Mega Man amiibo Pre-Orders Reportedly Delayed Into March By Amazon in North America

I have Sonic and Mega Man preordered on gamestop.com. I seriously hope they dont become delayed or cancelled

I unfortunately didn't think to preorder until three weeks ago. Apparently they were already sold out then.

I got one of those emails and it doesn't say anything about being delayed until march, it says that they are having trouble locating stock and if they don't ship out by march 6th they will automatically cancel your order unless you confirm that you are willing to wait, this isn't a confirmed March delay.

I just checked and I got it, and I ordered on December 1st!

I pre-order in store at gamestop and the exclusives at othes stores. but, had to get my Rosalina & Luma and Lucario at amazon by Japan import got cheap by the way. Also, hope gamestop does not do that.

Wait, what? I thought wave 3 had already come out here this past week. Either some people are breaking street date or I just misheard...

Good job Nintendo! Now you have delayed both games and toys.

Also, surprised to see Toon Link delayed because.... well i got mine and I ordered it off of Amazon.

Hey, an article about Nintendo doing a terrible job getting Amiibos to market.

It must be a day that ends in "y".

I pre-ordered all of Wave 3 in November, and all of their release dates were pushed into March for me. I'm not getting a notification to approve a delay for Mega Man, though.

This supply issue on NOA is awful. Nintendo is making money but scalpers may be in a close second.

This is why I stopped messing with Amazon. I already got my Toon Link from Best Buy and the Ike and Shulk are still down for their normal dates, with the order status as closed, meaning it has either shipped or preparing to ship.

This has gotta be a problem on their end.

Wait a minute... when were Shiek and Toon Link expected to come out? because I got mine last week on Thursday.

I have Toon Link preordered and they sent me an e-mail to let me know about the delay.

Amazon is telling me that Toon Link, Sheik, and Sonic will be delivered by February 10.

@Quorthon - Just can't get enough amiibo news

It is possible the amiibo are just anchored off California catching some rays, unless somebody thinks these things are manufactured in the US?

http://www.joc.com/port-news/us-ports/port-los-angeles/la-long-beach-oakland-pnw-congestion-reaches-critical-stage_20150203.html

Not sure why this would affect amiibo more than every other product coming from overseas, though the Skylanders Kaos Trap is still invisible, and the new light and dark element packs are near invisible as well, so maybe there's something to it.

Got this message last night for my Mega Man amiibo. I'm glad I preordered.

This saga still continues?! Wow, I thought they would have had their carp together by now... What is this, Wave 4? So they have essentially blown this entire release. Nice. I WAS wondering how the Wii U got to where it is, but now I know... Good job nintendo! Amiibo sell out, then they offer us, as a consolation prize, Mario Party Amiibo. Ugh.

I got this same email, but I have the sneaking suspicion they took too many pre-orders, and now they are scrambling to find more, I hope this is not the case, because this is the only one I preordered.

I got an email from Amazon saying Sheik had been delayed.

I'm assuming these messages are for late pre-orderers.

interesting how I got my amiibo last week when looking at the release dates for these, they are February. lol

I got requests from Amazon to push back the dates for Ike and Mega Man. Toon Link is in the mail though and gets to me tomorrow.

@ikki5 I'm assuming street date was broken or something. Which that's what's been happening other places. I knew my GameStop said I should be fine because I pre-ordered, but Bowser came a week earlier and they stocked them and sold them. They said just call everyday because you never know.

When I went to target to grab my Rosalina, they already had some MegaMan and Toon Link , so I jumped on those at that time.

I've been getting delayed-shipment updates from Amazon on multiple characters in my Wave 3 order that was placed early/mid December.

Confirmed, I just had to tell Amazon that I still wanted it. Dang it of all the places to do this.

Bowser and Toon link were showing March 2nd last week. I preordered these from amazon. I just got notification that they are being shipped and should be here Friday. I preordered the same two amiibos from Walmart. I checked walmart's status, they said these Amiibos were scheduled to release Feb 1, but they were delayed to Feb 6, and will be shipping out on the 6th. The local TRU has similar signs. It's a distributor and supply issue, it's not retailers problem. I preordered all the Super Smash Bros Amiibos (game with Mario as well), and the release date, on Amazon, for those amiibos, is next year... LOL! Basically Amazon is like "we really don't know when they will be in stock and ready to ship".

I'm from Canada and I received Bowser, Toon Link, & Sheik yesterday in the mail from Amazon. I have Mega Man & Sonic on Pre-Order from Amazon. According to Amazon Sonic is suppose to be here Feb 18th and no date has been set for Mega Man yet. I Pre-Ordered them all on Dec 19th.

Good thing I pre-ordered my Megaman at bestbuy.com. No delay notice and still scheduled to arrive 12/31/15........ Wait a sec, that's even worse

my preorders for Bowser and Toon Link Amiibo were delayed into March, and then I happened across a bunch of Bowser amiibo in best buy. Preordained canceled.

