I’m not stressing about the amiibo. I’m stressing about its community. It’s dumb as fuck.
I’m sure you put a lot of energy into something people find worthless too.
People are allowed to be passionate about their hobbies or the community that represent that hobby
Once again,
Right. And again, you missed the entire point of what I said.
Collecting amiibo is one of many of my hobbies that I enjoy. They’re small representations of characters from games I enjoy and have fond memories of. I don’t find that silly or worthless. People collect much weirder and much, much sillier shit than amiibo.
What I don’t enjoy is it community and the mind set they have when it comes to them. It’s no different than enjoying a fighting game but not liking the community that plays it. Or liking a tv show but not liking the fan base. Or liking a comic book series/character but not liking the current writer.
But yeah, just keep quoting yourself.
amiibo are pretty awesome. I’ve been good just sticking to Megaman, Ryu and both Bayonettas. If this was 10 years ago, I would’ve gone ham on them.
I will until you realize that ranting about people who collect augmented reality garden gnomes wasn’t worth putting two words together for.
Also it is substantially different than fighting games (an activity), a TV show (something you can discuss), or a comic book (something you read and then discuss but that has characters written by multiple writers through out the years).
They were trash when they first came out and they’re still trash. Basically Nintnedo Funkos. Hell I got bodied by Funkos for a hot minute until I realized that they’re designed to make grown people lose their sense. So I gave msot of them to my daughter and she decapitated a few. Now there are some FUnko heads floating around my house.
So I guess what you should do is decapitate your Amiibos and not bring up some them wack ass NinteGnome collectors again. 
Amiibo had more effort put into them, and you could probably retire off them in a few more years due to them being out of stock Nintendo merchandise.
I don’t know if I would’ve admitted to buying Funko in the first place.
I need to find out what an amiibo is one day.
Hobby can be an umbrella word for all of those.
They’re generally not but the situation that I’m complaining about has been happening a lot on subreddit lately (it usually does when there is a lull in between “waves”) and it finally got under my skin when I know it shouldn’t. Just working in the secondary retail market most my life I don’t like people who have the mind set of secondary value shouldn’t increase. The secondary value can and likely will increase overtime.
This is one collectors thing I never got into. When I worked at the comic book store in Seattle and Funko was on the cusp of becoming the juggernaut that it is we constantly got emails from their marketing director and distributor about carrying pops because we would be apart of helping “the local economy”. Their Hq is in a city called Lynwood. It’s about 10 minutes or so from Seattle. Maybe more. I seldom went there. Everyone at our store, especially our manager hated funkos so we refused to sell them. We also thought the fact that an already multimillion dollar company was trying to pull the “grass roots” campaign on us was bullshit. Other comic book shops gave us shit about it too because they ate up that “helping the local economy” line.
Don’t get me wrong, I get the appeal. They’re just bigger amiibo. High profile characters from high profile IP’s. People just like collectibles. The company literally prints money now. You can barely go to a store these days without seeing a POP! vinyl. I’ve never bought one and I never will though. I got close a few times with the Mega Man run they did and the Baby Metal run they did but I stayed strong.
Naw. Once they’re all said and done with producing amiibo and my nephew is old enough if he wants him he can have them. If not? I’ll probably just bubble wrap them and put them in a box. They’re special to me so I doubt I’d ever get rid of them unless they went to good home.
A lot of the amiibo sculpts were questionable at first. The sculpts have jumped leaps and bounds in quality in the 5 years they’ve been producing them though. And they have “retired” a lot of them in a sense? A lot of the Zelda and splatoon amiibo could be considered “retired”.
Every amiibo that is a character featured in smash has been getting reprinted since July of last year though. They’re just taking their sweet time and only doing it 2-3 figures at a time. Aside from new ones which are obviously coming out. Ken, Young Link and Daisy actually come out Friday.
I’m saying that you could sell your amiibo in a few years for a nice chunk of change. I don’t see that happening with Funko since they are everywhere. I walked into Pink Gorilla in the U District the other day and the Splatoon 2 double-pack amiibo for $90. I think they had some in triple digits as well.
The BotW (the horse riding link withstanding) look pretty damn awesome. The Guardian and the bow and arrow Link especially.
There are a lot of funko worth some serious change. Mainly the ones that were released before they really blew up, misprints, recalls due to licensing expiring, ACTUAL con exclusive before there was a con exclusive at literally every con and some you can only get if you do the tourist package at the funko HQ in Lynwood where those specific funko are o my available in that time frame in that year and then “retired” forever.
And so on.
I mean fuck, the con exclusive are even less relevant now because you can just buy them on hot topics website during that con weekend.
I remember the babymetal ones went out of print pretty quick so the bundle of the 3 were going for around $80ish. When the lead vocalist left, the set tripled in value.
As for the amiibo, yeah, the splatoon ones and ESPECIALLY the breath of the wild and 30th anniversary LoZ amiibo were extremely short print. The BotW amiibo got a very brief reprint but it was over before it even got started. It’s why their prices are always some what high.
When breath of the wild dropped if fucked with the second hand market BAD. Amiibo stores couldn’t get rid of like sheik and Ganondorf were suddenly going for $40-110 each. Smash link (the one with the piss stick) was going for $75, etc. it was nuts. It calmed down after about 6 months but during those 6 months it was brutal.
I tell anyone and everyone who want to collect amiibo, doesn’t matter if it’s one, all from a certain series or what, if you have the opportunity to preorder than absolutely preorder because amiibo are scarce at brick and mortar stores and they sell out online pretty quick. The online market has calmed down since ultimate dropped back in November but it’s still pretty hectic.
I import amiibo a lot so I don’t have to run the risk of waiting for an online retailer like Best Buy or amazon to put their preorders up and I happen to miss out. I’ll pay a couple extra bucks Importing for peace of mind.
They’re just small little figures representing Nintendo characters or characters from properties who have worked with Nintendo. Some of them unlock content in games, some don’t. It’s game specific. But most people mainly buy them because they’re Nintendo and they like the IP’s. That’s why I buy them.
I have some Funkos put away in storage, and the only ones I went out of my way to get were the DC Comics Bombshells ones because I liked them.
I don’t have the room for them anymore since I moved from a 5bed 4bath house at the beginning of 2018 to a 2 bdrm 1 bath home that I’m currently living in.
That’s quite the downsize. Do you mind me asking why?
we own this house now versus paying 12k/yr in rent. Our taxes are less than one hundred bucks to the county, the only bad thing about this current spot is the money we pay to the HOA, which is about 1/4th what we paid in rent a year.
Gotcha. Well best of luck on the transitions. Job wise and living situation wise. Both are pretty big deals.
HOA’s are great for keeping riffraff out and helping maintain property values. They have their pros and cons, but unless you love living next to some drunk who keeps a pet goat and a broken down 1984 camaro on blocks in the backyard, It will be to your benefit.
How much did you pay for your house?
15k.
That’s insanely cheap… how is that even possible? o_O
low cost of living in this area … average house is about 60-70k.
He lives in Louisiana I believe? Cost of living can be pretty cheap in that area of the country.