Rosalina & Luma amiibo Exclusive to Target in US, as More Peculiar Defects Are Shown Off Online

Pre-orders are already sold out on Target's site

Only one I don't have / have ordered. :-/

She's already sold out online. And our local Toys R Us broke the street date and the majority of the wave 2 amiibos were sold out.

amiibos > crack

I think I seriously need to save my Christmas money if I ever hope to get my hands on a Mega Man,Sonic,and Shulk amiibo.It's preorders or checking stores now.

I found a Samus who was broken off at the legs in Best Buy....I thought about buying it just to see what I could sell it for but clearly it was broken and not a defect.......I probably just lost out on $1000

@Gerbwmu no you didnt lose anything. No one would buy something thats broken. It would have been the case if they were missing instead.

Is it actually sold out online or was it never actually put up for sale yet? The other figures in that wave also say not available for ordering.

I'm not particularly a fan of having to run all over to several different stores to get specific amiibos - although from a business standpoint, I understand why retailers would want an exclusive figure.

It bothers me more when an exclusive retailer breaks street date and then proceeds to sell out. It's very unfair given how high in demand these are.

I'm just thankful they didn't do something evil like different colored luma's!

I am going to have to brave best buy tomorrow and pick up wave 2 (Zelda, Pit, Little Mac and Captain Falcon).

At some point I am going to have to find a proper shelf for them. right now they are on an old shot-glass shelf I have but don't remember where I got!

I am growing tired of this exclusive BS. The closest target to me is over 4 hours drive away and you cannot order online in Canada it seems.

Can't Nintendo see how fast these are selling?! Don't they want our money?? The simple obvious solution is to make MORE amiibos. MORE MORE MORE this is not a hard concept!

Amiibos seem cool...but I'm still not convinced.

What the hell is up with the exclusives? :/
And this is an Amiibo that I want, too. T.T

I am skeptical as to how well many of these sales are due to actual demand from people who like the figurines, rather than resellers. This is a craze, I think, one which will likely be fruitless in the end as the value of the 'rare' amiibos will probably plummet when it becomes apparent that many people don't actually want some of these. Marth is one such example of this. Pound shops! Bargain bins! Car boot sales! Prepare yourselves!

I wonder if the exclusive trend will hit Europe too...
Last time it happened it was for the Hyrule Warriors DLC preorders and that caused some DLCs to never appear in few countries, like Italy missing the SkywardSword one.
I wonder if Nintendo would allow that to happen again and have some amiibo NOT released at all in some countries, that would be the final prove Nintendo doesn't want our money >.>;;;

@ZenTurtle
There are people who have pre-ordered these and have not gotten them due to there not being enough so I believe the demand for them is there. The question remains how long the craze for them will last and the games they release for them.

@EveryoneElse

Is it just me or has Club Nintendo of North America removed the games off their site? There is nothing there when I go.... All that is there is this:

"Featured Game Offers

Use your Coins to get these great downloadable games for a limited-time only. Be sure to check back frequently to see new surprise games!

You must have a Wii U, Wii or Nintendo 3DS to redeem. Featured games are also available for standard purchase from the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo eShop."

And there are no games following or around this message and this worries me, we are down to 4 things, a digital cooking game and then 3 physical rewards of paper. I fear that Club Nintendo of NA is really about to die now.

@ikki5
I know there is demand, I'm just unsure of how much of it is people who use and admire the figurines, rather than people who (naively) believe they will make a large profit from selling them online. I think many of the so-called rare figurines are merely rare because there are a select few buying up a lot of the stock. On the other hand, they are rather appealing to some people, so we should wait and see, because after all, they've only been out for a couple of weeks...

I can understand one, maybe two defected toys getting into circulation over the manufacturing life span, but this is getting silly with so many being reported so close together.
Nintendo needs to get in touch with the company making the amiibo and get them to sort things out.

Holy smokes! That was fast. Cursed shortages! >_<

Why'd it have to be Target? My closest store is 100's of miles away....