Might be a ".com" thing? I preordered megaman from Amazon.ca and havent gotten any email. in fact it doesnt list a release date at all just
"We need a little more time to provide you with a good estimate. We'll notify you via e-mail as soon as we have an estimated delivery date"

Same thing happend with toon link. they updated it a week before they shipped, so i'm not to worried. Havent really heard of amazon.ca canceling preorders anyway.

@Anthracks I also preordered Megaman on November 28th and didn't received any emails regarding it

I've never seen anything as messed up as this whole amiibo situation. Good thing I'm not trying to collect them...

Nooooo not you Megaman!!! I really wanted to be able to buy you! You're so cool, but now you're impossible to find.

Its okay though, I already have Rosalina, so that kinda makes up for it.

Hmm, I haven't got one of those emails yet for my preorder. I wonder if I got mine in so early I missed this.

Gamestop just emailed me saying my sonic and mega man have been delayed

@TheAceofMystery Same just happened with me.

To those complaining about the delay.
Don't you see how this is a good thing? You do realize this is probably to meet demand, right? According to FYE, a store taking in-store pre orders, wave 4 is being delayed until June.
Nintendo is attempting to meet demand and y'all complaining? Jeez. Complain when they're out and complain when they try to make enough for everyone...

When I pre-ordered my Sonic and Mega-Man amiibo's, the clerk told me they would come out on February 28th. But they could be coming out on the 20th?
I wonder what the clerk was thinking...

@pollo20x6

Well, we don't know for sure that Nintendo is meeting demand. The same information you used to come to this conclusion could easily indicate that Nintendo lacks the ability to even meet basic demand.

And frankly, there's actually more evidence to that.

@Quorthon You can say that again. I swear they're just burning 90% of the stock they manufacture and hiding the remaining 10%.

So the Amiibo situation is exactly the same as it was before only now we don't definatly know when we missed our opportunity to complain we missed select Amiibo like Shulk Rosalina Meta Knight and Lucario (exclusives are bogus)

@ThomasBW84: Now Gamestop having issues with Wave 3 amiibos! http://www.gonintendo.com/s/246666-gamestop-facing-issues-with-wave-3-amiibo-preorders-as-well

@rjejr: Aren't you glad your kids like those "other" toys instead of amiibos?

@Ryno - You may be kidding, but yes, yes I am very glad. Skyaldners is the best of the 3 by far. I'm actually considering starting up my own play thru of Skylanders Swap Force sometime soon. I'm holding off on Trap Team to play w/ my wife. But my son and I have been having fun w/ Disney Infinity as well - Venom is coming in the mail today, Lone Ranger playset on Monday. There's just nothing drawing us to amiibo, and I am glad for that. Store exclsuisves in particular make me a not very happy puppy.

In the universe and best buy way of saying my comment suck, I received an best buy email saying the release date been changed to 02/20/15.

@Quorthon Perhaps, but a company that has been in the U.S. market since 1985 is more likely than not, going to learn from mistakes.
And second, they've done this before whenever they enter a new market. When the NES was first sold, it was hard to get at first; their first hand in the U.S. market. When the Wii was first sold, it was hard to get at first; their first hand in trying out new tech that would not be a novelty, but rather the focus. Amiibos are their first hand at the interactive toy market. They've probably been struggling with basic demand on purpose because it's worked out for them so well in the past. Think of the Wii's enormous success despite the Wii being unavailable to most for a year after its launch.

So I firmly believe that if they are delaying, they are delaying to meet demand.

Luckily, we already have Sheik and Toon Link here in Europe.

Hahaha....haha......ahhhhhhhhhhhh this is dumb!!!! I'm so annoyed about these shortages. It keeps showing how incompetent Nintendo is at supplying these ammibos. Did they really think not a lot of people would want them? This whole this is just like with the original Wii came out. Ridiculous! Argh!
mini rant over

I received a delay notice from gamestop on my Sonic, Skulk, and Megaman figures.
My toon link and Bowser are on the way from Amazon, but my Sheik order from them is delayed.
Then my Meta Knight order from best buy was cancelled as was my Rosalina preorder from Target z.z

All in all, Nintendo can burn in hell. Japan has no problem pissing these out, Europe is pretty well stocked, yet Nintendo can't make a single one without running out. Even Walmart is dropping Amiibo support because of this. They don't want to have dedicated space for items that may or may never come leaving it empty half the time so they are no longer ordering more stock.

@jpfan1989 Same thing here. Amazon gave me a March ship date for Bowser. I canceled on the spot. Then I found Bowser AND Toon Link at the local Toys R Us!

Sometimes, I think the heads at Nintendo of Japan sat down one night and said, "How can we make this release as difficult as possible for our American friends?"

I saw a bunch of Toon Link Amiibos at ToysRus.

@SMW I guess I should look at Toys R Us then.

I cancelled my Amazon order when I got this email, and ordered Toon Link & Sheik from Amazon France instead. They are already confirmed!

I just bought a Toon Link at Walmart so Amazon shouldn't have a problem

I never got around to cancelling my Toon Link pre-order It was still listed as a March delivery and then 2 minutes ago while I'm at work a I get a notification that my package has been delivered and is on my doorstep.

MEGA MAN has shipped!!!!