Daniel Paradise Missions

The Special Mission is a game mode existing in the mobile video game Despicable Me: Minion Rush.

Description
In early versions of Minion Rush, there was a kind of limited-time event that asked the player to collect items for prizes, and the method to complete such events is similar to that of Subway Surfers.

In the update 2.5.0 at December 8th, 2015, Gameloft introduced a new location, The Arctic Base, and a brand new special mission called Holiday Quest.

From then on, a series of similar missions start in each following updates, and the common feature of them are: Since the Piggy Power mission:
 * It's put before level 1 of Jelly Lab (but it doesn't mean the mission need to be done before entering Jelly Lab; in fact, the player need to gain enough Despicable Multiplier to participate missions).
 * There are 3 stages and 16 parts of a mission.
 * There's a minion costume for one of the prizes for completing the mission (it'll be replaced by Tokens if the player has purchased the costume before).
 * One can run the a mission for three times, known as the Lap.

Strategy
The items appear relatively frequently in the early stages, but less frequently in the later stages. The special items for the mini-games are awarded daily and as prizes for intermediate stages, or they can be purchased with tokens. The optimal approach is to save all the items for the last stage, and to use them with a costume that extends the mini-game time such as the Lucy Minion Costume or Vampire Minion Costume. When not using a mini-game special item, it's better to use a costume that does not extend power-up time, because currently it extends the mini-game time without increasing the number of items given.

Given the choice of a mini-game or an item just beyond it, it's usually quicker just to grab the item rather than take the time in the mini-game to get the item.

Once all of the items needed for a particular part of a stage have been collected, no additional items will appear, so it's best to use the special items when there are still plenty of items left to be collected.

History
These are the missions that have/had been held so far.