@ericwithcheese2 I know what you mean about the whole breaking the street date thing! There was a Zelda and Diddy Kong at my GameStop when I was there today, so I just went on and picked those up! I'm hoping they didn't get the others in and I just missed out.

I'm beginning to not care about the whole amiibo thing. It's wearing me out trying to hunt them all down. And now I have three different stores I have to deal with as far as buying exclusives, that's if my pre-orders don't get cancelled because of no stock. The GameStops in my area are playing games with the one Wii fit trainer they have in stock. I was told it's been on hold at a GameStop for a week and they won't release it. Now it looks like upon just checking, got transferred to the gamestop I was at this morning! I'm not even mad at them, it's the damn eBay sellers that snatched all of them up and have control of the market. I'm even more so upset at Nintendo for not making enough and paying for more retail space. You'd almost think they weren't in business for 125 years the way they are handling this. I sent them a tweet today about this whole thing. Not that they would acknowledge it. Okay I'm done ranting! Haha

@NintyMan you'd think a retail exclusive amiibo would be easier to find being that they only have to produce stock for one chain of stores as opposed to everywhere. But who knows. Lol

@ikki5 I think it may be a hiccup in the site. The game selection was due to be changed out on Monday anyway. Maybe someone took down the games early by mistake.

@ZenTurtle I think most of it is demand from fans. Most fellow Nintendo fans I know ran out and got them when they first came out and others have been searching for a select few ever since. There are no doubt some resellers out there, but from what i gather from comments on this site and on various social networking platforms, the greater frenzied demand comes from fans.

I've been quite lucky with the amiibos so far. With the first wave, I bought what I thought would be the rarest ones (Wii Fit Trainer, Marth, Villager, Fox and Samus) and the next day I went crazy and bought the rest of first wave after levelling them all up to Lv50.

With the second wave, I bought them on release day (one store happened to have them all, sans Little Mac). I had to travel to another nearby shopping centre to hunt down Little Mac. Zelda was the only second wave amiibo that appeared to be available in abundance.

I've noticed that there are plenty of Marios, Peaches and especially Pikachus, with the other popular characters such as Yoshi and Donkey Kong being slightly rarer, with the remainder being quite difficult to find.

@Sir_JBizzle Nintendo has been woefully under prepared for the popularity of thus figures. Whether it was because of the low Wii U install base or competition from Skylanders and Infinity (both of which sell very well on Nintendo platforms), they really miscalculated on how Amiibo would do. I'm thrilled they are doing so well because Nintendo needs good news, but It's really mind boggling that they weren't better prepared.

As far as I know Rosalina + Luma haven't been made available for pre-order yet, don't start fretting. So far no canadians have been able to pre-order these, but luckily for me there's a Target, Toys 'R Us, Best Buy, and two EB Games near me which should hopefully get in on the exclusives. Me and the roommate already have a Payday-style plan to get our hands on all four.

So now I have to order from Toys R Us and Target... these exclusive deals stink.

These "defects" are really fake now. The first one or two were likely legit, but this Marth? I'm willing to bet it's been opened. He has two right arms. That just doesn't happen with 3D printing.

@ZBomber @TylerTreese @missanthropic

It's not been made available for pre order yet at Target. I checked their site 2 days ago when the news broke that Rosalina would be exclusive, and the figure was not in the system yet. Neither were any of the 3rd wave Amiibos.

Now they're finally listed, which only just happened in the last 24 hours. Which means it's not actually sold out, it just hasn't been made available for preorder yet.

This is the ONLY Amiibo I don't currently have locked in with a pre order.

@JaxonH

http://www.target.com/p/nintendo-amiibo-rosalina-luma-tgt-ex/-/A-16811585#prodSlot=large_1_21&term=Amiibo

You'll see it here that it is out of stock. In fact, ALL of the 3rd wave Amiibos are out of stock, they are all gone and if you want one from target, you will need to pray you'll get there early enough on the launch day of them.

