Looking Back at amiibo with AntDude

[@Outlandishoutset]

The peak of the amiibo madness was the literal truck of special edition splatoon amiibo that got stolen in the UK. That was the moment I fully accepted that having a full collection was going to be impossible

[@MorphBaller388]

Special edition? How were they special?

[@SakuraAvalon]

@@MorphBaller388 They were Grand Theft Auto themed. lol

[@Torterra890]

@@MorphBaller388In the UK, The green squid amiibo were exclusive to a splatoon game bundle instead of the three pack. I belive the truck containing them was the one stolen, making the green squid significantly rarer there.

[@jorelc6]

Ocean's Amiibo UK Edition. I remember. S** went bananas

[@nemoo_fsh23]

​@@Torterra890I actually didn't know about this! as someone who lives in the UK and has a green squid amiibo, it is now alot more cool than I thought lol

[@Robin0928]

I love the "occasionally posted, hyper-specific Nintendo-themed Scott the Woz and AntDude Podcast"

[@BugsyFoga]

The long lasting winner of the toys to life genre.

[@nouns7504]

What the fuck do any of the new ones, ultimate and newer just doesnt have games

[@mikee2725]

@@nouns7504 Splatoon ones give you in game bonuses and the zelda ones all work for Totk

[@JakeLT64]

Best at “toys” Worst at “to life”

[@Soniman001]

@@JakeLT64except no kid would ever play with these as toys when they have no articulation and attached to a base Amibo only lasted this long because people WANT to buy figures of iconic video game characters whereas no one gives a shit about bumblefuck mcnobody from sky landers game number 4

[@OnMyWayToAsakura]

Not really, who tf buys the amibos for the game play aspect? You know... the "toys to life" part?

[@EisenSMT]

Love the thumbnail of Scott comforting Ant over his Amiibo addiction

[@greetingsgoodsir8143]

I love how this two hour retrospective doesn’t really end, it just kinda stops.

[@colinje]

YESSSSS we NEED an ant dude and Scott podcast, they bounce SO well off of each other!

[@jasonoyola590]

for sure

[@JsYTA]

They are both part of the Nintendo KZbinr w/ Glasses Multiverse

[@Deoxys911]

@@JsYTA Pretty sure it's just a universe since they all exist in our reality. Less exciting, but more practical for crossovers at least!

[@evanshanley8110]

add nathaniel bandy to that too

[@alexspeedwagon3701]

Ten years amiibos have existed and this is the first time i've ever considered that they might be real-life trophies. I'm not an amiibo guy but man i'm tempted now

[@KingofBeasts444]

Do it

[@Jotaauvei_]

Super Mario Wonder not having Amiibo support definitely sends a message... 😢 RIP the best DLC

[@animedude834]

Very true, it should’ve had amiibo but hey, at least TotK got some…

[@Zundelley]

I don't even care about amiibo that much, I just love watching Scott and AntDude talk about stuff lol

[@Jake76667]

i remember in early 2015 going out "amiibo hunting" as i called it with me and my dad going to a bunch of stores that were really far away from where we lived at the time and specifically in early 2015, getting really close to actually getting a marth, ike and shulk amiibo in stores when the latter was still a gamestop exclusive and when all 3 of them were extremely hard to find in the united states. it was a good time

[@Nerdtendo6366]

I spent $25 dollars for the Amiibo Festival one day and then spent $12 for the game itself. I ended up spending more money on that than I would’ve just buying the three things on eBay

[@CheddarBayBaby]

AntDude looks no older or younger than he did 20 years ago. He is ageless and eternal. From my estimation he’s been 26 years old for the last 30 years.

[@PanthalassaRo]

Man I can hear these two dudes talk about anything for hours, great content fills me with nostalgia.

[@turtleanton6539]

Indeed😊

[@Tonjit41]

yeah. they bounce off of each other really naturally.

[@eden22.7]

Blessing us with all these recent uploads ! Merry Christmas

[@Cr3zant]

Just wanna give some appreciation to new editor Scott Wozniak for bringing this video to everyone.

[@mds_main]

Actually, the editor for this video specifically is Scott himself, as written in the description and since this was one of those videos tied to that card game of his.

[@zekromfan1]

@@mds_mainThe S-Reader collection to be exact. Too bad nobody really used it.

[@joshuadenaux3620]

I was immediately drawn to amiibo because I liked them as cool affordable figures. I consider myself extremely lucky that I own a complete set of amiibo and I've never had to pay above MSRP.

[@JaycieSLove]

Amiibo feel like they hardly do anything in game, but if you try to add more functionality it feels like too much. It’s a hard line to balance, and nowadays it feels like you mostly buy them for the figures alone.

