Prepare yourselves, amiibo collectors, we have retailer exclusives in North America. Oh, how we love them!
Ok, not really, they're not a particularly wonderful thing, but we do have information on two upcoming Super Smash Bros. figures that will be exclusives.
To get the bad news out of the way first, Best Buy has Dark Pit. Now, this is a retailer that still follows (as far as we're aware) the annoying process of putting pre-orders up at a random time and leaving collectors to rely on too much luck. Pre-orders aren't open yet and the figure is due on 31st July.
Slightly better news is that Amazon has Palutena. The retail giant has gone out of its way to make things easier, and if you want one you're well advised to click the 'email me' button on that product page (though it seems to be struggling at the moment) to get the heads up on availability for the 24th July arrival.
Over on Reddit, an Amazon staffer has outlined how the company will give collectors the best chance. Details are below and, to be fair, covers about as much as a retailer can do.
Okay, cat's out of the bag, Palutena's going to be an exclusive to Amazon. She comes out July 24th, and we're not doing pre-orders, so orders will go live at some point that day. If you want info on when they'll go live, sign up to be emailed on the product page (Although just like wave 4, I'll cross-post everything to reddit).
A few things to keep in mind, that we learned before wave 4:
1) We want to avoid resellers as much as possible, so she'll be limited to 1 per customer.
2) We're going to let everyone know when she'll go on sale ahead of time.
3) That time will be during "normal business hours" (No 2:30am releases).
4) We learned from wave 4 that the time "windows" aren't much different from just announcing a time, so I think that's what we'll be doing.Also, we have a lot more stock than we've had of any other amiibo yet. I know we'll end up selling out, but I think it'll be closer to the Splatoon 3-pack or Charizard or something rather than Lucina/Robin in terms of how long they're available (~15 mins after available). If you show up on time, you should be able to get one.
...Our team is looking into the email me button not working. Rest assured that the same info will be available on Twitter and here, I'm going to make sure the details are as easy to find as possible.
So there you have it, North American amiibo fans. Are any of you planning to try and grab these?
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Apparently Best Buy is going to have somewhere around 100 Dark Pits per store. They're not doing anything online and the warehouse in DC lists 10K in the system. So you'll probably be able to get him if you go in early.
Man, I'm getting tired of retailer exclusives...
Glad to see Amazon is making things a little easier. It's strange to see Dark Pit being a retailer exclusive. Living in the UK there are just tons of them lying about. If you're a fan of importing these rare things I suggest looking here first.
Why does the US seems to be the only onee with retailers exclusives?
It messes up for the whole continent too. :/
My favourite part:
"Also, we have a lot more stock than we've had of any other amiibo yet. I know we'll end up selling out, but I think it'll be closer to the Splatoon 3-pack or Charizard or something rather than Lucina/Robin in terms of how long they're available (~15 mins after available). If you show up on time, you should be able to get one."
15 minutes of stock is good! Oh amiibo, can't live with you, can't live without you.
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it's off to Japan imports I go!
NoA really hates Amiibo collectors.
@Koopa-King
Haha, yeah most of my amiibo collection is from other countries. Crazy isn't it? It has made my collecting so much easier. NoA clearly doesn't want us to have these things.
That last preordering experience at Gamestop just killed it for me. From now on I will just be looking for the common ones that I still don't have yet.
Much rather have Put then dark but that Palutena looks rather nice.
@bezerker99
Agreed. That was when I knew things had gotten out of hand. Gamestop did a really terrible thing that day. It was the very definition of "Bait and Switch." They deserved their servers to crash. I do feel bad for the employees though, they didn't get paid nearly enough that day.
I hope since Nintendo is giving Amazon a little love with an exclusive Amiibo maybe they will better stock and price the other Amiibos
Please have enough stock, please have enough stock, please have enough stock...
I'm not going to go out of my way to get them. Might grab a dark pit if I happen to find one at best buy.
Well, I'm reaaally glad I imported them. Knowing my luck, I will end up at work when Palu goes up and I won't be able to camp for Pittoo. But I got them already so I'm good. Good luck, my fellow Kid Icarus fans!
Luckily, I already have 2 of each of these.
I've already imported Palutena, along with other w4's. Thanks for the heads up, though.
No more exclusives!!! The US is the ONLY region that deals with this nonsense, for some reason.
I feel bad for the people that really want these. Both of these look goodbut it's ridiculous that Nintendo keeps doing these retailer exclusives when supply is in the state it is.
Yay, more Amiibos I will never have.
What about Canada?
Barely anyone could see the robin/lucina on sale. So hopefully they are telling the truth with their stock.
I already got my Palutena online
Seeing how Gamestop and especially Target (Jigglypuff still in stock btw) handle the recent supply of exclusives, I can imagine Dark Pit and Palutena will be in stock for a good time period. Things are looking up even if certain people say our NA stock is still bad compared to the first few waves.