@ikki5 Yes, it SAYS "out of stock" but it's not out of stock. It says that because it's not available to order yet. Anytime an item is made available in the system but is not yet available to order it will say out of stock. Meaning "no stock available to order, YET"

Meta Knight has been available for weeks on Best Buy's website and is not yet OoS. Shulk has been available on GameStop's website for weeks and is not yet OoS. This Target listing just went live in the last 24 hours. And there is no record of anyone making a single preorder. It has said "out of stock" since it was first listed. Which is why all the other third wave Amiibos also say "out of stock". We all know there's no feasible way on this earth every single third wave Amiibo sold out of stock within 24 hours but only on Target's website, yet are all still available on every other retailer's site. No, they all say out of stock because there is no stock available to order at this present time. Once the listing goes live you will see that change.

it's crazy that people list amiibo not being placed properly in box as defective... and what is even crazier, people bid on them. Mad world, we live in.

I'm only interested in the Shulk amiibo, for the possibility that Xenoblade 2 will use it for some little extra perk. Would keep it new, though, not going to open it until I know what it's for. If it's useless for Xenoblade, then I'll sell it. It should be rare, by then.

@mateq "No one can serve two masters: for either they will shun the one, and love the other; or else they will hold to the one, and forsake the other. Ye cannot serve both God and Mammon."

Pass on the pre-order & live for the chase! Or maybe I'm just a bit old fashioned..

@sillygostly that's what I should've done. Worked backwards and got the rare ones first. That was totally my first mind! Good thing I did manage to snap up a Villager and Marth. I didn't think the Trainer was going to be so hard to find as they were in a somewhat abundance. But of course that was right before the story broke about the "discontinuation" the rare ones slightly differ in my area. Mario, Fox and paticularly Peach are in abundance. Pikachu, DK, Link and Samus I can still find several in stores. From there, Kirby and Yoshi are hit and miss depending on retailer and obviously, you can't find the other three.

@ericwithcheese2 yea Ninty miscalculated for sure! It's so maddening! Haha. It's understandable, considering the Wii U install base. And it's not as if they had a marketing blitz for the toys, so they probably didn't want to seen bins of their toys not selling. (which I think will be the case with Mario Bros specific characters) I do honestly think that if I'm patient, then they'll send at least another batch of the "discontinues" before all is said and done. I'm just more or less kicking myself for not following through on my foresight. Lol

@ericwithcheese2
Perhaps, although like most things on the internet, a small vocal minority do tend to perhaps, shall I say, exaggerate things a little. I'm unsure about the USA, but from where I live all of the so-called rare amiibo(Marth, wii fit trainer etc) have been on Game's shelves for a couple of weeks now. That does include two Marths and two wii fit trainers. I think some of the demand might be rather locally concentrated, that's all I can really conclude.

@JaxonH That's what I figured. Rosalina is the only one I need too. I wasn't planning on buying all these when they were first announced, and I'm still not sold on the value of their in-game usage, but so far I've pre-ordered every single one and they make really cool collectibles.

@TylerTreese they are not sold out. It's been like that since the page went live. I was up at 4am and refreshing the page when it appeared outta nowhere with no pre order option.

I swear, if I don't get my Rosalina and Luma SOMEHOW, I am going to be reeeeaaal angry. ESPECIALLY if pre-orders actually run out. How the actual heck can you run out of pre-orders Nintendo?

I think Nintendo has to visit a lot of Amiibo factories (quality control), because how many Amiibo's are defective? Is it normal that there are so many defective Amiibo's?! At least I haven't heard of Amiibo's that didn't work in game. But I guess those also exist.

On a side-note: They seem to sell like hotcakes, wich is good for Nintendo of course. But did the Amiibo succes ALSO lead to many more Wii u's (and games) sold? I am curious!

Also: That some Amiibo's are exclusive to certain shops is consumer-unfriendly (but it drives sales). I think every Amiibo should be always available (not a set period of time). And they should be available at EVERY shop.

