{"id":25933,"date":"2025-08-15T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25933"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:06:17","slug":"donkey-kong-bananza-amiibo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/15\/donkey-kong-bananza-amiibo\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong Bananza amiibo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/amiibo_logo-48\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-25932\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AMIIBO_LOGO-150x53.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"53\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AMIIBO_LOGO-150x53.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AMIIBO_LOGO-300x105.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AMIIBO_LOGO.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Donkey Kong Bananza is the newest 3D platformer on Nintendo Switch 2, and of course they made an amiibo figure out of it.\u00a0 And of course I got it, too, so let\u2019s take a look at it.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is in the box.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/dk1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DK1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DK1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DK1-207x300.jpg 207w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DK1-104x150.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here it is out of the box.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/dk2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DK2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DK2.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DK2-300x297.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DK2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m currently playing the game as of this writing, and it\u2019s pretty darn good so far.\u00a0 When you scan the amiibo, it sends out rocks in the shape of the KONG letters that you can pick up and throw around.\u00a0 It also unlocks a new dress for Pauline, but you have to be further into the game to unlock it, and I haven\u2019t gotten there yet.\u00a0 I wish you could unlock it sooner, because I hear it allows enemies to drop more records, which lets you play them in the sound tests.\u00a0 But oh well. Any other Donkey Kong amiibo sends out those KONG letters as well, and other amiibo will send out a random material that you can pick up and toss around.\u00a0 At any rate, it\u2019s a pretty cool amiibo for a pretty cool game.\u00a0 \u2013Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donkey Kong Bananza is the newest 3D platformer on Nintendo Switch 2, and of course they made an amiibo figure out of it.\u00a0 And of course I got it, too, so let\u2019s take a look at it. Here it is in the box. And here it is out of the box. I\u2019m currently playing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25933","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\/25933","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=25933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25935,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25933\/revisions\/25935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}