Have people heard of this? First time I've hard of this! Apparently it's dolls...er, I mean "action figures" from Nintendo games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odUjMhc6YgU

Thoughts? I really don't know what to think of this. Silly? Brilliant? Maybe Nintendo will enter the adult industry soon with the Adult Amibo line!

ps I can't help but think they could have come up with something a bit better than "Amibo"! I keep thinking of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba#med … PSF%29.svg

Yeah, not too big on the name myself. I see how it works by correlating to words like "Wii" and "Mii" but I just think of amoeba when I hear it.

As far as my thoughts on it as a product...? It's brilliant. Stuff like Skylanders and Disney Infinity are like crack for kids... and this is just another "dealer" per say. I just feel bad for the parents that are going to have to shell out for a third rendition of these things. Kind of glad these things weren't coming out when I was a kind... I'll stick with Pokemon Cards back when Wizards of the Coast had the license.

Parents don't typically she'll out for multiple kinds of things like this, they have short 1-3 year lifespans as children outgrow them. Skylanders kids probably won't be too into this and a new generation of kids will pick this up, to be replaced in the future by something else. It's how product marketing works for young kids, short product life cycles.

Yeah... I guess I'm not thinking how fickle kids are...

It's disappointing that this is a market they feel they need to pursue...essentially contributing to more plastic crap in the world, for a generation of kids that will outgrow them in 3 years - it seems wasteful...but it is only part of the Nintendo brand...I guess if I had kids ..or kids of the age where they cared about this kind of stuff, it could be of interest...but I'd feel like a failure as a parent if my kids were encouraged to desire unnecessary chotchkies, lol

I think I read somewhere that your standards for parenting significantly change once you actually become one .  Everyone always says "My kid will never do THAT" and then they had kids.  That do THAT.

I'm sorry, but if I ever have a kid they WILL NOT hang off my damn shopping cart like an (expletive) cereal bowl caddy.

Freaking HATE that.

I immediately thought of this after reading your post:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/REN-AND-STIMPY- … 1405007296

Then again, the toys that DO stick around when we're kids are the ones that usually become legendary.

*goes back to Castlevania III on NES*

Totally, can't think or say "cereal bowl caddy" without thinking of Ren of Stimpy.

"You can't open a new box, until you finish the last box!!!"

Glad I don't collect this stuff! Nintendo is making a killing off it, but it looks like it's become a thing for people to purchase huge quantities and then sell them off at extravagant prices. Latest fiasco is this amazon exclusive:

http://www.amazon.com/Palutena-amiibo-E … merReviews

ps I still think "amiibo" is a terrible name! Although I would argue that Wii and Wii U are also lame...