[@MrBda241]

It's amazing that at some point, even now, some good looking amiibos were considered common and were going for dirt cheap. Amiibos like Palutena, Lucas, Ryu, Waluigi (all like $10 or less on Ebay) and the Splatoon 1 pack amiibos ($20), and how the most sought after amiibo like Corrin P2 and Tiki in some regards, plummeted in price due to their restock, from $80 to $100 to $25 or $30 at most.

[@TwinBlasters]

I put this on while playing my Switch, and it was incredibly comfy. I am one of the madmen Ant refers to, who has a near complete amiibo collection... all still in box. Amiibo definitely come with stories. Those couple of peak years were attached to numerous acquisition shenanigans. You posted this only like a week after the Splatoon 3 and Tears of the Kingdom Zelda/Ganon amiibo released. They had quite a long run

[@someguy4040]

When Smash Melee was released with its opening cutscene, it set a burning desire into me to own little figurines of each and every character. Years later, it seemed as if my childhood dream had come true, and while I managed to snag a lot of them, the ongoing scarcity of Amiibo in my part of the world frustrated me to the point where I eventually lost interest. It was a lot of running around, going to every store time and again, being massively disappointed constantly, spending hundreds of dollars on ebay... And now they sit in a box in my basement. Like, I kind of get the limited supply with the original wave, but I mean, we got one Alm/Celica for the ENTIRE city... ONE. And that's also just one for every adjacent city and town within a 50 km radius. And there was never a restock. And that wasn't the exception, that was the rule. We got one to three of most of the Amiibo's that wern't Mario or Pikachu. At some point, they should have figured out the supply issue, but they never did. Now years later, I find it annoying that games like TOTK get new Amiibo that unlock in game items exclusive to that specific figure, when I already have not one, not two, not three, but FIVE Link Amiibo already... And 3 of them pretty much do nothing in any game. There's no reason that a Link Amiibo can't just be a Link Amiibo and be usable in future games. Oh well, at least the quality of the figures have improved... Very disappointed when I got my Shulk Amiibo and the design on the back of his pants were smeared. Good luck getting a replacement because there weren't any.

[@kenn_k]

this crossover would have been way more appropriate if the conversation was set to footage of their hands and amiibos on the carpet

[@TheMapleSyrupShow]

When Ant mentioned MarioTehPlumber and the Rosalina incident, I got shivers down my spine. Internet troll or not, that had to be the pettiest thing bro ever did.

[@crappyjunk5]

I've come to realize that collecting every one is a pure pipe dream. I'll be content to just complete the smash series once Sora is released and one day set up a gaming room modeled after the Melee trophy room. Other than that I'm happy to just pick up the ones of characters I like

[@Deerflour]

I hope next year Scott releases a video called Looking Back at Looking Back at amiibo with AntDude with AntDude

[@Lucifronz]

This is giving me JacksFilms reacts to JacksFilms reaction video vibes.

[@ErnestSheptalo]

An xzibit moment

[@ianswift3521]

zoomer humor is so lit. y'all. soooo lit bruh. no cap fam.

[@Curlyheart]

Honoka :D

[@MrVIPGuest]

​@@ianswift3521don't hurt yourself making fun of our slang lmao

[@magmarxiogaming6717]

The main reason the loot goblin amiibo box was like that was because the amiibo for it was literally just a modified version of the cute but deadly figure for it

[@ThatLegoGuy-10140]

It borderline ENRAGES me that Scott has said he sold all of the figures from his "Toys to Life" video,but HE KEPT THE POKEMON RUMBLE U FIGURES!

[@Lucifronz]

Honestly, those are the ones that have gained interest the most too. Just look at the prices online. For reference, these were $3 random gacha balls from like GameStop and I think the Pokemon Center. Now they run anywhere from like $20 for Lucario to $80 for a Piplup and the full set sold together without the shiny or Japanese collectibles is like $200-400. Which... as a weird Pokemon fan who wants these, very much hurts me. Especially as I had a decent time playing the 3DS Pokemon Rumble free-to-play game when I had absolutely nothing else but a pre-installed copy of Yokai Watch to play on my 2DS.

[@turtleanton6539]

​@@Lucifronzjust save up and buy them all

[@ThatLegoGuy-10140]

@@Lucifronz Yeah,they have picked up a following.But i'm still shocked he sold all of the Lego Dimensions and Skylanders figures.(Not the Disney Infinity ones though,they can go die in a landfill)

[@MilkWasABadChoice17]

This video could otherwise be known as "Amiibo History & Analysis: A Compendium of Passion & Regret".

[@The84Chambers]

I have every Amiibo in their respective boxes. I officially ran out of room for them after receiving the latest Splatoon ones. I have two shelves spanning a total of 18 feet. Both shelves are stacked two high and 3 back. They have to be packed away soon. What a ride it’s been.

