Nintendo Amiibo Frustrations!

[Nanobyte]

I think it's safe to say no matter where you live in the world Nintendo's Amiibo have us frustrated beyond the World's end. With such a limited quantity of many characters that seem to sell out in less than one day and no planned restocks in the future it's just plain stupid. Like seriously, I bet Nintendo is making big bucks off these little plastic figures that so many of us appear to be crazy about, so why don't they just make more and make even more money? Unless there's some sort of underlying issue I'm not aware about making more should be a win-win situation for everyone. Nintendo would get even more money, and the fans would have more of a chance of getting their beloved plastic figures. Anyone else agree?

Darn you impossible to get Rosalina figure...
That's all my ranting... for now

Miss_Tisa got a Villager Amiibo from Germany after they were discontinued. There's no clear difference as far as she can tell, maybe you could do that to get your Rosalina?

 

[Holla]

Miss_Tisa got a Villager Amiibo from Germany after they were discontinued. There's no clear difference as far as she can tell, maybe you could do that to get your Rosalina?

I'm totally willing to import, but I want a reasonable price which is the problem. I'd be willing to maybe pay $20 for a $14 figure not $50 like I've been seeing. I know they are rare, but seriously...

 

[00ToxicLove00]

I'm totally willing to import, but I want a reasonable price which is the problem. I'd be willing to maybe pay $20 for a $14 figure not $50 like I've been seeing. I know they are rare, but seriously...

I agree rosalina is at $50 ;-; villager is at $60 but I'm not willing to pay that much. You should've bought a Japanese rosalina. They only cost $30 before she was released now she's gone up.

 

[Justin]

I would like the figures that were shown at E3. Amiibo are cool and all, but I don't think they really look that good with all that plastic sticking out from their crotch. And more functionality would be nice, since their basically glorified DLC for most games :/

Yeah, they annoy me too. I've mostly only bought the figures with no stands, or minimal stands. (just on their feet, or otherwise not very noticiable) For example, I won't buy Link for this reason. He's one of the worst in that department.

 

[Boccages]

Well, for what its worth, I'm pretty sure they will get a line of Amiibo of the Legend of Zelda serie like they are for the Super Mario one for the launch of Mario Party 10. Maybe Link will be stand-less in this one.

 

[TofuIdol]

Amiibo's where I live are really strange. But like most places we have a crap ton of Mario's and Peaches.
Sadly I walked past seeing Little Mac thinking I could get him again since I live in such a small populated area but nope, he was sold out a few days when I got back. But our Amiibo spaces are very, very tiny that they can't really hang a lot of them up so I wonder if we ever really got any up here. Especially Villager and Wii Fit trainer. Never once saw them up here, even Marth.

Just sucks that these are such a popular high in demand item and it doesn't seem though that Nintendo wants to do good with it and release more to the public so we can at least get a chance to have the one's we want.

 

[Mioki]

I don't understand why Nintendo won't make an online amiibo store and ship them out. They can't honestly use shelf space as an excuse when this is an option.

I remember I went to Walmart at midnight for the release of Wave 1. The lady offered Marth and Villager, but like many fellow posters, I figured I could get them later and settled for Kirby. :/
I imported Marth from Japan later, but still no Villager. Sucks, since he's a main of mine on Smash Bros now. Same happened with Pit, I stalled on preordering him and then boom, he was gone. But I snagged him on Target online late one night upon restock.

Ness is my absolute favorite, if I can't snag a preorder of him, I will be so upset... Especially since Earthbound merch isn't really common.

 

[A-Link]

They ran out of shelves here too. I want a Charizard one too bad. It seems like I will be importing mine as well.

Also, anyone knows anything about Nintendo's plans to releasing amiibo adapters for the older 3DS models?

 

[Boccages]

They ran out of shelves here too. I want a Charizard one too bad. It seems like I will be importing mine as well.

Also, anyone knows anything about Nintendo's plans to releasing amiibo adapters for the older 3DS models?

I can't say for sure, because Nintendo did talk about such a device before. But since then, they've gone mute on the subject. So either they will come out with one which would surprise me, or they've nixed those plans and we will never hear about it ever again.

 

[Jake]

No, they're still releasing the amiibo support device for non New 3DS's. It's coming in the next few months. I heard March/April for a slated release date, but could be wrong.