If you've been collecting the many Animal Crossing amiibo figurines or cards released over the last year, good news: They're more useful now.

Nintendo Japan are selling these things for people who want to display their Amiibo with a little pizazz. The Kirby one is cute, but the Smash stage one is amazing.

Briefly: Artist Michael Ivey replaced fallen mutants from The Uncanny X-Men #141's iconic cover with unavailable Amiibo figures. All were all hunted down by collectors, instead of Sentinels.

Nintendo fans have Amiibo fever, and sometimes fevers can induce hallucinations. Amiibo fans recently started worshipping a customer service representative named Esteban. For a time, he became their prophet.

Briefly: If you're hoping to track down the golden Mario amiibo, this poster spotted by the amiibo reddit suggests you're going to have a hard time. It's not even out yet, and it's already rare! Good luck!

"I knew I should have trained him better," a friend said sombrely of her Luigi Amiibo after he got steamrolled by another friend's Captain Falcon. "I knew he wasn't ready."

Now here's a great way to add an extra layer of adorable to a Yoshi Amiibo and better prepare for the cutest Yoshi game ever. Reddit's NLightedNd1 made this custom "Yarn Yoshi" figure with some impressive crochet work. I have no idea why Nintendo hasn't made one of its own already. Other body-shots below.

A coupld of weeks ago Nintendo sent me an Amiibo to check out. Here’s where that Amiibo is right now: roughly a couple of feet from the child seat in my car. Before that it was lodged in my two year old’s mouth, being chewed upon, drooled on, thrown at the patio glass door with vigour. My Amiibo has been in the bath. My Amiibo has been dropped in a potty and covered in pee. My Amiibo has done everything an Amiibo could possibly dream of doing. He has been in nightmarish situations. He has done everything except be scanned into a Wii U controller.