@able_to_think Ya I heard the same thing too for a distribution center in California. Apparently they have 9000 on hand for the 70-85 stores in that area.
Nintendo of America continues to hate their fans.
@SirQuincealot Canada as well I'm afraid. Best sign up for the email.
Already bought Dark Pit and have no interest in Paulenta, so that's good. Waiting for Bower Jr., the Pikmin...
So glad I imported Wave 5A. These exclusives are starting to get ridiculous.
@dariusq so glad they will be easy as heck to get so you've wasted your $.
Retailer exclusives aren't nearly as bad a thing as people make them out to be. You think about how many people would want Dark Pit or Palutena compared to, say, Pikachu and Link, and you realize they just aren't going to sell as many. The retailers realize the same thing, which is why if every store could order these exclusive figures, then none of them would, for fear of having unsold stock left on the shelves.
Of course, that argument is moot if Nintendo can't meet demand in the first place. But then you have an entirely different problem.
@Uberchu That remains to be seen. Good hunting. =)
Didn't these come out in the same wave as Ganondorf? I'm sure I saw these being prepared for display at Target (Australia).
My Black Pit and Palutena just arrived from Japan today. Amazon is selling the imports for slightly above retail cost, DO NOT STAND FOR THIS RETAILER SPECIFIC NONSENSE.
I think I paid $44 for both of them. If you factor in the skipped headaches and stomach ulcers, that's a bargain.
Screw it. I'm gonna import all amiibo from now on.
Man I feel dumb for not coming up with that idea.
This sucks. I'm so glad that there's no retailer exclusives for amiibo here in the UK. The situation is more relaxing here since there's several different places that sell them, thus meaning there's several opportunities to get them.
Glad I imported both of mine from Japan.
And like anyone else, I agree that this retailer exclusive stuff is a bunch of junk. To put it nicely.
I'm seeing them everywhere where I am, I doubt people are really going to have a heap of trouble getting a hold on them
Really?
http://www.littlewoods.com/nintendo-wii-u-amiibo-smash-palutena/1461065350.prd?_requestid=121400
Littlewoods have had Palutena in all week for ÂŁ15
You Are Welcome
@ZeD Retailer exclusives mean North America only. The other regions don't have such a setup.
@Grumblevolcano Ah, thought it meant they were only coming out in the USA. My bad
Not to say that retailer exclusives are a good thing, but that has nothing to do with stock. If they're understocked, they're understocked. Being exclusive helps in finding them though as you know where to look, where as if it wasn't exclusive then the exact same amount of stock would be more thinly spread out, and thus harder to find.
I've already imported from Japan. I can't deal with the stress.
i already got the dark pit amiibo and a ganondorf amiibo in argos today for ÂŁ12.99 each lol
Best Buy Canada is making it so you can only get Dark Pit the day it comes out. Means no preorders. Which means I will have to make sure I have the money for that and Patulena if Amazon Canada is doing the same thing as Amazon US.
Luckily I have a friend in Europe who scored them for me I'm through with the exclusive shenanigans over here in the US....
Glad I stopped my amiibo collecting once I got Mario, Link, and Samus. I feel really bad for anyone who's actually attempting to collect them all.
Guess I'll get my brother and/or sister to check Best Buy since I don't have one near me. I'll try for Palutena myself.
Was in TRU today w/ my kids picking up a couple of Sylanders and there was a large amount of amiibo. Mostly the ususl, but plenty of Sonic, maybe 30. 3 Link, nothing I would call rare. They did have both Yoshi, the newer version is so much better than the old one. But it was good to see so many, Target has been bare for awhile, to the point I was wondering if they were discontinuing them. The Lego D preorder section next to the amiibo was almost as big, those things are going to be huge, regardless of the price.
@Ryno - Here's what I don't get, Amazon exclusive amiibo. The biggest online retailer in the US doesn't sell the Wii U, the console amiibo are used on, but NoA gives them an exclusive amiibo? How the heck does that work?
Exclusives don't necessarily mean less stock, just means you need to go to a specific store. For example, Marth sold out within an hour during the Target restock in the US over the weekend, whereas Rosalina lasted the whole day and Jigglypuff is STILL available as I write this comment. Toys R Us got an average of 100 Greninja per store, and there was likely a grand total of 100 each of Robin and Lucina in every state. Best Buy got a decent stock of Meta Knight during the restock and expects an average of 100 Dark Pit per store. Gamestop had decent (for the characters obscurity) stock of Ness and Shulk during both rounds, but even after 2 shipments of Ike couldn't even meet their preorders (well some of that was due to uninformed employees) point is exclusives have decent at their stores whereas some amiibo that are universally available vanish in instants namely Fire Emblem but still.
