I got almost a full collection minus about 5, but never paid more than retail for any of them. I just bided my time and picked them up when I came across them. I collected them because I enjoy them and like how they look, so I never got more than 1 or tried to sell any. I also didnt bother to use them on any games, never anything that really interested me unlocked. I was happy for the reprints, and am glad more are coming.
BTW for anyone still collecting them and missing some, best buy has a few reprints available for pre-order, Pit, Gold Mario, Sonic, Mega-man, couple of others. Pit and Gold Mario was two I didnt have and was never going to pay the price asking for them now.
I think taking a stance that there's little to no inherent value to these is ignorant.
-They are really great looking statues, especially for their price point.
-They are your favorite characters. (We ARE a Nintendo forum, right?)
-We now have fun cool merchandise for many characters that may have never gotten any.
Even if they are worth 1 penny, I still think they are great.
It's very telling that collectors all over the internet keep throwing these under the bus (and even have invented a white burning hatred for them) just because they aren't worth a lot.
I still buy Amiibo every now and then. Screw the haters.
I wouldn't care if they was worth next to nothing, I collect them because I enjoy the figures and they display nicely with my collection. It also gives Nintendo a reason to make modern merchandise for characters/series from some of our favorite past games that would have never seen the light of day without the Amiibo lines. Only missing a single Amiibo at this point which is Palutena, hope to see a reprint soon!
I didn't care about them until I started finding them for $5 new. That's how much I said they always should have been from the start so I put my money where my mouth is and started buying only then. Of course I refused to spend 2.6x as much as I thought they were originally worth.
IMO, we had a market adjustment. If Nintendo and retailers were smart then they'd find a way to make this price the norm and still make a profit and keep going with it... even if that means you have to buy 6 for $30. If home movies can still ask $25 at launch then that's totally do-able.
$7 for 1
$18 for 3
$30 for 6
I think this would TOTALLY incentivize people to start collections, improve revenue, and increase total profits through economies of scale. If I had my way they'd make Virtual Console games tied to a series of these figures and a Classic NES Mini to play them on.
So many people admitting a part of why they collected these is because of value, this tells me everything i need to know about the mindset of a lot of collectors. It is sad really.
I think you are wrong. People are ssying it isnt as fun to collect ehen you work hard. Get the ones you want or miss out. . Wait months. Reprints dont come. You buy one for reasonable over retail or trade and then they just reprint them in enormous waves out of the blue and flood them everywhere. Guess what? Thats just not that fun to collect and kills the fun. Part of the fun is hunting some down.. Just because someone thinks reprints ruined the fun, doesnt mean they collected them for monetary vslue. Your view is warped if thats what you actually think Oh my bad i forgot the way you view collecting and how you view collecting is the "right way" to collect. Please
Right again. A lot of us put a lot of time and money into our collections, and then the market was flooded with reprints. I didn't buy them with the intention of flipping them, I bought them because I love Nintendo and Smash and (at the time) most of the Smash lineup didn't have figurines and Nintendo merch was really only just starting to come out. It was fun to track down some of the rarer ones, and the thrill of finding one you needed was great and got you excited to find more.
But now they don't have any value, you can get most of them for under $10 readily. Business are overflowing with amiibo and the prices keep dropping. Yeah, collectors tend to go after things of value. "Mindset of collectors". Pfft. Big surprise that collectors tend to go after things of rarity and/or value. If you could go down to the store and they had unlimited copies of every NES game, it wouldn't really be that fun to collect. A big part of the draw for most of us is the hunt, finding something that is rare and sought after by other collectors. Are you seriously surprised that collectors are attracted to things that take effort, time, and sometimes luck to come across? You're probably on the wrong website if so.
The only thing I regret is starting a CIB collection because I wasn't really thinking ahead of just how many characters are in the Smash series and now I have them stored in boxes because they take up too much room to display.
So many people admitting a part of why they collected these is because of value, this tells me everything i need to know about the mindset of a lot of collectors. It is sad really.