[@leighdappa]

❗️My Timestamps: 1:55 I never got caught up in the Amiibo collecting though I do think they look desirable. I only have three Amiibo: 1️⃣8-Bit Mario (red & green) 2️⃣Toad 3️⃣Charizard I DID have the Ryu one but sold it. ALL my Amiibo are still on their boxes...

[@MrVIPGuest]

Where the rest of the time stamps?

[@leighdappa]

@MrVIPGuest: I found the one I gave was the only noteworthy one in the Video.

[@MrVIPGuest]

@@leighdappa ah you said timestamps plural so I thought maybe you just forgot to update lol

[@datalphalion]

3DS Amiibo support began with Smash 3DS via a post launch update. The first completely original 3DS game to have Amiibo support was Code Name STEAM. That game supported Marth, Ike, Robin and Lucina and I still think it’s the coolest Amiibo functionality out there.

[@LNERFlyingScotsman]

Man, the Amiibo craze was one of my most stressful but favorite memories as teen to look back on. I initially was going to pass on these when they were revealed, but once I saw how great they looked in stores I just got my collector's mindset to get them all. I was a bit late on the draw and by that time the rarity scarce and rumors of discontinuation started to get into me so I had to get them. I am not proud in the slightest of how some of how much I had to spend to get the ones I couldn't find anymore on eBay like Fox, Captain Falcon and Pit and for Wave 1's Holy Grails I remember setting up an German Amazon account and had those shipped to me in the U.S. once they restock there. I got lucky ordering a Little Mac from Gamestop's website. That was one of the rare ones down that I didn't need to buy from a reseller. One of my favorite memories from this was having my mom drive me around to several Targets and Toys R Us's looking around for any of the ones I was missing and eventually ending the day with picking up only Diddy Kong from a Gamestop. I only went for the Smash Bros. Line. I drew the line there and wasn't interested in anything else (besides Amiibo cards for Animal Crossing 9 years later). Now I have nearly all of them from Smash Bros. with any amiibo I bought after Smash Ultimate keeping them in the box rather than opening them up as soon as I got them. I even kept all the original packaging after my third one with the plastic blisters and it's all displayed on one of the walls in my room. Also got an in package Mario and Yoshi (my first two) to fill the space my original boxes would've been had I not thrown them away) and the Retro 3-pack in box because I had already ordered them loose from Amazon de.

[@tlgkevin4431]

I've been watching antdude forever since 2007 with his old channel still love it so nostalgic and Scott and Anthony just make perfect sense together

[@iGeeWiz]

I didn't get into amiibo until Best Buy had Peach, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi for $9 and it felt too cheap to let pass by. And that was the start of my addiction because I really loved collecting amiibo from that point. I got them at the perfect time because at the time, GameStop wanted out of the pre-owned Toys to Life market and amiibo was included in that. Their sale was Buy 1 Get 3 Free and my local stores were FLOODED with amiibo figures and I remember getting about 30-35 of them for about $75. Rare ones at the time like Charizard, Shulk, Sheik, and many others! To this day, I'm only missing one Smash amiibo with Terry Bogard and I haven't paid more than retail for any amiibo excluding Mega Yarn Yoshi since it never got a reprint but I got 2 of them for $200 and sold the sealed one for $140 to recoup those funds. My favorite memory from my amiibo collecting was I walked into Best Buy on my birthday just to see what deals they had when Gamers Club Unlocked was still going on and they had 20% off new games and about 10 minutes to closing in the game section, I saw a cart full of stuff to put back on the shelf and right on the top was a PRISTINE Smash Meta Knight amiibo, which at the time was still a Best Buy exclusive but was sold out 9 months past its release and was going for almost $100. I picked it up with super speed and was shaking while my brother was confused as to why. It was my holy Grail at the time.

[@snoogabean]

I remember when Marth was rare and I found a bunch in a salvage store for $7 each brand new. I bought 1 like a civil man and kept it sealed for awhile. I did eventually cave and open because I wanted to use it, not to mention the value isn't really there anymore anyways. I was probably 13 or 14 at the time, so it's not like I had the funds to buy them all and resell them for some crazy mark up if I wanted to.

[@rexdawn7]

Starlink amiibo was a cool toys to life, and they chose to sell the digital content tied to the amiibo separately from the amiibo themselves.

[@Yokokazuo]

Regarding the Japanese eShop and paying through the NFC reader, on Wii U and new 3DS you used to be able to make a purchase with NFC train cards. One of the most well known ones is the Suica card as it’s what is used for an area such as Tokyo. You can prepay for a set route/period of time and also put cash on the card where you can use it on any supported train line and even some vending machines too. And if you have cash on it, you could choose to use it on a purchase if you have enough money. I still have a “Manaca” card from Aichi which has ¥90, but since it’s roughly less than a dollar, I never had a use for it myself as I could only use it for purchases and not adding more funds.

