Poll: So, Will You Be Getting The New Kirby Air Riders amiibo?

I wouldn't mind getting Kirby, but absolutely not for the price theyre selling them.

I'd get Chef Kawasaki if the prices weren't insane.

I would absolutely get similar characters (IE swappable figures) for that price, but since I'm personally not interested in Kirby Air Riders (or the series in general), I'll pass on these ones.

I would love having physical Air Riders on my shelf, but that price is way too steep for what is essentially Smash 4 functionality.

I'm not really interested in amiibo anymore, so I'll pass on those. Plus they're expensive.

I already got both and will get the others when they release. Just wish they were cheaper.

Mine arrived in the mail yesterday.

I don’t plan to get the game (at least as of now, maybe I’ll change my mind) but I have to say Meta Knight is really great. Might get that one just for the collection

@CaleBoi25

If you like the swappables, might I suggest the Nintendo ties in to Skylanders and StarLink?

I would get all of them, but paying half the cost of a Switch 2 doesn't make sense.

If they make an Adeleine on a Wheelie Scooter amiibo I would buy it in a heartbeat

I like kirby games but the cast of the kirby universe is really something I'm not interested

Nintendo priced me out, I sold off most of collection. I'm not buying this crap anymore. Greedy Nintendo is Bad Nintendo.
$12.99 to $39.99 for basic amiibo is robbery!

It sucked when they raised the price to $15.99

$0.12 (1962) is roughly $1.28 in 2024/2025 inflation.

So, inflation is not the cause of these prices. It is GREED!
Tariffs were not supposed to impact our prices, yet they have! Tariffs should and used to be how our government used to get paid until WW2 when they (government) started the Income Tax.

Income Tax is illegal! All taxes are illegal here in the USA!

Both sides of our bird suck and only hurt the everyday citizens.

Nope just like game cases and cartridges too much clutter. Just would be plastic junk that i would eventually sell or throw away.

@Spider-Kev dont want to get in an argument but is this satire? Because unfortunately without taxes I dont believe people would willingly give up money for public schools, roads, firefighters and such.
I wish we had a society that was altruistic enough so we could live without taxes but I dont see it.
Also maybe this air riders game is fun

Too rich for my blood. Shame because I think the feature would be fun, but it’s way outside the reasonable price range for what it is, imo.

I will get Marx, Susie, and Rick but only after they get the inevitable price cuts

I understand tariffs or whatever but mcdonalds hands out plastic toys for free. These are just slightly more high quality. Nintendo is just being greedy.

@marandahir I actually did have a ton of SkyLanders as a kid, including the SwapForce line! I've since sold them (which, I'll be honest, I somewhat regret), but thanks for the suggestion nonetheless!

@Zeebor15 I wouldn't say price cuts are inevitable... Unlike Thanos, the Switch never got a price decrease, nor did its games.

These look really high quality, but not worth $50 or anywhere close to that. I don't really plan to get any more amiibo until they start selling them at normal prices. These should realistically be $25, and the rest of the amiibo should be $12-15.

Nope, Nintendo priced me out. They have completely lost the plot on prices. Consoles are one thing, but 50 bucks for a hunk of plastic is straight up lunacy to me.

I've purchased about 60 amiibo, a lot of them on clearance, but even if these were half price they'd still be tok much for me.

I'm old enough to remember when Reggie first talked about amiibo, saying thry were much better than other toys to life toys b/c you would only need to buy 1 and they would work with many games,unlike the others that only worked with 1 game. Well I already have Kirby and Metaknight amiibo, why should I have to buy more? Cars? Who cares.

They don’t really look like amiibo. Just generic figurines.

Getting all of them is a no brainer, premium product with a sweet price point. Cannot complain when Nintendo could have charged way more for them, but decided not to, just because fans matter more to Nintendo than profit!

I wasn't going to get one, but during my playthrough of road trip, which I started as Meta Knight, I kept using the Shadow Star, which kind of made me want to get the amiibo of those two.
It's a good thing then that only Kirby and Waddle Dee are out, and by the time Meta Knight is released, I'll have changed my mind probably.

They are way to expensive. They should be smaller than normal amiibo and therefore cheaper.
But my biggest problem is that I still don't know what I can do with them ingame. I can train them, like in Smash, okay. But for what? Can only I race against them? Can I let fight mine against an amiibo of a friend? The price tag is not justified when there is so little you can do with the Figuren Player.

Way too expensive for something that cost a few dollars to manufacture. Nintendo is really insulting their fans by seeing what they are willing to pay for certain things. Some people seem to be okay with being taken advantage of.😐

I never owned an amiibo and this is certainly not a good time to start.

I'm gonna wait for the Meta Knight one and call it at that

My wallet weeps at the thought of every single character and ride getting an amiibo but I'm getting them all.

Don't own the game, but i can run across the living room with amiibo in my hands.

I must admit, they look pretty darn good. But never had any amiibo, and those cost a lot of money, and well, they are still just pieces of plastic that will gather up some dust.

@Spider-Kev if it's the US tariffs why are the prices also high in Japan and Europe?

Yeah we love Kirby but with the current prices there is no fricken way. I'd probably consider at €20. I mean I have around 50 amiibos. But when amiibos are roughly the price of a game I think that's ridiculous.

Nope. It’s not just sticker shock, it’s highway robbery. Maybe once they collect too much dust on store shelves and hooks, places like GameStop might make them go on sale? But I probably still won’t be interested. I’d want more unique characters to have amiibo than just Kawasaki.

@CaleBoi25 not permanent cuts, no.

But amiibo do go on clearance

I got both of them, I love them!

