Ended up getting a different 5 than I had originally planned (though still think that's too many - I'm a terrible consumer). Of course Toys R Us has decided my online order is not delayed, so I'll have to return those once they arrive.
Overall, quality appears very good. You'll have to pick and choose if you want perfect painted features, but no glaring issues evident. My online preorder included Samus, but while the figure overall is nice-looking, I don't like the scale - she just seems too skinny relative to the others.
At Toys R Us, I ended up with Mario (great figure, love the radiant paint detail on his stomach and legs, pointed out in the Kotaku review), Fox (not a big fan of Star Fox in general, but the figure is exciting), and Donkey Kong (again, not a huge fan of the character overall, but the figure looks amazing and has some serious apparent weight - I have a feeling the same will go for Bowser and other larger characters they do). DK might be one to be exchanged/returned/sold if I get any buyer's remorse since I don't tend to get character figures just because they look good. I was debating between DK and Yoshi, but while Yoshi overall is decent and I might change my mind later, I'm not really feeling it. Could be due to more obvious seams between parts (head -> nose in particular) or he's just kinda boring.
Marth was sold out, there were a few villagers left, the stock of the rest was plentiful.
At Best Buy, they didn't even have a peg out for Marth, probably because they presold out (I had ordered for in-store pickup earlier in the week). They didn't have nearly the shelf space as TRU, but that's not too surprising.
Frankly I think this is where all the close-ups we saw earlier were overly critical. Marth may or may not have extreme anime eyes, but unless you're taking 10x close-ups, you're not seeing it. The eyes are like 1mm, and they look like eyes. Detail on the boots, cape, etc. is really fantastic. Link looks nice, and I'm pretty sure his tunic is a separate piece of material, not just molded on top of his undershirt.
The colored bases are still kinda silly, but DK's is almost transparent, the blue for Fox blends right into his blue packaging (so will be more obvious when out of the box), and yeah, Link's yellow is still yellow. But it's a thin rectangular support, so won't be terribly visible from a distance.