Someone help me. I'm starting to fall victim to the allure of Amiibo. And not even the useful Amiibo that are used a lot such as Mario or Link. I seem to want the limited use ones.
Now, I know I can't claim complete avoidance of Amiibo up to this point. I've fully dived into the Animal Crossing Amiibo Card section of this insidious consumerism. And then I got all the actual Animal Crossing Amiibo figures once they started getting discounted since I was in a real love affair with Animal Crossing. (Although they keep getting their price slashed further and further making me wish I had waited for more than just 50% off.) At the same time, I remember after buying the last few figures and complete the AC set, this tinge of regret like I had just wasted a bunch of money. It was a weird love/hate reaction of liking the figures and characters but feeling they were quite pointless.
Aside from the AC Amiibo, there was only one other Amiibo I owned and that is the Chibi-Robo Amiibo but it was sold with Zip Lash and the only way to buy that game at first was with the Amiibo included. Yet I was ok with that since I've got a soft spot for Chibi-Robo ever since his first GC game earned him a lot of gaming goodwill from me.
That Amiibo situation changed this weekend. I went a-travelling to various EBGame stores (aka Canadian Gamestop) because I found out a couple days ago that they were doing another buy 2 used games get 1 free deal and I took advantage of that to score some good deals on games in March and found a lot of worthwhile deals from it. My hope was that maybe I could score a cheaper copy of Kirby Planet Robobot but the amount of used games available in stores was very sparse. Not like in March where I picked up a huge selection of titles. Maybe the New 2DS caused people to pick up more 3DS titles than trade them in.
However, during this journey, the Amiibo selection was next to the shelves so I was noting what was around these days. I kept seeing the latest Pikmin Amiibo on shelves and I did like the look if it with all the Pikmin cloistered around the broken cinder block. Came to one store and they had the BOTW Guardian Amiibo in stock. So, I thought, what the heck. I'll buy it and the Pikmin Amiibo. I think the Guardian Amiibo is supposed to be hard to find.
Well, now I'm suddenly interested in Amiibo. I mean, I was already highly tempted by the upcoming Metroid Amiibo so I'm definitely going to try and buy that now. As well, the upcoming BOTW Champion 4-pack does interest me more than most of the other BOTW Amiibo (besides the Guardian Amiibo and Zelda herself) although I wish they had gone with the Champion descendants like Prince Sidon and Riju and... the other two. At least you spend time and talk to them more in the game while the old Champion's are relegated to flashbacks and people talking about them.
In any case, it seems Nintendo has stepped up their Amiibo game since the newer unrelated-to-Smash stuff has started interesting me more. I started looking up all the Amiibo that have been released so far and trying to find pricing as to what might be cheaply acquired and what is still expensive/rare. I didn't see many deals from online suppliers however. The AC Line can definitely be bought on the cheap but after that it's all a grey murky area. I always thought the whole Amiibo line would crash at some point and then I might be able to swoop in and buy them all on the cheap like what is happening to the AC line but so far that hasn't really happened. There are a few things that can be found slightly discounted. I guess the Waluigi and Daisy Amiibo's aren't selling since Toys R Us has them 30% off. EBGames has the Mii Fighter 3 pack down to $12.00. I've seen the Famicom ROB, Star Fox, Falco and Zero Suit Samus down $3-4 from regular price. Otherwise, most Amiibo seem to be holding steady.
My travels brought me across and Alm/Celia Amiibo 2 pack so I bought that since Fire Emblem Amiibo always seem to be rare and are probably the third most used kinds of Amiibo after the Mario and Zelda brands. I also picked up a Meta Knight Amiibo from the Kirby line since he also seems to be more popular. I also saw a bunch of Bayonetta, Cloud and Corrin Player 1 Amiibos out but I have no affinity towards those characters nor have I even bought their Smash DLC yet. Did think about getting the Corrin though because of the rare and FE used more often reason but didn't feel like going completely wild with Amiibo yet.
That said, on eBay, I saw one person selling a lot of 70 Amiibo consisting of mainly the Smash and Mario line with a lot of the harder to find ones included like Marth, Wii Fit Trainer, Palutena, Meta Knight, King Dedede and such. That would cost about $900 yet if you consider the average Amiibo is $15.00 in Canada, it works out to about cost. So, sure I could catch right up on the whole Amiibo craze but do I really want to spend over $1000 for these trinkets. Because that's what it's going to be to collect them all and there's a good chance I'll start trying to do that if I begin acquiring a bunch of these and I still have my doubts as to how useful these things will ever be.
Anyways, there's some Amiibo talk for you and this thread.