The Nintendo Amiibo Discussion Thread

[Iwatasan]

Originally Posted by KnightOfTruth

TRU/GS released theirs on Friday. SOME Targets did. Others and Walmart released theirs on Sunday (yesterday) and BestBuy is refusing to until the 17th (for one or two of the figures) and the 19th for the other(s).

I got my Zelda from Best Buy on Sunday 12/14. Maybe because it was a preorder? That's when the e-mail said to come pick it up.

Originally Posted by Twisted

i remember the first days of amiibo release my local toys r us had tons of villager..like at least around 50....but who knew?..they would become such a hot commoditie,.,,

I called it on October 30 yo!

Originally Posted by Iwatasan

So the lamest characters will end up being the most valuable in the future? Quickly, someone predict the future value in 5 years of the rarest amiibo---I'm trying to figure out how many Villagers I should preorder.

Limited shelf space for their amiibos. More like, too many characters in Smash Bros. am I right?

But yeah I'm not collecting these for all the same reasons Twisted. All I have now is Link and Zelda, and I have Toon Link and Sheik preordered. I'm only planning to pick up Zelda and EarthBound characters.

[MaXXimus5000]

Greetings, ive contemplated getting the amiibo to only the ones i wanted but after seeing how nicely theyre sculpted i had to do like pokemon and gotta catch em all. I am currently living in Australia but was born n raised in the states, the amiibo craze is barely starting to hit now. I prefer getting the amiibos here as opposed to the states. I got wave 1 & 2 complete, although i was lucky to get nearly all of wave 1 on the shelf a day after release all minus Marth which i had to pay a premium for. Wave 2 preordered luckily and have in hand.


Wave 3..., idk where to start. I luckily preordered all the figures that were going to be "exclusive" to retailers (dumb idea imo) back in the states. The rest i decided to preorder and have those shipped to my usa address. The store i preordered the rest were...toys r us. Now if you havent been reading of this youll know that tru sent a massive wave of cancelled preorders due to technical matters. Tru are trying to correct the situation by reinstating orders ONLY if you paid by cc, if you paid by paypal they couldnt legally reinstate your order why idk.


Anyway in the next few days they are supposedly going to resend an email to be able to reorder them again. I feel its too late to order them at this stage and ill miss out on the figures but the discount they had fir buy one get one 40%off. So after i got the cancellation i went nuts trying to preorder the ones im missing. I went to the eb games here, they said as of 9am that morning preordered placed prior would get their figures the rest were sol. They said they had limited amount available online so i rushed back home to order. Was able to get all but ike which was sold out.

Went searching online and preordered at walmart which had all including ike. I placed the order and so thats where i am right now i have half guaranteed whereas the others its up in the air due to demand. I have 2 sets of preorders placed in case one gets cancelled. I dont know what tru are planning to do but if they allow me to order guaranteed figures discounted ill cancel the others but at this point i really dont trust tru, so im wondering wth to do with all of these orders. I hate that amiibo have taken off, happy for Nintendo but not for regular customers/fans looking to get a hold of their favorite fjgure due to scalpers.

Sorry for the long post lol

[Iwatasan]

Originally Posted by MaXXimus5000

Sorry for the long post lol

Nah decent rant. The mess you're going through with these is exactly why I won't be collecting them all though. Good luck with that.

[Fox]

I was one of the stupid ones who thought this will be like skylanders rererereleasing so I missed getting an amiibo or two. Glad some of these will have some collector value.

[KnightOfTruth]

Originally Posted by MaXXimus5000

Greetings, ive contemplated getting the amiibo to only the ones i wanted but after seeing how nicely theyre sculpted i had to do like pokemon and gotta catch em all. I am currently living in Australia but was born n raised in the states, the amiibo craze is barely starting to hit now. I prefer getting the amiibos here as opposed to the states. I got wave 1 & 2 complete, although i was lucky to get nearly all of wave 1 on the shelf a day after release all minus Marth which i had to pay a premium for. Wave 2 preordered luckily and have in hand.


Wave 3..., idk where to start. I luckily preordered all the figures that were going to be "exclusive" to retailers (dumb idea imo) back in the states. The rest i decided to preorder and have those shipped to my usa address. The store i preordered the rest were...toys r us. Now if you havent been reading of this youll know that tru sent a massive wave of cancelled preorders due to technical matters. Tru are trying to correct the situation by reinstating orders ONLY if you paid by cc, if you paid by paypal they couldnt legally reinstate your order why idk.


Anyway in the next few days they are supposedly going to resend an email to be able to reorder them again. I feel its too late to order them at this stage and ill miss out on the figures but the discount they had fir buy one get one 40%off. So after i got the cancellation i went nuts trying to preorder the ones im missing. I went to the eb games here, they said as of 9am that morning preordered placed prior would get their figures the rest were sol. They said they had limited amount available online so i rushed back home to order. Was able to get all but ike which was sold out.

Went searching online and preordered at walmart which had all including ike. I placed the order and so thats where i am right now i have half guaranteed whereas the others its up in the air due to demand. I have 2 sets of preorders placed in case one gets cancelled. I dont know what tru are planning to do but if they allow me to order guaranteed figures discounted ill cancel the others but at this point i really dont trust tru, so im wondering wth to do with all of these orders. I hate that amiibo have taken off, happy for Nintendo but not for regular customers/fans looking to get a hold of their favorite fjgure due to scalpers.

Sorry for the long post lol

Hey bud, a lot of us are in the same boat. While I think TRU will do their best to honor the pre-orders that were made with them, I seriously doubt they'll honor the discount that you (and I and others) were able to take advantage of during that sale. While you might not trust TRU (understandably so) they're pretty much the most robust (stock-wise) supplier here in The States. None of the other retailers even come close to having the level of stock that they do (maybe with the exception of the Nintendo World Store in NYC but they don't do online orders).

The only more reliable company I'd trust (pre-order wise) would be Gamestop since I've NEVER ONCE had them not be able to deliver on a pre-order, they have a good idea of what they've got in stock and how many pre-orders they've got, the issue with them is that they won't have any (or nearly any) extra stock for those who are trying to do an in-store purchase, but that shouldn't effect you at all.

[Ryu Kazama]

If anyone needs a Marth, I have one or two spare (one has a slightly damaged box, though!)

[Crimson_Dragon92]

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[Crimson_Dragon92]

Originally Posted by Ryu Kazama

If anyone needs a Marth, I have one or two spare (one has a slightly damaged box, though!)

Interested. Can you PM me the details please? I'm looking for a US version and sealed for collection purposes.

[Ryu Kazama]

Ah. Before I PM, mine are UK versions, so the back description is slightly different to US, from what I know.

[Likey]

Ryu, please reserve me a Marth if you don't mind? I'm in London if it helps? Plus, we've met a couple of times before.

PM me if that's OK?

Ideally the one without the dent please.