I admittedly don’t see the appeal of Apollo. $100 is a lot for a card but then again, you’d be getting either a stressed-looking pharaoh cat or the smug-dancing cat for your village. Lucky and Ankha’s designs transcend the limitations of being just animals and are more like a mummy or pharaoh than an animal villager. You may recognize Bob as the purple cat doing the smug dance from A Hat in Time, and while that alone may have propelled Bob into the $100 club, it certainly helps that he has the smug-looking expression to fit the meme he was shoved into. Now we’re treading into the territory of extremely unique designs and other distinguished animals. Coco also goes for $90 due to her peculiar design as a rabbit that looks like the series’ strange gyroids. Other animals around this price tend to either be new to the series as well like Fauna the deer, or absolute cutie pies that have also been around the series a while, like Lolly and Kyle. Being the only ones of their kind, they also have the distinction of rarity going for their price inflation. Marina has a sort of minimalist, Hello-Kitty-kind-of-design appeal going on for her, while Zucker is paradoxically made to look like the food he’s destined to one day become, a takoyaki. While Octavius is a cranky-type, Zucker and Marina are nicer personality types with their own hooks. Octavius is the only other octopus in the category but I couldn’t find any listings for him. Octopi are a fairly new animal category, being introduced in the last main line game of New Leaf. I mean, Louis is hot but something about a deer with no hooves and human hands is still unsettling. But once you cross over the $70 mark, you start to see villager popularity and demand in terms of how much wilder it can get compared to just watching Beastars on Netflix, only without the human-shaped hands they give to the anthropomorphized characters. I was a little surprised anyone would price Pietro over $5 since an overwhelming number of people will hate him solely based on a phobia of clowns or perhaps simply because Pietro is such a garishly colored sheep, but I have seen a few people on Twitter hoping he’d move into their town to brighten up their day, so who am I to judge? At least he’s not a mime like Marcel, with whom I, unfortunately, share a name with. Generally, the villagers hanging around this price range look like animals, more or less. Other villagers you can find at roughly this price range include Olivia, a snooty white cat, and Fang, a classically designed cranky wolf. While he doesn’t have an arguably universal appeal design, Tom and other characters found around his price range also have the advantage of being present in most of the Animal Crossing series. Tom specifically is a cranky-type villager, which is a disposition that acts like an old man compared to other villager types. Tom is an example of a villager with a fairly likable personality and design who fetches an absurd yet comparatively modest price. However, there are some characters sellers on eBay think are worth so much money, you’ll need to structure a payment plan to afford them. Most can be purchased for a “reasonable” price between $5-$15. It’s hard to find new packs now with the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down non-essential businesses and the newness of New Horizons spreading current print cards thin, but you’ll have no trouble finding listings for individual cards. Now that more people are playing Animal Crossing on the Switch and sharing their experience on social media, it’s leading to a lot of characters getting a new following compared to Animal Crossing in the past. In New Horizons, not only can you invite specific villagers to your island’s campsite using their amiibo cards, you can take that opportunity to invite them to move in as well. But now that we’re all playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons, they’re are making a comeback in a big way. For many years, you could pick up a pack of cards on Amazon or eBay for relatively cheap. Outside of those two games, the cards also worked with Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival, which few people played. Nintendo eventually released four different series of amiibo cards, featuring hundreds of villagers. Later, Animal Crossing: New Leaf was updated with amiibo support, allowing RV-riding villagers into your town. The cards’ primary use was to invite specific villagers to Happy Home Designer to decorate a home for them. Several years ago, after the debut of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, Nintendo released amiibo cards featuring the extensive list of Animal Crossing characters.
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