Looking Back at amiibo with AntDude 

The peak of the amiibo madness was the literal truck of special edition splatoon amiibo that got stolen in the UK. That was the moment I fully accepted that having a full collection was going to be impossible

I love the "occasionally posted, hyper-specific Nintendo-themed Scott the Woz and AntDude Podcast"

The long lasting winner of the toys to life genre.

Love the thumbnail of Scott comforting Ant over his Amiibo addiction

I love how this two hour retrospective doesn’t really end, it just kinda stops.

Ten years amiibos have existed and this is the first time i've ever considered that they might be real-life trophies. I'm not an amiibo guy but man i'm tempted now

YESSSSS we NEED an ant dude and Scott podcast, they bounce SO well off of each other!

I spent $25 dollars for the Amiibo Festival one day and then spent $12 for the game itself. I ended up spending more money on that than I would’ve just buying the three things on eBay

Super Mario Wonder not having Amiibo support definitely sends a message... 😢 RIP the best DLC

I don't even care about amiibo that much, I just love watching Scott and AntDude talk about stuff lol

Amiibo feel like they hardly do anything in game, but if you try to add more functionality it feels like too much. It’s a hard line to balance, and nowadays it feels like you mostly buy them for the figures alone.

AntDude looks no older or younger than he did 20 years ago. He is ageless and eternal. From my estimation he’s been 26 years old for the last 30 years.

i remember in early 2015 going out "amiibo hunting" as i called it with me and my dad going to a bunch of stores that were really far away from where we lived at the time and specifically in early 2015, getting really close to actually getting a marth, ike and shulk amiibo in stores when the latter was still a gamestop exclusive and when all 3 of them were extremely hard to find in the united states. it was a good time

It borderline ENRAGES me that Scott has said he sold all of the figures from his "Toys to Life" video,but HE KEPT THE POKEMON RUMBLE U FIGURES!

I was immediately drawn to amiibo because I liked them as cool affordable figures. I consider myself extremely lucky that I own a complete set of amiibo and I've never had to pay above MSRP.

Man I can hear these two dudes talk about anything for hours, great content fills me with nostalgia.

Just wanna give some appreciation to new editor Scott Wozniak for bringing this video to everyone.

this crossover would have been way more appropriate if the conversation was set to footage of their hands and amiibos on the carpet

I hope next year Scott releases a video called Looking Back at Looking Back at amiibo with AntDude with AntDude

When Smash Melee was released with its opening cutscene, it set a burning desire into me to own little figurines of each and every character. Years later, it seemed as if my childhood dream had come true, and while I managed to snag a lot of them, the ongoing scarcity of Amiibo in my part of the world frustrated me to the point where I eventually lost interest. It was a lot of running around, going to every store time and again, being massively disappointed constantly, spending hundreds of dollars on ebay... And now they sit in a box in my basement. Like, I kind of get the limited supply with the original wave, but I mean, we got one Alm/Celica for the ENTIRE city... ONE. And that's also just one for every adjacent city and town within a 50 km radius. And there was never a restock. And that wasn't the exception, that was the rule. We got one to three of most of the Amiibo's that wern't Mario or Pikachu. At some point, they should have figured out the supply issue, but they never did. Now years later, I find it annoying that games like TOTK get new Amiibo that unlock in game items exclusive to that specific figure, when I already have not one, not two, not three, but FIVE Link Amiibo already... And 3 of them pretty much do nothing in any game. There's no reason that a Link Amiibo can't just be a Link Amiibo and be usable in future games. Oh well, at least the quality of the figures have improved... Very disappointed when I got my Shulk Amiibo and the design on the back of his pants were smeared. Good luck getting a replacement because there weren't any.

It's amazing that at some point, even now, some good looking amiibos were considered common and were going for dirt cheap. Amiibos like Palutena, Lucas, Ryu, Waluigi (all like $10 or less on Ebay) and the Splatoon 1 pack amiibos ($20), and how the most sought after amiibo like Corrin P2 and Tiki in some regards, plummeted in price due to their restock, from $80 to $100 to $25 or $30 at most.

When Ant mentioned MarioTehPlumber and the Rosalina incident, I got shivers down my spine. Internet troll or not, that had to be the pettiest thing bro ever did.

