Trivia / Mixels

• Acting for Two: Almost all of the show's voice actors each played more than one character.
• Actor Allusion:
  • Tom Kenny playing Teslo isn't the first time he's played a short and cycloptic character with a lightning motif.
  • Him as Seismo also isn't the first time he's played a large Minotaur-like creature with a heart of gold.
  • Finally, Tom Kenny as Flain isn't the first time he's been a chill fire-based creature with an inexplicable accent for his environment.
• All-Star Cast: Almost every major character is voiced by a notable voice actor.
• The Cast Showoff: The song "Go Go Mighty Nindjas" from the episode "Nixel, Nixel, Go Away" was a good excuse to show off Jess Harnell's singing.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Many descriptions from episodes, even ones coming from Cartoon Network themselves, will horribly botch the names of the characters featured, such as calling them names of characters that don't even appear in the episode, using wrong tribes, or calling them by preliminary names.
• Children Voicing Children: Nurp (the infant half of Nurp-Naut) was voiced by very young child actor Justin Grollman, who, in supplemental work for a live-action short he was in around the same time "Mixel Moon Madness" was released, was revealed to only just be going into kindergarten at the time.
• Creator's Favorite:
  • Andrew Seenan, the lead toy designer of the line, cites Chomly as his favorite Mixel, out of the heavy expressions and emotions he gives off.
  • Gemma Anderson, another design lead, has the Weldos as her favorites, thanks to how varied in personality they are, along with their fun pieces and designs.
• Crossdressing Voices:
  • The female Cree Summer as the male Jamzy.
  • As well, the female Maddie Taylor voices Glomp and Hoogi (she transitioned from male to female after their voice roles).
  • In "Nixel, Nixel, Go Away", the Frosticon Mother is voiced by Leonard Garner.
• Dawson Casting: Averted with Nurp, who is voiced by Justin Grollman, who is obviously a young child getting his lines fed to him. However, the middle school students are all voice by adults.
• Descended Creator: David P. Smith, one of the creators of the show, is the voice of Krader, Volectro, and Zorch.
• Fake American: British-Canadian actor Phil Hayes voices Rokit with a Southern drawl.
  • Fake Dixie: Snoof also speaks with a Southern accent, but his voice actor, Daran Norris, is actually from the Pacific Northwest.
• Fake Brit: Gox (voiced by Chris Cox), Camillot and Jinky (both voiced by Jeff Bennett), Mixadel (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz), and the King (voiced by Dave Fennoy), are all British-accented characters (though Jinky is Liverpudlian-accented) voiced by American voice actors.
• Fake Nationality:
  • The Austrian-accented Zaptor and the German-accented Vaka are both voiced by Jess Harnell (who is American).
  • Boogly also speaks with an Austrian accent, but his voice actor, Dave Fennoy, is African-American.
  • American actor Tom Kenny (who is white) voices the Japanese-accented Mysto.
• Fake Russian: Krog and Surgeo both speak with Russian accents, but their respective voice actors, Dave Fennoy and Jess Harnell, are both American.
• God Never Said That: Mixels are never said to all have No Biological Sex, much less be non-binary (which means genderless by choice). The staff member who allegedly "confirmed" this admitted that it was merely his own personal headcanon, and that he was a lower-rung employee who had no say in what was official.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Mixels was removed entirely from the schedule as soon as the final episode aired, as if it never existed. The final two episodes were only aired once.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Rodger Bumpass replaced Fred Tatasciore for Major Nixel in "Mixel Moon Madness". Peter Jason ended up replacing Rodger in "A Quest for the Lost Mixamajig" and onwards.
  • King Nixel was originally voiced by Phil Hayes in "Mixel Moon Madness", and was also replaced in "A Quest for a Lost Mixamajig", this time by Steve Blum.
  • Kuffs is another that was voiced by Phil Hayes (in "Every Knight Has Its Day"), but was replaced as well by Steve Blum in "Nixel, Nixel, Go Away.
• Out of Order: Many of the shorts were aired differently than their production order, leading to characters being cameoed before their true introductions, one of the most glaring being for the Electroids, as "Changing a Light Bulb" was meant to be the second episode of the series, but ended up the tenth aired.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Fred Tatasciore voices the tiny and high-pitched Nixels, a very far cry from his standard Big Guy roles.
  • Tom Kenny as Mysto, a much more serious and calmer-voiced role compared to other characters he plays.
• Referenced by...: The Uncle Grandpa episode "Transitional Phase" features a poster of Mixels, albeit using a generic golden Zorch-like character instead of an existing character.
• The Resolution Will Not Be Identified: The final two episodes of the series, "Every Knight Has Its Day" and "Nixel, Nixel Go Away", were aired without advertising. The only information that they even were airing came from clips uploaded onto the Cartoon Network website and schedule checking.
• Short-Lived, Big Impact: The franchise only lasted for three years as a LEGO theme. Despite this, it popularized the usage of balljoint pieces, streamlining them into the brand and improving them compared to their prior iterations.
• Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy: The toys were designed first, and as such, the show designs are more streamlined and vivid compared to the toys, albeit still easy to find similarities. In fact, a static image of the character drawn in the style of the cartoon is shown on every package, along with their completed Lego build for comparison. Also, the Mixes and Murps for the toys and show are often very different from each other, since the point of the toys are to create your own combinations. Official instructions for the Max Mixels are published, though. The character designers for the cartoon even use the toys to design the animated designs!
• Screwed by the Network: Was treated horribly after the first season ended, with there only being four premieres.
• Short Run in Peru: The show first premiered in the Netherlands a few days before the shorts went online in the United States.
• Sleeper Hit: Mixels got bashed a lot before their release, with the detractors disliking their designs and the shorts. Then, once released, it turned out they were cheap in piece-to-price ratio, contained the newer balljoint mechanisms, and had hard-to-find pieces in hard-to-find colors and they blew up, to the point that people that originally bought them for MOC kitbashes have admitted to making the Mixel instead and finding them charming.
• Spoiled by the Merchandise: King Nixel's debut was spoiled by the 2015 Toy Fairs, which were in January and February, while his cliffhanger cameo in the show was in March 2015.
• Uncredited Role: Until the Mixed Up Special, which gave the credit list in the end, there were no credits due to the short nature of the series, and the only confirmed character voices came from outside sources. That being said, Kraw and Scorpi's voice actors have never been credited.
• Unisex Series, Gendered Merchandise: While Mixels has a heavy male cast, the show and main LEGO sets were always meant for a broad audience. Merchandise that wasn't LEGO-related was always shifted to the male demographic, with all clothing, costumes, and birthday cards being for boys.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Before Cartoon Network came along, Mixels was "Monsters". Sets of five in a tribe, but overly simple designs.
  • According to some preliminary packages, Shuff and Seismo's names would have been swapped with each other, Shuff would have had a looser crystal on his head that looked like hair, Vulk's ears would have been red instead of black. Also, the Nixels would have come in various shapes, and not all just be squares.
  • Balk was originally shorter and squatter with thinner tentacles and smaller pupils.
  • Kraw was originally named "Bouncer", Gobba was "Chippo" and Tentro was "Flexi" . Some sources still slip up on Tentro and call him Flexi, though...including an issue of the LEGO magazine.
  • Various tribe ideas were tested before the current ones were chosen. The character Chocolate Bar from The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part came from concept model of a scrapped Mixels tribe.
• Working Title: Mixels was originally called "Monsters" before Cartoon Network came into the deal.