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We need to talk about Nintendo’s scalper problem. There have been isolated incidents here and there, but nothing like what we’ve seen ever since Amiibos hit the market. Wave 1 of the Amiibo figures came to stores last November. At first everyone in the lineup was available, but then Wii Fit Trainer and Villager disappeared and were not restocked. It was discovered Nintendo produced a much smaller number of the Amiibos they figured would not be as popular, with the result that they have become a thousand times MORE popular now that barely anyone can have them. Knowledge of this fact has caused the playing field for Wave 2 to become heavily skewed in favor of scalpers. In one case a man who hated Rosalina set aside $35,000 of his own money to preorder as many Rosalina Amiibos as he could possibly get, just so no one else could have one. The problem has been amplified with the Majora’s Mask 3DS, which in the two days since its reveal has