Amiibo Thread 3 | Where release dates are made up and preorders don't matter!

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Weather Channel says I'm only getting 1 to 3 inches. But then I found out the advisory is for Grand Rapids, which I'm nowhere close to.

Yeah, kind of surprised.
Yeah 5-8 inches tomorrow ;-; luckily Target isn't too far from my house.
 
god help me.

Day 1
Ooooo! Thanks Azula/Mononoke! My first Amiibo - Fox!

Day 2
Maybe I should order Rosalina on AmiAmi?

Day 3
THE THIRST IS REAL. BUYING VILLAGER AND WII FIT TRAINER OF A NEOGAFFER.

Day 4
I WANT ALL!
 
By the way, had a brief interaction with a scalper on Kijiji yesterday.

Saw someone post an ad with multiple wave 3 Amiibos (to be fair the most he had of one was 3) with no prices so I figured I knew where it was going right off the Bat.

Decided to email him and offered $20 cdn for an Ike.

His reply: Never.

So I wrote back: I figured you were a scalper, just wanted to confirm that you were.

Then he writes: Figured you were a fag, didn't need to confirm.
 
I finished Kid Icarus Uprising, the other day. Incredible game. Really something special.

Now massively regretting not having bought a Pit, and it's £20+ everywhere I've seen which I just can't justify, even though I've seen people pay way more! :(
 
By the way, had a brief interaction with a scalper on Kijiji yesterday.

Saw someone post an add with multiple wave 3 Amiibos (to be fair the most he had of one was 3) with no prices so I figured I knew where it was going right off the Bat.

Decided to email him and offered $20 cdn for an Ike.

His reply: Never.

So I wrote back: I figured you were a scalper, just wanted to confirm that you were.

Then he writes: Figured you were a fag, didn't need to confirm.

Sigh.

NoA why
 
Brian★;149998343 said:
god help me.

Day 1
Ooooo! Thanks Azula/Mononoke! My first Amiibo - Fox!

Day 2
Maybe I should order Rosalina on AmiAmi?

Day 3
THE THIRST IS REAL. BUYING VILLAGER AND WII FIT TRAINER OF A NEOGAFFER.

Day 4
I WANT ALL!

I sent out your fox Brian btw, sorry for the delay. I had surgery a couple days ago, and had some other shit to tie up.
 
Assuming we only do ONE tournament....basically it would go like this:

Step 1: Figure out how many amiibos we have to give away. As that will determine how many contestants we will need.

Step 2: Organize the modbot raffle, have it draw all the winners at random who gets to join the tournament.

Step 3: Have the actual tournament. We use your already open Amiibos to do this.

Step 4: The results of the tournament will determine who gets to pick first from the prize pool.

The number of contestants entering can't go past the number of amiibos we have giving away. The final rankings from the tournament determines who gets to pick first (you can only pick ONE amiibo from the prize pool).

That sound right?

Yes! I will bookmark this post because it explains it perfectly! It would be ideal if we could get 8 or 16 amiibos to give away. That way, it's an easy tournament bracket to make. But if it's somewhere in between that (or MORE than 16), I can figure it out. Maybe if we have 12, we could have three 4-man matches and then the three winners battle for the top prizes.
 
any Michigan Gaffers gonna fight the snow tomorrow?

I'm closely monitoring the weather before deciding to head tomorrow morning. Everything would have been fine if only today were the release day! I'm hoping against hope that there might be a short window where target.com will allow orders again so I won't have to go out in dismal weather in hopes of securing a Rosalina.
 
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The last 24 hours in my amiibo hunting.
 
Alright, I've got Shulk to pick up on the 13th which I'll then trade to my brother later for a Mega Man, and then I'm preordering Pac-Man whenever he shows up. After that, NO MORE!!!*

*until the next wave :3c
 
Went to TRU today and people were waiting in line outside the store before they even opened to get lucario. Weird, because he was released yesterday. *shrugs* Then they all ran in when the doors opened.
 
Yep I'm in Northwest Indiana and the weather is going to be dreadful here tomorrow too.

I'll be up late tonight hoping to catch Rosalina available online. Otherwise my best chance is probably going to be making the rounds on Monday.
 
No, the amiibos that would battle it out would be MY amiibos... not the ones that are being given away.

