A few months back during a special Animal Crossing themed Nintendo Direct, the world learned that all Animal Crossing amiibo that released back with amiibo Festival, Happy Home Designer and New Leaf: Welcome amiibo would all be compatible with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, allowing players to invite their favorite villagers into the game with their respective cards. Those cards originally retailed for $5.99 USD with each pack containing six character cards, which was pretty reasonable at the time. Flash forward to today and now some of those cards are actively selling online for more than the price of the actual Switch game. We're really kicking ourselves for not bulking up our collections.
New Horizons has been the talk of the town well before it launched last month on Switch, so this really should come as no surprise, but to see the prices of some of these cards are selling for online is almost baffling. Characters like Bob, Lucky, Marshal, Ankha are some of the pricier ones, but plenty of others are still fetching an inflated price as well. The ability to invite your favorite villager from the series into the new game is an extremely alluring prospect, considering the fact you'll need to be pretty lucky to come across them in-game otherwise. But we're extremely curious how long these prices will last.
Considering the fact that amiibo only need to be scanned into the game a few time to convince a villager to move out to your island could mean that many people will quickly be selling their amiibo off afterwords. But we suppose only time will tell.
If Nintendo were to reprint these in the West, would you be interested in picking up a few packs? Have you already invited any villagers onto your island using amiibo? Let us know your thoughts down below!
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That reminds me. I really ought to start trading away my doubles so I can finally complete my collection (though I doubt that I will ever get my hands on the Sanrio set).
Series 1 went out of print so quickly, so I only have a handful from that series, but I have the majority of the rest.
I think they should do a doomguy amibo!so he can rip and tear tom nook to shreds! Make this dlc nintendo! Ples
I’ve not got a complete set but I have all the popular ones it seems. Plus the Sanrio, cards which unfortunately aren’t compatible yet...
Watch Nintendo in a little bit announce a rerelease if the Amiibo after every one buys the ones they need. Weirdly around here I did fine series 1 and 3 pop up at Five Below a few months back. Don’t know if they still do as Five Below is closed due to Covid 19.
Who woukd want a mummy in their town? Hmmm... come to think of it
This is absolutely ridiculous. My hopes for ever completing this card set is quite far down the drain. People are way too bloody greedy.
I bough most of series 1-3 from japan for pennies like 90 packs for less than 100 bucks. The Japanese ones seem to be going for a higher price.The only thing I regret is not getting more of the happy home designer cards because they are the most rare. I got them to keep more than sell though
These prices will only go down if Nintendo release more of them. I've been on Animal Crossing forums since the beginning of New Leaf and popular villagers used to sell for a pretty penny of bells which have since turned into bartering them for NMT, and of course these Amiibo cards. So yeah, they will only get higher not lower. Should have bought more before the game released.
A RePrint of the Amiibo cards should be in Order to stop Scalping and force them to sell at MSRP pack prices. That will stop them dead in their tracks.
Why does Nintendo always do this?... Animal Crossing is huge right now, most talked about game on Twitch, yet they are barely reprinting any cards... It really seems like Nintendo sometimes hates easy money. Demands is there, yet they don't bother with it. Wouldn't it make more sense for Nintendo to try to meet demand so that their fan base don't pay ridiculous scalper prices and buy more Nintendo products instead. You could buy a ton of the amiibo cards blind packs for 75$ (which goes straight to Nintendo) instead of paying 75$ for one card from a scalper. I was the same thing with Smash Amiibo....
I thought the title was going to be "Animal Crossing fanatics are buying overpriced amiibos".
I picked up quite a few packs back in the Wii U days for $0.99 a pack. I purchased Amiibo Festival for I think $5 and wanted the cards so I could play the only interesting game on there (the island survival one).
Who knew I could recoup the cost and then some through eBay?
I actually met marshal in the game somehow, so I'm content
@Darknyht I actually liked Amiibo Festival, but I'll agree that Island Survival was by far the best part of the game.
It's nice to see a Switch game actually doing something with Amiibo. It seemed like since the console launched, Nintendo wasn't trying very hard to give them cool functionality, and just made them to be something for collectors to buy.
Once again I'm glad I can just make chips. These prices are outrageous.
My wife had randomly picked up a few packs back in the day and is now regretting not getting more. Personally I was hoping they would do reprints but oh well.
Bought and have the following from back in the day, not planning on selling though.
Stitches SP, Goldie SP, Rosie SP, Resetti 006, Harriet 011, Lyle 016, Curt 020, Kyle 024, Shari 044, Opal 051, Mint 063, Roscoe 078, Truffles 079, Annalisa 083, Axel 090, Blanca 114, Tipper 129, Scoot 147, Alfonso 153, Benedict 171, Chops 185, Pelly 204, Leif 208, Timmy 212, Digby 213, Jingle 217, Lily 218, Anchovy 219, Miranda 222, Bubbles 228, Colton 233, Spork 235, Ricky 239, Drago 243, Tangy 244, Mac 245, Wart Jr 247, Wolfgang 255, Klaus 257, Stinky 259, Marshal 264, Gala 265, Pippy 267, Buck 268, Skye 272, Hamlet 275, Dora 278, Lyman 281, Violet 282, Frank 283, Merengue 285, Boomer 289, Caroline 290, Sparro 291, Chrissy 300, Katrina 303, Broffina 329, Lolly 333, Celia 363, Chow 368, and Gloria 381.
I want to get a Wolfgang amiibo card myself, as he's one of the few cranky villagers I like.
However, on places like ebay it sells for way too much.
Wolfgang aside, I'm lucky to have pulled as many desirable villagers from packs as I have. I've gotten ones like Lucky, Anhka, Beau, Merengue, Bob, Punchy, and Marshal.
