Okay so $30 is an insane price for an amiibo. Amiibo up to this point had been like $15 or $16. I never was hugely into amiibo, but I have a little thing nowadays called “disposable income” and another little thing called a “spending addiction”, so of course light amiibo collecting has become a part of my life.
$30 is not insane for a figure of some kind. Very high quality ones can run you into the hundreds. Usually those are larger and extremely detailed. This guy, however, is quite small. But, it’s very very detailed.
This amiibo is genuinely of a much higher quality than earlier amiibos which, though always decent quality, were never of incredible quality. I’d say these little fuckers are reaching a higher quality here though.
The particular one I got is Yunobo, the goron from Tears of the Kingdom who becomes your buddy. I don’t know man, I kinda liked him so a figure of him sounded cool.
I can’t tell if this is a photo or a render, but either way, this is basically exactly what the figure looks like in real life. I can only inspect it so closely because my wife convinced me to leave in the blister pack, but from what I can tell it’s stunningly accurate to the 2D artwork and promotional material.
I still think amiibo as a concept are fun but very goofy and not actually all that interesting. No games really embraced them in a way that mattered. Like in Mario Odyssey you could use them to get some extra hearts, and then with Captain Toad it unlocked for me the Mario Odyssey DLC which was pretty cool. But for $16? I don’t know.
If you think of them not as toys or as these interactive toys-to-life but rather as simply high quality figures of characters from some of your favorite games, that $30 price actually doesn’t seem all that crazy. But again, to reiterate, this price point only makes sense when these are high quality. The Yunobo one definitely is, but I can’t speak to the others.
If the quality of these at all dips in future amiibo releases, kiss my light amiibo collecting days goodbye.
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