{"id":12891,"date":"2014-12-15T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12891"},"modified":"2014-12-10T12:41:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:41:33","slug":"hola-amiibos-wave-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/15\/hola-amiibos-wave-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Hola! Amiibos! (Wave 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AMIIBO_LOGO\"<\/a>Riding on the popularity of other toys connectable to video games like Skylanders and Disney Infinity, Nintendo has made their own action figures that connect to their games.\u00a0 These new toys from Nintendo are called Amiibos, and the first wave was recently released, fashioned after some of the popular characters from Super Smash Bros.\u00a0 So what do these Amiibo do, and what\u2019re they all about?\u00a0 Well, I have them all (yes I am insane), so keep on reading if you want to learn more.<\/p>\n

When I reserved Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, I also reserved the first set of Amiibos, too.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got the second wave reserved as well when they come out after Christmas, so I\u2019ll probably write about them, too.\u00a0 So the first wave has twelve figures, and here they all are in their packaging.<\/p>\n

\"PACKAGES\"<\/a><\/p>\n

From left to right, top to bottom we have Mario, Peach, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Villager, Samus, Marth, Fox McCloud, Wii Fit Trainer, Link, and Pikachu.\u00a0 My favorites are the Villager from Animal Crossing, Wii Fit Trainer, and of course, Kirby.\u00a0 Here is a larger shot of Kirby in his packaging.<\/p>\n

\"KIRBY\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They\u2019re all fashioned to look like their trophies in Super Smash Bros.\u00a0 In fact, I even arranged them like that for a picture after I opened them all up.<\/p>\n

\"HOARD\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Using Amiibos on the Wii U is pretty easy for the most part.\u00a0 On an Amiibo compatible game, all you have to do is just place it on the scanner part of your Wii U gamepad, and it does the rest.\u00a0 Later on you\u2019ll be able to use them on the 3DS, too, using a special adapter.\u00a0 In Smash Bros., you can scan Amiibo and have them fight against you or with each other, and the more they fight, the more they level up and get better.\u00a0 Only problem I had was that I wish you could use them in more fight modes, and it was a little confusing at first when saving and editing your Amiibo fighters.<\/p>\n

Hyrule Warriors is another game that uses the Amiibos.\u00a0 When you scan Link into the game, you\u2019ll get a new weapon: the ride-on spinner from Twilight Princess.\u00a0 And if you scan other Amiibos, you can get random prizes.\u00a0 When I scanned Kirby, I got the Triforce Spinner, a more powerful version of that weapon.\u00a0 Other times I just got things I had no idea what they did, or 1 single rupee.\u00a0 Big whoop there.\u00a0 You can only scan five Amiibo per day in Hyrule Warriors.<\/p>\n

In Mario Kart 8, you can scan Amiibo to get new racing outfits for your Mii character.\u00a0 You can get Mario, Peach, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Samus, Fox McCloud, and Link outfits right now.\u00a0 When the second wave comes out, you\u2019ll also be able to get Luigi and Captain Falcon outfits as well.\u00a0 I like the Kirby outfit because the helmet has Kirby\u2019s face on the back of it, only problem is the suit is all pink so it doesn\u2019t look very manly.\u00a0 Finally, Captain Toad is supposed to have Amiibo support as well, but they haven\u2019t implemented it yet so I don\u2019t know what it is.<\/p>\n

All in all, the Amiibo toys are designed pretty well.\u00a0 I only have one problem with one of my Amiibo toys.\u00a0 When I opened the Princess Peach one, the bottom black cap part fell off.\u00a0 The other ones are attached pretty well, but this one wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s not broken or anything, and unless they glue them together I don\u2019t see how they could be attached so tightly, but this one wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 So I have to be a little bit more careful with the Peach Amiibo, because she\u2019s so delicate.\u00a0 Ha ha!\u00a0 And don\u2019t be trying to look up her dress in the picture below, you sicko!\u00a0 Just joking!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"PEACH\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 I\u2019ll be sure to talk about the Amiibo toys later when the second wave is released.\u00a0 If you have any questions regarding Amiibo, please let me know in the comments section!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Riding on the popularity of other toys connectable to video games like Skylanders and Disney Infinity, Nintendo has made their own action figures that connect to their games.\u00a0 These new toys from Nintendo are called Amiibos, and the first wave was recently released, fashioned after some of the popular characters from Super Smash Bros.\u00a0 So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12894,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions\/12894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}