User blog:Tripledent Gum/The Mixels Dilemma

Hey, Galadhanu here.

I've heard a surprising amount of complaints regarding the lack of Mixels airing on Cartoon Network.

I have your answer.

Put simply, there isn't any reason to air it. I mean, we don't have new content to show off and get people excited about the series, so what should we do? Rerun old shorts?

We have 21 1-2 minute short films we can air after television shows and in between breaks, but how would we split them apart? Once a week?

If we did that, it would hardly be worth it.

Twice? Come on, it's an entire week we're talking about with hundreds of slots we can put it in,  it wouldn't be very helpful, when we can just place a commercial in it's slot.

Let's jump to five. Let's say we air it during reruns of Teen Titans GO! or something. We only have 20 of these, so we'd be looping around. A lot, potentially repelling new viewers. It'd hardly be worth it considering it doesn't particularly raise interest. Rule one: don't try to excite people by giving them what they have.

Cartoon Network acknowledges the show, and the people behind it are working very hard on it, but airing old 1 to 2 minute shorts that won't be adding anything to the table probably won't get people interested in the new product, and you'll just be sighing over what you already have.

That's why Boomerang is your best bet. And, without new product, why advertise the old?

-Galad