Pretty minor, but I recently had this happen to me a few times on two different MET pro machines running the most recent code and was wondering if someone that owns one and could test it more reliably could confirm. Mostly just curious about how the scoop interacts with other timed features in the game and whether or not cancelling the animation can be detrimental.
It appears that if you cancel the mystery award animation with a double-flip, it seems to A) end the start-of-ball ball saver early and B) abort the electric chair multiball starting animation (even though I don't think the mystery animation actually popped up). I'm not sure if there are other times this comes into play. I was kind of annoyed when my freebie magnet-didn't-grab-the-ball guitar pick shooting time disappeared.