So Animal Crossing merch eh, there's not a ton? Well usually anyways, when a new game comes out there's a lot more! There's the stuff you can get at Nintendo Store Japan (which I grabbed a few items of). But what about collecting?
Enter the Furuta Choco Egg. These have been around a while, basically a Kinder egg or a Wonderball for us Americans, they of course did an Animal Crossing set with different villager toys inside the eggs. The toys themselves are going for about 5-10 bucks loose depending on the character (the two rare figures being the player villagers). These are notoriously difficult to find online unopened, a quick peek at eBay has them listed individually for 40 bucks a pop (holy jeeze) when they retail for 2 dollars.
Well who happens to be in Japan at this very second? Me! It's my last night in Japan, and rather than partying or finding last minute gifts, I just walked around for an hour hunting these little gold eggies. And after all that searching I found... 6! Six of them out of 10+ stores. They aren't in convenient stores it seems, so only grocery's seem to have them. When I found the ones I did I audibly gasped and grabbed them all like a crazy person stocking TP.
I could easily flip this babies, but tbh the nerd in me knows I'm just gonna open them when I get home and keep them as a memento of my second ever trip to Japan. Thought I'd share here, and if people want to know what I pull I can make a video of opening them later!
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I have planned to build a box to display them since like many fans they are fragile.
The way you said it I thought the Furuta Choco Egg figures were the whole set of animals from AC as I know people have their fav over others but it's only 10
None of these companies are suddenly going to let digital releases get ahead of retail.
European stores already broke street date. All the Target-mart-stop-buys have them in their store rooms. They could 100% get an email that says “eh, put ‘em on the shelves and call in preorder folk”
None of these companies are suddenly going to let digital releases get ahead of retail.
European stores already broke street date. All the Target-mart-stop-buys have them in their store rooms. They could 100% get an email that says “eh, put ‘em on the shelves and call in preorder folk”
As of one hour ago, Nintendo's twitter is still continuing their daily countdown and saying two days to go, so unless it's gonna be a Big Surprise I think we'll have to wait.
And I mean, it's been months and months... two more days is easy..... we can make it......
The “day 1” update is actually going to be available tomorrow at 6pm PST, for those who have it preloaded.
Is this an indication that big N might actually release early because we all need it so bad? My fingers are crossed, even if it’s a long shot.
Some European stores were breaking the street date, US places are canceling the midnight launches, and the Nintendo stores themselves are closed.
Chant with me: EARLY LAUNCH EARLY LAUNCH EARLY LAUNCH
The patch is available early to reduce the load on the e-shop on release day, midnight launch events are canceled because of the pandemic, and random stores break street dates all the time. There's almost no chance of an early release, unfortunately.
Welp...my path to AC is out the window because of the virus. I was going to bring a bunch of used music CDs to my local Bullmoose store for credit like I did to aquire Luigi's Mansion3, but they're shuddered for two weeks. I hope they hit their reopen date so I can get AC without depleting my bank account, I'm low on bells.
The “day 1” update is actually going to be available tomorrow at 6pm PST, for those who have it preloaded.
Is this an indication that big N might actually release early because we all need it so bad? My fingers are crossed, even if it’s a long shot.
Some European stores were breaking the street date, US places are canceling the midnight launches, and the Nintendo stores themselves are closed.
Chant with me: EARLY LAUNCH EARLY LAUNCH EARLY LAUNCH
The patch is available early to reduce the load on the e-shop on release day, midnight launch events are canceled because of the pandemic, and random stores break street dates all the time. There's almost no chance of an early release, unfortunately.
I bought two copies of this, one for myself and one for family. The digital copy obviously no problem, but ordered a physical copy and just was told by Amazon that it will be a week late. Woof.
Yeahhhh Amazon finally pushed back my Animal Crossing order to Tuesday. I ordered Doom so it's not a big deal, I can stall until Tuesday. Amazon also sent me a promotion for $15 Amazon credit if I upload a picture to Amazon Photos so yeah fine if you want to pay me $15 for a couple of cat photos that's fine with me. I'll hopefully get to apply it to Animal Crossing before it ships.