I put this on while playing my Switch, and it was incredibly comfy. I am one of the madmen Ant refers to, who has a near complete amiibo collection... all still in box. Amiibo definitely come with stories. Those couple of peak years were attached to numerous acquisition shenanigans. You posted this only like a week after the Splatoon 3 and Tears of the Kingdom Zelda/Ganon amiibo released. They had quite a long run

The main reason the loot goblin amiibo box was like that was because the amiibo for it was literally just a modified version of the cute but deadly figure for it

I've come to realize that collecting every one is a pure pipe dream. I'll be content to just complete the smash series once Sora is released and one day set up a gaming room modeled after the Melee trophy room. Other than that I'm happy to just pick up the ones of characters I like

This video could otherwise be known as "Amiibo History & Analysis: A Compendium of Passion & Regret".

Blessing us with all these recent uploads ! Merry Christmas

I have every Amiibo in their respective boxes. I officially ran out of room for them after receiving the latest Splatoon ones. I have two shelves spanning a total of 18 feet. Both shelves are stacked two high and 3 back. They have to be packed away soon. What a ride it’s been.

3DS Amiibo support began with Smash 3DS via a post launch update. The first completely original 3DS game to have Amiibo support was Code Name STEAM. That game supported Marth, Ike, Robin and Lucina and I still think it’s the coolest Amiibo functionality out there.

The very first Amiibos I ever got were Pearl and Marina from Splatoon 2 for my 17th birthday, then I got Callie and Marie for Christmas the next month. Now I’m getting Shiver, Frye and Big Man this Christmas.

Il never forget the Lucario day. Me and my buddy woke up at 6am to wait infront of toys r us, and the line exploded an hour before opening. Good times

the early days of amiibo were rough for a villager/wii fit main like myself...

I remember when Marth was rare and I found a bunch in a salvage store for $7 each brand new. I bought 1 like a civil man and kept it sealed for awhile. I did eventually cave and open because I wanted to use it, not to mention the value isn't really there anymore anyways. I was probably 13 or 14 at the time, so it's not like I had the funds to buy them all and resell them for some crazy mark up if I wanted to.

Starlink amiibo was a cool toys to life, and they chose to sell the digital content tied to the amiibo separately from the amiibo themselves.

I love misprints that say amiibo are compatible when they aren't. One of my favorite parts of Minecraft: New Nintendo 3DS Edition.

Man, the Amiibo craze was one of my most stressful but favorite memories as teen to look back on. I initially was going to pass on these when they were revealed, but once I saw how great they looked in stores I just got my collector's mindset to get them all. I was a bit late on the draw and by that time the rarity scarce and rumors of discontinuation started to get into me so I had to get them. I am not proud in the slightest of how some of how much I had to spend to get the ones I couldn't find anymore on eBay like Fox, Captain Falcon and Pit and for Wave 1's Holy Grails I remember setting up an German Amazon account and had those shipped to me in the U.S. once they restock there. I got lucky ordering a Little Mac from Gamestop's website. That was one of the rare ones down that I didn't need to buy from a reseller. One of my favorite memories from this was having my mom drive me around to several Targets and Toys R Us's looking around for any of the ones I was missing and eventually ending the day with picking up only Diddy Kong from a Gamestop. I only went for the Smash Bros. Line. I drew the line there and wasn't interested in anything else (besides Amiibo cards for Animal Crossing 9 years later). Now I have nearly all of them from Smash Bros. with any amiibo I bought after Smash Ultimate keeping them in the box rather than opening them up as soon as I got them. I even kept all the original packaging after my third one with the plastic blisters and it's all displayed on one of the walls in my room. Also got an in package Mario and Yoshi (my first two) to fill the space my original boxes would've been had I not thrown them away) and the Retro 3-pack in box because I had already ordered them loose from Amazon de.