Target is just down the road from me,I will definitely pick this up!

@Henmii

I am willing to bet that a lot of those Amiibo (especially the ones with missing limbs and parts) are purposely made defective, not by Nintendo or the manufacture but by the people who buy them. Like come on, how many people would want to jump on that bandwagon when they see how much money they can make. If you are able to get the package open without damaging it (yes there are methods), you can make your amiibo defective easily by pulling parts off and then resealing it. I've seen people on Ebay with 3 or 4 of the same amiibo's "defective", especially the ones missing parts, selling it for a whopping price and those people that have the multiples and multiples of them, I don't have any doubt in my mind when I say they probably tampered with them.

I'm not surprised in the least this is happening. Same thing w/ the e-Bayers/the Amazons/Craigslisters/etc. It was bound to(!); they're character figures of a popular brand(Nintendo)! Also, product shortages have the side-effect of making at least some form of news about the product in short supply, which generates interest in the product, or at least in the subject of the product, & its rarity, whether, or not that rarity is artificial. So, Nintendo, in some ways, benefits from Amiibo rarity, just as in other ways they do not benefit.

Like banks, & their credit cards, I can understand, & agree w/ their making a profit off me via interest, as long as it's reasonable, & that the "usage rules" of the card, & also the interest rates, don't go all over the place, but stay put(, or literally speaking stay consistent, if you'd like the term). That's fine. But banks don't. Likewise, I can understand making a reasonable profit off of something, providing it is not something that should be free. The Amiibos, whether defective, or not, are going for ridiculous prices, & constantly higher bids on reseller sites. A fool, & his/her money are easily parted. But as I said, this situation is not unexpected, considering they're Nintendo character figures.

The exclusives, as some here have said, make business sense for Nintendo, & the retailers offering them. Full collections will be sold on reseller sites, eventually.

Just today, I was in Target, the aisle w/ Ammibo/Infinity/Skylanders, & quite literally I witnessed at least 3 groups: a grandmother, & aunt deciding between Hawkeye, & Donald Duck, a father, & mother buying Skylanders, & a family of 3 trying to learn about the Amiibos for their family's WU owner. The Amiibo group got a DK amiibo, the grandmother/aunt pair decided on Donald, assuming since it was the last one it was popular, & I don't know which Skylanders figure was purchased by the 2 parents. Activision, Disney, & Nintendo would not be manufacturing these, unless there was enough demand, & highly possible profit. The real question is for how long?

Glad I now know where to go for Rosalina. I wasn't planning, nor am I now, on getting all the Amiibos. i won't rule it out, either. I just am not making it my end goal.

@JaxonH - Well you seem much more on top of this than I am, but do you think it's possibe Target isn't taking pre-orders on this b/c they don't know what their stock allotment will be so thy aren't going to put them on sale until they have them in stock, no pre-orders at all? I have no idea how Target splits it's in store vs online allotment but I'm sure they would at least want 3 of these in each store.

W/ all the Target stores in America (I have 9 within 10 miles of me) maybe they simply won't sell any online?

Really? This store exclusive amiibo BS is completely ridiculous. Screw it, looks like I won't bother purchasing any of these.

@BakaKnight
Wave 3 can now be pre-ordered on Amazon fr/de/uk.

Anyway, have you read our Nintendo site? It says captain toad is delayed back to January 9.

Oh come on!Alright i guess the only amiibo i'm getting next year is Ike,if they don't make him an exclusive to a store!!

You can get Marth in the Mexican eBay (Mercado Libre) for $180 and Gameplanet (the Mexican version of Gamestop) and Walmart Mexico have Rosalina for pre-order right now. Besides Liverpool (a famous department store) are selling online all the Amiibos (first wave) with 20% discount for the Holidays. Fortunately we don't have those limitations the US buyers are getting with all the stores exclusives.

@SheldonRandoms That looks custom, not defective.

