Amiibo Thread 5 | Because we didn't preorder thread 4

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Golly, looking at how big some of your collections are becoming I'm kind of afraid to ask how much this whole amiibo business has cost you.

I collect Skylanders too, and I've been buying other things all year like actual vidya games, Marvel Legends, and Legos.

I try not to think about how much money i throw out.

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Toad rare? My ass! Toys R Us had more than 16 and who knows how many more in the back. Thankfully they're only doing one per costumer so I'm sure that's keeping all the asshole scalpers at bay.

The Mario Party ones look way better than their Smash counterparts.

Yes, noticed this too which is why I'm tempted to go for the full set. Damn you Nintendo.
 
Golly, looking at how big some of your collections are becoming I'm kind of afraid to ask how much this whole amiibo business has cost you.

I'm one of those liberal blood suckers Fox News likes to warn Americans about. I scam money from the government in the form of food stamps and I trade food stamps for amiibos. I'm the lobster surfer of amiibo collectors.

No seriously, I just do stupid surveys and earn free gift cards, the only Amiibos that I put cash on was Rosalina, a Japanese Marth and Japanese WiiFit Trainer
 
I'm one of those liberal blood suckers Fox News likes to warn Americans about. I scam money from the government in the form of food stamps and I trade food stamps for amiibos. I'm the lobster surfer of amiibo collectors.

No seriously, I just do stupid surveys and earn free gift cards, the only Amiibos that I put cash on was Rosalina, a Japanese Marth and Japanese WiiFit Trainer

What types do you do? Would love to do some in my spare-time.
 
Tried out Amiibo Party today. Call me crazy but I like it. I wish the maps were more complicated but nevertheless I still had fun. Involving the amiibo is gimmicky but they feel like game pieces so I enjoyed it. One of my kids (too young to play right now) used the amiibo to roll the dice and used it whenever it was called for.
 
Golly, looking at how big some of your collections are becoming I'm kind of afraid to ask how much this whole amiibo business has cost you.

I own all released amiibo (say for Gold Mario which has yet to ship or get cancelled) plus the display cabinet I made specifically for my amiibo collection, also factoring in the semi inflated prices (I paid slightly more than MSRP for a couple of the hard-to-find ones) plus the doubles I bought for future trades, we're looking at a final price of just under $800 in four months.

Wow. I just now did the math for the first time and had no idea how expensive this all was. It's looks as if I should slow down a bit and think about my expenses as a whole.

I'm, of course, kidding. I'm in it for the long haul and see no signs of stopping! BRING ON WAVE 4!!!!
 
Got Peach, Luigi, and Bowser today! Plus picked up a DK since that was the last of the original Smash characters I needed. There were still a few Toads left but I've got one coming in the mail and they all looked like they had pretty good paint jobs so didn't bother. Hope that doesn't come back to haunt me.

Now I just need the Mario Amiibo and I'll be good. It'd better be released separately because I don't really need Mario Party nor do I wish to import. :/
 
Checked Wal-Mart and GameStop for Toad today...not sure if they sold out or didn't get him yet, 'cause there was nothing there. Wal-Mart did have (empty) pegs for Gold Mario that were obviously gone by 6pm, but there were no spaces for the other Mario line amiibos so it looks like they only got Gold Mario? I want a Toad but it's not a huge deal to me, so we'll see what happens.
 
Here in my country we got all the Super Mario Series Amiibo, including the Gold Mario from official stores... Yet we don't have any sight of Bowser Amiibo. Anyone knows if is there any problem with the shipments of that Amiibo?
 
yes. I'd say its fair for any amiibo except for villager, marth or wii fit trainer

But Little Mac is more valuable than WFT and Marth. Arguably more valuable than Villager even, unless we're talking only the US version of Villager.

Still, I think it's a fair trade if you want the other amiibo.
 
What types do you do? Would love to do some in my spare-time.

My surveys are all on Swagbucks http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/KamenRiderKimera
Surveys can be horribly frustrating because 6/8 times you'll be disqualified (either do to your race, your income level, or even if you work or have seen a movie, you'll never know why usually). You can do either Gold Surveys, Peanut Surveys, or Partner Surveys (you can also take advantage of their videos and set them as a search engine)
If you want to feel accomplished, just do surveys until you reach the daily goal (Peanut Surveys constantly refresh and are bountiful, but are some of the biggest pains to qualify for).
Swagbucks is a big chunk of my amiibo collecting.

You can also run Perk TV while you sleep and Bing Rewards

Perk is neat because it auto cycles through videos and credits you anywhere between 1 and 3 points, although after roughly and hour or 2 it will will put up a box that says "are you still watching?" which stops your Perk app until you press "Yes". It's an unspoken rule that you can have up to 5 smart deices connected to a single account (although thats because with the amount of points you can rack on 5 devices, the payout cost is much higher). Although I recommend you just plug in your devices, and set the screen tone to lo so your phone doesn't use up more power than it's receiving, and turn your setting for your screen to time out off (if a video takes too long to load, your phone will assume you'r inactive and put your phone to sleep mode, turning off the app)

Bing is the smallest and slowest process, but you can have up to 5 accounts (just make BS Hotmail accounts) per PC. And you can earn as little as 15 credits a day (a $5 Gamestop payout is 525 credits, 475 if you're Gold status), but you can finish a single credit earn in less than 3 minutes if you put in the effort, and becoming Gold status is rather simple.