I didn't get into amiibo until Best Buy had Peach, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi for $9 and it felt too cheap to let pass by. And that was the start of my addiction because I really loved collecting amiibo from that point. I got them at the perfect time because at the time, GameStop wanted out of the pre-owned Toys to Life market and amiibo was included in that. Their sale was Buy 1 Get 3 Free and my local stores were FLOODED with amiibo figures and I remember getting about 30-35 of them for about $75. Rare ones at the time like Charizard, Shulk, Sheik, and many others! To this day, I'm only missing one Smash amiibo with Terry Bogard and I haven't paid more than retail for any amiibo excluding Mega Yarn Yoshi since it never got a reprint but I got 2 of them for $200 and sold the sealed one for $140 to recoup those funds. My favorite memory from my amiibo collecting was I walked into Best Buy on my birthday just to see what deals they had when Gamers Club Unlocked was still going on and they had 20% off new games and about 10 minutes to closing in the game section, I saw a cart full of stuff to put back on the shelf and right on the top was a PRISTINE Smash Meta Knight amiibo, which at the time was still a Best Buy exclusive but was sold out 9 months past its release and was going for almost $100. I picked it up with super speed and was shaking while my brother was confused as to why. It was my holy Grail at the time.

I just want the Sora amiibo because their was a point where I thought he wouldn’t get into Smash and i’m glad I was proven wrong

❗️My Timestamps: 1:55 I never got caught up in the Amiibo collecting though I do think they look desirable. I only have three Amiibo: 1️⃣8-Bit Mario (red & green) 2️⃣Toad 3️⃣Charizard I DID have the Ryu one but sold it. ALL my Amiibo are still on their boxes...

These types of videos have been amazing man keep up the great work. Awesome topic I only have a few of the amiibo I really wanted like banjo kazooie and the botw guardian. I do have skyward sword link and the pee pole smash link also

Smash is really the only one I stuck with, and at the time of this comment I'm really just missing three: Pyra & Mythra because I stupidly missed out on the initial limited sale period of that, and Sora, where I hopefully won't make the same mistake I did for Pyra & Mythra.

For Smash, I thought the no brainer function Amiibo should have had was alternative costumes (beyond the ones built into the game). But hey, that’s me.

I love the fact that Nintendo made some merch that has staying power. It may not be a big collector's thing now but it's cool that they offer official merch that has a small bonus with games released

I'll always remember bringing my incinoroar to my friends house and watching him fk up everybody 😂 guy was a freaking monster

I do miss these times. Since the 1st wave, my wife & I got 2 of every Smash amiibo on release day. We would get to a store at like 4am for the 1st 3 waves. After that in my area, waves 4 and on we didn’t have to arrive til 6am or so. It seemed like it died down a smidge here in MA

I've been watching antdude forever since 2007 with his old channel still love it so nostalgic and Scott and Anthony just make perfect sense together

48:38 “I feel like we can end this on the amiibo implementation” There is an hour and four minutes remaining 😂

My Walmart stopped carrying them after BotW. Honestly, I grew to hate them, when I found out there was cool gear in Splatoon that you cannot get without an Amiibo.

Regarding the Japanese eShop and paying through the NFC reader, on Wii U and new 3DS you used to be able to make a purchase with NFC train cards. One of the most well known ones is the Suica card as it’s what is used for an area such as Tokyo. You can prepay for a set route/period of time and also put cash on the card where you can use it on any supported train line and even some vending machines too. And if you have cash on it, you could choose to use it on a purchase if you have enough money. I still have a “Manaca” card from Aichi which has ¥90, but since it’s roughly less than a dollar, I never had a use for it myself as I could only use it for purchases and not adding more funds.

I love amiibo so much im addicted to collecting them. i have every mario series, amiibo all splatoon series, amiibo zleda series amiibo, and all smash series amiibo, but the Pyra and Mythra amiibo couldn't get those in time ):

Man all I ever wanted from amiibo was a skylanders-esque adventure game

I went all in on Amiibo. I think, for me anyway, it was that they instantly felt classic. Like they were ripped right out of Smash Bros Melee (as they sorta were), and they had a secondary function, aside from looking cool, (though truthfully I never planned on opening them., the boxes seemed like the perfect place for them.. Keeps them free of dust, they are flashy, and have their names on them, for the obscure ones). I have to also admit that I bought some doubles of them so I could open and display/use them. So I have complete, and minty boxes, which wasn't easy when I had many of them shipped! It took a lot of returns and repurchases. Complete until Wave 7, plus the SMB line. But then I had ENOUGH!.. I was running out of space, and unfortunately I don't even have the place to display them. I have them all carefully packed in totes.. I even have soft tissue paper between them to keep any of the clear plastic from getting scratched. I'm a bit OCD when it comes to my collecting. I would be lying I'd I said I didn't enjoy some of the thrill of the hunt. 😁 -MattH