I think you are wrong. People are ssying it isnt as fun to collect ehen you work hard. Get the ones you want or miss out. . Wait months. Reprints dont come. You buy one for reasonable over retail or trade and then they just reprint them in enormous waves out of the blue and flood them everywhere. Guess what? Thats just not that fun to collect and kills the fun. Part of the fun is hunting some down.. Just because someone thinks reprints ruined the fun, doesnt mean they collected them for monetary vslue. Your view is warped if thats what you actually think Oh my bad i forgot the way you view collecting and how you view collecting is the "right way" to collect. Please
Considering how many for sale threads popping up after amiibo find threads about who found what was considered rare at the time, really makes me wonder. No need to get defensive and tell me my opinion is warped.
Right again. A lot of us put a lot of time and money into our collections, and then the market was flooded with reprints. I didn't buy them with the intention of flipping them, I bought them because I love Nintendo and Smash and (at the time) most of the Smash lineup didn't have figurines and Nintendo merch was really only just starting to come out. It was fun to track down some of the rarer ones, and the thrill of finding one you needed was great and got you excited to find more.
But now they don't have any value, you can get most of them for under $10 readily. Business are overflowing with amiibo and the prices keep dropping. Yeah, collectors tend to go after things of value. "Mindset of collectors". Pfft. Big surprise that collectors tend to go after things of rarity and/or value. If you could go down to the store and they had unlimited copies of every NES game, it wouldn't really be that fun to collect. A big part of the draw for most of us is the hunt, finding something that is rare and sought after by other collectors. Are you seriously surprised that collectors are attracted to things that take effort, time, and sometimes luck to come across? You're probably on the wrong website if so.
The only thing I regret is starting a CIB collection because I wasn't really thinking ahead of just how many characters are in the Smash series and now I have them stored in boxes because they take up too much room to display.
Obviously not every collector collects in the same way but the amount of people admitting buying up extras to resell is in my opinion garbage. Sure rarity is a motivator but it is not always the end all be all for all collectors.
I just have them as shelf candy for the most part. Yeah I used them on some games but mostly they just look good on the shelf. Gives it that video game feel to it.
Otherwise, I never understood the craze for them either. I had a feeling they would crash back to earth eventually.
I've changed my stance a bit on them. They're cool as a little figure, and I buy the ones of characters I like. The people that bought them as an investment to leave sealed were the ones that ruined the fun with them, and they got hosed big time when the bottom fell out with the reprints.
I'll keep buying them as they come, they won't quite be like Beanie Babies since they'll at least be worth a few bucks years from now, but they certainly won't be like NES or SNES games are.
I'm the same, but my amiiboz are still sealed because I still haven't figured out how I want to display the few I have.
I'm glad Nintendo responded and made them relatively "mass market" to screw the flippers.
Personally amiibos only gained their appeal to me when they reprinted them and made them easy to find. I don't collect and buy things for their supposed monetary value, I collect and buy things because I like them. Even if every video game I owned was worthless I'd still want them. But getting back to the original post, yeah a lot of people DID buy amiibos expecting it to be an investment and hoping to turn it into their next cash cow but luckily Nintendo took that away. It bothers me so much when people do things like this , buy up all the crap just so they can make a profit. Good on Nintendo for screwing up their plans. But now I also feel like amiibos are just sitting on store shelves and a lot of people DID lose interest in the amiibo craze. I mean I get it, amiibos really don't DO much. I buy em because they look cool. I've only ever used them once or twice. I just like em to put on my shelves because they look cool.
I never got into them and I only own one because it came with a 3DS games that I bought on clearance. I'm glad that Nintendo finally decided to meet the demand to take the wind out of the scalper market. However, even if you collect these because you enjoy collecting them, I still don't see it being sustainable because Nintendo seems to be flooding the market with so many units and variants. I mean, how many different color woolly Yoshis did they make? Video games take up enough space as it is, but these things take up all sorts of room. I can see a lot of collectors getting burned out on these if they haven't already.
