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Actually the Amiibo shortage was because of the port strike in the West for America. Every Amiibo starting at Wave 2 had to be flew in by a plane. The reason why they are so many Mario's and "commons" is because of imagery of just how bad it would look if Nintendo couldn't even keep their Mascot in stock and have 10,000 Diddy Kongs unsold.

Nintendo in the past few weeks actually have been shipping rare Amiibo's like Villager, Wii Fit Trainer, Captain Falcon, and so on to Best Buy's recently, and have been sending representatives to Best Buy during their PAX event just this last weekend to sell those Rare Amiibos and a few Majoras Mask New 3DS's as well. They also just had a huge shipment come to their Nintendo store in New York and had a small event of selling those rare amiibo's or store exclusive ones like Meta Knight, Rosalina, Lucario, and Shulk on a first come first go basis having formed lines early at 7am in the morning.

The problem is scalpers, and the time needed to make these figures. Nintendo wants the figures to be high quality so a lot of parts of the Amiibo's are hand painted and put together to ensure higher quality. (Not everything, just the few key details on some Amiibos.) It takes 3-5 months to get a huge supply of Amiibo done because of this. So because it takes forever to restock, people realized how low of stock these figurines are and understood the demand for them and began to scalp a ton of them. Now stores have placed 1 Amiibo per customer policy to avoid acalping, but they still get around.

So that was just some of the numerous problems they've been having. In my eyes the best thing Nintendo could do is pay for more factories to make Amiibo's to keep up with demand. But the reason why they aren't is because they don't want to end up with 100 Peaches on store shelfs that won't sell because people already own Peach. (Which is already happening, which is why she costs a few dollars less.) But what's been helping fix this problem is that a ton of Amiibo enthusiasts have been customizing Amiibo's to sell for profit which help sell these excess Amiibo. ToysRus actually just made a deal with one of these Amiibo Customizers to sell customized Amiibo's at ToysRus stores.

So in the end Nintendo just needs to keep pumping these bad boys out and to start thinking that limited should be Limited Release, not Limited Quantity. Their current way of thinking of what limited should be is the cause of all their problems from now moving forward. :/


And in case your wondering how I know all this, I sold my life to Amiibo and I keep up with every little detail about it. *I'm still hunting down a darn Captain Falcon but no luck on stock getting anywhere near me.*