[@PrinceDinoboy]

I love misprints that say amiibo are compatible when they aren't. One of my favorite parts of Minecraft: New Nintendo 3DS Edition.

[@thousandyeargems4360]

Il never forget the Lucario day. Me and my buddy woke up at 6am to wait infront of toys r us, and the line exploded an hour before opening. Good times

[@maccamachine]

These types of videos have been amazing man keep up the great work. Awesome topic I only have a few of the amiibo I really wanted like banjo kazooie and the botw guardian. I do have skyward sword link and the pee pole smash link also

[@Catspirit123]

the early days of amiibo were rough for a villager/wii fit main like myself...

[@JMXico]

I love the fact that Nintendo made some merch that has staying power. It may not be a big collector's thing now but it's cool that they offer official merch that has a small bonus with games released

[@MegaNerdX]

I do miss these times. Since the 1st wave, my wife & I got 2 of every Smash amiibo on release day. We would get to a store at like 4am for the 1st 3 waves. After that in my area, waves 4 and on we didn’t have to arrive til 6am or so. It seemed like it died down a smidge here in MA

[@DonWeaselYeehawEdition]

48:38 “I feel like we can end this on the amiibo implementation” There is an hour and four minutes remaining 😂

[@YoutubePizzer]

I never thought they were anything very cool. If they were plushies on the other hand, I would’ve sold my house to buy them. That yarn yoshi was the best amiibo by far

[@gordonraeburn7455]

As someone who has never owned or had any interest in Amiibo, I enjoyed this 2 hour video about amiibo

[@Mr_Top_Hat_Jones]

Same. I was searching the comments, because I knew that I couldn’t be the only one. I’ve never even thought about buying an amiibo, but this was a chill and informative video.

[@SakuraAvalon]

My Walmart stopped carrying them after BotW. Honestly, I grew to hate them, when I found out there was cool gear in Splatoon that you cannot get without an Amiibo.

[@justpinklasagna]

this video made me realize that the new version of Mario RPG could have given us a Gino amiibo so we actually have Gino merchandise since right now we do not at all have anything for this character. They even released a line of plushies when the original Mario RPG came out and that set excluded Gino. so we've never had official Gino merchandise this means we could have had one if we remembered that amiibo existed at all.

[@UrLocalSplatoonFanGuy]

The very first Amiibos I ever got were Pearl and Marina from Splatoon 2 for my 17th birthday, then I got Callie and Marie for Christmas the next month. Now I’m getting Shiver, Frye and Big Man this Christmas.

[@videogameobsession]

I went all in on Amiibo. I think, for me anyway, it was that they instantly felt classic. Like they were ripped right out of Smash Bros Melee (as they sorta were), and they had a secondary function, aside from looking cool, (though truthfully I never planned on opening them., the boxes seemed like the perfect place for them.. Keeps them free of dust, they are flashy, and have their names on them, for the obscure ones). I have to also admit that I bought some doubles of them so I could open and display/use them. So I have complete, and minty boxes, which wasn't easy when I had many of them shipped! It took a lot of returns and repurchases. Complete until Wave 7, plus the SMB line. But then I had ENOUGH!.. I was running out of space, and unfortunately I don't even have the place to display them. I have them all carefully packed in totes.. I even have soft tissue paper between them to keep any of the clear plastic from getting scratched. I'm a bit OCD when it comes to my collecting. I would be lying I'd I said I didn't enjoy some of the thrill of the hunt. 😁 -MattH

[@redpup112]

1:20:59 for those who are curious about what the Dark Souls Remastered amiibo is and don't know their Dark Souls 1 (don't worry, I understand, these games are absolutely not for everybody)... the Dark Souls amiibo is of a guy called Solaire (it might be spelt differently, but it's pronounced "soul-air"). in the game he worships the sun and is "looking for his own sun," whatever that means. that pose is called "praise the sun," and people usually use it when they succeed. you also learn it from Solaire. I think the only reason people praise the sun is because Solaire is a nice person in a game where you can count the number of nice NPCs on two hands (one depending on who you ask). anyways, unless you do a few very specific steps that are, in retrospect, pretty easy to achieve (just killing a hard to find passive critter that won't fight back), he gets corrupted by a creature similar to a Half-Life headcrab and you have to kill him. because Dark Souls. he's also just like, a normal enemy, and not even a boss. as for the... emote? people liked it so much and it became probably the most memorable symbol of Dark Souls to the point that it's now in Dark Souls 2 and 3. It's not in Bloodborne or Elden Ring though. tl;dr: that guy is Solaire, and he's praising the sun, which is like a wholesome version of the Fortnite Default Dance. oh, and also: the loot goblins in Diablo don't even look like that! that goblin is so much more cartoony... kinda wish they looked like that in the actual game

[@-Khepri]

I'll always remember bringing my incinoroar to my friends house and watching him fk up everybody 😂 guy was a freaking monster

[@Glory2Snowstar]

I’ll never forget the joy of snagging that Piranha Plant Amiibo right before a MASSIVE blizzard hit us in 2019. Their cardboard got wet with snow but the figure themselves stayed pristine and chompy. They really are a wonderful lil’ specimen. Just a sweet, wholesome memory for me. Also they can’t fit in a jar.