@BensonUii I heard Captain Toad was delated and it's pretty much ridicoulus (maybe to the point of be funny XD). I mean... we are such great workers here, Nintendo Italia can't release the game because too many stores will be enjoying the Holiday and have no time for get it in stock on date.
And of course the eShop version got delayed too for "respect" that. I understand the reasons behind such choice, but I start to really think digital distribution should stop caring for the retail counterpart, especially if cases like this have to happen -.-;;;

And I don't feel to trust the preorders for amiibo, the fact amazon placed the third wave avaiable to preorder doesn't confirm there won't be exclusive, it only confirm Amazon can't wait XP But I sure hope they are instead well informed and the third wave won't have any exclusive in Europe.

Just listening to IGN's NVC podcast, 3 middle aged men freaking out running into Best Buy and Target looking for Princess figurines.

It would be funny if I didn't resemble it. I didn't plan to get them all but my nephew and the internet made me go slightly nuts. I managed to get all the first wave, and have pre-ordered wave's 3 and 4 (UK), but I'm now panicking that wave 2 has had it's release date broken by certain stores and I can't get out to the shops until next Friday!!!

Good thing i secured mine from Amazon UK

@whodatninja I wouldn't say it's secured given what happened with the GC adapter. Your preorder might get cancelled.

Dance puppets dance!

I was planning on securing a Rosalina Amiibo, but alas, i took a long road trip today and didn't get home until 3:30am...

All sold out online, I wanna crawl into a hole somewhere and cry now!!!

@shigulicious
lol brother you wrong for that!

@ikki5
Yes, that pisted me off when I saw that... I sent an email to customer service to complain...I'm hoping they have something to offer us worth getting... I got points to use and nothing to show for it....

NOA japan has awesome stuff that I cannot get my hands on!!!

Just keep in mind that collecting them all give very little in actual game additions. It's all a collector's mentality stirring up the crazy. The fact that these are essentially Smash Bros. specific makes it easy for me to just collect my favorites and move on... so far. (I like Smash Bros. but I'm not crazy about it.)

@arronsullivan
Yeah I'm with you on that.. I just bought yoshi, kirby, and link for thier game additions. I alos preordered shulk at gamestop because I actually use him currently in smash bros.

Some parents associated the amiboos with disney infinity and skylanders adding more to the confusion.

Already offers for Little Mac and Diddy Kong at a starting price of 35$ on Amazon. Freaking voucher seller scum.

Luigi is out of stock

Man, this amiibo craze is unreal. I wouldn't be surprised if this craze keeps up for months as more waves keep hitting the market. But I think if any of the eBay people want to capitalize on the rush and make some money, now is the time. The craze will probably wear off once Nintendo oversaturates the market with them and creates tons more than they ought to (they're well on their way, it seems, thanks to the enormous Smash roster and the variety of games amiibo supports).

@aaronsullivan - "makes it easy for me to just collect my favorites and move on..."

I think what makes it easy for you to lay off the crack, is that you're already hooked on the crank. Or maybe burned out and rehabbing the crank at this point?

I've been thinking of you, was this><close to buying a PS3 DI 2.0 bundle for myself for Christmas. The missus said 1 PS3 and Skylanders was enough though. And she's right, was just caught up in the shopping frenzy of the moment.

@rjejr You are partially right. I was seriously caught up in Disney Infinity deal tracking. I did so well with DI 1.0 and just wouldn't settle for anything but the best deals. I never paid full price for a single item... oh wait, there was one: Baymax. It was getting scarce and it was turning into what my son wanted the most so I caved and bought it for actual retail price.

Turns out I even got a deal with the digital version and was one of the first 10,000 to order so I also got the games that go with the Toy Box starter pack in the mail (the stitch/merida game discs).

We laid it all out to see what we bought the kids and decided to spread some of it out to other family members (and even save on for me on my birthday!) because it was way too much. lol. Shopping early for Christmas can be a curse as you keep thinking of new things.

