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Amiibo: In or Out of the Box?

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When you get an amiibo, do you keep it in the box or take it out? I'm struggling to decide with a couple of mine.

(Also, if you take it out do you keep the empty box or toss it?)
 
I got some amiibo just for the extra features in games(like both versions of Kirby), so I opened them, but kept the box. However, for most of the amiibo I get, I keep them sealed in the box.
 
i'm not a serious collector, i just like the figures and the features in games, so i take them out of the box and toss them out. i only have 5 amiibos though and i dont think any of them are particularly valuable.
 
I open all of mine and toss the boxes (since the cool backdrop picture usually tears when you open them, anyway). I just prefer displaying them in a glass case and actually using them in games to having them sit in their clunky boxes and collect dust.
 
I toss the boxes, I don't really plan to re-sell mine or stuff since I can use them for New Leaf (only reason I ever get amiibo for so) and the boxes just take space and look ugly.
 
I bought a Wal amiibo about 3 weeks ago and I'm still scared to open it...
It's too amazing lol

Though I rly want to use it in SMO to get Super WalaMario early on.

I think if I do open it, I'll open it very delicately and keep the box.
 
Thus far, I've just kept all of my amiibo in the boxes they came in. I don't really have much use for them other than display, as I only really bother to get characters I like, never bothered to use them for Super Smash Bros., and don't have a 3DS amiibo scanner. I might take them out of the boxes in the future if I switch up where they're displayed and think they'd look better loose.
 
I like displaying my Amiibo on my bookshelves, so I take them out of the box and toss the boxes away. As others have said, the backdrop image tears and is ruined anyway.

And I have zero plans to sell any of my Amiibo, so why bother keeping them MIB.
 
I take them all out of the box. If there is a cool picture in the background I will try to carefully open it and keep the back cardboard, but usually I just get rid of the box.

Speaking of ruining collectible value, I also paint some of them for fun. I am currently turning Epona Link into Ezio from Assassin's Creed and I want to make male Corrin into Lord Ghirahim.

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I take them all out of the box. If there is a cool picture in the background I will try to carefully open it and keep the back cardboard, but usually I just get rid of the box.

Speaking of ruining collectible value, I also paint some of them for fun. I am currently turning Epona Link into Ezio from Assassin's Creed and I want to make male Corrin into Lord Ghirahim.


Dude I really like that Greninja, man nice job!

And yeah I can't really use them inside the box either so xD
 
All mine are out of the box. The packaging gets binned. I'm not a serious collector, I just like having them on my shelf.
 
All mine are out of the box. The packaging gets binned. I'm not a serious collector, I just like having them on my shelf.

Yeah, I get them for New Leaf more or less only because a good chunk gives villagers or cool items so yeah.
 
The only one I still have in the box is Wolf Link, and that's because it's still in the Twilight Princess CE which is still sealed because I can't be arsed playing it.
 
Mine are all out of the box, I had then displayed for a while in my apartment but my cat started knocking them off so I had to take them down:\ I'm trying to find a nice looking shelf or something I can put high enough that she won't mess with them. I don't keep the boxes either, I don't have enough space to store all of the empty packaging.
 
I take them out of the box and use them in their respective games. I have a question block storage case to stash the amiibos away, when they're not being used. And like many others who posted on this thread, I dispose the packaging.
 
I don't have any amiibos but if I ever get some I'll make sure to free them from their plastic prisons.
 
I like keeping some of my collector's edition and other gaming-related things sealed in their boxes but amiibo is not one of them. I take them out when I need to scan them then end up displaying them after.
 
Out. I dont care for them in the box. Id rather have them out & they look much cuter out of the box anyways.
 
I take mine out of the box. I don't have enough room on my shelves to keep the boxes, plus I'd rather be able to see and hold and use them.
 
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