Hardware [PPOTW #38] Have you bought any amiibos?

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Recently there was a rumor posted up about the Marth, Villager and WiiFit Trainer amiibos already being discontinued causing a price hike at UK GAME stores from £11.99 to £14.99, with amazon UK increasing some models to £39.99!
This weeks poll asks, Have you bought any amiibos?

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[RevPokemon]

As of currently I have not but I do plan on getting a Dk, link, pit and marth.

 

[Deleted member 473940]

Fuck no and I wont.

 

[MushGuy]

Watch this for response.

 

[WiiCube_2013]

No I haven't but if I do then it's a whole batch of them in like a Collector's Edition.

 

[shinkodachi]

I bought Villager as it was on discount (10 euros vs. the regular 16 euros). That's my first and probably only amiibo until they show more games with amiibo support. They're kinda useless, although they make for good opponents (especially when trained to level 50) vs. level 9 CPU players in Smash Bros...

 

[DebugErr]

i bought donkey Kong, Mario, samus and yoshi at once in order to unlock all Mario kart 8 suits time after time. I'll also definitely buy bowser though he has no racing suit, just because he is my most favorite character and simply awesome.

 

[FAST6191]

If I am going to buy pointless junk it will be pointless junk that might have some hypothetical use.

 

[oji]

I've never bought any physical DLC like a Disney Infinity or a Skylanders toys. At the moment there are no vital amiibo usage for me, so my answer is no.

 

[DinohScene]

I'm going to purchase Pit, purely cause it's Pit.
Dat sexy statue <3

 

[VinsCool]

Heh no!
Useless piece of cheap plastic.

 

[RevPokemon]

Honestly think the majority of GBATemp members are buying them as collectors items not for game use

 

[VinsCool]

Honestly think the majority of GBATemp members are buying them as collectors items not for game use

Cheap and bad piece of plastic as a collectible? Seems stupid to me.

 

[KingVamp]

None. Not planning to get any.

 

[RevPokemon]

Cheap and bad piece of plastic as a collectible? Seems stupid to me.

Well ask this how many figures are we really going to get of Pit,marth or fox? Not a lot as they rarely have gotten figurines at least compared to Mario and Pokemon.

 

[DebugErr]

On the image above it looks like Link now sits on a transparent smaller stick instead of the large yellow one?

 

[Bladexdsl]

the only one i want is the samus with 2 arm cannons

 

[RevPokemon]

Personally I'm more excited about the 2nd and 3rd wave

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Honestly think the majority of GBATemp members are buying them as collectors items not for game use

Problem is, once you open the packages they're completely ruined and you can't use the Amiibo within the box unless you make a whole on the bottom of it.

I might get it in a complete batch but couldn't careless for singles.

Cheap and bad piece of plastic as a collectible? Seems stupid to me.

I saw them in real life which were, Peach, Mario and Metroid Samus all looked pretty good although the images online beg to differ.

But almighty God, what the fuck did Nintendo do to Zelda Link and Marth.

 

[RevPokemon]

For those who own them what is the build quality like?