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rizuchan
 Posts: 978 Location: Kansas |
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I'm quite good at US crane games, so I've been curious about the Japanese ones for some time. For example, non-stuffed animal crane games in the US are usually pretty much impossible to win. I take it that isn't the case with the figure cranes and such in Japan?
I so wish there were more crane games like that here... |
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Maidenoftheredhand
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I've never been able to win at an American crane game, but I have won at the Japanese ones. And of course a lot of times you can find the items in the crane games at second hand figure shops in Japan. 
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yotsubafanfan
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I'm pretty average in American style crane games, I win some, I lose some, so I'm sort of so so. Japanese one's though, well I can't really determine that. I've only really encountered one once when I was on a field trip in Elementary school. I spent $20 trying to win a prize and the second I left the next person in line (my really annoying classmate) won something out of it! Man was I mad, but I guess it makes for some funny memories though!
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firedragon54738
 Posts: 3113 Location: wisconsin |
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I wonder how the hell do you grab soming that big
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Meygaera
 Posts: 324 Location: Maryland |
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I don't think I'd be able to walk away from that Eevee one.
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enurtsol
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Here's how: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025001/The-boy-3-got-fed-trying-pick-teddy-bear-arcade-machine---crawled-inside-instead.html 
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Samo2222
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I'm pretty good at getting stuffed animals with the crane in my country. Wondering if going for a prize figure like that isn't as rigged as it is here. Sometimes the claw opens and resets as I'm taking something.
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TsukasaElkKite
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I want those Eeveelution plushies!
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mewpudding101
Industry Insider
 Posts: 2209 Location: Tokyo, Japan |
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The plushie is attached to a string that's hung on a plastic pole. You have to inch the big pillow off the pole. With lots of money. Also, Japanese crane machine do not grab... They poke and pull, meaning it's almost impossible to win things in one try. |
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GhostShell
Posts: 1009 Location: Richmond, B.C., Canada |
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Probably cheaper in the long run to buy the item from a store on-line and import it. Been doing that with my Eva Sega Prize figures for a while now.
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Maidenoftheredhand
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Yeah I never won on one try in a Japanese crane game. It's more about pushing the item until it falls.
But because there are usually one or two items near the edge already... |
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Catseyetiger
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I have always thought these are not possible to win at. So I skip them all the time.
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Wooga
 Posts: 916 Location: Tucson |
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You nudge the item over the edge. Also, you can ask the person working at the counter to unlock the machine and move the item to the edge. I've never asked though.
I have won a few small Pokemon plush, nothing big. The strangest thing I saw was live axolotls in tanks. You have to pick up a tag and grab it, then the person who works there gives you the axolotl the tag number corresponds to. |
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Kyosuke_
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I love these UFO games. I always play them when I visit Japan. Akiba has a ton of arcades with them.
The machines have different tricks to them but yes, usually winning involves nudging, pushing, pulling, or rotating an item so that it falls. You can't just pick up an item because they adjust the strength of the claw arms so that they're in general too weak. A lot of strategy involves placing claws off-center to move the item. Since a lot of items aren't that close to the ledge, this can take a lot of tries. There's a popular type in Akiba that involves wiggling a plastic piece off a rubber ball; the plastic is attached by strings to a trap-door ledge on which the prize rests. That type of machine can, in my experience, predictably be won with 1500-3000 yen if you are good enough with claw placement. |
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sailornyanko
 Posts: 134 Location: Mexico City |
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Never saw one of those when I went to Japan in Nov 2012!! How bizarre that an animal native to Mexico City is a pet virtually nobody in Mexico City owns yet it's strangely popular in a country half away from the globe that whose national language cannot even spell half of the letters of the species title. I tried some of those arcade machines in Akihabara hoping to get a Hatsune Miku figure, didn't even get close to winning one! I was very sad.  Most of the stuff on the arcades can be bought on ebay though.
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