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Originally Posted by KnightOfTruth
Technically the community at large is referring to those not as the "5th Wave" but as the "SMB Wave". The "Ness" set is called "Wave 4".
Speaking of "waves", but looks like some South African site has JigglyPuff, Greninja, and 2 Splatoon amiibo available for pre-order... weird. So maybe those 2 pokemon would be "Wave 5", but then the Splatoon amiibo just throw everything for a loop haha. |
I don't know what the communities refer to them, but I personally refer to them as Smash Bros wave 5 because they belong to the 5th set of figurines released in Europe. The set number three(known as wave 3) as announced by Nintendo included 11 characters, but they were released on separate dates with a few weeks of difference. First came Toon Link, Lucario, Rosalina, Bowser, Ike and Sheik. Then came Shulk, Megaman, Sonic, Kind Dedede and Metaknight. To me, those are waves 3 and 4 of the smash bros series, according to the market release dates in Europe. Ness and company are the 5th SSB set being released over here and I find it confusing calling that 4th wave.
Anyway, Toad from the first super mario set seems to be already sold out in most places. Their availability over here in Portugal is a mystery because most amiibo are usually unavailable for preorder, stores don't even know what they will get until they finally arrive at their warehouses. And even when the amiibo do arrive, they don't really respect release dates because they still have too many 1st wave figurines on the shelves. They don't care if the figurines are different, they don't care about waves or release dates for these, so they will probably put them for sale at any random time. The 3rd wave of figurines was available several days before the release date and I easily got them on a random walk to the store. They had 10 rosalinas and I assumed they were only rare in the US for being store exclusives. We don't have store exclusives over here (well at least for now).