amiibo Official General Discussion

[Hyoshido]

Alongside the obvious trollbait attempt (and me falling into it, lmao)

Anyone else had enough luck to get any of the Wave 4+ Amiibo's from GAME and whatnot?

 

[JasonBurrows]

Alongside the obvious trollbait attempt (and me falling into it, lmao)

Anyone else had enough luck to get any of the Wave 4+ Amiibo's from GAME and whatnot?

I think they are still available as of the time of posting this reply.

 

[matt]

Splatoon preorders available at Brighton game today

 

[Celestefey]

Yep, they're all still available, because they're only 1 per customer, and they've stopped shipping internationally.

 

[Hyoshido]

Dr.Mario, Bowser Jr, Olimar, Robin, Lucina, Mewtwo, Lucas and Ness are the only ones you can't pre-order right now.

Asked my brother to pre-order Dark Pit and Palutena, so glad to have gotten them, he also nabbed himself Zero Suit Samus due to her being available in September aswell.

However I still want and need Ness, I hope he becomes pre-orderable on Amazon soon, asked my brother to buy two, one for me and him.

 

[Heyden]

Glad to see UK is getting their amiibo figured out

 

[JasonBurrows]

Dr.Mario, Bowser Jr, Olimar, Mewtwo, Lucas and Ness are the only ones you can't pre-order right now.

Asked my brother to pre-order Dark Pit and Palutena, so glad to have gotten them, he also nabbed himself Zero Suit Samus due to her being available in September aswell.

However I still want and need Ness, I hope he becomes pre-orderable on Amazon soon, asked my brother to buy two, one for me and him.

I preordered Ness on the 21st of January. That just shows how serious people have to be with amiibo, doesn't it?

See... look... I can have sensible conversations. XD

 

[Hyoshido]

I preordered Ness on the 21st of January. That just shows how serious people have to be with amiibo, doesn't it?

See... look... I can have sensible conversations. XD

This is what we want, nobody really wants others rambling on about their massive luck, it just promotes jealousy!

That website you got Ness from seems to keep popping up as ads...They just WANT me to feel bad.

 

[lars708]

Just go murder the ones you know with an pre order placed and get the figures instead of them! (Lol jk that would be stupid, how far can you go? xD)

 

[JasonBurrows]

That website you got Ness from seems to keep popping up as ads...They just WANT me to feel bad.

Which website? I did not mention a website in my latest post.

Just go murder the ones you know with an pre order placed and get the figures instead of them! (Lol jk that would be stupid, how far can you go? xD)

I don't really think that would be at all possible because what if they were like me where they only put the money in for the figures on the Sunday before the release date? If you murdered them, it would mean they could not put the money in if they did it like me.

 

[Hyoshido]

Which website? I did not mention a website in my latest post.

shopto.net
Keeps coming up with ads saying "Lucina, Ness and Robin Amiibo's up for preorder!" and whatever, they aren't orderable in the slightest.

 

[JasonBurrows]

I am really confused with amiibo to be totally honest...

Super Smash Bros. Collection Wave One: November 28th 2014.
Super Smash Bros. Collection Wave Two: December 19th 2014
Super Smash Bros. Collection Wave Three: January 23rd 2015
Super Smash Bros. Collection Wave Four: February 20th 2015
Super Mario Collection Wave One: March 20th 2015
Super Smash Bros. Collection Wave Five: April 24th 2015
Super Smash Bros. Collection Wave Six: May 29th 2015
Super Smash Bros. Collection Wave Seven: June 2015
Super Smash Bros. Collection Wave Eight: July 2015

I could have thought those were correct unless I am mixing up waves, could you or someone please let me know or direct me to somewhere that shows which amiibo are from which wave. lol

 

[Heyden]

Seven is probably MewTwo and Lucas.. 8? maybe Duck Hunt, Game and Watch, the extras

 

[Amissapanda]

Caved today and got a Rosalina import pre-order. Cost $30 total with shipping (from Japan), but at least I'll finally have her.

Play-Asia has a number of them up for pre-order for that amount, if anyone is interested (including Meta Knight, Shulk, Pit, and other rare/hard to find amiibos). It's a little pricy and they don't ship until July, but at least it's guaranteed after you order.

 

[lars708]

Just pre ordered the Splatoon + Squid amiibo bundle! I am actually not hyped for this game or anything but it looks fun! I hope that it has enough things to do and a lot of variations of turf wars because i would quickly grow bored of the game if it was the same thing over and over... But the price convinced me to buy it! It was just €40 for the bundle including €6.95 shipping! (European people know how cheap that is hahah!)

 

[Hyoshido]

Caved today and got a Rosalina import pre-order. Cost $30 total with shipping (from Japan), but at least I'll finally have her.

Play-Asia has a number of them up for pre-order for that amount, if anyone is interested (including Meta Knight, Shulk, Pit, and other rare/hard to find amiibos). It's a little pricy and they don't ship until July, but at least it's guaranteed after you order.

Well atleast you snagged Rosie then! Cheaper than what those hoarders are selling her at, I checked for the other Amiibo's but they're sold out :/ and it blows they're only shipping until July but eh, atleast you got her!

I'm still happy for Dark Pit though, he might just be as rare as regular Pit if not rarer? Who doesn't love edgy angels?

 

[lars708]

Well atleast you snagged Rosie then! Cheaper than what those hoarders are selling her at, I checked for the other Amiibo's but they're sold out :/ and it blows they're only shipping until July but eh, atleast you got her!

I'm still happy for Dark Pit though, he might just be as rare as regular Pit if not rarer? Who doesn't love edgy angels?

I do not think they could be any rarer than the regular Pit since they were both manufactured for one month which is the minimum as far as i know.

 

[Heyden]

FML Wave 4 releases on a public holiday in Australia :/

 

[JCnator]

So, Nintendo of America has some interesting comments about the amiibo shortage in North America in general.

While this may not be the answer you were hoping for, all of the issues you're describing are retailer related. Nintendo has no input on when or how retailers sell our products, if or when new products are stocked, or when and how the retailer takes pre-orders. These decisions are made by retailers at the administration level. If you have concerns about these kinds of issues, we can only recommend contacting your retailer.

It may interest you to learn that Nintendo doesn't ship products directly to retail locations. We take orders from distributors (who sell our products and products from other companies), and ship our products to their distribution centers. The distributors then take orders from retailers and ship these orders to the retailers' merchandise centers. Once there, the retailers make all decisions about how to best sell this merchandise. They divide this merchandise up into smaller units and send them to retailers based on sales data.

Please also note that no amiibo have been discontinued at this time. We plan to have different amiibo available throughout the year, and characters which seem to disappear at one time will suddenly reappear in the future. This means that amiibo which are hard to find now will be back in stores.

So, according to Nintendo of America, the retailers are to blame for amiibo shortage, because they haven't ordered enough amiibo to meet the massive demand. Rest assured that there are no discontinued amiibo at the moment, meaning that they could appear again anytime soon or later.


Source: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...-for-amiibo-shortage-solely-on-retailers.aspx

 

[Boidoh]

Thats just according to some Customer Service Rep, not NoA.