{"id":131132,"date":"2023-01-12T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-143498"},"modified":"2023-01-12T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T03:30:00","slug":"kazuya-sephiroth-smash-bros-ultimate-amiibo-are-already-appearing-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/12\/kazuya-sephiroth-smash-bros-ultimate-amiibo-are-already-appearing-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazuya &amp; Sephiroth Smash Bros. Ultimate amiibo Are Already Appearing In The Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aac873bfb818f\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aac873bfb818f\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Sephiroth as seen in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aac873bfb818f\/sephiroth-as-seen-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aac873bfb818f\/sephiroth-as-seen-in-super-smash-bros-ultimate.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sephiroth as seen in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo, Square Enix,<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;re almost halfway through the first month of 2023, and that means it&#8217;s nearly amiibo time! Yes, following on from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/12\/kazuya-and-sephiroth-amiibo-release-13th-january-pyra-and-mythra-arrive-in-2023\">release confirmation at the end of last year<\/a>, this week marks the arrival of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a> Kazuya (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/tekken_tag_tournament_2\">Tekken<\/a>) and Sephiroth (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/final_fantasy_vii\">Final Fantasy VII<\/a>) amiibo.<\/p>\n<p>While they&#8217;re both due out on 13th January, if you take a quick look on social media and other platforms like Reddit, you might have already seen how some collectors have already got their hands on them thanks to early pre-order deliveries. Here are some of the ones we&#8217;ve spotted in the wild so far:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"amiibo\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/81d30e023ae67\/amiibo.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNzAwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"700\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/81d30e023ae67\/amiibo.900x.jpg\" alt=\"amiibo\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/amiibo\/comments\/1093pg0\/got_them_a_few_days_early\/\">via r\/amiibo<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/theepicness1000\/statuses\/1613176252642328577 @ 2023-01-12T03:19:52+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MY SEPHIROTH AMIIBO ARRIVED EARLY \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RD01pbcaN0\">pic.twitter.com\/RD01pbcaN0<\/a><\/span>\u2014 The H&#8230; with an E \ud83c\udf31\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udfac\ud83d\udde1\u2604\ufe0f\ud83e\udd95\ud83e\udd96\ud83c\udfa8\u270f\ufe0f\ud83d\udcd6 (@TheEpicness1000) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheEpicness1000\/status\/1613176252642328577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It seems these amiibo are already <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LewisAGarcia\/status\/1612949024490889216\">popping up in-store as well<\/a>, but from what we&#8217;ve heard they can&#8217;t be sold until 13th January. Kazuya and Sephiroth are part of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC Fighter Waves and will be followed by the release of Pyra and Mythra (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_2\">Xenoblade Chronicles 2<\/a> amiibo) at some point later this year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"amiibo\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45b910ea0ae76\/amiibo.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNDY4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"468\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45b910ea0ae76\/amiibo.900x.jpg\" alt=\"amiibo\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Will you be adding these latest Smash amiibo to your own collection? Have you been lucky enough to secure yours early? <em>Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo, Square Enix, We&#8217;re almost halfway through the first month of 2023, and that means it&#8217;s nearly amiibo time! Yes, following on from a release confirmation at the end of last year, this week marks the arrival of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Kazuya (Tekken) and Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII) amiibo. While they&#8217;re both [&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-131132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131132","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=131132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}