Random: Of Course There's Already A Custom Detective Pikachu amiibo

This needs to happen, for real

by Damien McFerran Mon 1st Feb 2016

Detective Pikachu was officially revealed to the world last week, and the unusually deep-voiced sleuth already has his own amiibo, albeit a custom one.

Crafted by GandaKris, the keen-eyed investigator comes with a hat, rug, tea and a pipe- everything a good detective needs, basically.

To top it all off, Seth Hay has created a box for the little guy too - which makes the whole thing seem even more real. Come on, Nintendo - you have to do this for real.

In case you missed it, here's the trailer again:

[source kotaku.com, via twitter.com]

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

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RupeeClock
Mon 1st Feb 2016

Complete with freakishly huge arms!

Although I jest, that oddity aside there's lots of really nice attentions to detail here.

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Nin10dad
Mon 1st Feb 2016

Ganda Kris is an absolute beast in the Amiibo community. Some of the customs she creates are out of this world, seriously, check out her work, true art!
On a related note, got an email from her saying that my custom shadow Mario has been shipped this morning. Couldn't be happier.
There are a lot of custom modders out their, Ganda Kris is in a whole other league!
Keep up the good work.

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Obito_Sigma
Mon 1st Feb 2016

Cool, but needs to be more CGI.

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MarkyVigoroth
Mon 1st Feb 2016

i need new pants

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Pres_Shinra
Mon 1st Feb 2016

The arms are weird but aside form that its great! I would buy it!!

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ZAZX
Mon 1st Feb 2016

You'd be surprised how fast the fan community works. There's already Rule 34 of Detective Pikachu too. Internet, internet never changes.

As for this Amiibo. It looks great! Though Detective Pikachu as a concept still makes me think Game Freak has officially jumped the shark.

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Tristendo
Mon 1st Feb 2016

I recently went to a New Orleans Wizard World Comic Con and got to hold her custom Magneto Mewtwo Amiibo! I even tagged her on a repost of her Detective Pikachu Amiibo on Instagram (@nintendo.pokeverse) and she responded to me! She even answered my DM!! She's super cool. I feel lucky enough to have messaged her and hold one of her custom Amiibo.

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Zerodactyl
Mon 1st Feb 2016

And I can barely even draw a stickman...

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jeffri
Mon 1st Feb 2016

I would love myself some investigation game other than Ace Attorney and Layton. Come to west Detective Pikachu! Oh, the custom Amiibo looks really cool too.

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Ryu_Niiyama
Mon 1st Feb 2016

That is cute but there is no way they could sell that for 13 bucks with all that stuff on the base.

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Sisilly_G
Mon 1st Feb 2016

@Ryu_Niiyama : cough Made in China. I think you overestimate the actual cost of manufacturing and producing these things at large quantities. At worst, they would charge the same amount that they would for a Yarn Yoshi amiibo, but I doubt that would even be necessary given the level of detail in some of the amiibo that are currently available (such as King Dedede, Bowser, Olimar, Wario, Inkling kids and the Fire Emblem characters).

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Ryu_Niiyama
Tue 2nd Feb 2016

@sillygostly Not at all. I didn't say it would be expensive to MAKE just that they wouldn't sell it at the standard price. I'm pretty sure Yarn Yoshizilla doesn't cost that much more than the normal yarn yoshi to make but it is still 40 bucks.