This whole exclusives thing is a mess. Hate it...!!!!
On one hand, bullocks to retailer exclusivity. On the other, phew, Palutena's on Amazon. Shame I don't have that Prime trial anymore, so shipping costs on top of my State's taxes. Actually requested the 31st off from work just to nab this'n, so gotta get that request changed.
Guys, Dark Pit isn't going to be able to be preordered. He's in-store only.
@rjejr Makes sense to me. Amiibos are Nintendo's hottest things in the West, now.
Ha! I already got a Palutena amiibo! So this doesn't affect me! LMAO!! Whooooooo!!
@rjejr Perhaps I am misunderstanding something, but Amazon is carrying the 32 GB Deluxe Console and the Super Mario 3D World Deluxe Console with Prime shipping currently. Surprisingly is offering up to $157 for the trade-in also.
As for retailer exclusive amiibo, they are of the devil. It screws over people that live no where near the locations and/or cannot manage to get a random online offering to work. Thankfully, the only ones I am semi-interested in are commons.
Damn I want Dark Pit
I'll pick up Dark Pit in the morning. Hoping that big stock is constant throughout the country. I'm also hoping Palutena won't go live until later that afternoon so I don't have to rush things.
Surprised it took this long for Amazon to step into the exclusive game. That said, I have a strong feeling Palutena will be easy to buy.
moves to germany
Its so interesting that the US and Canada are the only two counries that do exclusives.
Good news? Amazon is horrible. The packaging for the amiibo I ordered from them was badly damaged... and the box they came in was unharmed.
^I had once books delivered from Amazon UK and it was barely holding together XD I was amazed that the books were not damaged.
I'd be annoyed with these "exclusives too"
If you want it for collection, Japan and Europe would probably be good choises, at least in Finland there is plenty of stock for Dark Pit. Palutena seems to be bit less of stock, but available. Someoen said it is nice amiibo but face looks weird.
For some reason, I haven't seen Fit Trainer in MONTHS and ordered it few weeks ago when someone said there was stock. yes, Discshop had 15 and they were cleaning their storage.
One online retailer Darkpit stock: 100+, Fit Trainer stock: 25+ Villager stock +5, Marth +5 Kirby +5
Gees you guys in North America are getting it rough with the Amiibos. Most stores i was in today had at least several of each on display, also heaps of the earlier releases with figures such as Little Mac, WFT, Marth, Ness etc available. This is in Australia btw.
@MasterGraveheart Actually Palutena goes live 7 days before Dark Pit comes out so I don't think you will be able to get her on the 31st. She goes live on the 24th
@TheAceofMystery Oh, even better, then!
Got my imports so I'm good.
@Darknyht - Amazon isn't selling the Wii U, they are shipping the Wii U for a 3rd party. Maybe that sounds like a technicality or semantics, but the truth is Nintendo isn't selling the system themselves.
@argh4430 - "Makes sense to me"
Well it makes sense to me that Amazon would want an exclusive amiibo, it just doesn't make any sense to me that Nintnedo would let them have a retailer exclusive amiibo. Best Buy they have though E3 demos, Target and Gmaestop have kiosks, TRU is still a bi gplayer int he toy and videogame space, those I get but why Amazon an exclusive amiibo?
@rjejr because money talks, not loyalty.
@argh4430 - Well money is a good reason, but if I'm Nintendo I tell them they can have some amibo w/ the next stock of Wii U they accept for sale. No Wii U, no amiibo. It's not like Nintendo needs help selling amiibo, they'll sell anywhere anytime anyhow. though I suppose anybody's self respect can be bought.
Man to woman - Will you sleep w/ me for $10?
Woman - No.
Man - How about $50?
Woman - No.
Man - How about $1 million?
Woman - OK.
Man - How about $1?
Woman - What do you think I am?
Man - We've already decided that, now we are just haggling over the price.
BestBuy has had a post up since the beginning of the month detailing how they plan to handle this:
https://corporate.bestbuy.com/dark-pit-amiibo-available-july-31-only-at-best-buy/
@ThomasBW84 Meant to link you so you'd see this and could update, sorry.
Edit: Added reply to author.
I'm assuming exclusivity rights are bid for by these companies, and considering how crazy and quickly amiibos are selling right now, NoA wouldn't be too picky over who sells them. Just cuz Amazon doesn't want to sell the Wii U doesn't mean they can't sell anything else Nintendo has.
@rjejr
Paulutina is a beautiful figure...
Glad I preordered all mine from Nin-nin-game. They also have all of the next wave up for preorder. (Duck Hunt Dog, Mr game & watch, etc)
@dariusq They actually have the Japanese ones on the canadian amazon, and they are surprisingly reasonably priced.
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