I never got into them and I only own one because it came with a 3DS games that I bought on clearance. I'm glad that Nintendo finally decided to meet the demand to take the wind out of the scalper market. However, even if you collect these because you enjoy collecting them, I still don't see it being sustainable because Nintendo seems to be flooding the market with so many units and variants. I mean, how many different color woolly Yoshis did they make? Video games take up enough space as it is, but these things take up all sorts of room. I can see a lot of collectors getting burned out on these if they haven't already.
Amiibos died a while back, as in like a year ago. There are a couple that still go for $30+ ish, but not many. I think one of the biggest downfalls besides reprints was that people started to realize you can't actually do much with them. They're only used in a handful of games, and what they unlock in these games is minimal. Smash gets you the most use out of amiibos, but it kinda gets old after a little while since all they do is create a harder computer opponent, but that's it. I was pretty disappointed with shovel knight because I still don't even know what he was supposed to unlock. I tried for a half hour and didn't notice any new unlocked stuff. Amiibos still look really cool, so they'll always be collectible as cool figurines, but that's about it.
You could just look up what shovel knight unlocks? On wii u it unlocks 2 player mode
You shouldn't have to do research to find out what they unlock. It should be self explanatory or there should be dialogue boxes that appear when you scan it in. I only have it for the 3ds which means it's even more limited in what it unlocks. Looks like it unlocks some new challenges, and customization of shovel knight but that's about it.
I can't complain though at all because they gave us the plague of shadows campaign for free. Kinda a big deal. That's something I, and a lot of other people would've paid money for. And they're going to do the free download for king knight and spectre knight soon too.
I actually didn't start collecting them UNTIL they became easier to find and the values plummeted. I've gotten all but 5-10 and haven't paid above retail for any. I wasn't happy with how Nintendo handled the stock at first. You had stories of people camping out overnight to preorder (PREORDER) Greninja at Toys R Us, and people buying ten of the same Amiibo just to sell them online. But once they figured out their stock issues I jumped on board. They work in my games and they're just the perfect little display pieces. I mean where else are you going to get a Little Mac figurine?
Someone mentioned Funco Pops... talk about a god damned waste of space and materials. At least with Amiibo's they unlock stuff for games, so there's an actual "use" for them asides shelf-candy.
Landfills are going to be littered with just as many Funco Pops as Beanie Babies within the next few years when people stop being sheep about collecting worthless things.
Someone mentioned Funco Pops... talk about a god damned waste of space and materials. At least with Amiibo's they unlock stuff for games, so there's an actual "use" for them asides shelf-candy.
Landfills are going to be littered with just as many Funco Pops as Beanie Babies within the next few years when people stop being sheep about collecting worthless things.
oh for sure. Also there are waaaaaay more pops out there then Amiibo
Someone mentioned Funco Pops... talk about a god damned waste of space and materials. At least with Amiibo's they unlock stuff for games, so there's an actual "use" for them asides shelf-candy.
Landfills are going to be littered with just as many Funco Pops as Beanie Babies within the next few years when people stop being sheep about collecting worthless things.
oh for sure. Also there are waaaaaay more pops out there then Amiibo
The problem with Funko Pops is that they release so god damn many of them. Every major franchise has a series of Pops. I mean, theres a Golden Girls line, at what point do collectors just say "i've had enough of this shit, i'm out".
I have a few Pops, but the quality is closer to a capsule toy than that of an Amiibo, which is quite well done for a small $10 figure.
I think with Funko they're trying to reach a specific consumer with each series they put out rather than trying to make someone collect the whole shebang.
I think a lot of it depends on the continued popularity of Nintendo over the next 5-25 years, you know? If Nintendo, culturally, becomes irrelevant, then yeah these will look like California Raisins or something. But if Nintendo games continue to be popular, they could maintain at least some semblance of value. But it's true that a lot of people are keeping these sealed and in mint condition, which always puts a dent in long-term value.