[@Lucifronz]

I prefer to know how capable amiibo are of fitting inside Griffin's mouth. That just seems like a better measurement to me.

[@rexdawn7]

Why am I happy to watch a 2 hour video about a Amiibos?

[@luigiRobs14]

I just want the Sora amiibo because their was a point where I thought he wouldn’t get into Smash and i’m glad I was proven wrong

[@leeartlee915]

For Smash, I thought the no brainer function Amiibo should have had was alternative costumes (beyond the ones built into the game). But hey, that’s me.

[@Cynim]

Great retrospective. It’s interesting to me to hear all that happen in the US. Here, in Switzerland, we didn’t have shop exclusivity and stock was okay-ish. There were some shortages, but didn’t last too long each time. By the way, about the Squid amiibo, it was also bundled with the game itself (maybe only in Europe, don’t know about the US). Okay, the 8-bit Mario Maker amiibo sold only with the system is ridiculous! We had it sold as a stand-alone or with the game.

[@Thanosferatu]

The 8 Bit Modern Mario amiibo was eventually sold separately.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Ah, amiibo collecting... those were the days of blowing out money to get a cool Nintendo figure that barely did anything! Yeah, believe it or not, my brother and I were a part of the amiibo craze back when Smash 3DS and Wii U launched. Since I got five of the N64 Crew (Mario, Link, Kirby, DK and Pikachu), I was waiting for what other kinds of 'miibo we could get. After getting the Mario Party 10 amiibo bundle and Smash Luigi, i think my big bro started to go a bit hog wild with getting many amiibo! He got me Shulk, Bowser Jr., Diddy Kong, the Super Mario versions of Peach, Yoshi, Bowser... Smash Pit came detached from his base... got the green Yarn Yoshi amiibo along with Wooly World. Splatoon amiibo were a big get, as well as the Smash Retro fighters. Me and big bro were getting amiibo left and right... and that meant we got into some right bull-honky. One time, my brother ordered the collector's edition of Mega Man Legacy Collection for 3DS that contains the gold Mega Man amiibo... but the shipment got hacked and brother had to cancel it. It took me till 2019 to get a Mega Man amiibo. Speaking of buying games just to get the amiibo, I was one of the poor saps who bought Chibi Robo Zip Lash just for the amiibo. It was so cool and adorable that i just had to have it... i really should have just gotten the amiibo alone on Amazon. In addition, we bought Zelda Twilight Princess HD for the awesome Wolf Link amiibo, got Pokkén Tournament's first run copy for the Shadow Mewtwo card... and that was about it really... afterwards, i got Waluigi, and Daisy back in 2016... and that was honestly it. Like i said, i got Mega Man in 2019, Waddle Dee in 2020... yeah... Nowadays, I'm not really that into amiibo collecting as i was back then. A lot of them just don't interest me these days. As of this writing, my lastest amiibo i got was the Super Mario series version of Donkey Kong. I don't have any interest in getting any of the DLC characters outside of the two I have... i might get Piranha Plant, K. Rool and Banjo and maybe Terry and Sora... but that would be it honestly. That and the fact that amiibo support has been a joke in some games also killed my interest. Like for whatever reason, Kirby and the Forgotten Land's amiibo function is just a pathetic bonus of healing item and star coins, which was a massive downgrade from Star Allies' function, which itself was a massive downgrade from Robobot's function. And the worst thing is... they regurgitated it for the Return to Dreamland remake! The nerve of Vanpool and Hal labs!

[@vandam6057]

23:44 the funniest thing about that dude, he HATED rosalina, and the only reason he bought all the rosalina amiibos he could find was to spite anyone who wanted a rosalina amiibo

[@QuintonRe2s]

Finally finished this one! Great little video :)

[@Typi]

I've never really cared too much about the in-game functionality for amiibo. They're relatively high-quality figures for a reasonable price. Yes, the first couple waves of Smash were rough (especially the faces on more realistic characters), but nowadays the quality is great and they're fun collectables. Smash and Splatoon series are stand-outs, with the Zelda and Monster Hunter series also being extremely good.

[@kennethwehrs8924]

OK Scott, you've confessed. Now we need a video in defense of Paper Mario Color Splash.

