Mario has always been golden in the minds of his fans. On March 20, Nintendo will launch the Super Mario amiibo—Gold Edition, a shiny gold-colored Mario figure that arrives on the same day as the Mario Party 10 game for the Wii U console. The Super Mario amiibo—Gold Edition will be sold exclusively at 3,000 Walmart stores in the U.S. at launch at a retail price of $12.96.
Nintendo’s amiibo are interactive toys that come to life in compatible games in different ways. This new golden figure represents the third Mario amiibo. The other two Mario amiibo are:
- The original ‘fireball’ Mario from the Super Smash Bros. series.
- A new ‘wave’ Mario from the Super Mario series available on March 20, for a limited time bundled only with Mario Party 10.
The new gold-colored Mario amiibo is compatible with multiple games that support amiibo. For example, Mario Party 10 features a new amiibo Party mode that players can only access by tapping their compatible amiibo figures on the Wii U GamePad controller to customize them and bring them into the game as board pieces. Players can also save items to their amiibo, then use them strategically. Or players can train their amiibo to supercharge its stats and expand its abilities in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U or Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
well better to have them exclusive than not at all
There will be bloodshed
I hope these eventually come to Ireland. Would be great to add to my collection! :)
I actually really want one of these
Me: *goes to Walmart on March 20th* So where’s the Gold Mario amiibos?
Employee: Wat?
Walmart’s gaming section in a nutshell…
So perfectly said. I’ve learned my lesson to never go to a midnight release for a Nintendo game at Walmart. But they’ll definitely have that next Will Smith DVD at 12:01am.
I went there to go get a brand new release once, and they said they didn’t have it at all. I come back 3 days later, the same thing… I hate Walmart when it comes to employee quality in certain sections… (I mean seriously, they don’t even know what 90% of the games they’re selling are)
There job is to check it at the cash register and give directions to lost costumers, not to know every inch of product.
LOL its true, don’t ever ask Walmart employees about certain things like this. They have zero idea what you’re talking about and will take forever to put new stock up because it’s left forgotten in the warehouse.
Do we know where to find a list of the 3,000 lucky stores?
What about the Silver Mario?
Hope the Silver (or platinum?) become the good bye club Nintendo reward for those that manage to reach platinum level on it.
This is bs! I work at a Walmart and boy the game departement sucks! The amiibos are never out on time! Always a week after the release date
I’ve noticed that with Wal-Mart. Even Target gets amiibos more often (and faster) than Wal-Mart.
FYI it was up for preorder online. Don’t know how many will be cancelled or how many each store will actually get now.
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I still think that this gold Mario should have been the one that came bundled with Mario Party 10. Why was the bundled amiibo just a regular Mario?
You have a point there. It should have been bundled and it would guarantee that people would have to buy the game as well, whether they like it or not.
I think that would have been a better idea.
Here we go again