I think a lot of it depends on the continued popularity of Nintendo over the next 5-25 years, you know? If Nintendo, culturally, becomes irrelevant, then yeah these will look like California Raisins or something. But if Nintendo games continue to be popular, they could maintain at least some semblance of value. But it's true that a lot of people are keeping these sealed and in mint condition, which always puts a dent in long-term value.
I don't see Nintendo becoming culturally irrelevant any time soon. They've lasted this long and have plenty of classics to fall back on
I started collecting Amiibos instead of the World of Nintendo figures. I figured if I'm paying $10 for a figure why not spend $3 more for a figure that adds a little something to games. They may not have much function, but I enjoy having them on my shelf. Anyone that bought them as an investment is an idiot and they got what they deserve, but I feel that people that bought them to collect and enjoy them will always do so. I have every Amiibo currently available (they are all out of their boxes) and have not paid above retail. As far as comparing them to Beanie Babies, ehhh. Beanie Babies were marketed toward a much wider audience, whereas Amiibos were directed to a certain group of people, so I do not feel that comparing the two are fair. Amiibos are only sold where games are, Beanie Babies were sold at gift shops, Hallmark stores, department stores, hospitals, airports, flea markets, do I really need to keep going?
Personally amiibos only gained their appeal to me when they reprinted them and made them easy to find. I don't collect and buy things for their supposed monetary value, I collect and buy things because I like them. Even if every video game I owned was worthless I'd still want them. But getting back to the original post, yeah a lot of people DID buy amiibos expecting it to be an investment and hoping to turn it into their next cash cow but luckily Nintendo took that away. It bothers me so much when people do things like this , buy up all the crap just so they can make a profit. Good on Nintendo for screwing up their plans. But now I also feel like amiibos are just sitting on store shelves and a lot of people DID lose interest in the amiibo craze. I mean I get it, amiibos really don't DO much. I buy em because they look cool. I've only ever used them once or twice. I just like em to put on my shelves because they look cool.
I can't believe Funko Pops are even a thing. That stuff is supposed to be for little kids right?
Anytime something is sold as "collectable" and then bought up and kept sealed by hoards of speculators you can pretty much guarentee it won't be worth shit in the future.
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BTW for anyone still collecting them and missing some, best buy has a few reprints available for pre-order, Pit, Gold Mario, Sonic, Mega-man, couple of others. Pit and Gold Mario was two I didnt have and was never going to pay the price asking for them now.
-They are really great looking statues, especially for their price point.
-They are your favorite characters. (We ARE a Nintendo forum, right?)
-We now have fun cool merchandise for many characters that may have never gotten any.
Even if they are worth 1 penny, I still think they are great.
It's very telling that collectors all over the internet keep throwing these under the bus (and even have invented a white burning hatred for them) just because they aren't worth a lot.
I still buy Amiibo every now and then. Screw the haters.
$7 for 1
$18 for 3
$30 for 6
I think this would TOTALLY incentivize people to start collections, improve revenue, and increase total profits through economies of scale. If I had my way they'd make Virtual Console games tied to a series of these figures and a Classic NES Mini to play them on.
So many people admitting a part of why they collected these is because of value, this tells me everything i need to know about the mindset of a lot of collectors. It is sad really.
I think you are wrong. People are ssying it isnt as fun to collect ehen you work hard. Get the ones you want or miss out. . Wait months. Reprints dont come. You buy one for reasonable over retail or trade and then they just reprint them in enormous waves out of the blue and flood them everywhere. Guess what? Thats just not that fun to collect and kills the fun. Part of the fun is hunting some down.. Just because someone thinks reprints ruined the fun, doesnt mean they collected them for monetary vslue. Your view is warped if thats what you actually think Oh my bad i forgot the way you view collecting and how you view collecting is the "right way" to collect. Please
Right again. A lot of us put a lot of time and money into our collections, and then the market was flooded with reprints. I didn't buy them with the intention of flipping them, I bought them because I love Nintendo and Smash and (at the time) most of the Smash lineup didn't have figurines and Nintendo merch was really only just starting to come out. It was fun to track down some of the rarer ones, and the thrill of finding one you needed was great and got you excited to find more.
