{"id":100292,"date":"2019-09-16T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/walmart_appears_to_break_yet_another_street_date_as_unreleased_amiibo_appear_in_store"},"modified":"2019-09-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T11:30:00","slug":"walmart-appears-to-break-yet-another-street-date-as-unreleased-amiibo-appear-in-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/walmart-appears-to-break-yet-another-street-date-as-unreleased-amiibo-appear-in-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Appears To Break Yet Another Street Date As Unreleased amiibo Appear In Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/eabe072bf1ae2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/eabe072bf1ae2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/eabe072bf1ae2\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><figcaption class=\"caption\">Just one of the amiibo being sold early<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>US retailer Walmart appears to be selling a number of upcoming amiibo ahead of time, with figures being spotted in-store well before their official release date.<\/p>\n<p>The new wave of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros.<\/a><\/strong> figures set to launch this Friday (Ivysaur, Squirtle, and Snake) have all been found patiently waiting for new owners to come and pick them up, and even the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_links_awakening\">Legend of Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening<\/a> amiibo &#8211; also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/guide_where_to_pre-order_the_zelda_links_awakening_amiibo\">due out this Friday<\/a> &#8211; has been found in high quantities. As @videogamedeals puts it below, it seems like Walmart simply &#8220;doesn&#8217;t care&#8221; about sticking to release dates.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apparently the new wave of amiibo are $12.96 via Wal-Mart (In Store Only). Comes out Friday but Wal-Mart doesn&#8217;t care. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q5xEB1Zpx9\">https:\/\/t.co\/q5xEB1Zpx9<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Cheap Ass Gamer (@videogamedeals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/videogamedeals\/status\/1173294978807848962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We say that because it was only a matter of days ago when we shared a story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/looks_like_one_lucky_fan_already_has_a_nintendo_switch_lite\">Switch Lite consoles being sold ahead of time<\/a>, too. We&#8217;re not sure why Walmart is deciding to throw all of these Nintendo products out into the open early, but we can&#8217;t imagine Nintendo &#8211; or other retailers, for that matter &#8211; will be best pleased.<\/p>\n<p>Before you ask, it doesn&#8217;t appear to be restricted to just one store, either:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can confirm, saw this cute boi just a couple hours ago at my local Walmart. Too bad I already have him preordered! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zy6phsp1pV\">pic.twitter.com\/Zy6phsp1pV<\/a><\/span>\u2014 hope (@Player_64) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Player_64\/status\/1173296625608998923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Walmart near me had them on sale and I was able to buy the Link amiibo with no problem! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ASXEOUIksY\">pic.twitter.com\/ASXEOUIksY<\/a><\/span>\u2014 R (@Reikunzero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reikunzero\/status\/1173329913606287360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>If you happen to live near a Walmart, by all means, go and see if you can pick any of these amiibo up early. Surely this can&#8217;t continue much longer?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one of the amiibo being sold early US retailer Walmart appears to be selling a number of upcoming amiibo ahead of time, with figures being spotted in-store well before their official release date. The new wave of Super Smash Bros. figures set to launch this Friday (Ivysaur, Squirtle, and Snake) have all been found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}