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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #200 on: February 17, 2015, 10:13:40 AM »
More obvious news:

Instock Amiibo figures (NA)
1-Link, 2-Mario, 3-Pikachu, 4-Kirby, 5-Samus, 6-Yoshi, 7-Zelda, 8-Dankey Kang, 9-Peach, 10-Luigi

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1-Marth, 2-Villager, 3-Wii Fit Trainer, 4-Pit, 5-Captain Falcon, 7-Fox, 8-Rosalina,

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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #201 on: February 17, 2015, 08:33:14 PM »
The Gold Mario Amiibo is Walmart exclusive, apparently..

https://twitter.com/HeroOfTime125/status/567854752433729537

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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #202 on: February 17, 2015, 09:35:00 PM »
The Gold Mario Amiibo is Walmart exclusive, apparently..

https://twitter.com/HeroOfTime125/status/567854752433729537

I do not like the Nintendo and their the arrangement of their the Amiibo.


So hopefully this puts the final kibosh on that whole Club Nintendo rumor? 
That one never really made sense anyway.
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #203 on: February 17, 2015, 09:40:08 PM »
Thank goodness I don't want it.
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #204 on: February 18, 2015, 01:39:26 AM »
In Japan, the gold Mario Amiibo might still be a Club Ninty exclusive, or something similar, as we don't have "retailer exclusives" here...
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #205 on: February 20, 2015, 01:21:03 PM »
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« Reply #206 on: February 20, 2015, 04:08:54 PM »
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« Reply #207 on: February 20, 2015, 04:13:50 PM »
Ha!
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #208 on: February 23, 2015, 12:12:10 PM »
With no chance of getting him in US retailers, I went ahead and got Ike from Amazon UK at a pretty good price. $20.
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« Reply #209 on: February 24, 2015, 11:21:33 PM »
From the investor Q&A:

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Finally, regarding your question about amiibo’s profitability, we have been selling amiibo at the same MSRP so that consumers will easily understand its price point. However, I think you can easily tell just by looking at several amiibo figures that production costs vary for each one of them; some amiibo have a more complex structure and a greater number of colors, which means they cost more to produce than others. Nevertheless, since setting different price points could be misinterpreted as the company valuing certain characters more than others, we came to the decision to set an MSRP that would return a profit from the amiibo platform as a whole.
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #210 on: February 25, 2015, 07:32:03 PM »
In other words, as expected, Kirby is the true money maker.
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #211 on: February 26, 2015, 11:40:56 AM »
The Gold Mario Amiibo went up for pre-order and sold out in about 20 minutes.
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #212 on: February 26, 2015, 05:21:53 PM »
The Gold Mario Amiibo went up for pre-order and sold out in about 20 minutes.

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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #213 on: February 26, 2015, 08:08:27 PM »
UncleBob's also selling them for $100 on eBay.


I mean, Wal-Mart made a 2 per order limit. But people could still make multiple orders of 2 amiibo. That's still not good enough to beat the scalpers.
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #214 on: February 26, 2015, 09:00:51 PM »
The longer the amiibo train goes, the more I begin to fear trying to get a Lucina amiibo
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #215 on: March 01, 2015, 07:58:45 PM »
What's the deal with Mega Man? Is he another rare-ish figure?
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #216 on: March 01, 2015, 09:03:23 PM »
What's the deal with Mega Man? Is he another rare-ish figure?

I only got one in my area because my wife put it on pre-order.

My local target had bar codes for sonic, ike, king dedede.  When asked, they said they were supposed to get them a while ago, but never got their shipment.  They even scanned the label, and they came up as "discontinued" in their computer, leading them to believe they won't get any.

On the plus side, Ive seen some Shiek pop-up here and there, and I've seen more supply of toon link come into circulation.

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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #217 on: March 01, 2015, 09:45:24 PM »
Mega Man is starting to show up on more store shelves. So he won't be impossible to find.
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #218 on: March 02, 2015, 08:11:08 AM »
Mega Man is starting to show up on more store shelves. So he won't be impossible to find.


Ok.  I saw (exactly) one in stores yesterday, remembered hearing that some people couldn't find him, and grabbed it thinking someone from the NWR forums might want to buy from me at cost+shipping... but if more are coming I'll probably just return it.


Returning won't happen for a bit though - so if anyone is excited about overpaying slightly due to shipping from Canada, feel free to ping me.
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #219 on: March 02, 2015, 12:08:46 PM »
Mega Man is starting to show up on more store shelves. So he won't be impossible to find.

Not sure if he'll be "Marth" level of hard to find, but I expect him and most of the 3rd party character ones will be pretty limited overall.  Scalpers are already selling them for $30+ on amazon.

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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #220 on: March 02, 2015, 12:52:25 PM »
Mega Man is starting to show up on more store shelves. So he won't be impossible to find.

Not sure if he'll be "Marth" level of hard to find, but I expect him and most of the 3rd party character ones will be pretty limited overall.  Scalpers are already selling them for $30+ on amazon.


I was getting pretty constant alerts from nowinstock.net for Mega Man and Sheik(every 3-4 hours) on GameStop stores, so there's still a way to find them at MSRP.
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #221 on: March 02, 2015, 05:33:52 PM »
Marth restock confirmed for late April.
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #222 on: March 02, 2015, 06:04:53 PM »
I hope we can do a pre-order of it like Gamestop did for Shulk.
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #223 on: March 03, 2015, 03:29:50 PM »
Stopped in at a Best Buy on lunch today. They had 8 Mega Man Amiibos and 4 Sonic Amiibos. So, they're out there. Of course, I bought them all and am now charging $100.00 each for them on eBay. I don't have to work anymore thanks to Nintendo!
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Re: Let's Talk Amiibo!
« Reply #224 on: March 13, 2015, 06:25:57 PM »
I happened to be at my local Best Buy earlier today when the Nintendo Rep was there restocking the Nintendo section w/ Codename STEAM, etc. As it so happens, she put up 2 new Mega Man Amiibos. I'd been casually looking out for one of those (I'm not going out of my way to hunt Happy Meal toys without a good reason) since he's one of my all-time favorite VG characters, so I bought one. If I ever got into Amiibos, I meant to get a Link as well since he is my favorite VG character. So yeah...I have 2 of the damn things. Neither one has any useful functionality right now, but at least they look good on the shelf (in fact, Link in general is surprisingly well-detailed, and there are details on the Mega Man Amiibo I feel like only appeared in the 90s cartoon series). Keeping an eye out for Shulk and the Fire Emblem Amiibos, but I don't expect to see those anytime soon.
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