#nnga

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I wish that was really a episode. It has lots of world building that we never got.

The Trashos deserved to have their time in the limelight, dammit! That would've been insane to see.

I'm more surprised that it's not considered canon by more people.

NNGA without question I did an entire rant some time ago about why I hate it, but long story short I hate it because the animation sucks, the plot is lazy and dumb, and the way they defeat King Nixel at the end goes entirely against the whole fucking premise of Mixels.

Absolutely Anon. Honestly the whole CoOrDiNaTeD gRoUp DaNcInG thing was such a cheap and shitty way to defeat King Nixel, that dude deserved something way cooler honestly, though NNGA is just the worst episode in general so really this shouldn’t be too surprising. If it makes you feel any better, you can always just disregard that episode as a non-canon fever dream, that’s what I do and it works for me! Though if we ever get a continuation of Mixels I’d really appreciate it if NNGA gets retconned.

It would probably look something like this

Yeah WTF is with this statue honestly?

Why Niksput of all Mixels? (Besides the fact that he's the best one)

What exactly did Niksput do to warrant a statue of himself being made?

Why does the statue look like THIS?

CN better start explaining themselves...

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.