I bought a bunch of these before the direct. Lucky was going for 20 so i passed. Told my boyfriend and then her bought it for me as a birthday present as an extra surprise. I wonder how much money my new collection became worth.
I have 3 of the cards that came with amiibo Festival and 9 of the toys, their inclusion in NH is extremely overrated if you ask me. The 9 toys won't even come to the campsite and 4 of them wouldn't even show up on Harvey's Island in the photo studio. 😝
These cards and Amiibo's are pretty much MTX in physical form yet Nintendo get away with it with many more annoyed they can't buy them. You know if EA started doing stuff like this they would get nothing but backlash.
I have the complete albums. Sadly didn't go into for the Welcome Amiibo or Sanrio camper vans ones at the time and they've been crazy money for a while.
Annoyingly, because I’m in the UK where we one got 3 in a pack not 6, most of my duplicates are the super common shiney ones of the main characters like Blathers and Nook etc.
Still, it is nice to be able to get whomever I want in my village though
I have a few of the apparently good ones like Kyle, Coco and Whitney.
It was really hard to get these cards, basically I could only buy them from amazon where the packs weren’t being sold for dumb prices.
Back when these were released, I decided to just stick to collecting one series of the cards. Was not going to spend a fortune trying to collect all of the series. I decided to pick one of my favourite villagers and told myself that I would only collect the series that this villager (Ozzie the koala) was in. As it turns out, Ozzie appeared in series 2 of the cards [cards number 101 to 200].. so that is the series that I decided to collect. I must have opened a stack of series 2 card packets. However, I was not able to get Ankha the Egyptian cat, no matter how many packets I opened.. I just find it weird that the only card I was not able to get from a packet (from series 2) is one of the big fan favourites. Not a big favourite of mine but it would have been nice if I could have completed the series nevertheless. I did try looking on eBay at the time but even back then, the Ankha card was going for a small fortune.
Other than that, I had decided to try and track down the koala villager cards as well (the koalas are my favourite villager type). It worked in my favour that the koalas are not as popular as some of the other villager types because it made tracking them down a bit easier. I also had a look for the villagers that I personally like from the other series. I was able to get: 071 - Yuka / 080 - Eugene / 221 - Kody (a sporty bear cub) / 239 - Ricky (a cranky squirrel) / 270 - Rooney (a cranky kangaroo - Rooney is one of my favorite villagers as well) / 281 - Lyman / 377 - Sydney.
I had a look at the Welcome Amiibo cards when they were first released. I saw that there was also another koala villager in there, Gonzo (a cranky old man koala, who I presume is named after The Muppets character 👍), so I purchased him too. I have Gonzo living in my town in New Horizons now. Love him. Gonzo likes to say "mate".. well, I am Australian as well, so I kind of do as well. 😁
I had to buy Lolly for 20 dollars. I have a HUGE collection of these and will have to sort through them. Ankha is one I know I have for sure.
To think the packs of 6 cards were selling at toys r us for like a dollar before
Animal Crossing New Horizons will have it's own real world currency within 6 months....wait n see....
@RPGamer cheaper to chase the cards than the amiibo themselves tbh. These cards were selling for pennies soon after they released
Reprint them already. And give Europe packs with six cards.
Japan is apparently getting a restock in June. Don’t know about the west though as the cards ended up on clearance in a lot of places. I completed my sets back on release including Sanrio. A complete box got you a set if you were lucky. Will not be selling though. Also have a complete sport mix set too.
If you scan the san rio cards or any other you’ll get a poster of that character.
I don’t want physical-digital toys that clutter my house. I don’t want cards. But I would gladly pay $1 for a specific character in a digital form. I don’t understand why Nintendo who is awful at predicting or meeting demand continues to make physical products when they don’t have to. I think they like the free marketing they get when supplies are exhausted. It’s amazing their lawyers can freak out so much about people making YouTube videos narrating a game, but don’t care about the constant scalping and price inflation of their own products. This is a perfect use for DLC. Wake up Nintendo.
damn these were ALL OVER Five Below a couple of months ago, along with some AC/Mario Party/Smash Bros amiibos. If i knew they were gonna jump in resell value i would’ve bought them 😂
It seems crazy to me that Nintendo would go to the trouble of making the Amiibo cards compatible with this game and yet not have new sets of the cards ready for sale at launch. I guess it wouldn't Nintendo if they didn't pull some sort of bonehead move, other than great first-party games doing things that make no sense is what they're best known for.
Ah.. physical dlc and microtransactions.
Nintendo continues to implements these and greatly incentives using these while they are near impossible to get at retail prices, really makes you think.
I got a card for my favorite villager, Biskit, on ebay for $3 right after the Direct announced how the cards could be used to invite villagers to your campsite.
Glad I did, even that one is up to $10-$15 now.
@Silly_G hey I'm looking trade! I'm in the US are you interested? Or anyone else
When is selling a collectible that came out 5 years ago no longer scalping.
I gave one to a friend when AC:NH released. I might end up regretting that.
I had a few packs of the cards but I think they must have gotten lost in a move.
So now I'm stuck the Gonzo, a very grumpy koala that showed up as a resident uninvited. I'd never seen him and he just moved in. No camp visit, nothing. I already had Sydney, a very sweet koala. Ugh.
I just went for the amiiqo/N2. Saved me a whole lot of headache even before this, and frees me up to just get the figures I actually want.
Anyone paying the ridiculous prices for these are the reason why the prices are going up. Just hold off until Nintendo releases a new series or a reprint
Stores here in switzerland still sell them... So maybe I could be getting a playstation with P5R sooner than I thought....
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