But now they don't have any value, you can get most of them for under $10 readily. Business are overflowing with amiibo and the prices keep dropping. Yeah, collectors tend to go after things of value. "Mindset of collectors". Pfft. Big surprise that collectors tend to go after things of rarity and/or value. If you could go down to the store and they had unlimited copies of every NES game, it wouldn't really be that fun to collect. A big part of the draw for most of us is the hunt, finding something that is rare and sought after by other collectors. Are you seriously surprised that collectors are attracted to things that take effort, time, and sometimes luck to come across? You're probably on the wrong website if so.
The only thing I regret is starting a CIB collection because I wasn't really thinking ahead of just how many characters are in the Smash series and now I have them stored in boxes because they take up too much room to display.
So many people admitting a part of why they collected these is because of value, this tells me everything i need to know about the mindset of a lot of collectors. It is sad really.
I think you are wrong. People are ssying it isnt as fun to collect ehen you work hard. Get the ones you want or miss out. . Wait months. Reprints dont come. You buy one for reasonable over retail or trade and then they just reprint them in enormous waves out of the blue and flood them everywhere. Guess what? Thats just not that fun to collect and kills the fun. Part of the fun is hunting some down.. Just because someone thinks reprints ruined the fun, doesnt mean they collected them for monetary vslue. Your view is warped if thats what you actually think Oh my bad i forgot the way you view collecting and how you view collecting is the "right way" to collect. Please
Considering how many for sale threads popping up after amiibo find threads about who found what was considered rare at the time, really makes me wonder. No need to get defensive and tell me my opinion is warped.
Right again. A lot of us put a lot of time and money into our collections, and then the market was flooded with reprints. I didn't buy them with the intention of flipping them, I bought them because I love Nintendo and Smash and (at the time) most of the Smash lineup didn't have figurines and Nintendo merch was really only just starting to come out. It was fun to track down some of the rarer ones, and the thrill of finding one you needed was great and got you excited to find more.
But now they don't have any value, you can get most of them for under $10 readily. Business are overflowing with amiibo and the prices keep dropping. Yeah, collectors tend to go after things of value. "Mindset of collectors". Pfft. Big surprise that collectors tend to go after things of rarity and/or value. If you could go down to the store and they had unlimited copies of every NES game, it wouldn't really be that fun to collect. A big part of the draw for most of us is the hunt, finding something that is rare and sought after by other collectors. Are you seriously surprised that collectors are attracted to things that take effort, time, and sometimes luck to come across? You're probably on the wrong website if so.
The only thing I regret is starting a CIB collection because I wasn't really thinking ahead of just how many characters are in the Smash series and now I have them stored in boxes because they take up too much room to display.
Obviously not every collector collects in the same way but the amount of people admitting buying up extras to resell is in my opinion garbage. Sure rarity is a motivator but it is not always the end all be all for all collectors.
Otherwise, I never understood the craze for them either. I had a feeling they would crash back to earth eventually.
It's a little traumatizing to have it in my home, but at least it looks like 0.000000000000001 karat gold~
I've changed my stance a bit on them. They're cool as a little figure, and I buy the ones of characters I like. The people that bought them as an investment to leave sealed were the ones that ruined the fun with them, and they got hosed big time when the bottom fell out with the reprints.
I'll keep buying them as they come, they won't quite be like Beanie Babies since they'll at least be worth a few bucks years from now, but they certainly won't be like NES or SNES games are.
I'm the same, but my amiiboz are still sealed because I still haven't figured out how I want to display the few I have.
I'm glad Nintendo responded and made them relatively "mass market" to screw the flippers.