[@myriadmediamusings]

Smash is really the only one I stuck with, and at the time of this comment I'm really just missing three: Pyra & Mythra because I stupidly missed out on the initial limited sale period of that, and Sora, where I hopefully won't make the same mistake I did for Pyra & Mythra.

[@TheChristianFangirl]

For Pyra & Mythra, I suggest looking in-store at different Best Buys if you're in the US. My brother had the exact same problem and ended up finding them in a random BB when we took a trip across the country.

[@dialga236]

one of my favorite amiibo memories has to be back in 2016 i passed up callie and marie amiibo in favor of buying zelda triforce heroes. i regretted that descision for literal years, cus i barely played triforce heroes. but last year around thanksgiving i went to new york, and when i was in the nintendo new york store i saw callie and marie on the shelf and knew i pass it up a second time cus id regret it forever. also got pearl and marina and steve and alex amiibo. i dont really collect amiibo since the college town i moved to doesnt really have any amiibo or anything but the nintendo ny store was crazy for amiibo

[@JoshTheWoz]

This was actually one of my cards so I watched this a few months back, but now everyone can watch it ^^

[@Ziondood]

I really miss the hunt! Going out with friends and just seeing what we could find was so fun!!!

[@skipatrolslayer]

I bought the awful Chibi-Robo Zip Lash game just for the amiibo. I love Chibi-Robo and think the figure looks so cool. I never once thought about if the plug fits into an outlet but thank god someone thought to make it not fit lol.

[@r00b14]

Man all I ever wanted from amiibo was a skylanders-esque adventure game

[@SherbetAlex]

The only amiibo I went hard to get was the Mega Yarn Yoshi amiibo which came out on my 21st birthday. I was living at San Francisco State at the time. The nearest Toys R Us was in Emeryville across the Bay. I woke up at 5AM on the morning of my 21st birthday to take multiple buses to get to the Emeryville Toys R Us before it opened. I was the first person there because everyone else who got there before me decided to stay in their cars because it was cold. I got all those people to get out of their cars and brave the cold with me for about an hour until the store opened.

[@Nugget-ir5ni]

i think the coolest thing you could do is make your amiibo super op in smash ultimate by giving them a bunch of spirits and then trying to beat them or like teaming up with friends and fighting them together

[@famoussaturn3237]

Would love for the audio from this to go to a streaming service of some kind. Love listening to this while working or cleaning

[@charlesw7397]

I honestly miss the early days of collecting Amiibo. I was a year out of high school and dropped out of college after my semester because I was dealing with severe depression. For months I barely even got out of bed but because of my love for Nintendo and Smash Bros, Amiibo somehow hooked me. I bought every figure I possibly could and did some crazy things to get the difficult ones. Drove 2 1/2 hours to pick up a Captain Falcon, camped put in front of Target 4 hours early for Rosalina, spent hours and hours refreshing websites (and set up extensions that notify you when a webpage changes) to get Lucario, camped outside of Gamestop for hours to be first in line to pre-order wave 4, etc. After getting gold Mario and a yarn Yoshi, I started slowing down and stopped caring about collecting them all. Amiibo were basically my life for a year and a half because it was the only thing that gave me any happiness and joy lol unfortunately I lost my job and sold a ton of them a few year back (which I regret) but I still have around 15 of them and I'd like to start picking up some of them again

[@waywardlaser]

I don't have a ton of amiibo but my most cherished ones are the three wedding figures of Mario, Peach, and Bowser from Odyssey, and Bayonetta.

[@Chronoflation]

I always thought amiibo should be an alternate way to download an actual DLC pack for a game. Like instead of paying $10 for a DLC pack, you could buy the $12.99 amiibo instead. They could even track if an amiibo key had been used before in their store to make sure the same one wasn't used twice to download the content on multiple consoles, hurting their resale value, but it would've been a great implementation, I think, to get the DLC you would've bought or were considering getting anyways, but you also got this physical figure almost as a sort of bonus for the slight premium

[@totally_not_lorenzo]

If i remember correctly, there are gold/silver versions of the Monster Hunter amiibo but were exclusively Japan Smash tournament rewards for 1st place. There was another Gold Mega Man amiibo but raffle in Japan only with 3 in existence.

