{"id":16613,"date":"2017-07-10T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16613"},"modified":"2017-06-21T04:17:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T04:17:11","slug":"import-amiibo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/10\/import-amiibo\/","title":{"rendered":"Import Amiibo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As many of you may know, I\u2019m a big fan of collecting Nintendo\u2019s amiibo figures.\u00a0 Most amiibo figures are released in the US and Japan, and some are harder to get than others.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been able to get most of the amiibo figures I own in stores in the US, but I have had to import a few in the past.\u00a0 But did you know that as of this writing, there are some amiibo figures that are only available in Japan?\u00a0 Well I recently imported those so I thought I\u2019d go over them now.<\/p>\n

The first is an amiibo of Qbby from BoxBoy.\u00a0 The BoxBoy games are a series of 3DS puzzle platformers from HAL Laboratory, makers of other titles like Kirby and Smash Bros.\u00a0 I\u2019m a big fan of the BoxBoy games and have reviewed<\/strong><\/a> two out of the three of them.\u00a0 While the BoxBoy games have been an eShop only series in the US, in Japan, the last game in the trilogy came on a cartridge and you could even get an amiibo with it!\u00a0 Here is what it looks like in the box.<\/p>\n

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I guess I can kind of understand why they didn\u2019t release it in the US, as it\u2019s just a sugar cube with stick legs.\u00a0 But surprisingly enough, the amiibo does work on the US version of Bye-Bye, BoxBoy!\u00a0 I know amiibo are region free, but I was wondering about this one since it didn\u2019t seem like they were planning on releasing it for an eShop game in the US.\u00a0 Anyway, you can scan Kirby amiibo into the last BoxBoy game and get Kirby character themed outfits for the player.\u00a0 But if you scan the Qbby amiibo, you\u2019ll be able to play as Qucy, which is just the main character with a bow.\u00a0 Kinda like Ms. Pac-Man.\u00a0 Some outfits when equipped will let the player do certain things.\u00a0 When you equip the Qucy bow, you\u2019ll be able to use as many blocks and hints as you want!\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 You\u2019ll also unlock an option to change the color screen of the game to regular, Game Boy green, or monochrome!\u00a0 Anyway, here is the BoxBoy! amiibo out of the box:<\/p>\n

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The other set of imported amiibo figures I got were ones based on Monster Hunter Stories.\u00a0 Monster Hunter is super popular in Japan.\u00a0 Monster Hunter Stories is a 3DS game that I assume is like a side story to the main game.\u00a0 It was announced for a US release at a Nintendo Direct before E3, but they didn\u2019t talk about it at the show.\u00a0 And they haven\u2019t mentioned anything about releasing amiibo figures for it in the US, so I decided to go ahead and import them.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never played a Monster Hunter game before.\u00a0 I just don\u2019t have time for them.\u00a0 I\u2019m only one person and can\u2019t play ALL the games out there.\u00a0 Maybe if I didn\u2019t have to work or sleep and we had 50 hour days I might be able to play them.\u00a0 Anyway, here are the Monster Hunter Stories amiibo in their boxes.\u00a0 Sorry the picture is so dark, it\u2019s surprisingly hard to take pictures of boxed amiibo sometimes.<\/p>\n

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And here is a picture of them outside the box.\u00a0 The cat guy in the middle is about the size of a regular amiibo.\u00a0 I think he\u2019s kind of the mascot of the series.\u00a0 Like Pikachu is for Pok\u00e9mon.\u00a0 I know Monster Hunter must be super popular because at one point, in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, you could get Monster Hunter related furniture and one of the animal guests was a cat based on that mascot!\u00a0 The other amiibo figures are a bit bigger and have a lot of detail to them.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bunch of anime kids riding on dragon monster things.\u00a0 They kind of remind me of Digimon mixed with How to Train Your Dragon.\u00a0 \u201cHow to Train Your\u2026Digimon,\u201d I guess.\u00a0 Anyway, I don\u2019t really know anything about the game, so I have no clue as to what the figures do when you scan them into it.<\/p>\n

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Now you may be thinking, \u201cWow, Cary, you must\u2019ve had to pay a lot to import these figures.\u201d\u00a0 Well, not really.\u00a0 The only one I splurged on was the BoxBoy amiibo.\u00a0 The Monster Hunter Stories amiibo were only about 12 to 14 dollars each, and I didn\u2019t have to pay for shipping somehow.\u00a0 And amiibo figures sold in the US cost that much.\u00a0 So I\u2019d be paying about the same amount if they were released in the US, so I decided to just go ahead and import them.\u00a0 And that\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed reading about and seeing these amiibo figures!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As many of you may know, I\u2019m a big fan of collecting Nintendo\u2019s amiibo figures.\u00a0 Most amiibo figures are released in the US and Japan, and some are harder to get than others.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been able to get most of the amiibo figures I own in stores in the US, but I have had to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16613","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\/16613","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=16613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16615,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16613\/revisions\/16615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}