Sorry, I can't help you much with the SGU mini. I tried to get into the show, but I couldn't take it anymore after the first few episodes, something like 5-7. I didn't make it to the alien kidnapping part. I figure that maybe it will grow into something I can like later on, and I might go back to it in a few years if it stays on the air. SGA is overall my favorite, and I hated it the first time I saw it. Completely reviled McKay, couldn't watch the show for being annoyed at him. He's my favorite character now, so maybe someday I'll get into this show.

Kinos definitely seem to be representative of the show, and are unique to it. I don't know how inanimate objects work as minis, exactly. There are mini-helmets that walk around and talk, and the 1984 continua has mini-telescopes, although I don't know how those manifest.

I think I saw something labeled a "not so mini something" because it was based on something already small, so maybe if you do a mission in SGU and make it mini-kinos then they could be a not-so-mini-kino.

Have you picked a SGU target yet?

Generally, creating new mini types is reserved for the creator of the OFU in that continuum or the first person to find them in a mission. Either way, the idea is that people who are actually doing stuff in the continuum get to make the minis, like perk for actually writing something, since a lot of us (myself included) tend to fall behind on that score. {= )

Now that I think of it, I've been meaning to put a note about that on the mini page, and there should probably be links on the individual pages to the place that type was first encountered.

~Neshomeh