Amiibo Watch with Rarity Guide!

The hunt for Skylanders in 2011 was real...

Alright, this is bad.

I'm could be falling into my 2011 Skylander Dad hunting mode. This mode is scary. It involves driving to multiple locations (within reason), hunting for hard-to-find, sought after electronic action figures! NO, I will NOT succumb to this! I will fight the urge!

At least, that's what I'm trying to tell myself as I collect some more of these awesome Amiibos. I've done well, avoiding characters that I don't really care to own, trying to keep Micah's attention away from wanting all of them. (We bought just about all of the first series of Skylanders by the end of 2012...)

You will be mine, Marth...Oh yes.

So far, so good...but there are several figures out there that I really want and they are REALLY hard to find. Marth, Ike, Shulk, Sonic...just to name a few. Luckily, there are several that I could care less for...so I don't think I'll fall into the "MUST HAVE THEM ALL" frame of mind.

But I must have the few I listed above (as of right now...haha).

So, I made a couple stops this week, just to check in at a local Target and two different GameStops. I haven't looked for figures in a few weeks, mostly because of the discouraging news of Marth being so hard to find, so I was a bit surprised when I saw Target's large collection.

Most of them were duplicates of easy to find toys, like Luigi (I love Luigi, but hate his pose), Donkey Kong, Zelda, etc. But they did have one copy of both Sheik and Toon Link. YOINK. They are mine.

Couldn't resist! #amiibos Last one of each!

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Then, my stop at the first GameStop. Solid selection, but a lot of duplicates, similar to Target. Only thing of interest here was Samus, who I'm on the fence on buying...I'd rather have some of the other figures...so let's check the second GameStop.

WOAH! This second GameStop had a very large selection, still had some duplicates of the common figures, but they had several that I hadn't seen before. Bowser (I think he will be more common soon), Diddy Kong and Megaman. MEGAMAN! YOINK. I got the last one of him as well. This GameStop had an incredibly solid collection of commons that I don't see often as well, very impressed.

Snagged the Megaman Amiibo on the way home today, today's been a good one!

A video posted by MnM Gaming (@mnm_gaming) on Feb 26, 2015 at 4:05pm PST

So, our collection went from a wimpy four, to a solid seven, with the additions of Sheik, Toon Link and Megaman. I was pretty pleased with my finds, and more pleased with my discpline to not just buy the entire store's worth of Amiibos.

IGN put together a useful Rarity Guide for all of the Amiibos. This has helped me out a lot on trying to plan my next attack...I mean purchase. Notice the four figures I listed above that I want are all considered "Rare." Great. I actually love this part. LET THE HUNT BEGIN!


All that said, let's rate some stores and their availability of Amiibos!

GameStop: Definitely seems to be the best place, IMO. Large quantity, not many duplicates
Target: Large quantity of Commons, but most are duplicates
Wal-Mart: Very disappointed in their selection, only four different characters, a lot of duplicates. (That could change with the Gold Mario exclusive...which sold out pre-orders already, btw.)
Toys R Us: I haven't frequented Toys R Us, but I do know that they did a great job with Skylanders when they were so hard to find...if anyone has tried there, let me know what you think.

Any success at other stores?