I actually bought doubles of Waddle Dee/Winged Star and Kirby/Warp Star, because i want multiples of the machines.

I hope this series gets fully lives through and we get a whole collection. Seems unlikely, but I just really like the designs for all of these vehicles.

I want all the amiibo of this game. But I also refuse to pay that price, anything over $30 is pretty egregious. I also don't have the money or time to even buy a Switch 2, which is more of a priority.

I don't have the game yet, but I listed it as a highest priority item on my Amazon wishlist. It seems like these new Amiibos that are extra expensive go on sale a lot quicker than you would expect, so if I get the game, I will keep a lookout for a cheaper price on these Amiibos.

I intend to get them all, but money's tight at the moment, so amiibo purchases are on an indefinite moratorium. I have all figurines to date up to Bananza Donkey Kong and Pauline, but the Metroid Prime 4 and Kirby Air Riders figures will have to wait, though the Kirby ones are perhaps the most exciting figurines to be releasing in a very long time, and I'm almost surprised that this concept wasn't exploited via Mario Kart World (and Nintendo would have sold a hell of a lot more figurines).

I have also yet to buy the Street Fighter 6 series 2 set of cards, which is really expensive at AU$99.95 for a full booster box via My Nintendo Store (and it isn't even guaranteed to include a complete set, while the previous series, at AU$44.95, included all of the cards).

I have no intention of buying SF6 though until a complete physical edition is available, or maybe if the digital edition is heavily discounted (I might consider a future "complete edition" GKC release, but only if all of the DLC flags are also included on the cartridge, and that too is heavily discounted; but the fact that the Years 1 & 2 content was included as a download code for the current release is just unforgivable).

Never got into amiibo

@Tisteg80 Aren't these figures bigger than regular amiibos? Not justifying the price though.

I am a Nintendo shill. I must maintain my complete amiibo collection.

@Quarth They also have more than just the NFC chip in them; there are magnets to snap the characters into the karts, and both pieces have a chip in them independently since you can mix and match (put Waddle Dee in Kirby's kart and vice versa).

Never got super into Amiibo personally. I do own a figure collection, so if I'm in the mood for one I'll buy those.

Team Waddle Dee for Life!!!!

Expensive Amiibo but beautiful.

Kirby's Air Ride is so much more fun than Mario Kart World.

Its crazy that kirby has gotten more characters as amiibos than zelda

@Spider-Kev tariffs absolutely effected prices here in the USA, amiibo are exclusively produced in China. Confused by your comment.

@Cheez

As I said, greed

@Spider-Kev
"$12.99 to $39.99 for basic amiibo is robbery!"

How is this accurate?

@NCChris
Smash started at $12.99. the new amiibo are now at $39.99 and $49.99

What do you mean by "how is it accurate?"

The King Dedede and Meta Knight ones look sooo sick, but they're expensive and I don't even know if I like the game yet.

@Spider-Kev Taking a quick look at the US Nintendo amiibo store shows "basic amiibos" are $19.99 with some of the newer ones at $29.99. Saying the $12.99 is now $39.99 is not accurate as many of the $12.99 ones are still only at $19.99.

If I had to say why some are $39.99 it's because they are 3rd Party amiibos and maybe the price has to be higher because they have to split the profits. This is actually not new as even back in the days of Monster Hunter Stories 2 those amiibo were always more expensive than 1st party Nintendo amiibos.

It's also not accurate to compare the Kirby Air Riders amiibos to others because the Kirby Air Riders ones are all 2-in-1 pack so you're buying 2 at the same time.

This is why I say your original quote is not accurate, you're picking 2 types of amiibos that don't align perfectly.

@NCChris
The old ones are still @ $19.99

All new ones are now priced higher. $30, $40, $50

@Spider-Kev Right but your literal line is "$12.99 to $39.99 for basic amiibo is robbery!" which is not accurate because all the $12.99 are now $19.99, not $39.99.

Basic amiibo are now $29.99

It is still ridiculous.

I forgot that they were cheaper than the Street Fighter amiibo.

They are most definitely NOT worth it. Even at $19.99 they weren't worth it.

@Spider-Kev
To be fair; I agree it sucks for those in the US.
I live in the UK and the amiibo here are honestly not too bad, even the newer amiibos are at £16.99 ($22.22) while the older ones are £12.99 ($16.99) and used to be £10.99 ($14.37) so not gone up much.
The Kirby Air Riders amiibos are £33.99 which converts to $44.46 so still a lot but not quite as much as you guys have to pay.
Is it because of the tariffs that your prices are higher?

I lost all interest in these after the Wii U.

I want them all but I can live without. So I'll just get them when they're 33-50% off.

I won’t be buying any more amiibos at the insane prices they are now. Nintendo has become a greedy company sadly.

If I were thirty years younger sure.

Amiibo is the one bit of tat I allow myself to collect. Not sure how it started but I have lots now. I'd like to pick up some of these, they're pretty neat. But yes, expensive, I'm skint and Christmas is approaching. Perhaps someday when I'm having an unwise moment I'll pop a few in my basket. Chef Kawasaki calls out to me...

@MARNY tariffs are the reason why amiibo prices are way up cant blame one company who has no control over the current climate were in.

Nope. I wanted to be interested too.
The demo just 100% put me off. Just felt aimless, joyless and utterly pointless as a game

Thats three things I have zero interest in! Kirby, Air Riders, and Amiibo!

As much as I appreciate new Amiibo, the price hike is a bit much. So I definitely won't be getting all of them. But probably one or two. Meta Knight is a personal favourite of mine, so I think I'll get that one.

sure won't at that price

@CaleBoi25

You're welcome! Good luck in your search!