This may not matter if you’re not collecting. I am not sure if there is any difference to the figures themselves. But for sealed Amiibos, there are regional variations.
I purchased two Amiibos from Amazon. The listings had no image at all of the packaging. Neither had any sort of information for region variation. If looking at the question section in the listning, they will confirm USA.
I ordered Link and Zelda Amiibo for BotW. The Zelda Amiibo arrived in Japanese. I had to do a return order with Amazon. And they told me to do the order again on the exact same page, and I would get the correct one. This seemed extremely weird, but I went ahead, and did it. When the replacement finally arrived, the packaging was damaged. Fortunately, I had not had the chance to open my Link yet. Because upon closer inspection, it ended up being apparent that neither of them are USA.
[**ZELDA JAPANESE**](https://i.imgur.com/jwK4ydX.png)
[**ZELDA DAMAGED**](https://i.imgur.com/FNq9Yau.png) \- All bent up with sticky material peeled off all over the front.
[**BOTH LINK AND ZELDA REAR VIEW**](https://i.imgur.com/KcsfuX9.png) \- You can see their picture with name and model number on left.
There are some listings that specify Japanese version. The ones listed here are just a few examples of different model numbers that I have seen with no information specified about variation.
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**Zelda BotW**
NVLCAKAN (The one I bought.)
2004566
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**Link BotW Archer**
NVLCAKAK (The one I bought)
195700
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**Link BotW Rider**
NVLCAKAL
2004266
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The ones I ended up with are very apparently EU. The model numbers I ended up with on the items are the ones specified on the listings on Amazon. Yet there is nothing whatsoever indicating these are European variations. And they are even sending incorrect Japanese variations. So I think it’s safe to say the ones starting with “NV” are EU. I have no idea what the other ones are.
If anybody has USA version. Please help inform the correct model number. Especially if you can offer screen shots. Thank you.
by DivergentPradise
10 Comments
Lots of third party sellers sell from different regions. It’s should be clearer and they should sell on pages that are specific for the regional item, but since the amiibos are the same some don’t understand or don’t think it matters. I’ve not seen the wrong thing shipped if shipped and sold by the store, but with ones that aren’t made any more that isn’t always possible.
FWIW, if you are looking for Amiibo to actually use and taking out of the package, it makes 0 difference. They’re the same product.
I have European (German/French), American, and Japanese Amiibo that I picked up in their respective markets, and they all function and look like they’re supposed to.
Is there any type of region encoding that prevents Japanese ones from working with US games?
They are the exact same chillllllðŸ˜
Serial codes like “NVL-C-AKAK” (or AKAL, AKAN) are used worldwide. All BotW Archer figures will be “NVL-C-AKAK” for example.
The NVL-C codes only differ in the cases where there’s actual differences, like Famicom ROB / NES ROB.
The seven-digit serial numbers ending in 66 are Nintendo Europe’s Artikelnummers (item numbers). You’d only see them on European packaging (they’d be underneath the amazon sticker on yours).
I don’t know what ‘195700’ is from. Maybe that one is American.
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But yes, there are probably multiple sellers selling amiibos from all sorts of countries mixed together on the same page. For questions, people may answer what they individually received / are selling, but other sellers aren’t necessarily going to be selling the exact same variant.
Been dealing with this since 2015 haha. Miss one amiibo, go to buy it on Amazon, specifies USA version, shows up Japanese. Happened at least 5 times
Sucked when I was collecting sealed NA amiibos
Why would you keep an Amiibo sealed? Just open them. They’re the same out if package
I’m so happy I’m an out of box collector
Cool, but aren’t they supposed to be opened up and scanned to your games?
I thought amiibos were now Japanese and English by default?