The only amiibo I went hard to get was the Mega Yarn Yoshi amiibo which came out on my 21st birthday. I was living at San Francisco State at the time. The nearest Toys R Us was in Emeryville across the Bay. I woke up at 5AM on the morning of my 21st birthday to take multiple buses to get to the Emeryville Toys R Us before it opened. I was the first person there because everyone else who got there before me decided to stay in their cars because it was cold. I got all those people to get out of their cars and brave the cold with me for about an hour until the store opened.

Words can't explain how much amiibo mean to me. I have basically a complete collection, I've been collecting them since literally day 1 (November 21, 2014). I was 12 at the time, so the perfect age to be obsessed with something like amiibo, and they've just stuck with me. My amiibo collection is literally my pride and joy

Why am I happy to watch a 2 hour video about a Amiibos?

this video made me realize that the new version of Mario RPG could have given us a Gino amiibo so we actually have Gino merchandise since right now we do not at all have anything for this character. They even released a line of plushies when the original Mario RPG came out and that set excluded Gino. so we've never had official Gino merchandise this means we could have had one if we remembered that amiibo existed at all.

I never thought they were anything very cool. If they were plushies on the other hand, I would’ve sold my house to buy them. That yarn yoshi was the best amiibo by far

I’ll never forget the joy of snagging that Piranha Plant Amiibo right before a MASSIVE blizzard hit us in 2019. Their cardboard got wet with snow but the figure themselves stayed pristine and chompy. They really are a wonderful lil’ specimen. Just a sweet, wholesome memory for me. Also they can’t fit in a jar.

As someone who has never owned or had any interest in Amiibo, I enjoyed this 2 hour video about amiibo

I bought the awful Chibi-Robo Zip Lash game just for the amiibo. I love Chibi-Robo and think the figure looks so cool. I never once thought about if the plug fits into an outlet but thank god someone thought to make it not fit lol.

This might sound a little harsh, but to me, Amiibos were just Nintendo's way to compensate for the Wii U's failure. Pretty much every feature that was implemented in games could've just been a regular unlockable. Smash Bros is the only game that used Amiibos in an interesting way in my opinion.

OK Scott, you've confessed. Now we need a video in defense of Paper Mario Color Splash.

As someone who owns like 80 amiibos although they are a neat collectible, they are sorely underutilized by Nintendo. Nintendo could have made a free to play game that required amiibos to use, they could include amiibo functionality in every Nintendo published game that offered some kind of item or reward, and they most certainly could have produced more for customers to buy instead of every new one selling out within minutes or hours!

one of my favorite amiibo memories has to be back in 2016 i passed up callie and marie amiibo in favor of buying zelda triforce heroes. i regretted that descision for literal years, cus i barely played triforce heroes. but last year around thanksgiving i went to new york, and when i was in the nintendo new york store i saw callie and marie on the shelf and knew i pass it up a second time cus id regret it forever. also got pearl and marina and steve and alex amiibo. i dont really collect amiibo since the college town i moved to doesnt really have any amiibo or anything but the nintendo ny store was crazy for amiibo

Glad to have all of the SSB Amiibo’s, including Gold Megaman

Scott is trying to anger the Pokemon Rumble U fan community again 😡

I remember after Greninja was revealed for Smash, I emailed Nintendo begging them to make Smash figures like Skylanders. They emailed back, "we're a video game company, not a toy company" look where we are now.

I love looking back at alamo with Antman

Am I crazy or is the sound out of sync with them talking?

I appreciate amiibo Tap just for letting me play the fun parts of Metroid 1 without having to play through Metroid 1

This was actually one of my cards so I watched this a few months back, but now everyone can watch it ^^

I wonder if Mario Odyssey's copious number of costumes were ever considered to be NFC unlockables. A downright strange amount of work for the developers for cosmetic rewards with no gameplay impact. If the Switch had performed more like the Wii U, where only a handful of games sold well, I could see them propping up the few safe bet titles with more NFC merchandise like amiibo and cards.

