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UK/EU Amiibo Thread | Compatible with the regular-sized New Nintendo 3DS

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lewisgone

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Phillips455 said:
Yeah, Its just a shame that everywhere is now starting to think that £14.99 is the acceptable price. It used to only be £10 on amazon but now they even put their price up to GAME standards.
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I'm no expert, but I'm hoping these reprints may have finally ended the high demand for many characters, and we'll see their prices go down as shelf space becomes an issue. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking. There's a few amiibo I want but for £15 I just won't buy them.
 
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MarkMclovin

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Yeah I'm not paying anything more than £15 with free delivery for Ness. Thats the most I've paid for any Amiibo so far.

I'll continue to keep an eye out then.
 
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Kabanossi

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Bought my first Amiibo. Couldn't resist the cuteness of a green Yarn Yoshi. A voice inside my head tells me that I should collect every Amiibo even though half of the characters aren't familiar to me. Anyway, I ordered the Mario Party 10 Amiibo -bundle for 39,90€. Maybe I'll just collect the Amiibos from the Mario-games. Yeah right...
 
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Koren

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lewisgn said:
I'm no expert, but I'm hoping these reprints may have finally ended the high demand for many characters, and we'll see their prices go down as shelf space becomes an issue. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking.
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I think so...

In fact, prices here went *up* for the last wave.

There were still a couple of places where you could find them for 12.99€ (9£) a couple months ago, although the most common price is 14.99€ (10.4£) but a video game shop I often use for Amiibos upped the price at 16.99€ (11.8£) for the Dr Mario / Bowser Jr / Olimar wave :/ . They also sell some imports or rare ones for 19.99€ (13.9£).

That's still cheaper than UK prices (that seems insane) but their prices are definitively on the rise.
 
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Ikon

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Kabanossi said:
Bought my first Amiibo. Couldn't resist the cuteness of a green Yarn Yoshi. A voice inside my head tells me that I should collect every Amiibo even though half of the characters aren't familiar to me. Anyway, I ordered the Mario Party 10 Amiibo -bundle for 39,90€. Maybe I'll just collect the Amiibos from the Mario-games. Yeah right...
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Welcome to the madness :)
 
Robin64

Robin64

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Looks like a pack of 3 in Europe after all.

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Argos really better be wrong now.
 
Robin64

Robin64

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From now on, we shall call you Slow Joe.

But really, 3 cards and 1 is always "special"? I hope there are 33 special ones to make that ratio work, then, or we're going to be buying a lot of packs to finish the villagers while getting many special dupes.
 
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JoeM86

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Robin64 said:
From now on, we shall call you Slow Joe.

But really, 3 cards and 1 is always "special"? I hope there are 33 special ones to make that ratio work, then, or we're going to be buying a lot of packs to finish the villagers while getting many special dupes.
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Based on this set list so far http://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/edhj/amiibocard/index.html it looks like 17 special ones in Set 1

And I'm not slow, you got it because you follow my Twitter :p
 
Robin64

Robin64

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I do. And your 34 cards minimum, assuming equal rarity, isn't quite right. With 83 villager cards, of which you only get 2 per pack, you need at least 42 packs.

I really hope GAF trading for these kicks in.
 
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MicH

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Not really feeling those cards. 3 cards in a pack is too few. Definitely not buying any until I know for sure that Cheri is in
 
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TsunamiOfSwagger

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Really hope Argos are not selling the cards at £9.99 for a pack of three. That is messed up.
Is anyone on twitter able to ask someone from Nintendo about a price for these, would they even respond to that question?
 
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lbs.

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Shopto have the latest wave up!!!

Edit: To be clear....
Mii fighters, ROB, Duck Hunt, Mr G&W are all there to be preordered.

Forgive my edit, I'm at work ;p
 
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MicH

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God my wave 5B Amiibo today. They all look amazing. The difference in quality from the first wave to these later ones is staggering
 
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cyba89

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If there would be a real Animal Crossing game with card support or an update for New Leaf maybe I would buy one pack, but I have no interest in these spinoff games.
 
Robin64

Robin64

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Ikon said:
Not going to touch the cards. Not even if there is a Mr. Resetti card. Nope. Go away.
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Luckily there isn't a Mr. Ressetti card in Series 1.

(But I bet S2 will have one!)

cyba89 said:
If there would be a real Animal Crossing game with card support or an update for New Leaf maybe I would buy one pack, but I have no interest in these spinoff games.
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My money's on these cards doing something in the next "real" Animal Crossing game too. The branding for them is just "Animal Crossing", after all, with no subtitles or anything.
 
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Ikon

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Robin64 said:
Luckily there isn't a Mr. Ressetti card in Series 1.

(But I bet S2 will have one!)
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Really? But he's on the cover of the packs and all. Oh well, I can do without it and Isabelle and Mabel are getting full blown Amiibos so I'm safe. Safe I say!
 
Robin64

Robin64

Member
Haha, I'm blind. I checked there, I swear.

Wonder if when you invite him over he just tunnels up through the floor..
 
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Bydobob

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JoeM86 said:
Last week's wave are all back in stock, including Olimar which strangely isn't listed in the amiibo category
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Yep, had to do a double-take when my generic amiibo search returned a blank for Olimar. Glad to bag him at rrp price for a change.

Despicable opportunism going on charging 14.99 when you think about it. Hopefully the abundance of stock starts forcing outlets to rethink their pricing structure.
 
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lewisgone

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I would happily pick up a pick of Amiibo cards whenever I went into town for £2/£2.50 or so, but a pack of 3 is pretty poor. Should be a pack of 5 in my opinion, with the amount of cards that are going to be available + the price these things will likely be sold for.
 
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