Exciting Hints of amiibo Restocks Can Be Found in Dull Manufacturing Forms

Awesome! Want that Villager. Now I just want to hear about Gold Mario and especially Meta Knight.

The 'poor' amiibo stock is a form of hype building advertisement. Everyone whines and complains about there being no amiibo figures, nintendo's name gets splattered all over gaming media, and it generates a buttload of buzz. It is a calculated and deliberate move.

I really want Olimar when it comes around, but I'm only paying 12.99 for it.

Why is there no Fire Emblem characters on that list?? It's all I really want!

I'll believe it when i seen these Amiibo's in stores.

I kinda hope they just release the Fire Emblem characters as dlc for Code Name Steam.

Considering how Marth went, I won't hold my breath. Still, if this is my chance to get Ness, I'll take it.

Notices Captain Falcon might get a restock
HYES...hopefully.

@MasterGraveheart ...I found Meta last Sunday at Best Buy...keep a look out!

Some of these need to be common. I'd feel bad for everyone who spent $60 to get one, but come on. Rosalina is has exclusive content in Smash, Mario Party 10 AND Mario Kart 8. She should be as available as Peach.

Hopefully she soon will be.

Nice, it's got to see Nintendo slowly trying to address the stock issues.

@MrMikey Funny story? I was told weeks in advance that my Best Buy would put theirs out on the 29th of May with all of the other ones. So I woke up early, went out 2 1/2 hours before the store opened, was first in line, and kept waiting only to be told they didn't have them in. Then I learn they put them out the following day and they were sold out! >.<;; I even wrote the company and was just given the usual PR spiel (written by "Lady," apparently).

On the bright side, I did get the (now apparently common) Silver Mario Amiibo.

I've been pretty interested in getting a few more amiibo so this sounds great, I'll be looking to get Charizard, Captain Falcoln, and Ness.

Also, has the Yarn Yoshi amiibo already been out!?

WHERES MY FREAKING SHULK AMIIBO!?!???!!?

I went to ToysRUs Canada today and was able to pick up a Toad Amiibo.

@MasterGraveheart yeah same thing happened to me at Toys R Us with Marth..he was supposed to come in on the 29th but didn't show until the following Saturday.. My wife works for toys and they were told the 29th. Thing is at least at toys they have no Idea whats on the truck until the day before or the the day of.

...No one I'm wanting, go figure.

The wait for Shulk, Sheik, Diddy Kong, and Samus continues...

I was lucky enough to find a Villager and Captain Falcon the other day though, and in a couple of weeks I'll be in Europe on holiday.... Wonder if I'll be able to find some there?

@AugustusOxy Exactly.

Oh awesome! So these will be available for another 5-10 minutes in the middle of the day on a random workday? The Amiibo issues are solved! Praise Nintendo!

...
Er, nope. Still don't give a damn. The ongoing supply issues have turned me so far off Amiibo that when my children saw some they liked and asked to buy them, I agreed to buy literally anything else they wanted. Nintendo isn't getting my money in this brutal money pit.

Soon to fill the shelves of a Nintendo World Store near you, per usual.

And so, Little Mac became the rarest NA Amiibo.

@AceTrainerBean @AugustusOxy
While some scarcity can drive up interest, this is way beyond helpful. Nintendo would much rather be selling many, many more of them. Conservative estimates at a time where Nintendo was bleeding money and couldn't risk a failure with Amiibo and too much stock on shelves not selling, then a response that has been way too slow and, unfortunately typically slow communication and a difficult situation with manufacturing contracts (you can't just flip a switch) are a much more likely scenario. Doesn't make the situation any better for consumers of course.

More stock was never going to instantly solve all the problems, but this is slow steps in the right direction. The problem is always going to be that there are some Amiibo that just won't ever sell very many and yet they have to supply them everywhere. Disney Infinity does a great job with this, though, so it can be done.

Went into a local EB store today, saw a heap of captain falcons

@bro2dragons Toy shoudlent feel bad for those people, it's their fault for giving in to scalpels.

@Thatguywhoeats

Scalpels. Haha. I get it, cause your avatar is Dr. Mario. Nice. Hahaha

Lucario and Rosalina pls <3

@Captain_Gonru Right. I can't see Nintendo seeing that as a good trade off. It's just Nintendo screwing up not some evil marketing scheme that is succeeding.

Just like those Marth re-runs, huh Nintendo? If anything Marth's price only went up on the secondary market because of it.

I'll believe it whe I see it, and unfortunately I'll only see it on my computer screen, via Amazon, for 500% more than they are actually worth.

Hey, maybe I'll get my Ness, after all.

Need more Shulk please.

