About the cards and mini cards

[BumPaf]

I don't understand everything I see with the serie 5 cards.

Are the "mini" cards real Nintendo products ? Or are people crafting them ?

Is there an album to put your Serie 5 cards in ?

How come for the same price US buyer gets 6 cards and Europe buyer gets 3 cards ?

 

[your local goomy]

The "mini" cards are not real Nintendo products. People replicate the amiibo chips, put them in their own cards, and sell them. Nintendo only makes the full-sized cards and anything with "NFC" is more often than not unofficial. I don't think there's an album to put the cards in, but card albums aren't necessarily that expensive. Just no official one iirc.

As for the pack size...I think it just has to do with distribution. I'm not sure why NA gets more.

 

[BumPaf]

Thank you for all this. I think I wont collect the serie 5 as their are not that many new characters and they did not make a album that goes with the previous ones.

 

[Regalli]

There’s been an announced card album as I recall (though I think NA will have to import again,) but it’s not out yet.
The proportion of NPCs to villagers really is frustrating, especially because about half those NPCs are new characters who’ve never had cards before and then there’s Blathers. Or two cards each for Nook and Isabelle. Or how giving new cards for Welcome Amiibo that look like the standard ones would’ve put them at a standard size, since packs of WA sell for $250 on ebay right now. I do eventually want to finish the set, but it’s gonna be a pain dealing with the excess villagers I get in the name of finishing out the NPCs.