Rumour: Retailer-Exclusive amiibo Look Set for Roll Out At Rival Stores in North America

Second!

Aww shucks! I was sure someone would comment before me. ;---D

I want Gold Mario to no longer be exclusive to Walmart. I'm in Europe, so I'll have a chance to get him if Amazon ever sold it.

I hope this is true. Would make amiibo slightly easier. It would also drive up more sales.

If this is true: THANK. GOD.

This already happened in Canada with Lucario

Mewtwo exclusive to Toys R Us and Walmart? Ugh... hopefully these placeholders for Mewtwo arent just for those 2 stores

They finally realize the exclusives are limiting to us fans and that if amiibo are at other stores they will finally meet demands. Finally 😁😛✌🏼️

Yes! Amiibo never should have been store specific to begin with. Hoping this rumor is true.

I hope this is true. I've been having really great luck with amibo at my local best buy.

sighs T.T

Oooo, Little Mac at Toys 'R' Us early in the week, eh? I'll be watching this story with great interest.

Target also had at least 1 exclusive as well, Rosalina, and maybe Dr. Mario.

Seeing Little Mac is interesting. Maybe Nitneod has finally decided to go all-in w/ production and sell as many of these as they can. No matter how many they make they'll never come close to dislodging the Disney Infinity toys, those things could populate their own nation, so they have plenty of room to keep manufacturing w/o fear of a mountain of leftover stock.

And I'll make the wild speculative jump that maybe this means they're finally making a Skylanders type game that makes use of amiibo as playable characters. My son and I are still waiting for Subspace Emissary 2 which they left out of SSBU.

This is great news for anyone who does not have a store nearby that is part of the exclusives. For me, that's Toys R Us. Since I don't give a hoot about the packaging, I import hard to come by amiibo from Japan. Bowser Jr. is on his way.
In a more spiteful tone, I have been hoping that all amiibo would one day be easy to buy, decreasing the scalper prices and more importantly, devaluing their horde.

SHULK!!!! im really feelin' it!

@crimsontadpoles erm they never restocked golden mario? so GL w/that...

@GamePerson19 erm they have never done dual exclusives before lol... why start now? some places put stuff in their system sooner rather than later...

@shigulicious LOL'd at hard to come by... he was easy to find launch week, might be OOS but now but idk, I didn't try for him but he was super easy to find. (I'm out of funds to buy things atm, thanks N3DS!)

I have been meaning to get Marth...

I bought my Lucario at Wal-Mart a couple weeks ago..

Need Lucario and I will have all that have been released thus far. I hope this good news holds true!

I wish they would just sell them all at all retailers. I live in the middle of a rain forrest and am a business owner, I don't have time to run all the way in to town and hit seventy three different stores to collect Amiibo.

Not interested in any of these amiibo, but it's a positive sign. Now if Nintendo will just make Bowser Jr. and Dr. Mario available at Wal-Mart or GameStop, I'll be a happy camper. I live in a very small town where the nearest Target, Best Buy, and Toys "R" Us are a good two hours away.

There are more restocks than just Fox and Little Mac. Captain Falcon, Greninja, Lucario, Villager, and Marth are supposedly all getting restocks in the next week or two. I'm personally really excited about the Villager restock, since I've been waiting ages to find one.

I've never been an amiibo collector, but I still hope this is true. The amount of stress people go through to get the amiibo they want is insane here in the US, at least in my area. My brother could not find a King Dedede amiibo anywhere both in stores and online when it released, so he was forced to ship one from outside the US. It's honestly ridiculous, so hopefully this rumor is hinting at a surplus of amiibo restocks for all major retailers. I still don't own any amiibos, but when I come home this Thanksgiving I plan on buying the Yoshi's Wooly World game/amiibo bundle and a Ganandorf amiibo. Hopefully it won't be too hard to find them.

SHULK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
suck it GS, never giving a penny more to you.

Lucario please~

There shouldn't be any retailer exclusive amiibos

@Captain_Gonru
@rjejr
Actually, to expand on what you guys said, Target has exclusivity on Rosalina, Jigglypuff and Dr. Mario.

I'd go look in Toys R Us but I bet you $10,000 they've been wiped out already. Even if I went at like 11am, the store had been open for a couple hours, all the fat idiots probably bought multiples for themselves by then.