[@ImTheGuy]

I love looking back at alamo with Antman

[@shanemiller1182]

I remember that

[@Delta21OnYT]

I remember getting the Mario Maker Wii U bundle for christmas, I wish Mario Maker 2 had the same amount of support and care put into it as the original

[@vincentbranciforte9832]

I love amiibo so much im addicted to collecting them. i have every mario series, amiibo all splatoon series, amiibo zleda series amiibo, and all smash series amiibo, but the Pyra and Mythra amiibo couldn't get those in time ):

[@Lana_305]

"I think when it comes to individual amiibo, I do kinda want to say Corrin Player 2 is the most expensive" **Fire Emblem Engage amiibo redistributes has entered the chat**

[@michaelmunns]

God bless you Scott and AntDude

[@crazynaut223]

I appreciate amiibo Tap just for letting me play the fun parts of Metroid 1 without having to play through Metroid 1

[@lakitudude7577]

Kid named passwords

[@crazynaut223]

@@lakitudude7577 Passwords still require the lame navigation and platforming, no thank you I'll just tap my Link amiibo and go right to Mother Brain

[@cam-joh]

Can’t believe that they forgot to mention the Wolf Link amiibo being a companion in BOTW! Since it was ZeldaWiiU for so long, it felt almost comforting to have Wolf Link as a little reminder :)

[@-SuperNintendo64-oj4bz]

Hearing Scott acknowledge Yo-kai Watch's existence ticked the little happy neuron in my brain.

[@earthboundman5]

Words can't explain how much amiibo mean to me. I have basically a complete collection, I've been collecting them since literally day 1 (November 21, 2014). I was 12 at the time, so the perfect age to be obsessed with something like amiibo, and they've just stuck with me. My amiibo collection is literally my pride and joy

[@Lucifronz]

They're just fun. The small perks in games are nice, and admittedly while I don't like *having* to have a figure to do something in a game, I do think it adds value to the figure itself and makes it all the more worth collecting, but overall the figure itself is the main reason to get it. I just feel extra incentivized by the NFC functions. For me, my collection is primarily Skylanders. I have so many of them and I hope to increase my collection some more some day. But I do have some amiibo, and I love them. They're mostly the Animal Crossing amiibo, which I got because I'm a fan of the series and the quality of them is *astounding.* In my opinion, they are among the most well-designed and detailed figures out there. KK's guitar has a texture to it, Cyrus and Reese have ridges on their overalls, and the base of the figures is a cut-out of the terrain from the games. All-around *incredible* figures. But I also once picked up a Robin amiibo because I liked the design, long before I ever played and beat Awakening (by that time I was only a fan of Fates as it was my first and only FE game). It was one of my earliest amiibo, in fact. Now I have quite a few, but they're all safely tucked away with most of my stuff after a big move until I can get my living situation... well, _situated_ a bit better and find some room for them. I just wish I had a cheap and affordable display option for them. I want to have like elevated platforms so that the amiibo and Skylanders in the back (separately displayed, of course) have a height advantage over the ones in the front instead of just sitting in a crowd of figures next to each other, which doesn't look that great. But yeah... I treasure all of my figures. Unless I knew I could get a quick replacement, like I did with Nightfall when my nephew wanted it, I would never part with them. And not just because Skylanders have even *more* utility where they are actual playable characters with their save data stored on them outside of the Imaginators and 3DS games (where they let you save to the game/system).

[@kokorikopi]

It's funny getting this now when Amiibo mania is sort of coming back; the Ultimate DLC amiibo are basically all insane to get.

[@TheDinoKitteh]

The print runs are lower

[@bagelgod946]

pyra and mythra were pure hell

[@TheDinoKitteh]

@@bagelgod946 My preorder was stolen

[@Curlyheart]

I have Steve and Alex

[@Travisgaminglol]

Nothing feels better than finding an amiibo for like 5 bucks on a flea market

[@RideorDieGaM]

In the 80s they released a Mario/Zelda cereal where the box was split in the middle with two skinny bags of cereal on either side. It was okay. For some reason they marketed both together like that for a little while. I had Mario/Zelda bedsheets, a comforter, and the most uncomfortable sleeping bag I've ever encountered with those designs on them.

[@crobinson2624]

As someone who owns like 80 amiibos although they are a neat collectible, they are sorely underutilized by Nintendo. Nintendo could have made a free to play game that required amiibos to use, they could include amiibo functionality in every Nintendo published game that offered some kind of item or reward, and they most certainly could have produced more for customers to buy instead of every new one selling out within minutes or hours!

[@Danielgil28893-x]

Amiibos could have a entire retro game included. Imagine scan the ice climbers and you can play ice climber for nes just like that.

[@Harmonia96]

They sort of did, the Wii U had a section that unlocked demos of the games these figures originated from. But yeah, that easily could've been expanded upon. Disney Infinity tried to pull something off like that, but it wasn't ambitious enough

[@crobinson2624]

@@Harmonia96 Nintendo could have done it better than Disney. Nintendo could still do it, they could do a game based on Super Nintendo World theme park and you use amiibo to unlock content within the theme park game.

