Um, wow
[Update: Toys”R”Us put pre-orders back up momentarily this morning, and I expect them to either be faulty or drop very soon. Try to re-pre-order if you want at your own risk!]
[Update 2: Now the retailer has taken off the listing entirely — there’s not even a “sold out” page. What a circus.]
The day the Lucario amiibo went on sale, I pre-ordered it. As in, weeks ago. Now Toys”R”Us is canceling orders, including mine. For reference, Lucario is exclusive to Toys”R”Us and you can’t get it anywhere else. Huh?
I’m not alone it seems, as our own Brittany Vincent and Bill Platt have had their orders canceled too, as well as a number of readers out there who reached out last night. We are following up with both Nintendo and Toys”R”Us to see what the deal is. It’s entirely possible that the latter wants people running into the store at the release date and buying add-on items. That’s retail for you.
Between this, the holy trinity, and Rosalina pre-orders selling out in 30 minutes in the dead of night, this has become a total shitshow by Nintendo and the retailers involved, which chose to do exclusive amiibo in the first place. Why is it that Activision and Disney were able to sell millions of dollars worth of Skylanders and Disney Infinity toys near launch without a hitch?
