![]() It turns out the website and store computers were on the same network so it took over 30 minutes for people in the stores to get their preorders. They kindly announced their preorders would go live at 3:00 PM EST. The website was fucked due to the sheer amount of people F5ing it but the app still worked so that’s how I got it. Target went live with Jigglypuff preorders around noon. That meant there were only the two other exclusives left, Jigglypuff at Target and Ness at GameStop. Lucky for me, I got them all but a lot of people were really upset that morning. It turns out my paranoia was well founded because someone posted the preorder links on the amiibo Reddit and they were gone in under 15 minutes. I didn’t trust that so I stayed up until 3:00 AM (midnight Pacific time). They announced that they were going to open preorders around 7:00 AM. The Wave 4 preorders were a complete and total clusterfuck that I will never forget. This time I would preorder them so I didn’t have to hunt around. I decided the next wave would be different. It got me Captain Falcon, King Dedede (who I now wanted because he was rare), and Ike. I netted quite a few of them thanks to sending me text messages when they came in stock. I absolutely had to have Rosalina and I figured I might as well put Lucario in there as well to justify the shipping costs.Īt this point I started learning tricks to collect the figures. I wasn’t really able to get out to the stores to buy the exclusives and I missed the online preorders so I ended up buying them from Amazon France of all places. The only ones I was able to preorder was Meta Knight and Shulk. The worst part is I wanted more from that wave than any other so far Toon Link, Ike, Mega Man, Sheik, Shulk, Rosalina, and Meta Knight. At that point we’d learned that Nintendo was not making nearly enough amiibo to meet demand. That’s probably a good thing because I really didn’t need another hit yet. I bought both of them not realizing that Little Mac would become a Unicorn. So I went to my local Target on the day of release (this was before we started camping out to get them) and found out they only had Zelda, and Little Mac. I wanted Pit, Zelda, Captain Falcon, and Little Mac. That’s when the addiction started to get its hooks in me. And oh shit, I’ve got five of these things now when I was only planning on getting one. And I really liked how they did Donkey Kong’s fur so I wanted him. I was maining Peach at the time and she looked pretty good so I decided to get her. While I was there though, I looked at the other amiibo and they grew on me. I was just happy to get my stupid Wii Fit Trainer toy that shouldn’t have existed. Of course at the time I had no clue what had just happened. That thrill of acquisition sent a hit of dopamine straight into my brain and boy-oh-boy did it feel good. In retrospect I think this is what hooked me on collecting these things. A thing that lots of people wanted but you were the one to get it because of your badass collecting skills. A rush of finding and acquiring something that was rare. After a little searching, I found out my local Walmart at the time (which was a ghetto -ass Walmart) had her in stock so I got over there pronto and bought her. Then I went online and learned that she was one of the first “unicorns,” which is what we call amiibo that are nigh impossible to find. So I cruised on over to GameStop only to find out she had sold out. ![]() I found her existence so hilariously stupid that I had to have her. The only one I actually wanted was the Wii Fit Trainer. If only I’d known how bad things would get. I couldn’t see myself getting into them because they weren’t articulated (I like posing figures) and didn’t really do anything I cared about in the game. You wouldn’t know it now, but I actually thought amiibo were stupid when I first heard about them. It all started with the Super Smash Brothers line and, now that it’s finally finished (at least until they release a Switch version that adds more characters), I figured this is as good a time as any to talk about how I became addicted to collecting amiibo and recount some of the crazier war stories. I currently own 97 of them and have even more preordered. I’m a member of that community and I’m an amiibo addict. They were called amiibo and they quickly became known for their addictive qualities among the community who collected them. On November 28 th 2014 Nintendo started selling little pieces of plastic that were molded and painted to look like their characters. ![]()
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