I was at TRU today and happened to spot the Series 2 Funko Minis. Combined with the buy one get one 40% off sale I knew that was about the same price as getting a box from ToyWiz so I figured what the heck. Like with Series 1 http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,341400.msg1038834.html#msg1038834 I went ahead and weighed them all before and after opening so if anyone is inclined to try and hunt for figures, they can take a scale in and give it a shot. Like last time, these are just my results and will not guarantee that you'll get what you want and these are for the TRU ones, so there aren't any of the chase figures like there are in the Hot Topic versions.

From heaviest to lightest (including bag, box, and outside wrap):

Daring Do: 72.1g
Big Mac (x2): 69.9g (average of 70.1g and 69.7g)
Twilight Sparkle (color): 68.3g
Twilight Sparkle (black): 67.7g
Applejack: 63.4g
Trixie (color): 63.3g
Trixie (black): 63.0g
Rarity: 58.7g
Discord (black) x2: 55.3g (average of 55.4g and 55.2g)
Discord (color): 55.1g

There's actually a fairly nice divide with the weights, especially since the most desirable characters (Discord, Daring Do, and Big Mac) have very distinct weights. I was surprised since I was actually expecting Discord to be the heaviest of them all, not the lightest.

The weight of the boxes, bags, and outside wraps by themselves was a low of 22.2g, a high of 23.4g, so you're looking at about a 1.2g possible variance outside of the figures. That's good since that narrows down the odds if you're weighing. It should mean you can pick out Discord, Rarity, and Daring Do with no problem.

One odd thing I noticed was that the color versions of Twilight Sparkle and Trixie both weighed a half of a gram more than their black counterparts (no variance in Discord). Unfortunately that's too small to actually help anyone.

Well, I didn't go after the Hot Topic exclusive chase figures (show accurate colors) in the series 1 set. I pre-ordered a box from Toywiz because they claimed a full box would have a full set (and it did, 2 GitD ones plus 10 black ones). And now that the second series has even worse odds than the first series, I REALLY have no interest in getting any of the chase figures.

But on the plus side, Toywiz DOES have the second series listed as being a full set, implying that it'll work like the first set.

However on the downside they only have 10 figures listed as being in the full set (7 black ones, regular colored Trixie, Twilight, and Discord,) but 12 boxes in the set. So that could mean a couple of things, a box is actually just 10 ponies, there are two duplicates in the set, or they have no idea what is actually going to be in there and are just speculating.

Whether or not I end up getting this series is going to depend on the predictability of the Toywiz set.

Link for what I'm referring to:

http://www.toywiz.com/funkoponyseries2mysterybox.html

Are there not codes so that you can find specific ones?

If you want to put some effort into it you can get a better idea of which ponies you want (but no guarantees as to which ones you might get) here's a post I made when I got my full box from Toywiz. It's not the Hot Topic box, so I don't know if the show accurate ones are any different.

DISCLAIMER: I can't guarantee the information in this post is going to be consistent across all of the Mystery Minis, this is just my experience with them and I thought I'd share in case someone else wanted to do the same thing and potentially corroborate the information.

I got my box of Mystery Minis from Toywiz yesterday and opened them today. On a hunch I decided to weigh them in the box beforehand, note the weight, and match the identities after opening the boxes.

From heaviest to lightest:

Fluttershy: 77.5g
Pinkie Pie: 75g
Spitfire: 71.9g
DJ Pon-3: 67.8g
Muffin: 66.2g
DJ Pon-3 GitD: 64.8g
Lyra Heartstrings: 64g
Muffin GitD: 63g
Rainbow Dash: 62.5g
Octavia: 61.8g
Sweetie Drops: 61.5g
Dr. Whooves: 56g

As you can see, there's a lot of similar weights in the middle, but if you're looking for Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Spitfire, or Dr. Whooves, there's a significant enough difference that if you're so inclined, if you happen to have a scale, you have a pretty good chance of identifying them, or at least narrowing them down.

I actually expected the GitD ones to be slightly heavier, but they turned out to be the exact opposite. (Of course I don't know if the GitD sets have started showing up in stores anywhere yet, so we're probably stuck on the Hot Topic exclusive ones still.)

(And here's the order they were in the box, though I suspect this will mean very little)

Top row, back left to right: Pinkie Pie, Octavia

Top row, middle left to right: Sweetie Drops, Lyra Heartstrings

Top row, front left to right: Muffin GitD, DJ Pon-3 GitD

Bottom row, back left to right: Fluttershy, Muffin

Bottom row, middle left to right: Dr. Whooves, Rainbow Dash

Bottom row, front left to right: DJ Pon-3, Spitfire

edit: Just for a little bit more information, it looks like there's a slight variance in how much the boxes weighed, but only by about a gram. Comparing the weights of the individual figures outside of the box compared to in the box, the difference was usually between 22g and 23g. So even if you have an accurate scale, it looks like the best you can do for a few is to just narrow your chances. (For example, between Rainbow Dash, Lyra, and the two GitD ones.)

So happy that I finished up my set today. Wasn't any problem at all. The first day I went out one of the employees I talked to was really helpful, telling me that they get in trucks every Tuesday and Friday and that I should wait until the afternoon to see what they got in.

It was just a matter of pulling up a list of all of the McDonalds in my area and calling each one during a down time asking what number toys they had in (on a Tuesday or Friday afternoon). I got them in pairs (1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8) so it was just 4 trips, though it was to 3 different McDonalds, but they were all relatively close.

Is anyone else disappointed that they only came with stickers and aren't actually TAF rainbowfied? I was really surprised when I picked up Pinky pie and twilight sparkle that they only had stickers.

Yeah, I was very disappointed by that. I'm probably not going to put the stickers on them just because you know at some point they're going to fall off, even if they're just sitting on a shelf looking pretty.

Does anyone have an idea of how early they might be available on Friday? For example, if you go in at midnight on Friday will they be available, or do you have to wait for the lunch menu to cycle around for the next day?

Waiting for the Royal Surprise, Soaring Pegasus, Ponyville Newsmakers, and Daring Pony mini-sets is really starting to get to me. I know they're not widespread yet because they're still massively expensive on Amazon, but I really would have expected them out in full force by now since it's been almost 5 months since they were first discovered.