Dr Mario shouldn't be hard to find, there's currently an over abundance at my store and my bf went to another and saw about 200 so...

@Captain_Gonru I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt on this one. Nitneod is incapable of getting out SFZ or ZU on time, they better have something else to sell over the holidays, might as well be amiibo. I saw the $20 3DS adaptor on the rack, where the now $13.98 clearanced Wii Fit Meters used to be, and since Nintnod is now all in 1 section maybe they are thinking the 3DS install base could help increase 3DS sales?

If we wind up playing Yoshi when it releases XCX may be the only 1st party title we get this holiday, and that's not exactly family fun like SM3DW Captain Toad or Kirby Rainbow Curse. Of course neither were SFZ or Zelda, but at least they were going to be big known Nitneod names. Really could have used Super Mario Galaxy 3 or even Super Mario Sunshine Remastered. Christmas is going to be missing something. Good thing we have Lego D.

@Captain_Gonru @SlayerG Jigglypuff is my nemesis, a Pokemon that looks like a Kirby character. Took me years to figure that one out, much to my children's horror at my continued ignorance.

Give me my sweet Ness, Nintendo!

@Captain_Gonru It was the second most popular Pokemon in Japan, back when there were only 151 of 'em to choose from; it's a Smash veteran; and I'm sure a lot of people are nostalgic for the anime.

No TRUs or BBs here, but there is a Walmart! I wanted Mewtwo most anyway...

Console exclusives make sense, but they're the only kind of gimmick that a gamer should handle in something as complicated as, well, gaming is. Adding exclusives in other aspects of gaming like retailers is, well, stupid, and the sooner this system drops dead and slams the floor face-first, the better for gamers everywhere.

"Only at GameStop", "Best-Buy exclusive" my rear end.

@AlexSora89
I wouldn't jump the gun.

This has no bearing on the final Smash wave which, I can almost guarantee you, will involve store exclusives.

But it's only one more wave.

But I would submit retailer exclusives make it EASIER to get an Amiibo. If they have 50,000 Amiibo and distribute 10,000 to 5 retailers, and there's 2,000 people who buy as many as they can and therefore buy one at each retailer, that's 10,000 gone off the bat instead of just 2,000 had they all been sold at one retailer with the limit one per customer.

With this last wave, the easiest Amiibo to obtain were Dr Mario, Bowser Jr and the Retro 3pack. Which just so happen to be the 3 exclusives.

@Captain_Gonru @Dr_Corndog I can see Jigglypuff being huge in Japan, it's like Hello Kitty, only in anime form. If I were female I'd have Hello Kitty stuff everywhere. And if I were Nitnedo I'd have as much Mario merchandise on the market as there is Hello Kitty. alarm clocks, socks, lamp shades, pillow cases, comforters, cupcake wrappers, ice cube trays, anything w/ a surface.

@Captain_Gonru I'm pretty sure hardly anybody reads my comments anymore, especially those that are a reply to someone else, I go way off topic, people have figured it out. Well except for the occasional RIP Rowdy.

Does anyone know if there are any plans for a Beast Gannon amiibo? (Pig Gannon?) i realize that chances may be slim to none if he isn't the Zelda U / Zelda NX villain, but it seems a huge shame to not put in the (arguably) best villain on the Nintendo roster, tied, of course, with Bowser.

Does this mean less whining from Americans? Hallelujah!

I REALLY hope Mewtwo isn't a retailer exclusive due to the fact that I'm sick of retail exclusives.

@Captain_Gonru Were did you see any of that stuff? I've been searching all over for my sons SSB themed bar mitzvah for knick knacks, table top settings, wall decorations, and souvenir gifts, Not going well, it's all Hello Kitty, Avengers, Frozen and DC. Bought an inflatable dragon b/c it bore a sort of slight resemblance to mega Charizard X. My wife is going to the Ntinedo World store today during her lunch break to look for stuff.

@C-Olimar
Hopefully! But it is terribly frustrating for us to walk in any store that sells them and always see only the same 10-15 that everyone has. I had to pay more than I should for a Toad amiibo so I could use it in Captain Toad. Three weeks later it is available lots of places online! Oh well.

