40 Fun Facts About Mixels

Which colorless creatures are the sworn enemies of the Mixels, living only to tear them apart?

The Nixels answer to Major Nixel and his boss, King Nixel, and they hate color as much as they hate mixing.

Which object do Mixels use when they want to combine into a new creature?

A Cubit is an ore, and supplies on Planet Mixel are limited. The villains of the series make things worse by trying to steal them.

What do Mixels call a combination that goes wrong and produces an uncontrollable mash-up?

A Murp is the weird result of a botched Mix, often brought on by stress or surprise. In one short, a log-shaped one ends up being thrown around as game equipment.

What is the name for the powerful fusion formed when all three Mixels of one tribe combine?

A Max usually follows the tribe's leader, who takes control of its actions and voice. Lego's designers worked out this big figure alongside the three small models, so they could share parts.

Mixels was co-produced with the Lego Group, a toy maker based in which European country?

Denmark is home to the Lego Group, whose headquarters sit in the small town of Billund. The partnership with Cartoon Network makes Mixels both a Danish and an American series.

Flain and Vulk belong to which Mixels tribe, whose home lies near the planet's core?

The Infernites live in magma wastelands and relax in lava baths and showers. Flain, their leader, is known as the smart one, but his brain can catch fire if he thinks too hard.

Which voice actor, also the Ice King in Adventure Time, plays the fiery leader Flain in Mixels?

Tom Kenny voices more than a dozen Mixels, including Flain and Teslo. As those two lead different tribes, he sometimes ends up talking to himself.

The Mixels snack called a cookironi is a mash-up of a cookie and which other food?

Macaroni noodles pressed into a cookie shape make a cookironi, complete with chocolate chips. In the third short ever shown, nine Mixels fight over the last one.

Which big city, introduced in the second season of Mixels, became home to a wave of new tribes?

Mixopolis was planned and built by the Weldos tribe on the site of a huge battle. Its general hospital is where the dentist Tuth insists on checking every patient's teeth.

The special that opens season two of Mixels reveals alien tribes of the creatures living where?

On the moon live two alien tribes, one of them the nocturnal, cave-dwelling Glowkies. The story starts as a campfire tale about an alien abduction told on a camping trip.

In the very first Mixels short, two friends combine to reach which food hanging high in a tree?

Coconapple fruit is half coconut and half apple, one of many blended foods on Planet Mixel. Reaching it takes a rock Mixel and a fire Mixel, plus an accidental explosion.

Which annual Mixels celebration must the tribal leaders save from an invading army in one special?

Mixfest is the big yearly party of Mixel Land. The episode about saving it carries a boastful title, calling itself the biggest and most epic minisode ever.

Which mythical object do the Mixels set out to find in a 2015 special, unaware the quest is a trap?

The Mixamajig was a hoax, invented by the villains to gather every Mixel in one place. It was said to grant its owner's wildest mixing hopes and dreams.

Which Glorp Corp member is the unlikely hero of the Mixels finale, saving his city from a king?

Booger is a snarky troublemaker and a bit of a coward in scary situations. That makes him an unusual pick to save the day in the last episode of the whole series.

In the Mixels short Mailman, which speedy prankster with fiery jets is the postman everyone chases?

Zorch is the speediest member of his tribe, thanks to the jets on his backside. In the short, his late delivery of a ceramic Teddy Butterfly is what sets off the chase.

Krader and Shuff are hardworking miners in which Mixels tribe that lives in tunnels underground?

The Cragsters dug their own network of tunnels and caverns. Krader, as close to a leader as they have, owns a massive hand that folds into a demolition ball.

In one Mixels short, Krader digs too far during a contest and crashes into which tribe's kingdom?

The Electroids turn the intrusion into a dance party that blends electricity and rock. They normally live up in the mountains to stay close to the lightning storms that power them.

Which sport does Krader's tribe challenge Flain's tribe to play in a 2014 Mixels short?

Rockball is won by hitting every opposing player with a rock. When a ball flew through Flain's flame, it inspired a fiery spin-off game called Mixelball.

Teslo, Zaptor and Volectro combine during a lesson in one Mixels short to replace which item?

A light bulb shatters just as Teslo is teaching how many of his tribe it takes to change one. The answer turns out to be all three of them, fused into a single giant.

Mixels debuted in 2014 during new episodes of which Cartoon Network show, then under a year old?

Teen Titans Go! shared its slot with the first three Mixels shorts on February 12, 2014. Each ran for three minutes at most, squeezed in around the main show.

Which 2014 mobile game casts players as the Mixel leader Flain, searching for his lost friends?