Anyway, none of us have played it yet, but I know they'll get tons of enjoyment out of the Toy Box if nothing else and we even watched a carefully edited version of the Avengers together last night so they are stoked about the characters they didn't know much about before.

Those deals were hard to pass up right? They went SO low sometimes.

All that said, I'm not the biggest Smash Bros. fan and I know it will send my 5-year-old kid into kicking/punching frenzies that we'll have to help him control. So, I do have some other factors helping me to limit my fascination with it. I'm a fan of almost all Nintendo franchises, though, and Nintendo will get me good in the future, I know it. I wonder what Nintendo will have, Amiibo-wise, to compete with Star Wars Disney Infinity (I suppose they could wait until 2016 for that, though.)

I just got back from three different Targets (all of which are 5-10 minutes from my house, so no big deal), and they all said the same thing about the Rosalina amiibo..."we never got it to stock in the first place". All the others to be released today were sold out (except for Zelda). Maybe there's such a huge amount of pre-orders that they are beyond back ordered?

So glad we don't have all this in Germany. No retailer exclusives and plenty in stock. I also think we have as many people who buy to resell here. From what I hear they went out and bought up everything in some places in the States.

Want this so much! I'll have to buy it as soon as possible. Even though robbing banks sound fun... Although the dual wielding marth is cool.

This Amiibo-shortage/exclusivity nonsense is now officially ridiculous, Nintendo.

Duel wielding Marth would be cool if his arm was not so deformed.

@JaxonH @tasmans11 thank you both for the info. Much appreciated!

@rolzup Rosalina didn't come out with the latest wave, this one will be coming in 2015.

I don't even have one Amiibo yet.
The joys of being poor.

My excitement for Amiibo figures is being severely dampened by all the factory errors, supply issues, "Discontinued oh wait, still coming"-contradictions and other nonsense surrounding them...

@ZBomber ....Hmmm, this must have been a last minute delay because one of the guys at Target told me that people were asking specifically for Rosalina. It's another last minute switcheroo Nintendo likes to do from time to time.

@rolzup Nope, it was always 2015. It's coming out at the same time as the other retail exclusives (Lucario, Meta Knight, etc) in the third wave. The second wave (Luigi, Pit, Zelda, Little Mac, Falcon), which just came out yesterday, was announced and available for preorder a long time ago. Target only just officially announced that they will be the retailer to carry Rosalina yesterday, so that is probably why people are going to the store and asking for it. It is more of an issue on Target's part than Nintendo's, since it doesn't actually have a release date on their website (along with the other 2015 wave 3 figures). Pre-orders haven't gone up for this yet, so you nor anyone else has missed out on it.

I just spoke with a rep. from Target. They stated that Rosalina went up for sell and is sold out. I have been hitting refresh on my Iphone every 10-15 minutes since before Rosalina was ever posted on Target.com. This means that it sold out in less than 15 minutes. So, I guess that is it. Rosalina does not release for six weeks, but that Amiibo sold-out in instantly, within minutes. Is that the only supply that will ever exist? So,basically this was impossible to get unless you got lucky and happened to see it posted for sell the very second it was listed for sell. If you refreshed your browser one minute early or late it was gone. Was there a two-minute supply, and gone forever?

Wow. Nintendo likes money right? Soooo... why is there such an issue with which characters they want to sell to us? JUST SELL THEM ALL! Disney Infinity and Skylanders don't have this problem. They sell ALL of the available figures. Nintendo shouldn't get to decide what figures are "popular" enough to sell. Just look at freaking Marth and Wii Fit trainer.

Dual sword Marth is cooler than regular Marth.

@SheldonRandoms Okay I didn't think it was possible but that's proof it's possible to reseal these packages.

@NinjaWaddleDee Nintendo didn't plan on this. I don't think they want to keep these figurines from you but rather just didn't expect the hype (because they're bad with these kind of things) and don't have more shelf space. Also: Wii Fit and Marth are only a big hit because they are rumored to be sold out soon. Again: Here in Germany noone cares about this. All figurines are plenty and normal price. But as soon as the rumor arrived people in the States (especially greedy resellers) rushed to the stores and bought them out.

