Three years after Link went digging under Hyrule, the last piece of official Tears of the Kingdom content is a plastic robot with posable arms.
Mineru’s Construct, the amiibo, hits the official Nintendo Store on 17 September at £24.99. Pre-orders are open now. Scan the card and the construct shows up in your copy of the game.
That’s the whole thing. And for a game Nintendo has otherwise moved past, it’s probably the closest to DLC that Tears of the Kingdom will ever get.
The sequel that never got its own moment
Breath of the Wild soaked up the headlines and never gave them back. The 2023 follow-up didn’t get the same noise, but it earned its place in the series anyway.
The setup is familiar in the way Zelda always is. Link goes looking for Princess Zelda. Ganondorf wants Hyrule gone for good. Link would rather he didn’t.
What changed was everything you do between those two points. The open world carried over from Breath of the Wild, but the building mechanics turned players into amateur engineers, gluing together contraptions that drove across dirt or flew over it. Floating islands above. Enormous dark caverns below. You spent the whole game moving vertically.
Reddit did what Reddit does
When the amiibo was announced earlier this year, r/nintendo mostly liked what it saw.
“That actually looks cooler than I expected. The arms look even more flexible than the Guardian!” reads the top comment. Another: “I thought this thing was never going to be released.”
Over on r/zelda the mood was less generous, and the argument was about money. “How do you guys feel about the Mineru Construct amiibo costing $35? It looks really cool, and it has posable and flexible arms. I want to get it, but… I don’t like the price,” one user asked.
The answers split along collector lines. “If you’re a Zelda collector, then definitely, but otherwise, way too much. I’m personally getting it because I collect the Zelda amiibo, but otherwise, I’d skip it,” one reply said.
Another was blunter about the timing. “There are much better amiibos out there, at least for me. Given the age of the game already, it has lost all hype for me, I don’t understand why they release this so late.”
Nintendo’s attention is somewhere else
It’s a fair question, because the company has clearly moved on. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake is coming to Nintendo Switch 2, and that’s where the marketing oxygen is going.
Which makes this little figure a strange sort of farewell gift. An amiibo is an interactive collectible, usually packaged with a card that unlocks something in game, and this one unlocks a construct in a game most people finished two years ago.
You’ve got two days to decide. If £24.99 for flexible robot arms isn’t your idea of a good time, the Ocarina of Time remake arrives later this year and nobody will judge you for waiting.
Somewhere on r/zelda, a collector is buying it anyway. They said so themselves.
