Post by theyoshistate on Apr 17, 2019 21:59:01 GMT
Made some interesting discoveries regarding the possibly lost episodes: turns out, there may be more. After examining the production codes for Mixel Moon Madness (the season 2 premiere), there could be more lost episodes (or rather Mixel Moon Madness deleted scenes) than I thought.
These are the codes that have gone unused (all, of course, prefixed with "701-NNN"): 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 416, 418, 419, 420, 424, 426, 427, 428, 429
In addition to their possibility as Mixel Moon Madness deleted scenes, these could even be further unproduced Series 4 episodes.
Last Edit: Apr 17, 2019 22:04:05 GMT by theyoshistate
I think you misunderstood. There was no treatment for U.S. ACRES -- just some verbal discussion. There was no pilot. I just wrote the first episode, which was "Wade, You're Afraid." Nothing was produced apart from the episodes that aired on GARFIELD AND FRIENDS.
So no original treatment exists for the U.S. Acres episodes, and this was just discussion before it became a part of Garfield And Friends.
Looks like this all but means that this search has wrapped off, and that production on the standalone series can be declared "non-existence confirmed."
US Acres was a segment in the old Garfield & Friends animated series that was based on a comic strip of the same name by Garfield creator Jim Davis. As you'll read, it wasn't always intended to be this way.
I recently found this ancient forum thread where Garfield & Friends writer Mark Evanier mentioned the original idea for US Acres to get a standalone animated series.
From what we know, the standalone series was to be targeted towards a preschool audience and that it was being done to promote the comic strip. However, none of the networks would greenlight the series, as they more favored a Garfield show. As a result, the decision was made to shift the US Acres project to a segment within what would become Garfield & Friends, and songs from the original standalone series production were carried over. This meant that the US Acres segments suddenly gained an older target audience and the songs didn't fit too well into this new demographic, and after a season or two, they were dropped.
It is possible that there was additional ideas in the standalone series production, we just currently do not know exactly which, which is why I made this thread to hopefully help you guys into finding them.
Quite a bit of time has passed. I shared this and the accompanying LMW article on the Mixels Wiki and a Mixels group on Deviantart; and I have gotten some new info from the comments section of me sharing this on the Mixels Wiki.
First, from MW user "Biiskito":
I wouldn't doubt that there would some scrapped episodes considering how quick the shorts were, but then again, they WERE basically toy commercials to advertise the LEGO sets at the time. Although I guess the unused mixes from the CN website and most of the maxes from Series 7 and onward not even showing up in the show might have something to do with it. I would help out but pretty much everything about the franchise is well documented at this point.
Another interesting thing to note is Major Nixel having a knocked out illustration in CAM, perhaps this might've been used for a scrapped episode?
This is highly plausible.
And this from MW user "ToonBoomer":
I don't know if this is true, but if it is, this might be the biggest Mixels discovery in a long time.
I actually met Billy West once and asked him about Mixels, and he said that production on it was rushed, and the actors were basically put into a recording booth and told to read out the lines. Perhaps some episode were so sloppily rushed they were canned?
Probably not too much of a surprise, considering that 501-296-03D would've been right in the middle of the batch that introduced Series 2 in production order (Billy West made his Mixels debut in this batch).
And I have also gotten another hint to possible find more evidence from MW user "CMRdaawesomeguy": we should possibly reach out to some crew members (i.e. producers) of the show about the lost episodes, considering they might have answers, considering the show has long ended.
Using several images posted on the Mixels Wiki, here are recreations of what the title screens for these lost specials may have looked like, assuming they were made for released Mixels.
701-XXX-500:
701-XXX-800:
These may probably crack open some new leads.
And I'm broadening the focus of this search a bit because of new leads of mine. Then Mixels first came out, episodes were usually 30-second to 2-minute shorts that did not appear in any schedules and are in fact often still aired as filler on Boomerang to this date. These episodes used a different variation of the nine-digit production code, this variant used the standard format of 501-296-(number)(number)(letter). There were five batches (01X through 05X) and there were usually about five-to-six episodes produced in each batch.
The "first batch" was 01A-01E, the "second batch" was 02A-02F, the "second batch" (which introduced the characters released in the second wave of the toy line) was 03A-03C and 03E-03G, the "fourth batch" was 04A-04C and the "fifth batch" consisted only of 05A (used for all variations on the season 1 theme song) and 05J (used for Epic Comedy Adventure (the first part of the first special and season 1 finale, Mixed-Up Special)).
This leaves us with quite a few unused codes: 03D in the "third batch" and 05B through 05H (or 05I, though it probably wasn't intended to be used anyway) in the "fifth batch". Again, I'm asking you to see if any Mixels episodes were produced with the codes 03D and 05B through 05I. Again, foreign dub voice actors can be contacted as they may probably know this information more.
Last Edit: Mar 8, 2019 2:13:44 GMT by theyoshistate: Fresh new leads!