@Captain_Gonru Speaking of nostalgia, I wrote this for the 1st edition of my friends poetry-prose 'zine back in 95, published in Jan 96 I think, first of 9 or 10 issues, it had a nice run for over a decade. Its about as off topic as even I can get.

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Nostalgia is History

Finally, at long last, or is it shortly, nostalgia, particularly of the 1960's variety, appears to have reached it's zenith. And since nostalgia has become nearly synonymous with the 1960's, thanks due in large part to the baby boomers, the end of the 60's revival marks the end of nostalgia as well.
To make the point perfectly clear, I am referring to nostalgia in the broadest sense, the mass marketing of events from our childhood, or our parents childhood, to remind us how great things were, and how they will never be as good again. This is not a reflection upon personal experiences or family gatherings, exchanging old photographs and watching home movies. These would be personal memories, not nostalgia as it is currently understood. Nostalgia has become overly obvious, obnoxious and thrust upon us by the media.
November, 1995, marks the end of nostalgia. This moment is based upon the convergence of two unrelated yet very related events. The first is the much publicized re-uniting of the Beatles, a major event, especially considering the death of one of the members, John Lennon, a few years ago. The other event, a New York City centered affair, is the Beat Generation exhibit at the Whitney Museum. While Allan Ginsburg lives, the past will live with him, and us, but this museum showcase should help answer all of our questions and in essence clear our collective conscious of the Beat bug. Months earlier of course was the not entirely surprising demise of Grateful Dead singer Gerry Garcia. With his passing an entire movement leftover from the 60's has come to an end. So what does the end of nostalgia mean? Well, without the past, we will still have the present and the future.
While Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Elvis Presely and other icons of the past will always be with us, it's time to start focusing our attention forward rather than back. The release of the upcoming Oliver Stone film "Nixon" portends the conclusion that the 1960's are running out of steam. Watergate, remember, though viewed as a 60's icon, was 1970's event. And thankfully, there is little left to follow. "Carter" is not likely to be coming to a theater near you anytime soon, or perhaps ever.
The future may be a hard sell for Madison Avenue, esoteric gift shops, and retro-decorated diners across America, but it is time for everyone to own up to the reality of now. The past, at least as represented by mid twentieth century pop culture memorabilia, has come full circle. John Lennon has come back to sing his own epitaph. He and his contemporaries will rest in peace. The present can now make it's presence felt.
The early 1990's, already available as a record collection set and represented by the obsolete computer operating system Windows 3.1, were a remnant of the 1980's. They were the payback for all the wealth, power and prestige that was running rampant and left us all in an awful state. The healing may not yet be completely over, but it's time to move on. The year 1996 can in earnest begin a new decade, and a new era. So the present shall finally begin again in 1996. A half-length shortened decade for our constantly decreasing attention span. Let us gear up quickly to herald the future and start the next millennia. Nostalgia has finally burned itself out, no need to fan the few remaining scattered embers. It's time for the expression "then and now" to stop referring to yesterday and all the decades before, and start referring to today and all of our tomorrows. With nostalgia behind us where it belongs, we'll be off to a fresh start. So say goodbye to the "age of Aquarius", and say hello to the apocalypse.

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In retrospect, it may actually sum up Ninteod's existence nicely.

Exclusivity was never the major limiting factor surrounding Amiibo, it was always supply and how those retailers chose to deal with the situation. The most recent run of exclusives have been very plentiful.

@rdrunner1178 My comment was harsh to be fair I just find the moaning gets boring after a while. I'm in the UK, and our amiibo situation is pretty great at the moment, with most figures available online right now and many in stores. Still waiting on Greninja and Lucario restocks though...

Hope this is real. Bout to get one of each from Best Buy. Hope Mewtwo isn't only limited to those 2 though.

@JaxonH

Hey man, just thought I'd tell you since you seem cool:

http://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/5242/Nendoroid+Marth+New+Mystery+of+the+Emblem+Edition.html

Tokyo Otaku Mode will be releasing them on the 29th at 20:00, however they slipped up earlier and released it to soon, and in snagged one early, lol!

@dariusq

I need it has! I have walked into numerous GameStop's in the past weeks and have seen an abundance of Retro 3 packs, and Targets are simply stocked full of Dr. Mario! Still haven't gotten around to a Toys R Us though for Bowser Jr.

I think they are finally getting a handle on things, which is great!