Hearing Scott acknowledge Yo-kai Watch's existence ticked the little happy neuron in my brain.

Finally finished this one! Great little video :)

I've never really cared too much about the in-game functionality for amiibo. They're relatively high-quality figures for a reasonable price. Yes, the first couple waves of Smash were rough (especially the faces on more realistic characters), but nowadays the quality is great and they're fun collectables. Smash and Splatoon series are stand-outs, with the Zelda and Monster Hunter series also being extremely good.

Ngl, it's probably just Metroid bias, but honestly, aside from the Smash Samus amiibo, EVERY Metroid series Amiibo is just so fucking nice. Like, unreasonably so for Nintendo's nichest long-running series

My goal has been to collect the entire Smash roster to display opened like a trophy hoard, and I have so far completed that. I just need Sora, and it will finally be done... until they announce Smash Reboot for Switch 2. I also like to get other characters I like. It was easy to scoop the entire Animal Crossing collection for pennies on the dollar. I got all the Shovel Knight characters and anyone associated with Smash as an assist trophy or special move, like Toad, Squid Sisters, and Rathalos.

I really miss the hunt! Going out with friends and just seeing what we could find was so fun!!!

Well, isn't the the thrill of the hunt one of the main reasons of why are we collect things at all? But yeah, it's really a shame that scalpers exist and ruin the fun for everyone.

I remember a few years ago I was at a target and I was looking for amiibo and I saw some dude holding like 6 8-bit link amiibo and he set them down on a shelf so he could grab his cart and while he wasn’t looking I took one and bought it

this feels like an interview recalling a tragedy

i think the coolest thing you could do is make your amiibo super op in smash ultimate by giving them a bunch of spirits and then trying to beat them or like teaming up with friends and fighting them together

God bless you Scott and AntDude

I’d say the 3 rarest amiibos I have are Cloud Player 2 vers., Yarn Poochi, and Samus/Metroid 2 pack.

I remember getting the Mario Maker Wii U bundle for christmas, I wish Mario Maker 2 had the same amount of support and care put into it as the original

I foolishly decided to buy a 3 Pack Animal Crossing amiibo set from a Gamestop bargin bin and then decided to buy the Splatoon 3 pack off ebay, then the Chibi Robo... And now 175 at least, I have the newest Splatoon 3 Amiibo. (Was not expecting The Big Man to be so wide)

The Persona 5 Joker Amiibo is still the most frustrating gaming thing ive tried to get my hands on. I never saw it ever at any store i went to, ended up finding it loose for like 30 bucks.

Nothing feels better than finding an amiibo for like 5 bucks on a flea market

Ah, amiibo collecting... those were the days of blowing out money to get a cool Nintendo figure that barely did anything! Yeah, believe it or not, my brother and I were a part of the amiibo craze back when Smash 3DS and Wii U launched. Since I got five of the N64 Crew (Mario, Link, Kirby, DK and Pikachu), I was waiting for what other kinds of 'miibo we could get. After getting the Mario Party 10 amiibo bundle and Smash Luigi, i think my big bro started to go a bit hog wild with getting many amiibo! He got me Shulk, Bowser Jr., Diddy Kong, the Super Mario versions of Peach, Yoshi, Bowser... Smash Pit came detached from his base... got the green Yarn Yoshi amiibo along with Wooly World. Splatoon amiibo were a big get, as well as the Smash Retro fighters. Me and big bro were getting amiibo left and right... and that meant we got into some right bull-honky. One time, my brother ordered the collector's edition of Mega Man Legacy Collection for 3DS that contains the gold Mega Man amiibo... but the shipment got hacked and brother had to cancel it. It took me till 2019 to get a Mega Man amiibo. Speaking of buying games just to get the amiibo, I was one of the poor saps who bought Chibi Robo Zip Lash just for the amiibo. It was so cool and adorable that i just had to have it... i really should have just gotten the amiibo alone on Amazon. In addition, we bought Zelda Twilight Princess HD for the awesome Wolf Link amiibo, got Pokkén Tournament's first run copy for the Shadow Mewtwo card... and that was about it really... afterwards, i got Waluigi, and Daisy back in 2016... and that was honestly it. Like i said, i got Mega Man in 2019, Waddle Dee in 2020... yeah... Nowadays, I'm not really that into amiibo collecting as i was back then. A lot of them just don't interest me these days. As of this writing, my lastest amiibo i got was the Super Mario series version of Donkey Kong. I don't have any interest in getting any of the DLC characters outside of the two I have... i might get Piranha Plant, K. Rool and Banjo and maybe Terry and Sora... but that would be it honestly. That and the fact that amiibo support has been a joke in some games also killed my interest. Like for whatever reason, Kirby and the Forgotten Land's amiibo function is just a pathetic bonus of healing item and star coins, which was a massive downgrade from Star Allies' function, which itself was a massive downgrade from Robobot's function. And the worst thing is... they regurgitated it for the Return to Dreamland remake! The nerve of Vanpool and Hal labs!

