Topic: amiibo Collection

@HammerGalladeBro, 🤯 Must've cost a pretty penny!

@OctolingKing13 @ShieldHero
I was lucky I could find most of them for affordable prices and a few of them were second-hand but well kept.

Over here in Mexico they started by costing 250 Mexican Pesos back in 2014, which was more or less $15-$20 back then (i.e. par for the course), but starting in 2015 the exchange rate started to go up and so did amiibo prices, It went progressively like this between 2015 all the way to the final Smash 4 releases in 2017: 270 - 280 - 300 - 350 - 400 - 500.
By the end of the Smash 4 line, amiibo were already costing the double of its launch price.

They stayed at 500 from mid-2017 until mid-2020 (pandemic period). In 2018, with the release of Smash Bros. Ultimate, new figures were still 500, but restocks costed 400 each.
When Joker and Hero were released in the middle of the pandemic, the price went up to 570, the same price I paid for Banjo-Kazooie in 2021.
That price stayed for a while, but starting with Kazuya and Sephiroth prices went up again, this time to 600-650. Finally with Sora, the price was 600, but GamePlanet initially only sold it online for 600 but with a shipping cost of 150, which caused them to be called by everyone for selling an amiibo at 750 Mexican Pesos (triple the launch price in Mexico). Thankfully, after a while it became more available in-store and in other stores such as Sears or Liverpool.

Nowadays, retailer amiibo prices in Mexico are all over the place costing between 300 all the way to 1000. Seemingly now depending on the character itself and how many figures are included in a bundle, if it's a bundle. But the good thing is that they're not selling as they used to, so chances are you can find what you're looking for. Last year I bought Smash Rosalina, Villager and Sheik and the store had them available for a good 6 months before I bought them.

The cheapest brand new figure I've bought is R.O.B. (Famicom Colors) at 150 Pesos, though it was yellowed. I didn't mind because I thought "That's what happens to actual Famicoms".

With pre-orders, restocks and everything, I'm pretty sure I've seen almost all the Smash Bros. figures in stores at least once throught those 10 years. The only ones from that series that I've never seen in stores are Daisy, Ice Climbers (mine was second-hand), the Pyra/Mythra duo and Kazuya.

I got some Amiibos.

Back at the beginning of September, I bought Capcom Fighting Collection 2 and a Kazuya amiibo as a craving for the casual fighting fan in me.

Yes, I'm aware it should've been a Terry amiibo instead, but none were available in my area at the time.

How do you all keep track of the Amiibo you own , i mistaken bought a 2nd Wolf not realizing i had already bought it previously.

@HalfAWorldAway, there's a smartphone app on the Google Play Store (it might also be on Apple App store) called GAMEYE. It's a database with just about every game, console, controller, and toys-to-life imaginable. You do need internet to look up something to add to your collection, but once something is added to your collection, you can view it in your collection on the app without an internet connection, which is useful when you're at a store with gaming stuff and you might not have internet. You can also create a wishlist of gaming things that you want to get as well. The interface is very user-friendly and easy to get used to, and the whole thing is absolutely free. Also, you can choose to sync your collection to the GAMEYE website if you want, but that part is completely optional.

I've used the app for about two and a half years and have never had any issues with it 😀.

@HalfAWorldAway Normally for amiibo, I do it out of memory and backups I create using the app called Tagmo, which is also on Google Play Store.

For games I usually go to The Backloggery, but I think I'll start using the app @Nep-Nep-Freak mentions as well.

I have the gameye app and found it frustrating as its missing quite a number of PAL related items, i used a site called vgcollect awhile back, it was full of bootlegs and unofficial games.

I think i am going to make my own list, try to get a spreadsheet going.

I love my small and selective collection

First ever amiibo I got was the Shovel Knight 3pack. I just had to have that when I saw it. I don’t even need Shovel Knight himself, I love those other three characters and the games so much.

Then I got these (all were still available on the Nintendo online store as of a few months ago, and all shipped arrived with perfect boxes no dings btw):

-Olimar with red and blue Pikmin
-5 Pikmin on an anchor
-Ness
-wario (classic yellow/purple overalls)
-wind Waker link

If Luigi with his vacuum or the glow in dark Boo come back in stock I want those. I think I will get the Mario Galaxy one coming out soon.

One thing I would just HAVE to have is the Koopalings. I can’t believe they didn’t do Koopalings amiibo.

Organizing mine has let me know I need to back off. I have been wall mounting acrylic cases with doors because I don't wanna dust but I am running out of wall space (and I am short so that doesn’t help) the cases usually hold about 15 (I have a few larger cases for the larger amiibo that hold less) and I am now at 11 of those and there are still more in my amiibo box. (I haven’t even started buying the new metroid, kirby and mario ones yet…) nothing breaks an addiction like getting annoyed at storage lol. That being said I buy them for functionality so I may not be out of the game yet. (yet as Nintendo makes them less useful I am less inclined to buy them.)