The main question that I have is if there were toys created for some mixels who never appeared in the show. If that is the case, then those mixels may have been for the unproduced/lost episodes. Just an idea though, I could be wrong
You do have a point there -- in order to create the cartoon models, Lego would physically design them first, then the artists would give them an animated style and all the works. By that logic -- this could mean that not only there are up to three lost specials, but also lost prototypes.
This does raise another question & answer, though -- this may just mean that Lego sets may have existed for the Background Mixels, which were used in Season 2 to give Mixel tribes more members than the three-to-six main members that did have released sets.
And on the inverse side, there indeed are two characters that did appear in intros of the show's last two specials, but were never seen on the show again afterwards -- Tapsy (who only appeared in the intro to Every Knight Has It's Day) and Lewt (who only appeared in Nixel Nixel Go Away).
But the reason why I won't go further into details about the potentially lost prototypes, only the lost specials, is because this is not the Lost Toys Wiki.
New theory: after some additional research, there may actually have been ten possible combinations of the production code. This resulted in a third unused code, which is 501-296-000. I'm not sure, however, if this code is actually a valid one, and if so, if it was used at all - if it was, it probably may have been used for a demoreel byVincenzo Zumpano, who was an animator for the cartoon in Season 1 and the first Season 2 special Mixel Moon Madness (after that one, the show began using different animation facilities).
Post by theyoshistate on Feb 25, 2019 22:45:01 GMT
March 7, 2019: Search broadened as the initial batches of short-form episodes turned out to also have unused codes, refer to the post of mine starting with "Using several images posted on..." for more information.
I'm looking for two potentially lost (and/or [un]produced) television specials for the cartoon/toy line named Mixels (which ran from 2014 to 2016 and which continues to have an active fanbase to this day) by way of a couple of production codes.
There was a nine-digit production code used for that show's half-hour specials, in the standard format of X01-XXX-X00. Of the nine possible combinations, six codes were used on specials that made it to TV broadcast (the first, generically titled "Movie", was only aired in India and Italy and released on a VCD [yes, that] in Poland, however; and the last two of which were barely promoted [in fact, neither were ever promoted at all in the United States], leading at least partially to the cartoon/toy line's hastened conclusion), a seventh code was used for cutscenes in a mobile game tie-in to the show called Calling All Mixels. This leaves the following two unused production codes: 701-XXX-500 and 701-XXX-800.
I'm asking you guys (primarily you in countries where a dub of the show was aired) to see if codes 701-XXX-500 and 701-XXX-800 were actually used by lost Mixels specials, to see if you could contact any voice actors for these dubs to find out if they know if these codes were used for anything at all.
I do have a couple of last notes: I can rule out usage on the show's other tie-in mobile app, Mixels Rush (as they did not use cutscenes, rather an intro and an outro in comic-book style); and that I found the first code from this source.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Last Edit: Mar 8, 2019 2:16:28 GMT by theyoshistate: Changed topic name to reflect broadened focus.
Found some new material related to the movie. First,.....this?
The article also says that "very little is known about it" as of now, "but more news will likely come in the future." Kenn Navarro, however, said on Twitter that he is aware of the movie but isn't involved.
Today, pashedmotatoes on the LMW Discord brought up this link to an article on this cancelled (supposed) feature film adaption of Happy Tree Friends, which would have most likely been during the show's popularity peak around the mid-late 2000's (around the time it had a brief American TV exposure through G4 and then MTV) begun production in 2015. But with no news on this movie since 2014, it has most likely been cancelled. The reason for it's cancellation I have no exact idea on, but to me, the concept of making an entire movie around a series of shorts where violence always gets inflicted on it's characters just somehow seems bizarre for some reason.
I've created this thread to hopefully help people find any material that may have been created at all for this cancelled movie, even if there is probably a slim chance of finding anything out of it since Mondo Media apparently has been caring less about HTF in this decade.
Last Edit: Jul 27, 2018 1:40:08 GMT by theyoshistate
There are articles that I want to make, but at the same time I do not feel like creating them. Additionally, even despite the growing Discord member list, it still is a bit more quiet compared to, for example, this time last year.
First off, this one person who sent a death threat to one of the crew of Me and My Friends which people then misinterpreted by spreading news that anyone currently at or formerly at Nickelodeon would no longer assist the LMW in any form.
But the icing would have to be that one person who claimed to have all sorts of fake media and was eventually banned for that. Among other things - he claimed to have played a fake 32X game, he claimed to have watched a fake cartoon produced by DiC based on Sonic the Hedgehog, he claimed to have a VHS recording of the very first television broadcast in the United States (VHS wasn't around then), he claimed to have a DVD of a fake Spongebob ripoff show - but most infamously, he claimed to have film reels containing two fake "banned racist" cartoon shorts!
Last Edit: Feb 21, 2018 1:35:41 GMT by theyoshistate