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Aw hale naw

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Meh... If there's a Link amiibo, I'm happy.

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*drops phone and runs to Target* Villager seems to be pretty common in my area...for now, anyway. I've seen Wii Fit Trainer too, but I have NEVER seen Marth. Lol while I want to go buy them now in case they really are discontinued, I still don't have a Wii U. They'd have to sit on my shelf. :p

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I got Marth and Wii fit trainer because I knew this would happen but I couldn't get Villager

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Nooo the two amiibos I need left to finish my collection. I hope this rumor isn't true.

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Wow I hope I don't end up paying tripple or more for these 3 just because nintendo stopped making them!

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Sounds fishy if you ask me. Discontinuing amiibo in only weeks since their release? In a year or two, yeah, especially if they were some special edition amiibo, but for ordinary amiibo that practically just got on the shelves? I don't buy into that.

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Doesn't make any sense. Every character is going to have lots of people who use them, don't say hardly anyone uses a character because with a fanbase of millions of people worldwide every character has people who like them. Even Pichu has fans, I've seen a few on Miiverse alone.

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I don't see Wii Fit and amiibo mixing that well, to be honest. That can hardly even be called a video "game". But Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem? Future ones could work amiibo out, especially that first one.

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I have a hard time believing that. Sounds like a good excuse for them to jack up the price on them or to make people panic and think that they NEED to buy them before their gone for good.

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I hope these rumors are false. I need a Marth amiibo - he's my main, and there's no Lucina amiibo announced.

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@Chris That said, quite a few amiibos have been going out of stock lately in GAME (in the UK), causing a price increase from £11-£15. Amazon are worse, amiibo prices are now averaging around £22 from lack of stock.

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they prob decided to make the 3 exlusives to stores.

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Nintendo better be preparing from the mob against 3 groups. Villager Group (My brother) Marth Group (Definetly me) Wii Fit Trainer Group

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Luckily, I have bought and purchased every amiibo announced thus far. So I'm set. Still, this is a bummer. I've only seen 1 of each in 'the wild', and every time I ask they say they are 'on order'. Side note: has Rosalina's retailer been announced, and has metaknight gone up for presale at BestBuy?

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@Koi: Am I not explaining the [Source] concept very well?

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@zat nope. I'm patiently waiting to preorder both amiibo. What it looks like they are doing is waiting until the December group releases to put up any amiibo for 2015. Target still remains silent on if Rosalina is exclusive to them (even though you can tell it will be) Meanwhile Best Buy continues to display it's corporate message that Meta Knight will be exclusive for 2015. [Koi]

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I will definitely put out a post if those two finally are able to be preordered. Plus before anyone asks, I'm patiently waiting for Nintendo to release 3DS amiibo news in the meantime so when that happens you can be sure there will be a post. [Koi]

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I'm not fond of the whole exclusive retailer partner thing with amiibo. Some amiibo are at a higher price if sold at certain retailers.

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How can you tell that Rosalina will be an exclusive to Target?

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@Michael Here's how: Retailers in the US carrying amiibo: Amazon Gamestop Best Buy Walmart Target Toys R Us Gamestop listed Shulk as an exclusive Toys R Us listed Lucario as an exclusive Best Buy shares Meta Knight as exclusive Amazon listed all amiibo but 4 previously mentioned shortly after Nintendo mentioned exclusives Walmart shortly after followed suit and listed exactly what Amazon listed

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Target is the only one who hasn't said anything nor listed anything in the US. So by deduction they are the most likeliest retailer to get Rosalina. [Koi]

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Why, Gamestop? Why?

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@JV: Because Xenoblade Chronicles was GameStop exclusive and it'd be fitting.

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Something about this seems wrong. I honestly don't think your source is reliable.

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@Nick: It's a rumor...=_=

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This is a retailer. Retailers don't release PRs about other companies games.

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Kasey - that might get expensive!

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If this is true,these amiibo will be ridiculously expensive! Probably 100$+ on Ebay. Good luck collectors...

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Villager is the only one I wanted D:

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Kid this is true I can see why. Those 3 characters are nowhere near as iconic as the other characters in Wave 1 and thus Nintendo didn't expect to sell many of them. Keeping retail space is hard and even harder in the toy market. They'd be wasting money by keeping these Amiibo on store shelves and they've already confirmed that different Amiibo will eventually be phased out.

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meta knight is available on bestbuy.com. target is the only ones we r waiting on now

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I'm glad EU doesn't has this hassle we can get ALL amiibo's in all stores !

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THANK GOODNESS I BOUGHT WII FIT TRAINER TODAY.

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@Nick that's why I labeled it "rumor" since as Agent Dave said the retailer can't officially confirm this as Nintendo. Only Nintendo can confirm this rumor as true or false in the end. [Koi]

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The retailer said they received an email from Nintendo. I believe them. Maybe for now (in prep for Wave 2/3), or forever, the 3 amiibo will be discontinued. Most retailers don't announce when items are out of stock/discontinued. That's why this is the first (and only, so far) announcement.

