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

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Ugh, I was one of the lucky few that preordered Rosalina on Dec 17th, and my order got canceled last week because my card expired this January. Pretty shitty, they basically told me to use a different card and "re-order" it. KAY!

I'm really dreading having to wake up tomorrow morning and going to a Target now...I should be able to sleep in and not have to deal with this!

Not just should be that entitled we all should.
 
I'm back from Target!!

If you recall, I stated that I intended to go to attempt to secure a Rosalina and pay for it at midnight.

Well, I asked nicely and the nice employee from Electronics put Rosalina and Sheik on reserve for me with Guest Services.

He told me they had 3 boxes of Rosalina. Does anyone know how many that is?
 
Gonna opt out on the morning hunt due to my health being rather terrible through the week.

And the fact that it's Alaska. It's too cold for this mess.
 
Going to bed. Just wanted to wish everyone luck! Try not to stress too much. Hopefully most here get one and this isn't TRU non sense again.

If you do get screwed, just know that someone in this communty will eventually get you one.
 
Gonna try and grab quick nap before headin out for Rosy early. Good luck to everyone else! I hope my next post will be a Rosy shot. :o
 
They claim you have 7 days, but I'd say the longer you wait, the more likely someone will accidentally sell it if they haven't already.

They sold my Sheik pre-order on the 6th day, I was out sick for this last week so wasn't able to pick it up. Oh and I'm in charge of electronics at my store, lol. Wasn't very happy when I came in today.
 
Got my emails from TRU as well this morning. One says I will receive between 2/4-2/9 and the other says 2/10-2/13. Now to get Rosalina this morning and I'll have all the wave 3s that I want.

Wave 4, I think I want all of them though, except maybe Robin.
 
good luck and safe travels tomorrow amiibo-GAF

still not sure if i'm going. alarm is set but i'm not confident the weather will cooperate
 
Good luck amiibo GAF. I'm about to go to sleep too but just remembered the new ad should be out and look what's on page 3
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Hopefully you all can get your Rosalina amiibos. If you can't, page 10 has some Rosalina themed chocolates you can buy to cure that broken heart
 
I'm back from Target!!

If you recall, I stated that I intended to go to attempt to secure a Rosalina and pay for it at midnight.

Well, I asked nicely and the nice employee from Electronics put Rosalina and Sheik on reserve for me with Guest Services.

He told me they had 3 boxes of Rosalina. Does anyone know how many that is?

Did they say how many Sheik they had by chance? Just trying to figure out if the average is only a few or a little more.
 
buena park, west fullerton, cerritos and anaheim are the closeest around

cerritos on bloomfield not the one by the mall

you were asking about rosalina, right?
Ha ha that's good looking. Planning to go to the BP one first. Then the Cerritos one. I visited the one by the mall and the guy said they didn't receive any wave 3 at all.
 
Are you going to get Rosalina later too, Aoi-san? ;o

I think I fumbled through a successful Amazon.it pre-order for her, but I might have to wait until the 13th of Feb? >.> Hopefully!

Oh well, the costs of driving to my nearest Target would eclipse the import shipping, so I'm ok with it. :p
 
Cross posting my thoughts from that amiibo centric console thread because I'm genuinely curious on thoughts on the subject:

How long can the amiibo craze possibly last though?

They'll do a Smash Bros, Mario, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Star Fox, etc etc lines, and then what, a Smash line again when Smash 5 comes out? They don't have an endless supply of popular characters, and people will only want so many Yoshi figures on their shelf.

And this is coming from someone that owns 20 of the things so far.

I mean, for me personally this Smash line in going to cover most of the characters I want. And I won't be buying multiples of one characters (outside exceptions like the main Zelda cast that have wildly different incarnations).

Like, I'll want: (putting this all in a quote to make this post a lot shorter if anyone actually quotes and replies to me in amongst this Rosalina madness).

Super Mario:

Mario (skipped Smash figure because I think it's ugly)
Luigi (as above)
Peach (as above)
Toad
Toadette
Koopa Troopa
Shy Guy
Boo
Magikoopa
Dry Bones
Maybe Bowser Jr (because the Smash one will be in the clown car so they'll be very unique from each other and I love the character)

The Legend of Zelda:
Ganon (pig form)
Wind Waker Ganondorf
Ocarina of Time Link
Ghirahim
Fi
Midna
Zant

Animal Crossing:
Isabelle
Tom Nook
KK Slider
Kicks

And then, idk, if they end up making Pokemon figures rather than just cards I'll grab some of those, and maybe if they do some Metroid bosses I'll grab Ridley and stuff.

Ok typing them out that's more than I thought but my point still stands haha

But what happens when they run out of characters? The amiibo business just doesn't seem sustainable to me for more than a couple of years.
 
Jesus H., 25 pages already. You guys make me glad I'm not sweating any of the retailer-exclusive amiibo.

Funny thing is, though, I feel your pain because Wave 3 is where I'm behind. I only have one wanted figure for Wave 4 (Ness), and he's locked down via a UK pre-order. So after I pad out my commons and grab a few Wave 3 figs, there will be another wave...of peace. Godspeed to you gals and gents in the morning.
 
Cross posting my thoughts from that amiibo centric console thread because I'm genuinely curious on thoughts on the subject:



I mean, for me personally this Smash line in going to cover most of the characters I want. And I won't be buying multiples of one characters (outside exceptions like the main Zelda cast that have wildly different incarnations).



But what happens when they run out of characters? The amiibo business just doesn't seem sustainable to me for more than a couple of years.
i'll buy any zelda or metroid amiibos. the only one i'm getting doubles of is going to be peach (so far).

they'll probably make some based on various mario games (kart, tennis, golf)

and pokemon.

fuck that noise.
 
Cross posting my thoughts from that amiibo centric console thread because I'm genuinely curious on thoughts on the subject:



But what happens when they run out of characters? The amiibo business just doesn't seem sustainable to me for more than a couple of years.

What happens to Disney Infinity when they run out of characters? Nintendo has almost as big of a character roster as Disney, especially once you take into account potential third party Amiibos.
 
I think I fumbled through a successful Amazon.it pre-order for her, but I might have to wait until the 13th of Feb? >.> Hopefully!
13th of february? For an EU Rosalina?

That's strange... She was out circa 16th of january in Europe, and is pretty much sold out everywhere now. Do they wait for a restock when Wave 3-B arrives here?
 
The target I'm going to has Rosalina in stock, per their website, and for Sheik it says limited. I assume it's like that at most locations.
 
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