Nice to see Rosalina getting a restock, now hopefully i can actually get one this time around

Now hopefully Target enforces a policy on how many can be bought by one person, or whatever and if they had one when Wave 4 released

@MasterGraveheart Plenty of Meta Knights in Australia.

there is a couple on this list I would, specifically Villager and Captain Falcon. The fiance might get Rosalina & zero Suit Samus

Cool. I'll be picking up a Villager when he becomes available.

Once I get Villager, I am done with amiibo.

@TheRedCap30 Just one more cigarette mate?

Charizard and mewtwo pls.

I went into my local GAME yesterday and actually walked out with a Marth. Got chatting with the manager and he said that once amiibo stock "normalises" he wants to cut space from Disney infinity/skylanders space Because "at least 50% of the stock will not move"

Villager pls.

I never understood why some Amiibos were more popular than others. For instance, why is Rosalina so popular? Didn't she only have one game dedicated to her? Was Super Mario Galaxy that popular when it released?

Hoping for a UK restock of Shulk. He was the one amiibo I really wanted to get.

Wasn't there rumours of a Shulk restock a while ago? Were they just rumours or was the restock America Only? Shulk is still the only currently released Amiibo I need despite having it on order from Amazon since December! Amazon didn't deliver when Shulk was released citing "due to lack of stock we have to deliver on a on a first come first serve basis" despite me ordering 3 months in advance!

GUYS RYU AND ROY CONFIRMED FOR SMASH 4

@Inkling Same

@Inkling same

@MasterGraveheart I picked up a Meta Knight in a GAME store in UK last night... Saw one on the shelf and it was a no-brainier lol.

How is it possible ZSS and Yarn Yoshi already need re-runs..OH WAIT! Nintendo didn't make enough of those and are now panicking.
How in the hell can did they miscalculate ZSS's and Yan Yoshi's demand? Everyone on the planet wants those!

Do not care .

Zero Suit Samus is the Sexiest Amiibo there is!

@AyeHaley
Needing another manufacturing run does not necessarily indicate they miscalculated. What it indicates is that whoever is making these toys for them only has so many hours in the day, and they have to make compromises with the quantity of each figure they make. The sky is NOT the limit here.

I work in manufacturing. Diecast to be precise. And they have to constantly switch dies to run another couple thousand castings for the customer to ship them on time, then switch dies and make another couple thousand of this one, and so on and so forth and it's always a fight to keep up with the order numbers. Why? Because there are only so many diecast machines that can make castings so you have limited work hours that you can produce good parts.

Same thing here. I highly doubt they miss calculated judging by the interest and sales of the original Samus Amiibo. But right now it's crunch time because they're not only having to keep up with the new waves they're having to restock all the old ones too. And maybe they couldn't afford to sit there and make ZSS for the last five months because they have other Amiibo they need to make.

Guess Nintendo will reveal at E3 that the rare amiibo are going to be available again in the summer worldwide, to which everyone will go.... "yeah!"

Anyone complaining about not finding Amiibo who live in UK, these have been available for a few DAYS now.

I'm not buying the notion that amiibo are in as high demand as people say they are. Because I keep giving this link to people and yet it's still not sold out. In fact I haven't heard of one person on the site actually ordering any of them.

Will try this one more time.

ATTENTION UK MEMBERS!!! Dark Pit + Palutena + Zero Suit Samus + Ganondorf + Ness + Rosalina restock pre orders in effect NOW (if you don't live in UK don't bother- the exchange rate and shipping kills it for importing)

http://www.gameseek.co.uk/search.php?c=Video_Games&k=Amiibo

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See? No one cares. People like complaining about Amiibo, but don't actually like to buy them.

I NEED MY NESS AMIIBO

@AugustusOxy That is not true, However, Nintendo were being perhaps being a little over cautious with their released numbers of amiibo...
The problem here is scalpers. People buying and hoarding stock that would normally have gone to genuine buyers... Thus inflating the price....

In Japan, a MAJOR RE-STOCK is happening on 25th June......
Zero Samus is available as is Ganondorf, etc....

Don't put out rosalina and luma! I already have 2!

@Fee
I need amiibo rehab.

I work at a best buy and about two weeks ago we got about 30 meta knights. So they are getting remade just really slow. Some amiibos I've never seen at my store

@AugustusOxy WE KNOW
EVERYONE KNOWS

If anyone's interested, I went to the Nintendo World Store and while they did have Toad and individual Splatoon Boy and Girl, the rest were common ones and mostly SMB series. Oh yeah, and Mega Man. Lotsa Mega Men.

But if anyone else is in NYC and wants Amiibo, Times Square Toys R Us has Toad, Sonic and Pac-Man.

I would love to see Captain Falcon on the shelves but I can't help but wonder where Pit and Little Mac are.