An employee of the Oregon-based Fred Meyer retail chain noticed the legendary Silver Mario amiibo was in the store's point of sale system with a sale date of May 29, the same day as the rest of the Wave 4 amiibo.

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Reddit user ValtriusXIII made the discovery and then posted a photo of the store's POS computer to the amiibo subreddit . This naturally set the amiibo hunters into overdrive, and soon verified Target employees and members of /r/amiibo were able to sniff out the silver statuette in Target's system as well.So it looks like the Silver Mario amiibo won't be an exclusive after all. Or at least, that's the hope. There is a possibly that the retailers simply added the retailer-specific numbers as place holders pending some announcement of exclusivity.Verified Best Buy employees on the subreddit were unable to find the Silver Mario in Best Buy's system, nor were Toys 'R' Us employees who post to /r/amiibo.Earlier this month, one amiibo collector spotted a Silver Mario in nondescript packaging on a Chinese auction site and did what any serious amiibo fan would do and promptly bought it. The collector then posted a video of the amiibo in action with Mario Party 10.So does this mean the Silver Mario will be hitting with the rest of Wave 4? Signs seem to point to "yes." We've reached out to Target to see if the amiibo is, in fact, in their system.

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