[@Harmonia96]

@@crobinson2624 Oh, Nintendo Land was such a great game. Way better than what 1-2 Switch offered

[@robbertlw9610]

Glad to have all of the SSB Amiibo’s, including Gold Megaman

[@MrBda241]

I foolishly decided to buy a 3 Pack Animal Crossing amiibo set from a Gamestop bargin bin and then decided to buy the Splatoon 3 pack off ebay, then the Chibi Robo... And now 175 at least, I have the newest Splatoon 3 Amiibo. (Was not expecting The Big Man to be so wide)

[@MegaDoomdoomDoom]

Ah man, the early days of the Amiibo was weird. I remember buying the Pac-Man Amiibo from a vendor in the console game room of an anime con

[@legacytag]

Fire Emblem always had pretty big content locked behind Amiibo. Fates had 4 DLC characters and weapons all from previous games (hell it was the first time Marth had English voice acting), each with their own small side quests. Echoes had 2 unique dungeons with unique weapons, and the unique spell to summon a bunch of characters that were also in Smash. Warriors had two of the best weapons early-mid game in the game locked behind Amiibo (Specifically Chrom's Training Sword due to it's unique trait being a stronger version of the best skill in the game) Three Houses had the ridiculous Amiibo Gazebo which gives you overpowered items in New Game+ like a unique spell for Byleth and stat boosters. Even Engage will give you an extra Relay ticket every day, which on Maddening mode is one of the only ways to consistently grind if you want to. So ya, as a series it's definitely one of those that tends to lock some pretty big stuff behind Amiibo, I will say none of it is really required or limits the experience though (Three Houses' NG+ mode is SO much more broken with the Amiibo Gazebo though, it's one of the few ways to get stat caps in that game without hacking)

[@Kneevirus]

I wish they made 3 houses amiibo of the 3 captains so bad

[@Debloko666]

Code Name Steam still has one of my favorite uses of Amiibo; unlocking up to 4 new playable characters in that game, that are very different from the characters from the base game. Both Robin and Lucina are great playable characters there. I wished they re-released Code Name Steam n the Switch and added more Amiibo support for the others Fire Emblem amiibos.

[@ClaesAzure]

As someone who recently researched Fire Emblem amiibo, I was hoping they’d mention Fates. THAT was arguably the best amiibo implementation; playable units (that were okay in-game), clothing, weapons, and unique dialogue. Unfortunately, Intelligent Systems got less innovative until Engage where it’s kind of coming back with costumes and music? Also, I agree! I wish more third-parties did stuff with amiibo. Immediately when Joker got announced for Smash, I was hoping that his amiibo would unlock something should The Royal get ported at the time. We eventually did get the The Royal, and nothing… could’ve added the “Beneath the Mask (Smash Remix)” as alternate music. The costume DLC already does that and The Phantom Strikers gave you “Take Over” for having a Smash save file. Lastly, I’m happy they at least mentioned Code Name: S.T.E.A.M’s compatibility cause that was both impressive and unnecessary early on in the amiibo lifetime! That and Style Savvy’s stuff was pretty cool alongside stuff like Yoshi’s Willy World and Mario Maker!

[@abloodcorpse3318]

Ngl, it's probably just Metroid bias, but honestly, aside from the Smash Samus amiibo, EVERY Metroid series Amiibo is just so fucking nice. Like, unreasonably so for Nintendo's nichest long-running series

[@rotallyPumpered]

I wonder if Mario Odyssey's copious number of costumes were ever considered to be NFC unlockables. A downright strange amount of work for the developers for cosmetic rewards with no gameplay impact. If the Switch had performed more like the Wii U, where only a handful of games sold well, I could see them propping up the few safe bet titles with more NFC merchandise like amiibo and cards.

[@KingofBeasts444]

I remember after Greninja was revealed for Smash, I emailed Nintendo begging them to make Smash figures like Skylanders. They emailed back, "we're a video game company, not a toy company" look where we are now.

[@Curlyheart]

Didn't they start as a toy company though?

[@KingofBeasts444]

@@Curlyheart yes

[@SPNarwhal]

The Loot Goblin Amiibo was literally just a recolor of an older released Treasure Goblin figure. That likely also explains the box since the original figure release in a box of that same size.

[@wolborg105]

Been collecting them since day 1. I am a freak and keep the packaging for every one of them I’ve gotten. Just got the new totk Ganon and Zelda. Started reflecting and thought to myself “if you had told me 9 years ago when an bought Mario, Fox, Samus and Link along with Smash Wii U that I’d still be collecting them almost a decade later….” I know materialistic things like this aren’t eternal or anything, but the big collection I now have of them has been with me through multiple moves and tons of life changes, enough that I do feel an emotional connection to some of these lil guys. Early 2015 was a wild time to collect, the local GameStop was swamped constantly. I do miss that simpler time in my life sometimes.

[@Robin0928]

The Persona 5 Joker Amiibo is still the most frustrating gaming thing ive tried to get my hands on. I never saw it ever at any store i went to, ended up finding it loose for like 30 bucks.