My order page went from 'delayed', to 'arriving tomorrow'(but no tracking), but with a second e-mail notification that my order may be delayed until 'whenever' - so who knows what the deal is now. They sure did charge my card for it now though, so I'm gonna do some complaining if I don't actually get it tomorrow. (maybe I can get some store credit out of it at least)
Wonder which villagers I'm gonna get. In New Leaf, I ended up with a pretty decent bunch, all things considered..except for that fucking kangeroo lady that never moved out despite my best efforts to harass her.
Well, my first two neighbors are...Sprocket and Rocket.
Can't wait to meet Docket and Socket next.
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Super hyped for this. Preloaded and ready to go. I get physical copies probably 99% of the time if possible, but I always felt like a game like AC made so much more sense as a digital title. I'm likely to put hundreds of hours into this, so I don't want to bother with a game card like I do with other games that I beat and move on with.
Played for about 2 hours and paid off my initial loan. Good thing that my house is being built now cause I desperately need the storage space already.
Another thing I desperately need: bridges, since I can't access half of my island right now (which might be intentional, or just a quirk of the layout I chose).
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Played for about 2 hours and paid off my initial loan. Good thing that my house is being built now cause I desperately need the storage space already.
Another thing I desperately need: bridges, since I can't access half of my island right now (which might be intentional, or just a quirk of the layout I chose).
I've heard the islands were purposely made to be discovered as time went on and not access immediately.
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I’m kind of glad I’m working tonight. I’ll get home and my digital copy of Animal Crossing will be waiting. If I wasn’t busy at work I’d be counting the minutes.
Got this despite feeling there is a 75% chance I'll not like it. Probably feel less bamboozled than buying Pokeman for the first time though. We shall see.
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Enter the Furuta Choco Egg. These have been around a while, basically a Kinder egg or a Wonderball for us Americans, they of course did an Animal Crossing set with different villager toys inside the eggs. The toys themselves are going for about 5-10 bucks loose depending on the character (the two rare figures being the player villagers). These are notoriously difficult to find online unopened, a quick peek at eBay has them listed individually for 40 bucks a pop (holy jeeze) when they retail for 2 dollars.
Well who happens to be in Japan at this very second? Me! It's my last night in Japan, and rather than partying or finding last minute gifts, I just walked around for an hour hunting these little gold eggies. And after all that searching I found... 6! Six of them out of 10+ stores. They aren't in convenient stores it seems, so only grocery's seem to have them. When I found the ones I did I audibly gasped and grabbed them all like a crazy person stocking TP.
I could easily flip this babies, but tbh the nerd in me knows I'm just gonna open them when I get home and keep them as a memento of my second ever trip to Japan. Thought I'd share here, and if people want to know what I pull I can make a video of opening them later!
I have planned to build a box to display them since like many fans they are fragile.
The way you said it I thought the Furuta Choco Egg figures were the whole set of animals from AC as I know people have their fav over others but it's only 10
European stores already broke street date. All the Target-mart-stop-buys have them in their store rooms. They could 100% get an email that says “eh, put ‘em on the shelves and call in preorder folk”
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And I mean, it's been months and months... two more days is easy..... we can make it......
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Oh I realize all that. I can still hope tho.
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DOOM ETERNAL GETS TO COME OUT A DAY EARLY.
ANIMAL CROSSING ON SCHEDULE.
COULD THERE BE A GOD THAT WOULD LET THIS HAPPEN?!
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But I'm working from home and keeping my 2 kids occupied since their daycare is closed, and that combination is a total shitshow right now :bigfrown:
Uh... entertain kids by letting them watch/play Animal Crossing. EZ
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Wonder which villagers I'm gonna get. In New Leaf, I ended up with a pretty decent bunch, all things considered..except for that fucking kangeroo lady that never moved out despite my best efforts to harass her.
Can't wait to meet Docket and Socket next.
I want to play...
I'm looking forward to my first AC game since the original
I should've taken tomorrow off*. The temptation to stay up after midnight to get started is terrible.
*I'm "essential" so no WFH for me...
WFH here, but it's a metric fuckton of ugly, monotonous, but ultimately essential and foundational work to be done.
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Another thing I desperately need: bridges, since I can't access half of my island right now (which might be intentional, or just a quirk of the layout I chose).
I've heard the islands were purposely made to be discovered as time went on and not access immediately.
12 AM EST, from what I understand.
New Horizons Tom Nook: Pounces company store debt on you and has you pay it off in scrip "Nook Miles"