personally I would’ve made them primarily white with red and/or pink accents, since the colour scheme of white with red accents has a fair bit of cultural significance in Japan (hence why stuff like Kabuki makeup and Kitsune masks tend to be those colours) and the pink because of Japanese cherry blossoms (I just think they’re really pretty).

Honestly I completely agree with you, not just because of my huge bias towards series 4 but mostly because of the massive drop in quality of everything post-M3. Mixamajig was pretty weird, alot of the characters acted nothing like how they were described in the Lego descriptions, not to mention the massive abundance of animation errors, it's pretty easy to tell it was somewhat rushed. Sure, some parts of Mixamajig may still be salvageable, but I think the best way to fix it is to almost completely rewrite it or something, maybe split it up into two separate specials so we don't have to introduce two whole waves worth of new characters in a single episode, that way everyone gets a fair amount of screentime.

EKHID is probably the best of the Post-M3 episodes IMO, it had the closest animation to the older episodes (using the Chad smooth and clean flash animation over the Virgin weirdly gritty sloppily "hand-drawn" animation), the story was decent, and they didn't try to cram in more than 9 new awesome characters to collect and build in one episode. Of course EKHID does indeed have it's flaws, the noticable absence of Tapsy, the fact that some of the background Mixels had a bigger role than characters with actual sets, and the fact that Camillot's dad really sucked at his job of being a good parent, but in comparison to the other two Post-M3 specials, EKHID's issues aren't nearly as bad.

NNGA. DEAR GOD, NNGA...

NNGA is like if you took the worst aspects of both Mixamajig and EKHID, turned those bad aspects up to 11, put them in a blender, removed the entire point of Mixels from the plot, and basically gave it such a boomer message of "phone = bad". NNGA is littered with animation errors (from what I've been told it apparently has more errors than Mixamajig), the protagonist of the episode not only acts completely out of character from how they've been previously established, but they also made the protagonist a LITERAL BACKGROUND CHARACTER. This background character, who I should probably mention is Booger from the previous episode EKHID, is also a complete Gary Stu, meanwhile a bunch of the characters with actual Lego sets have ironically been reduced to mere background characters, which is honestly just really depressing for long-time fans like myself. LOOK AT HOW THEY MASSACRED MY BOY, POSSIBLY EVEN LITERALLY SINCE SOME PEOPLE THEORIZED THIS STATUE IS A MEMORIAL ONE IMPLYING THAT NIKSPUT IS FUCKING DEAD!

Anyways getting back on track, another cardinal sin of NNGA is that it just, doesn't even feel like a Mixels episode. The characters barely Mix, they don't use the power of mixing to finally defeat the Nixels once and for all, instead we get fucking COORDINATED GROUP DANCING and Gay Laser Big Chungus Booger, a fucking lame and cringe way to kill off King Nixel if you ask me. Also can I just say that the whole premise of the I-Cubits is just such a boomer plot? Like apparently the I-Cubits are supposed to be an allegory/commentary on Apple products, so yeah the whole moral of the story is "Phone = Bad". Ok boomer.

In conclusion I agree with Anon, Mixels peaked with M3 and everything else was just downhill from there.

Chilbo is a traitor

But yeah it really is super easy to tell that they just gave up on Mixels Post-M3 and were just waiting for it to die so they could pretend that it never happened. Which is honestly just super depressing considering that the franchise was just oozing with potential only to be left to rot in favor of the oversaturated cash cow that is Teen Titans Go, quite a shame honestly...

I know the Lego descriptions and the show were so inconsistent wave 5 onwards, one character would be absolutely spot-on (Camillot, Mixadel, etc.) meanwhile another would be a completely different person than what the Lego description would suggest, Snoof being one of the biggest examples of this, but some other notable ones include Slusho (the Lego description says he's not good at flying due to the goop on his wings, but in Mixamajig and NNGA he seems to be able to fly without any issues.), Chilbo (the Lego description says that he apparently will talk for hours about smart people stuff presumably, yet in Mixamajig he says basically nothing at all.), and basically everyone in NNGA (NNGA was just an absolute train wreck of an episode so this isn't much of a surprise). Like HOW DID CARTOON NETWORK FUCK UP SNOOF THIS BADLY? Was there just barely any communication between the Lego team and the Show team or something? Did they just not give a shit? Did one of the writers just really REALLY want to make Snoof a complete and utter shithead for some reason? You're guess is as good as mine honestly.

I mean it really depends on if you want to hate TTG because it screwed over Mixels, like I'm pretty sure that TTG wasn't the only thing that led to CN screwing over Mixels, but it's very likely that it at least played some kind of role in it. Personally I dislike TTG because I just generally don't really like shows that go on for too long and just generally overstay their welcome (eg shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Spongebob, etc.) and because it probably screwed over Mixels.

Yeah who would’ve thought that all these tragedies that have played out after 2016 all potentially could’ve been prevented if CN didn’t cancel the show about the funny rainbow critters made of legos that can fuse, truly the executives made a poor choice, which honestly isn’t surprising since executives are infamous for making extremely dumb and nonsensical decisions, but still tragic nonetheless…

I honestly don't know man, everything post-M3 was just kinda wack. One minute they'd try cramming way too many new people into one episode and the next they'd dump some of the ones they were supposed to introduce in favor of worshipping a random background character for some bizarre reason. Mixamajig was basically the beginning of the end and I consider it to be the second worst special in the series.