Raving Toy Maniac

(Updated on September 20th after we bought two more bags and filled in the last three codes.)

September 2012 - Our local Toys'R'Us restocked their K'NEX Angry Birds section, and the boy had stars in his eyes when he saw the $190 worth of new sets. Sadly for him, he has cheap parents, so despite the "buy one, get one 40% off" sale, we quickly zoned in on the $3.99 blind bag figures instead of the larger sets. The K'NEX web site shows that the blind bags ("Mystery Figures") are exclusive to Toys'R'Us.

We had really good luck using the cheat codes for the Mario Kart K'NEX blind bag figures, so we were happy to see a similar code on the back of the Angry Birds bags.

After spending some time looking over the codes on the back of the bags, we bought 16 of the blind bag figures. We ended up with 13 different figures and only three duplicates. Sometimes the codes were different but the figure was a duplicate, and a few times the code was the same but the figures were different. In one of the duplicate code instances, I had chosen two that had the same code because the lumps felt different, and did end up with two different birds. The others were lucky mistakes.

(Update after the initial post... seeing the codes larger than life in these pictures, something new has popped out at me: sometimes there is one underscore line and sometimes there are two. Although I've re-ordered the list on this page to group codes or characters together, I kept my bags in order, and wrote the codes down as I opened them, so hopefully there aren't any errors in the list. But now that I see the difference in the underscores, the codes make a bit more sense. I've added in the "one line" or "two lines" to the list.)

The character names below may be a bit off from their official names, but these are what the boy calls them, so these are the names that are stuck in my head.

The numbers in parenthesis are underlined on the bag.

0(5)12198 - Space Red Bird & space white egg (two lines)

(0)512198 - regular Red Bird & white egg (one line)

(0)512198 - Space Lazer Bird & Space white egg (same number code as the regular Red Bird) (two lines)

*0512198 (no underline, but a star in front of the numbers) - Frozen Wee Minion Pig & space golden egg

051(2)198 - Space Ice Bird & Space white Egg (two lines)

051(2)198 - regular Blue Bird & ham (same number code as the Ice Bird) (one line)

051(2)178 - regular Blue Bird & ham (different code from the other Blue Bird) (one line)

05(1)2198 - Space Blue Bird & yellow crystal (two lines)

05(1)2198 - regular Yellow Bird & golden egg (same number code as the Space Blue Bird) (one line)

05121(7)8 - regular Wee Minion Pig & white egg (two lines)

05121(9)8 - regular Wee Minion Pig & white egg (different code, but same character) (two lines)

051219(8) - regular Helmet Pig & white egg (two lines)

051217(0) - Space Black Bird & purple crystal (one line)

051217(8) - Space Black Bird & purple crystal (different code, but same character) (one line)

0512(1)98 - regular Big Minion Pig & white egg (two lines)

05121(7)0 - regular White Bird & white egg (one line)

0512198 (no underline, no star in front of the numbers) - frozen Helmet Pig & Space white egg

0512(1)98 - Orange Bird & rubber ducky (one line)

After squinting at all of my bags again and updating this page, I see that it is not WHAT the number is that is important, so much as which position (first, last, second to last, etc) is underlined and how many times it is underlined.

So let's try the list again, stripped down. There are seven characters in the number code in the box above the UPC.

- No underlines, but a star = Frozen Wee Minion Pig & space golden egg
- No underlines, and no star = frozen Helmet pig & Space white egg

- 1st character underlined once = regular Red Bird & white egg
- 1st character underlined twice = Space Lazer Bird & Space white egg

- 2nd character underlined once = regular Black Bird & ham
- 2nd character underlined twice = Space Red Bird & space white egg

- 3rd character underlined once = regular Yellow Bird & golden egg
- 3rd character underlined twice = Space Blue Bird & yellow crystal

- 4th character underlined once = regular Blue Bird & ham
- 4th character underlined twice = Space Ice Bird & Space white Egg

- 5th character underlined once = Orange Bird & rubber ducky
- 5th character underlined twice = regular Big Minion Pig & white egg

- 6th character underlined once = regular White Bird & white egg
- 6th character underlined twice = regular Wee Minion Pig & white egg

- 7th character underlined once = Space Black Bird & purple crystal
- 7th character underlined twice = regular Helmet Pig & white egg