Great retrospective. It’s interesting to me to hear all that happen in the US. Here, in Switzerland, we didn’t have shop exclusivity and stock was okay-ish. There were some shortages, but didn’t last too long each time. By the way, about the Squid amiibo, it was also bundled with the game itself (maybe only in Europe, don’t know about the US). Okay, the 8-bit Mario Maker amiibo sold only with the system is ridiculous! We had it sold as a stand-alone or with the game.

Code Name Steam still has one of my favorite uses of Amiibo; unlocking up to 4 new playable characters in that game, that are very different from the characters from the base game. Both Robin and Lucina are great playable characters there. I wished they re-released Code Name Steam n the Switch and added more Amiibo support for the others Fire Emblem amiibos.

When I bought my Link amiibo, I thought I could scan it and level it up like more of an RPG mechanic. Then use it against others.

It's funny getting this now when Amiibo mania is sort of coming back; the Ultimate DLC amiibo are basically all insane to get.

23:44 the funniest thing about that dude, he HATED rosalina, and the only reason he bought all the rosalina amiibos he could find was to spite anyone who wanted a rosalina amiibo

"I think when it comes to individual amiibo, I do kinda want to say Corrin Player 2 is the most expensive" **Fire Emblem Engage amiibo redistributes has entered the chat**

I'm a big Mario fan and have been figuring out how to maximize every game (which basically means I would have the ability to do everything possible in the vanilla game in a legitimate fashion) amiibo are a huge bane to my existence as far as money goes ngl

I don't have a ton of amiibo but my most cherished ones are the three wedding figures of Mario, Peach, and Bowser from Odyssey, and Bayonetta.

1:20:59 for those who are curious about what the Dark Souls Remastered amiibo is and don't know their Dark Souls 1 (don't worry, I understand, these games are absolutely not for everybody)... the Dark Souls amiibo is of a guy called Solaire (it might be spelt differently, but it's pronounced "soul-air"). in the game he worships the sun and is "looking for his own sun," whatever that means. that pose is called "praise the sun," and people usually use it when they succeed. you also learn it from Solaire. I think the only reason people praise the sun is because Solaire is a nice person in a game where you can count the number of nice NPCs on two hands (one depending on who you ask). anyways, unless you do a few very specific steps that are, in retrospect, pretty easy to achieve (just killing a hard to find passive critter that won't fight back), he gets corrupted by a creature similar to a Half-Life headcrab and you have to kill him. because Dark Souls. he's also just like, a normal enemy, and not even a boss. as for the... emote? people liked it so much and it became probably the most memorable symbol of Dark Souls to the point that it's now in Dark Souls 2 and 3. It's not in Bloodborne or Elden Ring though. tl;dr: that guy is Solaire, and he's praising the sun, which is like a wholesome version of the Fortnite Default Dance. oh, and also: the loot goblins in Diablo don't even look like that! that goblin is so much more cartoony... kinda wish they looked like that in the actual game

"I'll never have a complete collection of games for any console" truer words never spoken.

Currently at 100% collection (figures+cards+misc). I made it my thing to get every amiibo available to retail, regardless of the region. The sweepstakes/trophy amiibo still eat at my heart. 😅 My first amiibo was a Loot Crate cross promotion bundle that had all of wave one, except Marth, Wii Fit Trainer & Villager; so on release day, I bought those 3 at a Target.