Calling All Mixels blended action with tower defense as Flain set out to reunite the scattered tribes. Codes included in each toy's building instructions could be redeemed in the game.

Before Cartoon Network came on board, Lego was developing the Mixels toys under which working title?

Monsters was Lego's own idea for small brick-built creatures that could combine. Cartoon Network executives liked the concept and suggested the name that stuck.

The Mixel called Tuth is named after the way a Lego designer from which country says 'tooth'?

Wales is home to designer Gemma Anderson, whose team teased her for making 'tooth' sound like 'tuth'. They slipped the joke into Series 8 as the name of a dentist Mixel.

Which tiny Lego connector pieces, now common in mechs, are nicknamed after the Mixels sets that popularized them?

Mini ball joints let small brick-built models bend and pose, and fans still call them Mixel joints. Lego has added more versions of the part since the theme ended.

At which big annual event did the Mixels make their public debut before the toys reached shops?

San Diego Comic-Con gave fans a first glimpse of three models in 2013, months before the cartoon aired. Lego kept previewing the following year's Mixels there until 2015.

An abandoned Mixels design shaped like a chocolate bar later became a character in which film?

The Lego Movie 2 features a talking chocolate bar who lives in the Systar System. The design had been drawn up as a Mixel and then scrapped before reaching shops.

Mixels won a Best New Toy award in the pocket money category at which city's Toy Fair in 2014?

London hosts the Toy Fair where Mixels took the pocket money prize before the first sets had even gone on sale. Each one cost about five dollars, cheap enough to collect a whole tribe.

Which comedian, star of the Netflix series Lady Dynamite, voices the Spikel leader Scorpi in Mixels?

Maria Bamford gives Scorpi his insect-like squeaks. Lego calls him the cutest of his tribe, a fan of pillow fights and sleepovers who also carries a dangerous pointy tail.

Which voice of Fry in Futurama also plays the Mixels characters Lunk, Gobba and Balk?

Billy West plays one member from each of the three tribes in the second wave of toys. His Gobba is said to have a tongue so sensitive that it can taste feelings.

Unlike Lego's computer-generated Ninjago series, Mixels was first animated with which software?

Toon Boom Harmony set Mixels apart from Lego's other shows of the time, which used CGI. Later episodes switched to traditional animation at other studios.

Flurr is the only member who never seems sleepy in which Mixels tribe?

The Frosticons hail from the frozen shells of dead volcanoes and spend much of their time napping. Slumbo, the sleepiest, is said to need an earthquake to wake him.

Niksput, Rokit and Nurp-Naut make up which Mixels tribe, first sold in the fourth series of toys?

The Orbitons are kitted out for space travel but are a little clumsy. Their leader Niksput has the bravado of a leading man and, by Lego's own account, the brain of a banana.

Teslo, the tail-zapping lookout of his Mixels tribe, has a not-so-secret fear of what?

Heights are an awkward thing to fear for Teslo, whose tribe lives up in the mountains. His friends all know about it, but they have never let on.

Which Mixels tribe lives on a farm, planting anything it can to feed its enormous appetite?

The Fang Gang can go seriously crazy on an empty stomach. Its fiercely loyal leader Jawg will not hesitate to bite intruders with his huge teeth.

Which round leader of the Flexers claims to be the smartest Mixel in the world and loves a quiz?

Kraw may boast about his brain, but his real strength is bouncing like a rubber super ball to dodge or smash his enemies. His tribe lives in the remote Rubberlands.

Which trash-crunching Mixel has a gold tooth because his habit of biting anything once cost him one?

Chomly will try to crunch just about anything, and Lego's description warns of his very bad breath. The smell does at least come in handy for driving off enemies.

Magnifo and his two bumbling assistants make up which purple Mixels tribe of travelling performers?

The Wiztastics are a troupe of magicians, and Magnifo wears a wizard's hat and cape and carries two wands. His act is cheesy, but nobody dares tell him.

In the Mixels special Every Knight Has Its Day, Camillot and Mixadel enroll where to learn mixing?

A middle school in the big city is where the pair go to mix with what they call common Mixels. Prince Camillot has an axe for an arm, which makes making friends a little risky.

Steven Banks, co-writer of the last two Mixels specials, was head writer of which Nickelodeon show?

SpongeBob SquarePants took Banks on as head writer from its fourth season. He joined Mixels for its last two specials, including the series finale.

In one Mixels short, Zaptor and Vulk combine to fix which road hazard, wrecking everything nearby?

A pothole is all the pair set out to fix, yet their fused form destroys everything around it. Zaptor alone can already blast out enough light to give his friends sunburn.