Swagbucks and Perk are great because they also offer Canadian Amazon Gift cards.
 
I'm one of those liberal blood suckers Fox News likes to warn Americans about. I scam money from the government in the form of food stamps and I trade food stamps for amiibos. I'm the lobster surfer of amiibo collectors.

No seriously, I just do stupid surveys and earn free gift cards, the only Amiibos that I put cash on was Rosalina, a Japanese Marth and Japanese WiiFit Trainer
Made me laugh more than it should.

I own all released amiibo (say for Gold Mario which has yet to ship or get cancelled) plus the display cabinet I made specifically for my amiibo collection, also factoring in the semi inflated prices (I paid slightly more than MSRP for a couple of the hard-to-find ones) plus the doubles I bought for future trades, we're looking at a final price of just under $800 in four months.

Wow. I just now did the math for the first time and had no idea how expensive this all was. It's looks as if I should slow down a bit and think about my expenses as a whole.

I'm, of course, kidding. I'm in it for the long haul and see no signs of stopping! BRING ON WAVE 4!!!!
oh sweet jeezus

I just found Wii Fit Trainer at Wal-Mart. Is that normal? Did they do a second run?
Not normal.
 
The Mario Party ones look way better than their Smash counterparts.

I can't agree with this or at least not necessarily.

The faces are more expressive and arguably better with the Super Mario line of Amiibos and they are bigger and more colorful but when it comes down to detail, some of the Smash ones are superior.
 
I can't agree with this or at least not necessarily.

The faces are more expressive and arguably better with the Super Mario line of Amiibos and they are bigger and more colorful but when it comes down to detail, some of the Smash ones are superior.

My dream would be Smash detail without having poses beholden to Smash trophies. Allow for characters to be reposed so random support columns are unnecessary.

The Super Mario line are too similar to the Jakks Pacific toys, and those toys are a lot cheaper.
 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa! Not sure why it was there. I definitely snatched it up. She was the only non-common Amiibo there. They didn't even have the Mario series yet!

My receipt just says "Wii U Amiibo" otherwise I'd post it as proof!


Yeah but you can post the receipt and the Amiibo now.
 
Yeah but you can post the receipt and the Amiibo now.

Welllllllllllllllllll, ok:

Here she was at the store. I was texting my friend about it. You can sort of see the Wal-Mart tags in the background.

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Here's my receipt, showing the UPC.

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Here's the UPC, showing the same number.

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Here's everything together!

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She has a lot of foreign language warnings on her. Could she be redirected from somewhere else? It seems very strange that she was there!
 
But Little Mac is more valuable than WFT and Marth. Arguably more valuable than Villager even, unless we're talking only the US version of Villager.

Still, I think it's a fair trade if you want the other amiibo.

0_o wat haha, just checked ebay, mac goes for like $60-$75 now , villager and wii fit trainer more

this is for superior NA version



:o at that wii fit trainer
 
Welllllllllllllllllll, ok:

Here she was at the store. I was texting my friend about it. You can sort of see the Wal-Mart tags in the background.

f11Fpv4l.jpg


Here's my receipt, showing the UPC.

pYTeFXNl.jpg


Here's the UPC, showing the same number.

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Here's everything together!

LmaUic9.jpg


She has a lot of foreign language warnings on her. Could she be redirected from somewhere else? It seems very strange that she was there!

she is English, French and Spanish.... maybe some were imported to restock US shelves?
 
Welllllllllllllllllll, ok:

Here she was at the store. I was texting my friend about it. You can sort of see the Wal-Mart tags in the background.

f11Fpv4l.jpg


Here's my receipt, showing the UPC.

pYTeFXNl.jpg


Here's the UPC, showing the same number.

j9nx8cv.jpg


Here's everything together!

LmaUic9.jpg


She has a lot of foreign language warnings on her. Could she be redirected from somewhere else? It seems very strange that she was there!
Wow, that has a lot of different translations on the box. It's not European or Japanese though. None of my us wave 1 amiibos has a box like that. New perhaps?
 
Welllllllllllllllllll, ok:

Here she was at the store. I was texting my friend about it. You can sort of see the Wal-Mart tags in the background.

Here's everything together!

LmaUic9.jpg


She has a lot of foreign language warnings on her. Could she be redirected from somewhere else? It seems very strange that she was there!

Wii Fit U2. Get Fit with Bono. Is gonna be revealed next week and release on summer instead of Splatoon so at least Nintendo is doing a second run of WFT.

...Ok jokes aside this is freaking awesome! Hope this truly means a second run of the super rare ones! I can see the scalpers reign of doom coming to an end pretty soon if this happens. Buahahah
 
Picked up a Luigi from the Mario set today. No plans to double up on any characters I already have but I held off on Luigi because I like this one better. Gonna get Toad soon, gotta say I love the new Bowser too. Wish I would've skipped the Smash one.
 
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