I never got into them and I only own one because it came with a 3DS games that I bought on clearance. I'm glad that Nintendo finally decided to meet the demand to take the wind out of the scalper market. However, even if you collect these because you enjoy collecting them, I still don't see it being sustainable because Nintendo seems to be flooding the market with so many units and variants. I mean, how many different color woolly Yoshis did they make? Video games take up enough space as it is, but these things take up all sorts of room. I can see a lot of collectors getting burned out on these if they haven't already.
I bought all 3 Yoshi's because they're so cute
Amiibos died a while back, as in like a year ago. There are a couple that still go for $30+ ish, but not many. I think one of the biggest downfalls besides reprints was that people started to realize you can't actually do much with them. They're only used in a handful of games, and what they unlock in these games is minimal. Smash gets you the most use out of amiibos, but it kinda gets old after a little while since all they do is create a harder computer opponent, but that's it. I was pretty disappointed with shovel knight because I still don't even know what he was supposed to unlock. I tried for a half hour and didn't notice any new unlocked stuff. Amiibos still look really cool, so they'll always be collectible as cool figurines, but that's about it.
You could just look up what shovel knight unlocks? On wii u it unlocks 2 player mode
You shouldn't have to do research to find out what they unlock. It should be self explanatory or there should be dialogue boxes that appear when you scan it in. I only have it for the 3ds which means it's even more limited in what it unlocks. Looks like it unlocks some new challenges, and customization of shovel knight but that's about it.
I can't complain though at all because they gave us the plague of shadows campaign for free. Kinda a big deal. That's something I, and a lot of other people would've paid money for. And they're going to do the free download for king knight and spectre knight soon too.
Landfills are going to be littered with just as many Funco Pops as Beanie Babies within the next few years when people stop being sheep about collecting worthless things.
Someone mentioned Funco Pops... talk about a god damned waste of space and materials. At least with Amiibo's they unlock stuff for games, so there's an actual "use" for them asides shelf-candy.
Landfills are going to be littered with just as many Funco Pops as Beanie Babies within the next few years when people stop being sheep about collecting worthless things.
oh for sure. Also there are waaaaaay more pops out there then Amiibo
They will lose their value eventually, but they'll still be some kind of collector's items since it's Nintendo after all.
Someone mentioned Funco Pops... talk about a god damned waste of space and materials. At least with Amiibo's they unlock stuff for games, so there's an actual "use" for them asides shelf-candy.
Landfills are going to be littered with just as many Funco Pops as Beanie Babies within the next few years when people stop being sheep about collecting worthless things.
oh for sure. Also there are waaaaaay more pops out there then Amiibo
Not to mention Funko Pops are hideous.
I have a few Pops, but the quality is closer to a capsule toy than that of an Amiibo, which is quite well done for a small $10 figure.
I think a lot of it depends on the continued popularity of Nintendo over the next 5-25 years, you know? If Nintendo, culturally, becomes irrelevant, then yeah these will look like California Raisins or something. But if Nintendo games continue to be popular, they could maintain at least some semblance of value. But it's true that a lot of people are keeping these sealed and in mint condition, which always puts a dent in long-term value.
I don't see Nintendo becoming culturally irrelevant any time soon. They've lasted this long and have plenty of classics to fall back on
Personally amiibos only gained their appeal to me when they reprinted them and made them easy to find. I don't collect and buy things for their supposed monetary value, I collect and buy things because I like them. Even if every video game I owned was worthless I'd still want them. But getting back to the original post, yeah a lot of people DID buy amiibos expecting it to be an investment and hoping to turn it into their next cash cow but luckily Nintendo took that away. It bothers me so much when people do things like this , buy up all the crap just so they can make a profit. Good on Nintendo for screwing up their plans. But now I also feel like amiibos are just sitting on store shelves and a lot of people DID lose interest in the amiibo craze. I mean I get it, amiibos really don't DO much. I buy em because they look cool. I've only ever used them once or twice. I just like em to put on my shelves because they look cool.
Ding ding ding we have a winner folks
Anytime something is sold as "collectable" and then bought up and kept sealed by hoards of speculators you can pretty much guarentee it won't be worth shit in the future.