The Amiibo Thread

[mini*wheat]

Went to Best Buy yesterday and saw about four of these guys sitting around! Stoked because he's been super hard to find!

[Soike]

Waiting for wave 4 

[pikapikapika]

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/no-the-gold-mario-amiibo-is-not-delayed/1100-6425865/

If this is to be believed, it's pretty bad news if you want a Gold Mario, outside of the USA as it seems to be a region exclusive? No official word on that yet though, plus other USA exclusives were just semi-rare or ultra-rare in Europe and all the retailers had them, but it's not impossible. Also Europe/Australia getting Silver Mario might be unlikely too as it had the USA certification for that too in the last leak also, very odd.

Not that it's great news for Gold Mario inside the USA either as it's Wal-Mart only and each store seems to only have 5 or 6 each on the launch day, if you couldn't get an online preorder (which I heard was really difficult)
First 5 people to line up outside the store I guess? D:

Personally I really hope it's not true as I'm pretty close to having a full set, but if I really can't get them all then I don't really want to have to start buying from ebay

[mini*wheat]

What also sucks is that since Wal-Mart is 24 hours (for the most part), you either have to be there at Midnight or they'll be like "Oh, we're not releasing it until 7AM" depending on the store. And last time I went to my Wal-Mart they had the SMALLEST space for Amiibo, haha. I'm still going to give a call to the few around and see if I can get any info closer to the day 

[pikapikapika]

The first time I saw Kirby in a store was the day after I got one online

[mini*wheat]

Haha, I see TONS of Kirbys EVERYWHERE in stores here! Same with Sheik actually. All ya'll missing any rare but not impossible (i.e. Little Mac/Villager/etc.) ones? It seems different areas have different stock. I can always take a look!

[pikapikapika]

For me it's Mario, Luigi, Donkey & Diddy, then the crazy ones 
But those are pretty easy to get! thanks tho!

[pikapikapika]

ONE OF US. ONE OF US. 

[pikapikapika]

http://www.geekscape.net/the-gold-mario-amiibo-is-coming-to-canada-on-april-10th

Only Wal-Mart exclusive in the USA! there's hope for us all

Nice! Masa, Luigi lost his moustache

[pikapikapika]

I just got 58 extra lives with scanning in my Amiibos in Captain Toad Treasure Tracker XDD
What's even worse is you can scan each one twice, and sometimes you get two lives instead of one, oh and the super mario line counts as different figures too so

[Soike]

New ganon amiibo is yucky, wish they'd use his old OoT model. 

[mini*wheat]

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of that design BUUUUT that being said, I will get it anyway because I want all of the Zelda amiibo.

ALSO SUPER STOKED ABOUT YARN AMIIBO, YA'LL.

[pikapikapika]

I already replied about this but the forum ate my reply?! 

Anyway, big thanks to coachie for getting me some amiibo I couldn't get here!!! thanks so much  !!!!!



Plus some German snacks (which were aweeeesome) 









I managed to get pre-orders for Splatoon Amiibo and some of the upcoming ones, I think the Yarn & Dr.Mario count as being a wave on their own? maybe? they add up 5 idk I haven't managed to preorder those yet, it's only been the more recent ones that stores have, no Amazon yet, or Nintendo store.

However! I have the odd idea that there's an element of supply & demand going on with these new ones, as the pre orders have been coming back into stock like crazy for just these 2 stores, I know the situation is still bad in America with retailer exclusives, but I have some hope!

Another reason might be more places here doing one per customer and not allowing overseas preorders, so stock doesn't get eaten so fast... we'll see!!

.....plastic toys are serious business