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Do any of you/your kids play Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch? My daughter got some amiibo figurines to use with it today as Easter gifts but they aren’t working as expected. Google isn’t helping at all and she’s so frustrated. Anybody have tips for us? Help save Easter? LOL She wants to invite them to her campground. They scan properly in the game (at the ATM), it prompts her to invite that character, but then they say they cannot come to the campground. Why not? I’m thinking we got all the wrong amiibos ☹️ She got Celeste, Blathers, & Rover
Do any of you/your kids play Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch?

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None of the amiibo figures can be invited to the campsite because they are all special characters. Most of the amiibo cards (sold in pkgs like trading cards) can as long as they are a villager
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@introvert436 - thank you! I wish the websites had made it more clear that we needed the cards, ugh. Oh well, we are able to use them in Photopia at least!  
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@flooded my teenager has played a couple versions w her father so she's pretty knowledgeable. Feel free to message us if you have any more questions.  
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I haven’t used amiibo’s but I have a feeling it has something to do with the characters not being compatible with New Horizons.  
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@causative - we triple checked before buying that they’re compatible with the Switch. I’m glad they did that, thankfully!  
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I read that you have to invite the first visitor to your island and pick a place for them to live before the game allows you to invite amibos to the camp ground. Did she do that?  
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@vav - yep!  
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Does she have the campsite built already? If so, I imagine that she already has Blathers. Celeste might only be able to come at night time as I’ve never seen her during the day. Rover I think is the only one who could potentially become a resident. Is her campsite vacant?  
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All characters should be able to go to Harv’s Island for a photoshoot
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@mason53601 - thank you! Yep she has had the campsite for a while. We figured out the photoshoot part at least, so that’s apparently all these characters can do. Doh ‍♀️ I’ll have her retry with Rover!  
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Let me ask my daughter. She's an enthusiast  
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She said that they are special characters and that special characters cannot be invited to the campsite. She might be able to invite Blathers and Celeste to photopia to take pictures with. By trying to bring them to photopia you are able to get their poster from the Nookstop.  
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