Mixels (TV series)

Mixels is the sole TV series for the Mixels franchise that premiered on February 12, 2014 in the United States, created by John Fang and David P. Smith. The final episode of the series aired on October 1, 2016.
It consisted of animated 1-2-minute shorts, 5-6-minute minisodes, and several half-hour specials revolving around the Mixels; small creatures that can mix and combine with one another in creative and unpredictable storylines.
Mixels was produced by Cartoon Network Studios and aired on Cartoon Network. The series is rated TV-Y7-FV.
==Plot==
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Mixels is centered around a world of colorful creatures who can mix and combine with each other leading to hilarious and surprising results. They are comical, mischievous creatures that live in tribes. Each tribe is based around something unique. The Nixels are annoying and destructive little creatures that wreak havoc over the Mixel Land, trying to tear down and break apart the tribes. They are led by King Nixel.
==Aspects==
There are a few major aspects that appear in nearly every, if not all, episodes of the show. They are listed below.
===Title Card===
A title card appears at the beginning of every episode of Mixels to date. There are both minor and major differences between all of them, but they always include some variant of the Mixels logo, and often combine that with the main scene of the episode.
===Action===
Each episode always includes at least one Mix or Murp of two different characters. Also included in a select few episodes are Maxes of three of a tribe. There is usually a situation that is fixed using these powers.
==Episodes==
Season	Season	Episodes 	Originally aired (U.S. dates)	Originally aired (U.S. dates)
Season	Season	Episodes 	Season premiere 	Season finale
 	1 	22 + 2 specials	February 12, 2014 	August 31, 2014
 	2 	4 	March 9, 2015 	October 1, 2016
==Voice Cast==
==International Dubs==
The Mixels series has been translated and dubbed into many different languages for other countries across the world. Some countries only have the show without the LEGO theme being available. All known dubs and languages that Mixels has been translated into are listed below.
Language 	Title 	Channel 	Logo	
LEGO theme?
Arabic 	الميكسلز 	Cartoon Network Arabic 	 	No
Bulgarian 	Микселите 	Cartoon Network (Bulgaria) 	 	No
Cantonese 	Mixels 	HBO Go 	 	No
Danish 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network (Denmark) 	 	Yes
Dutch 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network (Netherlands) 	 	No
French 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network (France), Gulli 	 	Yes
German 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network (Germany) 	 	Yes
Hebrew 	מיקסל 	Arutz HaYeladim 	 	No
Hindi 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network India 	 	No
Hungarian 	Mixelek 	Cartoon Network (Hungary) 	 	Yes
Indonesian 	Mixels 	HBO Go 	 	Yes
Italian 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network (Italy), Boing (Italy) 	 	Yes
Japanese 	ミクセル 	Cartoon Network (Japan) 	 	Yes
Korean 	믹셀 	Cartoon Network (South Korea) 	 	Yes
Malay 	Mixels 	HBO Go 	 	Unknown
Taiwanese Mandarin 	合體小精靈 	Cartoon Network (Taiwan & Hong Kong), HBO Go 	 	No
Norwegian 	Mixeler 	Cartoon Network (Norway) 	 	Yes
Polish 	Mixele 	Cartoon Network (Poland) 	 	Yes
Portuguese (Brazil) 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network (Brazil) 	 	Yes
Portuguese (Portugal) 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network (Portugal) 	 	Yes
Romanian 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network (Romania) 	 	No
Russian 	Миксели 	Cartoon Network (Russia) 	 	Yes
Spanish (Latin America)	Mixels 	Cartoon Network (Latin America), Boomerang (Latin America)	 	Yes
Spanish (Spain) 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network (Spain), Boing (Spain) 	 	Yes
Swedish 	Mixlar 	Cartoon Network (Sweden) 	 	Yes
Tamil* 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network India 	 	No
Telugu* 	Mixels 	Cartoon Network India 	 	No
Thai 	มิกเซลส์ 	Cartoon Network (Thailand), HBO Go 	 	Yes
Turkish 	Mixeller 	Cartoon Network (Turkey) 	 	No
* denotes that the dub does not have a page due to a lack of any information, other than its title and existence.
