The Nintendo Amiibo Discussion Thread

[Cosmic_Link]

Originally Posted by Thetof91

Ahh in that way

Lucky no problems with that here in Denmark :p

Yeah I'll hold out for a restock. Can't see them disappearing forever if I'm honest. Lol will prob be eating those words before long. Lol

[Googlie]

Originally Posted by eternix

Here's a little update on mine. Just waiting for my dede and meta knight right now...

That looks awesome, I'm planning on opening all of mine, but I haven't brought myself to open the rarer ones yet. I want to take the cards, minus the plastic, and set them up on my wall in the same order they are in the character select screen in game.

[eternix]

Originally Posted by Googlie

That looks awesome, I'm planning on opening all of mine, but I haven't brought myself to open the rarer ones yet. I want to take the cards, minus the plastic, and set them up on my wall in the same order they are in the character select screen in game.

Sounds neat!

[Fox]

Loving your display eternix. Signs of a true super smash fan

[Saturn]

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).

[Nachtfalke]

Hope it fits to this thread, Amiibo wave 4 (for Smash Bros series) is live on german Amazon, 12,99€ each:

http://www.amazon.de/Nintendo-004549...968305&sr=1-33
http://www.amazon.de/Nintendo-107096...968305&sr=1-32
http://www.amazon.de/Nintendo-107086...968305&sr=1-31
http://www.amazon.de/Nintendo-107066...968305&sr=1-30
http://www.amazon.de/Nintendo-107076...968305&sr=1-29
http://www.amazon.de/Nintendo-107046...968305&sr=1-28

[Fox]

Thanks Nachtfalke for listing german wave 4. Walmart has mario party amiibos available for po including Toad

[Nachtfalke]

Your welcome, Fox.

This is just crazy... Ness was sold out within 5 minutes, Lucina and Daraen hold maybe 5 minutes more.

[Fox]

Geeze. Guess I should have bought them while I had the chance. Guess I was being super duper stupid picky about going for NA version lol. Is it hard to get amiibos in Germany? Or do you think its a bunch of North American buyers that took German supply?

Im surprised at how popular Ness is. Im an original Earthbound (aka Mother) fan. I really dont think all the Earthbound fanatics are buying up all the Ness Amiibos. There are sites that are trying to guess which Amiibos are the rarest by their release dates or something. Ness was pointed at the top. All Im thinking is great. More competition.

At this point, with wave 4 pre orders selling out within 5-10 minutes in places outside North America, it would seem the only way to get a wave 4 amiibo is to be lucky and be on the site as it pops up. With all this time wasted on refreshing sites and checking, I think Id rather pay double than waste my time doing nothing.

[Nachtfalke]

If rumors from NeoGAF are true, this wave was just manufacturing in january. The other ones were up to 2 months in production, so yeah, the rarest amiibo is probably one of this wave. Most likely Ness, if you ask me.

I guess I'm not the only one with that theory. I will bet that many reseller was waiting for this moment and bought huge stocks from amazon. Finding the not common amiibos is really not easy in germany. Rosalina, King Dede or Shulk for example are out of stock everywhere since weeks.

Edit:
I build my own amazon link with all preorders in the next 12 months for all consoles. I'm checking it regularly so I never missed any items I want. The good thing is, that items show up there a couple of hours before you actually can preorder them. Like the amiibos today. Saw them first this afternoon. They went live @ ~6:50pm.

For Germany/UK/US/FR
http://www.amazon.de/s/node=300992&f...sedate=1y-365y
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/node=30070...sedate=1y-365y
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st_po...opularity-rank
http://www.amazon.fr/s/node=530490&f...sedate=1y-365y

Works perfectly.