While I'm normally not a figurine collector, I did plan on buying a few online to decorate my room. So it's good timing since Nintendo's established their relatively new Amiibo franchise. I now have a Bowser Jr. Capt. Olimar and Pac Man, and now with the impending wave of restocks, I'm looking forward to snagging a Villager and Star Fox, and see where I go from there. I don't particularly care for their digital functions, but I think it's cool nonetheless so long as the added content in the figurines are not necessary pieces of the puzzle that is the video game's vision.
Now that they're finally starting to manufacture more of the "rarer" and harder to purchase-at-retail Amiibo, I hope that they eventually start production runs of characters that Nintendo would consider to be "niche" choices for the Amiibo franchise.. They could do limited runs of the less "popular" characters after focusing on re-stocking the harder to get, yet sought after figurines.
I figured I'd list a few game characters that I'd personally love to see, and feel that they are iconic characters within the game worlds that they originate. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if Nintendo would actually bother to produce even limited quantities of any lesser known characters like these, but I don't see why they couldn't.
1. Poochy - Of Yoshi's Story/Island/Etc. fame. Basically a pet-companion found in levels of Yoshi games. Aside from being adorable, it'd make a heck of a lot of sense to release an Amiibo of the good ole' pup around the time of the NA Woolly World release. I do know that it's already out elsewhere, so maybe they won't bother at this point. One could dream!
2. Skull Kid or The Moon - We do have Majora's Mask 3DS.. Why didn't they use the opportunity to produce any M.M Amiibo? WHY?!?
3. Tingle - One of the LOZ series' goofiest characters, that I totally love.
4. Slippy / Peppy - If they've already made Fox, and are currently planning on releasing Falco, I can't see them not releasing these two.
5. Doshin The Giant - Never played the original Game cube game, but I remember getting the trophy in SSBM and I think that a figurine would be bad ass.
6. Poltergust 3000-Wielding Luigi / FLUDD-Wielding Mario - This'd be an awesome double pack.
7. Professor E Gadd / Portrait Ghosts / Regular Ghosts - Even if only just a regular ghost and E Gadd were released, that'd do.
8. X-Nauts/Sir Grodus/Lord Crump - The evil army in the biggest Paper Mario installment to date. Of course we'd all want to see them in Amiibo form! If a Paper Mario NX is eventually released, which hopefully will come.
I could probably go on indefinitely. But you get the idea, and probably agree with quite a few of these characters! (Hopefully. lol)
Honestly, I feel as though there are so many possible characters that can be made, though many of them may not have a specific game and so if there could be general Amiibo functions for those figures that have no specific logically compatible game, that could work. So even if Doshin the Giant has no game coming out that he'd fit into, there could be a lot of re-skinning and easter-egg-like humorous cameo appearances made possible through Amiibo scanning.
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