Shovel Knight, as we know, dispenses his own brand of justice not with a blade but a mighty digging tool. While the accompanying amiibo is intended for use in-game, the fact that it has "Shovel" in its name has clearly befuddled someone at Walmart, as the toy has been listed in the "gardening & tools" section of the company's site.
Amusingly, the toy rose to the rank of "bestseller", which will no doubt have confused the heck out of anyone browsing the category for a new spade or pair of gardening gloves.
Perhaps a few green-fingered individuals even went as far as placing an order for this seemingly essential gardening item - the expression on their faces when a small lump of NFC-enabled plastic turns up on the doorstep will no doubt be utterly priceless.
[source gonintendo.com, via pixeldynamo.com]
Comments (55)
Haha, that is great!
Weird, but at the same time very fun ^^.
LOL I like this, haha.
That amiibo will look perfect in my flower bed! He'll defend the tulips from the forces of weed-vil!
There's no way anyone actually ordered that, c'mon now. I mean it's CLEARLY not a shovel.
But the fact that it's there is pretty funny.
This has "slow news day" written all over it.
But it also made me chuckle.
@allav866 GROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
Shovel Knight "Ambiio"? They couldn't even spell it right! XD
Best place for Amiibos Little garden gnomes.
@mjc0961
I think this best sums up your reaction.
What's next? Olimar and Pikmin amiibo?
Must I re-post this? I must...
Best seller.
And holy moley, that's a good deal cheaper than the standard $24 pricetag that it carries here in Australia. (standard price for all other amiibo is AU$17.95)
lol awesome xD
and damn
you guys pay only 12 bucks for an Amiibo? That's nearly half of what we pay here in switzerland....
@sillygostly oh cool so we're not the only ones who pay that much xD
I now want a Shovel Knight garden ornament.
What a tool!
I wish my wife had a garden I could sneak one of these guys into. I've got one already but he's staying in the house.
It would look great next to my Dad's Troupple Pond!
I work as a gardener, so this is hilarious!
This would make the perfect garden decoration.
Aw here I was thinking it meant he'd found his way into gardening and tools in an ACTUAL Walmart establishment. That would've been even better.
And they spent Amiibo wrong 'Ambiio' haha
As a database administrator, it's common to get requests to write quick queries that will automatically set things based on certain logic.
A walmart webmaster probably went to a DBA and asked him to take everything that had the word "shovel" in it and put it in the gardening category.
Of course that's just a thought.
The irony is, I noticed this when browsing their website for amiibo yesterday. I didn't think it was newsworthy at the time, but it made me chuckle.
Garden gnomes are a thing of the past.
Beyond the utter strangeness...
...that's great that Shovel Knight is a best seller
THe other night I was just listening to an interview with Sean Velasco. I'm really hoping him and Yacht Club Games go far!
That's funny.
Posted on reddit about a week ago
I am going to guess that someone typed in "Shovel" in the search or something related because I don't see anything about the department they searched in.
It's been fixed, it seems.
someone spell ambiio wrong
@NintyMan My guess - an employee was goofing off and wanted to spice up his day.
Lol.
No, seriously, that's funny.
@Whopper744
You wanna sneak a shovel knight into your wife's garden?
* snicker *
LOL! This is hilarious!
So I actually found this guy last night in store while checking best buy for restocks.
I was under the impression shovel knight was online only.
Come on are we really that surprised by this. It's a Wal-mart employee after all. If you ever been to a Walmart store and asked their employees for a product they don't know anything at all. I once went to Walmart to get an AV switch box I couldnt find one and asked an employee. She answered we don't carry those. When we moved out of my way and continued walking there was an AV switch box on the shelf.
Yeah Walmart employees are not the sharpest tool in the shed
I... I'm so sorry, everyone. America's education system has failed us... WE HAVE TOO MANY STUPID PEOPLE NOW! QQ
..Ha...is it next to Digby?..what next, Wii Fit Trainer in athletics?...
@SanderEvers
That would be pretty well impossible. I thought this meant in store before I opened the article not online so I was coming in to say there is no way it was not a prank/joke whatever. The website is not a surprise though.
@ikki5
I just went the american site and did a general search for shovel. I got the same page without the parts cropped out from this image. Some DB did that, posted on a forum and nobody bothered to check.
Yes as some pointed out the people at walmart can't be too bright because of an experience they had but I guess that means everyone who posted in this topic is a ******* idiot going by that "logic"besides you that saw the obvious.
This actually made my day. What a bunch of tools posting comments like that.
Well hey, you could use his shovel... as a shovel. It would be incredibly inefficient, but he still technically has a gardening tool there.
@mjc0961 Especially slow because it got pushed up to the top of the page.
The only gardening tool I'd get xD
That's... AWESOME!!!
I wonder if non-gamer gardeners would buy this and use it as a tiny lawn ornament. Amiibo could appeal to anybody.
So that's where all the Amiibo are in my local Wal-Mart. I keep thinking the store is just crap, stocking the same eight or nine boring Amiibo. Obviously all the cool Amiibo are having a pool party in the Gardening department.
Can it unlock DLC costumes for your flowers?
@SmaMan Heh, you would have an easier time shoveling with the entire figurine.
" It's a Walmart employee after all ". smh
I'm not going to reply to you directly but I want you to understand that there are many educated, hard working and kind people employed by Walmart. The company is the largest employer in the U.S. by a large margin and for you to generalize an entire workforce that numbers in the millions is completely inappropriate of you. Please take your shopping elsewhere. I assure you the Walmart employees in your town will be thankful.
@stocko "And they spent Amiibo wrong 'Ambiio' haha"
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
See and that's why I always buy games at GameStop. These guys actually know what a game is. Anywhere else, I get looked at as if I was an alien who tries to speak in chinese to them when I say "I am looking for a videogame that has come out today". I mean, Toys'R'Us doesn't even know what an amiibo is - "Excuse me, ma'am. I am looking for an amiibo." "Amiiiiigos? Haven't got any! Bye!"
@Jimmy_G_Buckets Oh don't worry I do take my shopping elsewhere. Not only are the employees terrible, but the company itself is rotten to the core. So don't worry Walmart will never see a penny from me. It's because of Walmart that towns lost they ma and pa shops. Walmart doesn't give a darn about anyone but themselves. Yeah Walmart hires some great people. Just go ask Tracy Morgan about their great hardworking employees. Because of one of their hardworking employees he will never be the same.
@Tasuki
The company is rotten sure but to say every employee is terrible is foolish.
Cool, you could use him as a garden-gnome!
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