Toys "R" Us Teases More Exclusive amiibo in North America

sighs >_>

I feel sorry for US Amiibo fans. Seems you guys just can't catch a break with the exclusivity crap :/

"Please Understand"

On the bright side, this guarantees decent stock since TRU does really well with their exclusives. At the same time, TRU's kind of far away... Thankfully, of these three, I'm only after Villager.

Mega Yarn. I can't really say I give a flip about exclusives anymore. Amiibo are much easier to just import from Japan and Eurpoe...

Villager + Yarn Yoshi. Toys R Us at least usually has stock, Target is the worst one. All the ones by me have had nothing but Mario's for ages upon ages. My Best Buy has had Marth, Dark Pit, Lucario and Greninja for a few days now, they're the ones looking the best here usually.

Big Daddy amiibo on the right? 😂 Haha

@Ogbert Sadly, it's called the US economy

PLUS MY NEAREST TOYS R US IS 60 MILES AWAY FROM MY HOUSE. GOD DANG IT ALL

@Ogbert
Nintendo has to this in order to get the shelf space from retailers.
Nintendo is rumored to be on thin ice with U.S. retailers.

In North America, especially the U.S. the retailers hold the upper hand.

As much as I don't like exclusives, the big Yoshi kind of makes sense at TRU for the holidays. And it's more of an offshoot as I'm guessing it works the same as all the other Yarn Yoshi? Has the rest of the world even gotten it, or is it a NA exclusive? Does he have his own slot in SMM, that's the cstalogue. Villager really needs to be everywhere. And Nintendo needs to make sure all their exclusives are still available in the NWS, that place is in a prime spot for tourists and holiday shoppets. Not as Prime as Sony new theater, across from TRU in Times Square, but prime enough to carry every single amino ever made in large quantities to drive up foot traffic.

@troj27 If you want a Big Daddy you need to go Skylanders.

I actually think it's a little sad that they are breaking the exclusives when they explicitly said they wouldnt. If they're planning on having that expire, they could have made an official announcement like exclusive expire after 6 months. Instead they had Best Buy get THREE amiibo that are exclusive to others and TRU has Shulk too. This feels very anti-GameStop and I feel GS will retaliate just before Christmas.

orders the female Mii Amiibo on Amazon for $16 Whats exclusive now?

Seriously though, NoA can go somewhere with this crap.

I'm glad to be in Europe where I don't need to worry about this exclusivity nonsense.

That Plessie Amiibo on the right, will it open up new Plessie levels in Super Mario 3D World?

North America making collectors jump through hoops lolz.

@rjejr

"And Nintendo needs to make sure all their exclusives are still available in the NWS, that place is in a prime spot for tourists and holiday shoppets."

I'm with you there. Last time I visited NYC (early summer), I was so disappointed with the NWS. They had maybe 6 or 7 huge stacks of the common amiibos and nothing more. Even more insulting was that display with every single amiibo ever made. It just felt like they were throwing it in your face. Keep in mind, my timing was right around that wave 4 pre-order disaster, when amiibo was at it's lowest point.

I don't know if I just caught them in a transition period or something, but I honestly wasn't impressed with the store at all, they really didn't have much merchandise, not like they did in the past anyway. Has it improved?

...looks like ill be importing the Mii Amiibos then.

I hate exclusives but if it must be an exclusive, I'm happy it's TRU. My local TRU will only allow one specific amiibo per customer.

@MoonKnight7 NO. We've been to the store a few times and I've never been impressed. And as a dad I've been to a lot of places, everything from pop up Microsoft retail outlets to Lego stores to Lego Discovery center and Apple stores and basically every place, but the NWS is lame. Heck the big Toys R US w/ the ferris wheel a few blocks away probably has a better amiibo selection. And the NWS doesn't have an online "store" - even though it has a website that has "store" in it's name. How does that work? Might as well just call it "Nintnedo World" and be done with it. The "World of Coca Cola" kicks it's butt, and yes I've been there too.

My kids last year playing SSB at the pop-up Nintnedo area at the mall. Even that was almost as good as the store.

@rjejr

Lol, what a shame. Nice photo too.

I've been to that Toys R Us, and I'll agree, there were more amiibos there than NWS. I've failed to understand the lack of an online store too, as not many people can just go visit NYC. Why even bother having a website? I would think a twitter and facebook would be enough.

I've been to their store a couple times over the years, and while there wasn't too much to begin with, this last time felt really, really bare. Way too much empty space, in my opinion.

@Dankykong That's funny, because here TRU can't keep amiibos of ANY calibur for more then 20 minutes, but my Target has them for weeks! They had Villager for almost 2 months after amiibos first launched!

@MoonKnight7 Maybe all the empty space was for the amiibo they didn't have, and NX boxes. They should probably drop the "store" name though, and the "World", make it more of a museum - call it "Nintendo Play", like their website - w/ a small gift shop. Put in a few more big screens and 3DS. Hold more tournaments.

http://play.nintendo.com/

Good. If it has to be exclusive, make it exclusive to a place that actually orders amiibo stock unlike Walmart and GameStop.

@rjejr

Hahaha, yeah maybe...

I guess the thought is that less is more. Its kind of what Apple does, but they pull it off better, obviously. When I go to a place like NWS, I expect to be bombarded with fun little nick-nacks, tons of t-shirts and just random crap I don't need, but want so badly. I can buy 3DS and Wii U games anywhere else, but that's pretty much all it was.

Only the Mega Yarn Yoshi catch my interest. Ironically Toysrus was the place where I first got the Villager amiibo when it first came out last year and there was a lot before the bombshell news.

At first I dislike retailer exclusives but after June, I'm cool with it. Mainly because they now keep them well stocked to last for hours & days, some cases even weeks (target and gamestop comes to mind). The only thing I dislike about Toysrus is having to take the subway on a weekend to Time Square to get it.

Mega Yarn Yoshi

http://www.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Nintendo-Mega-Yoshi-Amiibo-BagoGames.jpg

@MoonKnight7 Yeah, in case you've missed my ongoing saga my wife has been in there a lot lately looking for party gifts and games for my kid's big party on Saturday. We wound up ordering SSB mugs from Shutterfly, a big poster form Staples, and I printed out Mario and Pikachu stickers and put them on Connect 4 pieces and we bought a Mario and Luigi checkers set from TRU and 6 stuffed Yoshi from Amazon. She was going to get a Zelda deck of playing cards but they were $10, so we are going to use our 2 decks free from Club Nintnedo. And we already own Mario Chess from Target. The NWS is good for 3DS street pass hits, but that's about it.

Well, that's four more amiibo I'll have to import...

This exclusivity stuff stinks. And that's putting it nicely.

@TheAceofMystery: I know how you feel. My closest one is a good 45 minute drive. And I don't have all the time in the world to head out to Reading just to make a purchase.

It either has to be that they cannot produce them at the rate needed to stock everyone, they are getting paid for exclusivity, or they are just deaf to customer demand. All of them are sad possibilities.

Stop. Now I bet kids won't even be able to get these in America.

I've refused to buy store exclusive amiibo. All the ones I have so far have been available at all retailers. I still refuse to buy store exclusive amiibo because I think it's a really stupid practice. The way I see it, I get to save a few bucks. If any of the imported ones ever happen to be close to MSRP, I may consider getting them, but I will never give in to store exclusive BS.

As long as they make it easy for me to order online, and give clear times when orders start, then I don't care. I will have them all.

@TheAceofMystery While toysrus.com is at your fingertips.