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@Koi: That's not what I meant. I don't understand why you called the source a PR. It's not a Press Release. [Source] Video Games Plus Canada Would have been fine.

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This is ridiculous! How can they halt production on these amiibo when the demand is still so high. Marth still goes for more than 3x his retail price!! Same thing goes for the rumored GC controller adapter discontinuation. My little brother was about to throw down close to $100 for one today!

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I can't help but feel bad for the kids who are waiting until Christmas to get SSB4. Then they find out their parents didn't get them a Marth amiibo or a GC adapter. And when they go and try to buy one, they can't due to how expensive they go for. This whole amiibo resease schedule blows imho. Wave 2 should be in late January, not one month after wave 1.

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@Dave sorry about that, I think you noticed I took it out of the other ones after. @Darin the majority of the retailers for Wave 2 only list December and are being rather vague about the date right now [Koi]

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They could still release female villager, male WiiFit trainer, and other Fire Emblem characters. Just use the default gender onscreen.

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@gesh-hm... you have a point,but Marth is Marth! They will eventually release Ike&Lucina,but if Marth is discontinued... :[ Unless Nintendo plans on making more amiibos of the same characters, but in their character's alt. colors(I REALLY hope this DOESN'T HAPPEN,except with Olimar/Alph&Bowser Jr.),people who weren't lucky enough to grab one while they were in stock will end up paying big $...

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@Rayla, then Nintendo can take the "expendable" amiibos and sell them in a blindbox.

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Or Ninty could sell a mini set of those 3 figs. Either would requires different SKUs than those for individual figs.

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@Jason: I was just there a few days ago and he was not available to preorder despite the ad saying he was exclusive. Is he now?

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So this was a tweet? Idk, if it's on Twitter, it should have some weight to it, but "discontinued" is too weighty a word to believe at this point in time. I wasn't planning on getting amiibo any time soon, but I feel, if Reggie took the time in the E3 direct to go over amiibo in-depth and say they would release probably one of each character, none of them should be "discontinued" any time soon.

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Ordering Marth right now, because even if this hasn't happened yet, it will.

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Seriously, though, TWO WEEKS AFTER RELEASE?! That just isn't a smart decision! And it's very unlike Nintendo to do THIS! I'm guessing it was a rumor started by some eBay junky who bought all the Marth Amiibos in his area as an excuse to jack up the prices to 59.99.

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PARA LER EM PORTUGUÊS: PER LEGGERE IN ITALIANO: PARA LEER EN ESPAÑOL: https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAAADVHhrqF-Vkw

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Swedish gamestop still has those 3 in stock since last visited. May stay even longer depending on the peoples interest.

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THIS JUST IN: METAKNIGHT IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!!!!!!!!

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Rumours or not the lack of certain amiibo and price hikes make hard not to belive these rumours.

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Wait! I have a question. If wave 2 amiibos come out in stores, what will happen to the first wave? Will it be in stock or will they remove them from the stores?

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[Update] Best Buy finally allows Exclusive Meta Knight to be pre-ordered You will likely have to do a search for "meta knight" since he will not be on the main Best Buy amiibo page. Will make a new post for anyone who hasn't already seen this comment [Koi]

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I suggest using a PC when ordering from BestBuy dot com. This morning it would not let me make my order from the gamepad, ugh. lol

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@Dan: (For NA) They were released 17 days ago. (For EU) They were released 10 days ago. [Agentdave7]

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imo i believe its real. sakurai DID infact say some amiibo would be limited time offers.

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[Update] (Supposedly) David Young, Assistant Manager for Public Relations at Nintendo, said, "We have not discontinued any of the amiibo figures. Naturally some are more popular than others, and stores will need to reorder these once they sell through. That said, I don't know how long resupply will take, so I encourage people to pick up their favorite characters [ASAP]." [Agentdave7]

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Yikes! And Wii Fit Trainer and Villager were two of the amiibos I wanted. I better get Captain Falcon the moment he's released!

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Oh good. I was thinking it would be strange to discontinue Marth and Villager when they might work with Fire Emblem and New Leaf later.

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I preordered all my Wave 2 figs from Walmart, and got two emails saying THE MANUFACTURER has delayed release of Pit and Capt. Falcon. I did not get emails for any of the others. But it stresses this is from Nintendo, not lack of stock. Anyone else get those emails?

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I better get Marth fast then...