Luigi Amiibo from amazon is in backorder

@ikki5,

If that really is the case, then that's very bad! And as you mentioned: If some people have so many defective Amiibo's, it gets a bit suspicious to say the least. Unless those people got those Amiibo's from Ebay in the first place.

It's official Amiibo is the new beanie babies. I hope that this can be a cash cow that Nintendo can milk on an ongoing basis. I have a feeling there will be new series of amiibo and their in game functionality will increase with time.

I was in GAME The other day (Daterday i think.. im a bit muddled up at the moment) And Finnaly got Kirby! but... thay had Luigi and Pit on the shelves there ment to be out on the 19th right?
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Side note.. Why is Rosilinas Amiibo Right Handed? when she is clerly Left Handed in SSB and Super Mario Galaxy?.

Need to buy #amiibo 's figurines!

So, here's the Dual Cannon Samus' missing arm

People are just getting into this defective Amiibo selling thing very hard. They are selling Amiibos that are just broken. That's stupid, but The tmost ridiculous are people selling Marth with bent sword as rare... Almost every Marth has a bent sword!

Why does my wallet have to be empty just as the Amiibo's release!

No, she did not sell out as soon as she was listed online. I find that hard to believe considering all of Wave 3 Amiibos are also "sold out" while other major stores such as Best Buy are still taking pre-orders unless Target is go-to store for Amiibos. The PR on Target's facebook was just a representative for Target who probably saw the online listing and did not do any investigating so he assumed the Amiibos were sold out. Target is just obviously having inventory issues. It is still only December and wave 3 does not release until Feburary so hopefully Target can get their stock sorted out after the holidays.

Come check out my newest custom you may like it

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Link-Custom-Amiibo-PONYTAIL-LINK-From-ZELDA-U-1of1-L-K-/111549793982?ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123

I'm bummed this one was already sold out online. I was just looking Friday to preorder once I heard this was a Target exclusive but it wouldn't show up when I search for Rosalina. Then when I looked on Sunday it was already sold out. I've managed to get or preorder every other character. Now this is going to be the only one I don't have coming. Guess I'll have to be at my local store the day it comes out and hope I can get one before they are all gone.

From what I understand, Rosalina hasn't been made available to order and it could be because target hasn't recieved info from nintendo on how many units they'll be receiving or something along those lines. I've been checking at least 3 times a day to see if she's available for preorder but to no avail. If I have to go out and get her, I won't care. There's a target about 20 minutes from where I live. Lucario on the other hand, I'm just gonna have to try and make it over to w toys r us but they're so far from me like 45 minutes away and also on the busiest part of town, which I absolutely hate going through...

I looked up "defected Amiibo" online and a ton of results popped up... however why is it that a bent sword is always 'rare'? I mean that could happen during shipping rather than in the factory where they make them. I personally want to get Amiibo figures but will wait until after Christmas to see what I get for Christmas to see what I should buy (that's why I only have SSB4 3DS not Wii U)

@Mariominer http://www.pixeldynamo.com/news/gaming/2014/12/08/42883/factory-defect-invisible-link-amiibo-sale-ebay/ this is going to far i feel bad for who ever buys this scam

I'm out of this Amiibo mess, hoping the whole thing sinks faster. The idea was poorly executed. High prices, very limited supplies, retailer exclusives (the worst part if you live in a country without any of these stores) and limited usage to only 1 game per figure. Seriously. It was great at E3 but now it's just a big pile of "meh".

Holy cow, dude, here's another one. This time it's Luigi with a backwards head!

http://imgur.com/IvgQA5g

I just want a mega man, I made the mistake of thinking I would be able to buy one in store, didn't realize you have to pre order these if they are not from a Mario or Zelda game. Oh well.