This is pretty close to my stance.

(Therefore I don't have any amiibos yet.)

It's brilliant in my opinion. Amiibo is brilliant.

Not a single one I'm even slightly tempted by.

What do you think about them though? Do you think they're a terrible DLC practice, or just toys with little extras?

I love them.

To me they're fun collectibles, fairly cheap and the rarity makes a little bit more fun (I'm not going out of my way to find them, and refuse to do business with scalpers). When I go shopping I always pop into the shops that stock them to see if there's any I want.

The content that they unlock is almost negligible, and Splatoon will be the first time I've got Amiibo for content (and also for the cute figures), in fact, in the past I've got Amiibo and then waited months to register them. I think the content locked is (generally) pitched at the right level, striking that balance between 'physical DLC' that people keep bleating on about, and being so inconsequential that the Amiibo concept is pointless. A new costume in MK8? Sure, why not? But I wouldn't pay money for that anyway.

Amiibo Tap, IMO, is one of my favourite applications of them; tap any amiibo and get a random section of classic Nintendo game. It's fun, it creates value, and it's free. Nintendo needs to do more free 'apps' that utilise Amiibo, a collection app that tracks what you've got, has facts about the character (I'm thinking similar to the trophy hoard in Smash) so on and so forth would be a good one (really, it should have been incorporated into Tap).

In essence, I see Amiibo as cute collectibles, that add lots of little bits of value to my gaming. The Splatoon Amiibo are the first I've bought that are only compatible with one game (plus Tap), but I am buying now into the premise that they will be used elsewhere.

I've heard as well that Nintendo plans on pushing out more Shulk (and others) as well.  I hope it's not a Gamestop exclusive still as it'd be nice for more people to get their hands on it elsewhere.

The sad part about this was that the Shulk Amiibo was released and sold out way before Xenoblade 3DS was released.  Nintendo should've made more for the launch of the game so that first time buyers would have a chance to buy Shulk Amiibo with the game.

I like them as collectables. I just wish they were a little cheaper.

As for their usefulness it is still pretty slim but lately I have been scanning them into Hyrule Warriors daily and it has been nice getting bonus weapons and items.

What I think about them isn't really important, people that dislike Nintendo will write off the words of those that like amiibos as blind fanboy support, people that like Nintendo will write off the words of criticism as hating on Nintendo.

In the end it doesn't even matter.

When you put it that way, I guess it doesn't really matter... : ( I thought it was at least something worth discussing.

I dont think its terrible day 1 DLC because what you are buying is a cool physical figurine. The DLC is fluff on top of that, not the main point.

The only thing i dont like is that they arent in high availability. I would love an Ike amiibo, but i never saw one up for sale. Only Mario, peach, luigi, samus and link.