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@Zat I got that same email from Target putting a December 31 release for Pit, Falcon, and Lil Mac

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I decided for the time being to keep all the rumors in one post so they won't get horribly out of control. So without further adieu, here comes a bunch of comments:

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[Rumor Update 1] A GameStop Manager that correctly stated the November 21 Smash Bros Wii U release date shared with My Nintendo News the following:

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“As you likely know, Gamestop will be exclusively selling the Shulk amiibo next year. From what I’ve heard, we will only be getting enough amiibos to exactly match the number of preorders — no more, no less. The idea is to keep the figure rare, increasing its market value and driving up demand. Then, several months later, we will receive a second shipment to sell as “Used” for a marked-up price.”

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If true this wouldn’t be the first time GameStop has done this. Kotaku had reported in the past that GameStop told employees that the company printed a few thousand copies of Xenoblade Chronicles with no shrink-wrap in order to restock their inventory, then labeled them as pre-owned. The company then decided to charge $90 for Xenoblades.

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Plus GameStop did something similar with Cubit Ninja when that game was becoming harder to find due to why people wanted that particular game they raised prices on a 3 year old game

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[Rumor Update 2] Today 12/08/14 WIRED published an article stating: “would-be buyers started to notice that supply of some of the figurines dried up fast at retail outlets and online, and didn’t seem to reappear. Nintendo confirmed to WIRED that this was deliberate, and the company does not plan to ship any more of several of the Amiibo figurines after the “initial shipment.”

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Nintendo shared with WIRED: “We will aim for certain amiibo to always be available. These will be for our most popular characters like Mario and Link. Due to shelf space constraints, other figures likely will not return to the market once they have sold through their initial shipment,” read the full statement.

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A Nintendo representative told WIRED that the company was not adding any further details about which Amiibo figures would be always available, and which would be phased out further complicating the already complicated issue with amiibo figurines.

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[Update Sources] WIRED and My Nintendo News [Update Poster] Koi

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For those who haven't seen Folkloner's recent commentary regarding this whole amiibo rumor, here it is: [ Folkloner's Thoughts ] Nintendo refused to be drawn on which amiibo figures would be phased out, so who can say whether Marth, Villager and Wii Fit Trainer specifically are a part of that group or whether only one or two of them are.

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"In my opinion, Nintendo has badly mishandled it's response to the amiibo termination rumors. Their first mistake was that they chose to remain silent all weekend which only served to further the spread and discussion surrounding the aforementioned rumors."

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"Their second mistake was to issue two apparently conflicting statements on the matter today. First NOA's Assistant PR Manager David Young states that no amiibo's were being discontinued and now Wired, IGN, Destructoid and all the major Independent Nintendo News Sites put out an Official Statement from Nintendo saying effectively that some less popular amiibo lines will have an initial shipment &"

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"and then disappear from the market entirely. This second statement matches comments made by Iwata during an Investors Briefing earlier this year, so I fear that they are likely legitimate. But as I said in the comments of my first post on these rumors, most Nintendo fans do not read and/or are not aware of these briefings."

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"Nintendo should have been more upfront about just how limited some amiibo lines were going to be instead of letting the rumor mill run wild and then issuing contridictory statements"

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"The quote above cites lack of shelf space as a reason for their strategy, completely ignoring the existence of the online marketplace. In theory, they could have continued to offer less popular amiibo's on their own Official Store, or at least continue to supply stock to Amazon & others as long as demand persisted."

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" I cannot understand for the life of me why they haven't opted for this course of action and i'm thoroughly disappointed in their shambolic handling of the amiibo rumors and their chosen strategy on amiibo termination."

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"It is baffling. They launch themselves into the toys to life category with amiibo but (1) Limit some figures to ONE shipment, not even commiting themselves to supply them at least over Xmas. (2) Won't tell fans, 'which' are being discontinued. (3) Do not release all the info about which amiibo will be compatible with which games and crucially, 'how' they will be used."

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As said by Folkloner over on Wii U News [Koi]

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Seriously?! I mean, even Skylanders and Disney Infinity didn't do this crud! Even the less popular Skylander characters stayed in production until the end of the game's life span! Seriously, Nintendo, you disappoint me. (Unless this is only for certain retailers. I could understand if it was for less popular stores that they stopped selling the less popular characters.)

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Wow Gamestop, that's pretty low.

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Again until Nintendo gives us more concrete details these for now will all stay rumors [Koi]

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amiibo aren't even available for the 3DS. Not sure why they keep being posted.

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@agentdave7 i will be in the future.

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More for reference for everyone reading this thread: In the stability update post, Nintendo added amiibo support for the "new" 3DS and "new" 3DS XL [Koi]

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Oh, yeah! People who don't have a Wii U but are planning on getting the New 3DS will probably wait until THEN to buy Amiibo. Which means they can't GET some Amiibo without paying 80 bucks on Amazon for them!

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GameStop seems to have a terrible history with their exclusive Nintendo promotions. Nintendo really should not partner with them for the exclusive merchandise and promotions.

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