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JC, I was in Canada last weekend and searched endlessly for a Falco amiibo (with endlessly I mean I went to three different EB Games, but I had to take a bus dude!!) It wasn't until I got back home that I was able to find over a dozen of them in BLOCKBUSTER.
Oh, but I hear there was a Falco restock this week. I guess it was just my luck (amiibo here are more expensive
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I did however find modern mario almost everywhere there. I'm glad because walmart sucks and I saved myself a trip!!!!
I checked the Canadian Rarity Chart about Falco according to /r/AmiiboCanada, and he's considered as rare. Not sure if I should blame on my luck that I managed to get him at The Source, but I believe it was no easy feat.
Speaking of which, I finally placed an order at Best Buy later in the evening. This time, I went for the Best Buy "exclusive" Little Mac and Zero Suit Samus. According to that reddit subpage, the former is now considered as uncommon, given that I didn't have much trouble getting him.
This is the first time I ever got any amiibo from the fourth wave. Most of these amiibo are pretty difficult to obtain, if not outright impossible, probably because Nintendo severely underestimated the demand and the restock are harder to come by than any other wave for some reason. Pac-Man is the only common out of the bunch, which is the one I recently ordered.
Charizard has been sporadically available at times, but I don't care for claiming any Pok?mon amiibo anyway. If I want him, it'll be definitely my failsafe amiibo if I fail to get one of the amiibo I wanted more than him.
Wario is nowhere to be found, and I really want him bad. I thought he's way more popular than Rosalina, so there's no reason to not produce a lot more of him.
Ness, Robin, and Lucina are freaking impossible to find for me. What's even more baffling is that, the latter two are from a game that is a million-seller and they might be presumably more well-known than the Mother franchise as result. And Ness is EB Games exclusive, I'm nowhere near to these retailers and that little sucker tends to be sold out pretty quickly whenever a restock comes in online.
With Zero Suit Samus coming to my pad, I think I'll almost complete my Wave 6 collection. I'm only missing Bowser Jr. from Toys'R'us, but I'm waiting for another worthwhile amiibo to appear online assuming he's still in stock or until I end up visiting the closest retailer that is still very far away from me.