Here is what I'm thinking (I just sent this to Mononoke). I hope I'm explaining well.


So, we have Modbot pick 16 people. Those 16 people get entered in a tournament. Those 16 people pick ANY amiibo that they want as long as it's one that has come out. Then, I use my own amiibos in Smash Bros. (I'd erase them all back to level 1 to make it fair). So, let's say contestant 1 picks Peach and contestant 2 picks Kirby. Peach beats Kirby, so that means whoever picked Kirby is out and whoever picked Peach still has a chance to win! I was thinking the winner would get one amiibo.

BUT, if we have 16 amiibos to give away, maybe all 16 people could win an amiibo... but maybe whoever gets 1st place would get first pick. 2nd place gets 2nd pick...all the way down to the poor person who gets 16th place and gets stuck with a Pikachu or something (but at least they still get something).

Love it! Would definitely be interested in something like that.
 
I think I got my Rosalina in today, but think I'm still gonna check out Target at 8am tomorrow.

I didn't check the quality of the packing but I'm worried LOL.
 
My buddy already got 2 Rosalinas on hold at our target for him and I! I just need to meet him there since yesterday I got that target to implement the limit one policy! Lol
 
Here is my suggestion:

---The Amiibo Badass Giveaway for Shy People and Rowdy Opportunist. By SalvaPot for SalvaPot, even if SalvaPot is not giving any amiibos away because he is a greed bastard.---

Rules:
Post a picture Amiibo related that is either witty, funny, traumatic, smart, amusing, or just downright wrong. It can be a photoshop of a picture that does not belong to you but you edit enough to be able to claim it as your own, it can be a photo of your collection in a funny position, it can be a picture of you in the toilet refreshing the Lucina Amiibo Amazon page, just waiting for the preorder to go up. Anything can do!

Prizes:
Dunno, ask the guys who are actually giving out Amiibos, I just want the fame and fortune. They are giving like a pit or something.

Conditions:
Don´t participate if you are pregnant, have a heart condition, or are just incredibly lazy. Well, you can participate if you ask nice enough, i won´t tell anyone ;).

Other arbitrary pointless rules:
King Dedede is the greatest amiibo, if you don´t agree don´t bother.
 
Assuming we only do ONE tournament....basically it would go like this:

Step 1: Figure out how many amiibos we have to give away. As that will determine how many contestants we will need.

Step 2: Organize the modbot raffle, have it draw all the winners at random who gets to join the tournament.

Step 3: Have the actual tournament. We use your already open Amiibos to do this.

Step 4: The results of the tournament will determine who gets to pick first from the prize pool.

The number of contestants entering can't go past the number of amiibos we have giving away. The final rankings from the tournament determines who gets to pick first (you can only pick ONE amiibo from the prize pool).

That sound right?

Another consideration is instead of using modbot, you can have people choose an amiibo to compete and have a few rounds until you guys come down to the number of prizes you guys are giving away then go from there.

So say you have 8 amiibos to give away. Have everyone pick one of the 8. Say 16 pick and 5 people pick one of the same and that one turns out to be a winner and so you need 3 more. Go to the 2nd place amiibo and see who survived that. If you have more than necessary then do a mini tourny for those folks to get your 3 and then go from there. Might be a bit too complex and hard to get the exact number but would make it more interesting.

I already ordered her from the french :T

But she's still nowhere to be found :(

I'm probably killing you by making this.. but it has to be done!
Jokes aside. Hope you get it soon =)
 
Another consideration is instead of using modbot, you can have people choose an amiibo to compete and have a few rounds until you guys come down to the number of prizes you guys are giving away then go from there.

So say you have 8 amiibos to give away. Have everyone pick one of the 8. Say 16 pick and 5 people pick one of the same and that one turns out to be a winner and so you need 3 more. Go to the 2nd place amiibo and see who survived that. If you have more than necessary then do a mini tourny for those folks to get your 3 and then go from there. Might be a bit too complex and hard to get the exact number but would make it more interesting.



I'm probably killing you by making this.. but it has to be done!

Edit castle to say target and it'll be perfect!
 
Hey guys, if I want to try to get rosalina tomorrow, will I need to be there first thing or will i need to arrive later at target? US resident here.
 
Edit castle to say target and it'll be perfect!

