Nintendo shares the design process of the Yarn Yoshi amiibo

A portion of a Nintendo Life interview with Nintendo's Takashi Tezuka...

NL: There's been a hugely positive reaction to the yarn amiibo toys over their appearance; what was your reaction to the final design, made with wool rather than being a plastic toy similar to the Super Smash Bros. range Yoshi?

Takashi Tezuka: We didn't have any experience in making woollen toys, and a very large number of them needed to be made, so the woollen Yoshi amiibo project was filled with lots of new experiences for us. We put in a lot of hard work, so I was really moved when I got to see a sample for the first time.

Users all have different tastes, so we created three different colour variations. We wanted to create something that might even interest people who prefer the figurines. This way they can choose the colour they like best.