I remember Rare (makers of Donkey Kong Country) complaining that Nintendo wanted to compete with Playstation, so they requested allowed the release of Conker's Bad Fur Day. However, Nintendo did very little to market the game. Honestly, I never heard of it until I started researching games online (around 1999/2000.) I gave up on Nintendo because I wanted DK64 but it took forever to release it. When it was released, the backgrounds/images look like Banjo Kazooie leftovers. I bought a PlayStation and never purchased from Nintendo again. I just bought a wii-u last year. First product purchased from Nintendo snce N64 days. In other words, Nintendo has the worst marketing department on the planet.
have't seen the firgurines in Deutschland but i'll keep my eyes open for them.