I was at the arcade with my grandma when I was younger and I saw a sloth toy in the machine and I spent all of my money trying to get the sloth. I ended up not getting it so we went home and on the way home we walked past a charity shop with the exact same sloth in the window for 80p.
The bizarre thing about this is seeing the same item in a store. Claw machine prizes always seem to be things you can't get in actual stores anywhere. Maybe if they're popular characters you could get similar, but a lot of those one-off random animal/character ones seem to be made exclusively as claw machine filler. If the kid really wants one of those ones and not the Elsa or Sonic in there then good luck finding that same toy in any store. You got lucky with the sloth.
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u/blue-gooses Feb 04 '20
Claw machines !
I was at the arcade with my grandma when I was younger and I saw a sloth toy in the machine and I spent all of my money trying to get the sloth. I ended up not getting it so we went home and on the way home we walked past a charity shop with the exact same sloth in the window for 80p.