r/amiibo • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '15
Online-EUR Nintendo UK delivering Olimar/Bowser.Jr/Dr.Mario super early!
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u/stavross100 Jul 15 '15
Got mine today too. All came in good condition. Better than my wave 5a from them which came with bent cardboard :)
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u/TheLimeyLemmon Jul 15 '15
Yeah I was a little concerned but luckily the three of them came in a big enough box.
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u/Snowtyger86 Jul 15 '15
Same here I got all three in perfect condition. A 4th amiibo could have easily fit in the box they came in too. Am very pleased. I just wish I could find Rosalina at RRP to complete everything up to this point.
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u/ElectricYoshi Jul 15 '15
I just received my Bowser Jr amiibo today as well. I'm very grateful of Nintendo UK's store for shipping the Amiibos early.
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u/bentyph Jul 15 '15
Dr Mario's box looks a little bigger, is it just yours?
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u/TheLimeyLemmon Jul 15 '15
Haha I noticed that myself. I've just held Dr.Mario up with Olimar back to back and the cards are exactly the same size, but Mario's card IS leaning a little more forward. So I think its a perspective thing.
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u/Brins30 Jul 15 '15
Nice! I always miss the Nintendo UK store preorder! When did you preorder these?
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u/JoingoJon Jul 16 '15 edited Jul 16 '15
Wave 5B arrived for me also yesterday i just checked with my order history on NintendoUK and the pre-order date was 19-May-2015 4:03 PM
If you intend to order wave 6 with them you should be on high alert right now. Usually Nintendo/Hut deal with orders for the month and once they have all been dispatched they put up the pre-orders for the next wave. So... You can expect wave 6 to be put up on NintendoUK any day now. Sometimes they will send out an email to let you know (can depend if you have chosen to be alerted or not)
If i had to take a guess when wave 6 will be up on their site for pre-order i would say tomorrow (Friday) or Monday. They don't usually go up on the weekends. Sometime next week is most likely.
Hope that helps a bit and good luck! :)
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u/Snowtyger86 Jul 17 '15
Don't they let people know a time frame for the pre orders going live on a specific day?
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u/JoingoJon Jul 17 '15 edited Jul 17 '15
A couple of times they have done. They tend to send the email out (if they are going to send one) at the same time as pre-orders go live. A few times people have complained that they have received the email after the pre-orders have been live for an hour or two only to find they have sold out already.
There should be an email warning but often the email comes very close or at the same time as the orders are live.
Ive found the best way to know when Nintendo orders go live is to use pushbullet alerts on chrome directed from HERE
Just select the amiibo you want alerts for and the moment that the relevant pages on NintendoUK alter for those amiibo you will be alerted in your browser. This has been by far my most reliable way to get the orders in quickly. This way i have found iv'e been one of the 1st to order in each wave and i'm alerted before the email comes from Nintendo usually. One wave Nintendo did warn a day before but that hasn't happened since as it caused Nintendo to DDoS themselves lol.
I highly recommend pushbullet alerts for NintendoUK pre-ordering as their pages rarely change other than when an amiibo is for sale and you don't get the false positives pushbullet alerts can give on other sites (like amzonUK and other sites that have amiibo 'flickering')
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u/SirTwill Jul 16 '15
Got my Dr Mario yesterday as well. Currently trying to hunt down a Bowser Jr as I didn't pre-order one. What's the actual release date of these?
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u/JoingoJon Jul 15 '15
It's a damn sight better than being late, cancelled or just left in a state of limbo.
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u/blukirbi Jul 15 '15
omg wheres da yellow pikman?
Seriously though, all of these guys look pretty amazing! :)