Update: Final Pictures for Samus, Villager and Fox are also here now:

Taken from Kotaku:

http://kotaku.com/nintendos-amiibo-figures-look-a-little-bit-different-in-1651030422/all

When introduced at E3 earlier this year and in the marketing materials that followed, Nintendo's little plastic figures looked fantastic, but some of the finer details seem to have been lost to the production process.  

Joystiq posted a set of photos featuring the finished figures earlier this week, which have been making the Reddit rounds over the weekend. Some think they look fine for $13 figures with tech embedded inside them. I think they look fine for what they are. It's just what they are isn't quite what we've been seeing at retailers for preorder — they've been using the prototype pictures.

Take Princess Peach, for instance. The brocade pattern on her dress looked inlaid in the original shot. Now it's just paint. The fine detail around her pendant has changed colors, the hands seem a little chunkier, and overall the plastic looks like its of much lower quality. 

Then there's Link.

The thing, translucent plastic pole that held aloft the hero of Hyrule is now this strange amber thing, as if he were borne aloft on a column of urine. The thicker post makes sense. The flimsy thing in the original pictures wouldn't have held up to rigorous play. Perhaps that's why the Wii Fit Trainer now has a foot cast.

Similarly, the sad shape of Marth's sword could probably be explained by softer plastic having to be used for a sharp object aimed at children. Or maybe he's just not feeling it today.

I still say the figures look fine, and plan on breaking myself buying each of the initial batch of 18 figures. I'm one of the toy guys here, I pretty much have to — but I would anyway. I just hope my Kirby doesn't wind up with subtly off-center eyes. That would drive me nuts.

This is pretty much how all action figures work. A prototype is made, some high-quality samples are produced, and then they are sent off to be mass-produced, a process that often isn't up to reproducing the exact look of those early gems.

Besides, those little flaws won't matter much at all once your Amiibo is packing a level 50 Super Smash Bros. fighter you've raised from a pup.

Link has to piss

They look the same to me :/

Really? Did you look at Peach's face?

That just might be due to the lighting

The faces look like they would come from some type of Chinese rip-off toy. Wow.

dammit Nintendo wtf?


Why is Link peeing?'


TBH Amiibo was overpriced for 15 bucks  and now even more than ever.

They look really cheap in comparison to the reveal versions, they look more like Mcdonalds happy meal toys than collectors items, at the end of the day, they are just toys that kids will be playing with so the plastic on the swords are probably all soft and bendy to prevent injury.

They actually changed her a bit. Mainly for this reason I think:

Honestly, I think lighting and angles aren't making these accurate. The E3 pics were obviously made to be photo opped. The Joystiq pics look like they were taken by a regular camera and leaned in on.