I was originally going to change it to country since it's an import but felt it was better if I just left it as is but I guess I'll do a few other variations. Anyone know the actual Super Mario Bros. font. Apparently the first and third game's font is a bit different... *glares at the I*

EDIT: NVM. Found it.

Hey guys, if I want to try to get rosalina tomorrow, will I need to be there first thing or will i need to arrive later at target? US resident here.

First thing. Shipment seems low. Call your Target.
 
Hey guys, if I want to try to get rosalina tomorrow, will I need to be there first thing or will i need to arrive later at target? US resident here.

Don't leave anything up to chance, and be aware that getting there early doesn't guarantee getting one going by a lot of people's experience with Lucario yesterday.
 
Hey guys, if I want to try to get rosalina tomorrow, will I need to be there first thing or will i need to arrive later at target? US resident here.

I'd get there first thing in the morning, at least a little before they open. If it's anything like TRU and Lucario it's going to be a mad house...
 
Another consideration is instead of using modbot, you can have people choose an amiibo to compete and have a few rounds until you guys come down to the number of prizes you guys are giving away then go from there.

So say you have 8 amiibos to give away. Have everyone pick one of the 8. Say 16 pick and 5 people pick one of the same and that one turns out to be a winner and so you need 3 more. Go to the 2nd place amiibo and see who survived that. If you have more than necessary then do a mini tourny for those folks to get your 3 and then go from there. Might be a bit too complex and hard to get the exact number but would make it more interesting.



I'm probably killing you by making this.. but it has to be done!

Jokes aside. Hope you get it soon =)

Well, the only issue with not doing modbot, I guess. Is that it doesn't limit the number of people that would want to enter. If we really wanted to make this complicated. We could just open a sign up sheet, and whoever wants to enter could. Then you allow 50 + people to enter. Then you do tournaments and kind of just get it down to the winners.

I think what we were considering now is just basically....

Modbot raffle to randomly pick who wins and gets to enter (limiting the tournament to 16 people -- or whatever final number we settle on based on the prizes we have)...

Figure out how each person that has now won to be in the tournament gets to choose who their amiibo is to represent them (we might make this part random too, or we might do draws and let people pick based on the order of the draw)...

And then have the final rankings of the overall tournament, and allow each person to pick ONE prize (so everyone gets a prize). But the 1st place gets to pick first. And then the 2nd. And so on. So obviously last place would get stuck with whatever is left.

EDIT: or maybe I misunderstood you. If so sorry. I'll read it again.
 
My Target (Central ohio) is telling me they won't have Rosie till 2/2.

I'm skeptical... and will still be going on 2/1 to check
 
I still haven't received my Rosalina from Amazon.fr. Delivery was supposed to be on Thursday. Kind of concerned but I'll wait it out. I can't really hunt Targets tomorrow.
 
Hey guys, if I want to try to get rosalina tomorrow, will I need to be there first thing or will i need to arrive later at target? US resident here.

No one really knows. If you really want her, go first thing. That's what most people here are doing (myself included). Some are going hours early to line up.

I honestly kinda think Rosalina could very likely end up being well-stocked all the time. But we just don't know yet.
 
I still haven't received my Rosalina from Amazon.fr. Delivery was supposed to be on Thursday. Kind of concerned but I'll wait it out. I can't really hunt Targets tomorrow.

I feel your pain. I was supposed to receive my Lucario a couple of a days ago too. I figured it must have gotten hung up in customs or something.
 
I still haven't received my Rosalina from Amazon.fr. Delivery was supposed to be on Thursday. Kind of concerned but I'll wait it out. I can't really hunt Targets tomorrow.

I'm in the same boat buddy. I contacted support and they said wait until two weeks then contact them again. I'm still getting up at the crack of dawn to go hunting though.
 
No one really knows. If you really want her, go first thing. That's what most people here are doing (myself included). Some are going hours early to line up.

I wouldn't go hours early. Target wont hand out tickets, and scalpers just run to electronics when the store opens anyways.
 

Ahh I guess that's true. Well whatever work with you guys since you guys are doing it.


This should be a thing where we all just fill in our names for one of these.

I'm worried about tomorrow. Been a bit of an insomniac lately so I'm afraid I'll over sleep and not get to Target before it opens.
 
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