==Production==
Mixels' first season began production at Cartoon Network Studios and Atomic Cartoons in June 2013, with the twenty shorts featuring Series 1 and 2 characters as well as Epic Comedy Adventure going into post-production in August and wrapping in October. This batch of production also included the cutscenes produced for Calling All Mixels' first and second versions. Series 3 content - encompassing Murp Romp as well as cutscenes for Calling All Mixels' final update - were produced from March 2014 until June. 
Production of the second season began immediately following the completion of the first, with work on Mixel Moon Madness lasting from June 2014 until February 2015. The aforementioned special would be the last involving Atomic Cartoons, as Digital eMation, Inc (A Quest for the Lost Mixamajig), Big Star Entertainment (Every Knight Has Its Day), and Saerom Animation (Nixel Nixel Go Away) would provide animation for the remainder of the season. Production of the series concluded with the completion of Nixel Nixel Go Away in July 2016. Jordan Reichek LinkedIn
There is a possibility that episodes - or segments of existing ones - were scrapped and unaired during production. Unused music by Kevin Manthei suggests the existence of a potentially unaired episode. A sequence of storyboards titled "Travel Guide" were created by Michael Diederich, featuring various concepts that would later be reused in Nixel Nixel Go Away.
==Awards and Nominations==
The show was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2014 for Children's Interactive Original.BAFTA 2014 Children's Interactive Original (Archive)
==Trivia==
*Either the first episode or a promotional advertisement (depending on the theater) appeared before or after trailers, before The LEGO Movie in theaters on February 7, 2014.
*This is the first LEGO TV series to not be animated with CGI animation (Ninjago and Legends of Chima). Instead, this show was produced by Cartoon Network Studios with 2D animation, originally animated by Atomic Cartoons in ToonBoom Harmony and later in several different animation styles by other companies.
*Mixels took on a half-hour format beginning with Mixed Up Special, which is compiled of several shorts and the series' two minisodes. However, beginning in Season 2, the series would shift to producing specials with full-length story lines.
*European broadcasts of the show are played at a higher speed due to being converted to the PAL format, playing at 25 FPS; to account for this, the shorts' prints are adjusted by adding the Cartoon Network Studios and Cartoon Network logos at the end to even out the runtime.
**European prints also add the episode titles to all of the shorts' title cards. In some languages (including French and Arabic), these title cards are visually translated; in other dubs, they are displayed in English and voiced over in their respective languages.
*The series' variant of the Cartoon Network Studios ending logo features Vulk heading a DJ turntable and shouting "Remix!". In the United States, it is only featured in half-hour specials; however, it is present in the European prints for longer shorts.
**Episodes with a shorter runtime broadcast in Europe instead briefly display the still logo.
**Some dubs, such as Arabic, Polish, and Italian, dub Vulk's line during the logo; most others leave it in English or without any voice at all.
*Most dubs do not make any visual localization, with most simply voicing over when there is text on screen or subtitling it in their language. However, the French dub is known to have edited most instances of on-screen text to read in French.
**The Korean dub of the series is the only one which replaces the logo on title cards; additionally, as mentioned earlier, select European dubs translate the shorts' title cards.
*In the United States, in addition to airing on Cartoon Network, the shorts have aired on sister network Boomerang.
*The first few shorts, when uploaded to Cartoon Network's YouTube, included a different version of the Mixels logo which had a yellow-to-orange gradient rather than a solid yellow and took up most of the screen. This version of the logo also appeared on the Series 1-2 prototype bags, meaning it was likely the original logo for the franchise. Despite this, the various Mix splashes use the old gradient text, regardless of the logo.
*The now-delisted mobile app Cartoon Network Anything featured various Mixels content, such as clips and various micro-games involving character artwork and more. "Cartoon Network Anything" YouTube"Cartoon Network Anything" YouTube"let's play Cartoon Network anything part 1" YouTube
* On May 12, 2017, the Cartoon Network series Uncle Grandpa referenced Mixels in the episode "Transitional Phase", with a poster of a generic Mixel under a modified logo.
* According to Google Trends, the franchise itself was big in Eastern Europe and parts of Latin America.Google Trends
==Gallery==
==Sources and References==
==External links==
*Official website (Archive)
*Mixels at the Internet Movie Database (Archive)
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