r/WTF • u/quick_justice • 1d ago
Removed - R1. No Screenshots/Recordings Winning all the toys at once in claw machine
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u/Toad32 1d ago
Dozens of dollars worth of toys.
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u/isaiddgooddaysir 1d ago
more like dozens of pennies. My guess is the electricity cost more that the toy cost.
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u/FlashOfTheBlade77 1d ago
Not even. Those toys are shit quality and bought in bulk. If they got 12 toys, that is maybe worth $2. They could of swiped one of the small flowers next to it and sold it for 10x the value.
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u/EMTduke 1d ago
Yea, you'd (maybe) be surprised what you can buy in bulk from China for this very thing. I used to have a catalog for buying bulk carnival stuff and it was ridiculously cheap. So cheap, we bought tons of stuff just to do stupid shit with it.
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u/Kooky-Swing178 1d ago
Theres a woman at my local flea market that sells nothing but cheap carnival junk and has been for years. She'll sell cheapo little stuffed animals and other similar junk for like 5 bucks a pop. Probably makes decent money considering her overhead is so low.
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u/SlitScan 15h ago
the shipping cost is the biggest cost on so much of that future landfill material
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u/Naughteus_Maximus 1d ago
This is russia (or a russian speaking country) - so dozens of pennies perhaps...
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u/CTR_Pyongyang 20h ago
Kazakhstan. And the writing script you’re conflating is Cyrillic.
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u/Naughteus_Maximus 16h ago
I speak russian. The women on the soundtrack (who filmed the CCTV screen) speak russian, eg "look what they've thought to do!" and "now he's stuck". So this is, as I said, russia or a country where they speak a lot of russian - which Kazakhstan is, if that's where the video is from.
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u/Idler- 1d ago
This is peak Malcolm in the Middle energy.
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u/BicycleOfLife 1d ago
Dewy could easily fit in there, he was a professional street performer for a while and fit into some very small boxes.
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u/pounces 1d ago edited 1d ago
That kid looks like a toddler but moves like an adult person.
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u/Martian903 1d ago
Reminds me of the foxes lil sidekick at the beginning of zootopia
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u/cfreezy72 1d ago
Reminds me of the baby bank robber "Junior" that buggs Bunny finds that's actually a small grown man
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u/kendragon 1d ago
Oceans Under Eleven
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u/Dasinc 20h ago
Nice, original quality joke.
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u/Acadia02 1d ago
Honestly I’m more impressed a child that age understood the assignment
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u/EasyRider_Suraj 1d ago
His body movements look more mature for his age
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u/possibly_oblivious 1d ago
You saying what I think you saying? A midget?
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u/Rydychyn 1d ago
Words are like bullets.
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u/OMG_its_critical 1d ago
He might also be a little person. What was the name of that Russian dude who looked like a child?
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u/LoddyDoddee 1d ago
I was thinking of that baby gangster from the Bugs Bunny cartoons
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u/gnorty 1d ago
was he Russian?
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u/LoddyDoddee 1d ago
Maybe 🤔 I just remember he smoked a cigar in a baby carriage and they called him "Babyface Malone" or something like that.
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u/KallistiEngel 1d ago
Malone is an Irish surname. But the baby gangster in the Bugs Bunny cartoons is Baby Face Finster and is a reference to actual gangster Baby Face Nelson.
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u/duralyon 20h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Ght_UmD00 the time Mike Tyson was hanging with him and Tyson forgot he was a grown dude and started giving him ear raspberries. 😂
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u/CookieDudeShow 1d ago
Thank goodness the kid actually got out.
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u/Narrowless 1d ago
Exactly. Knowing how rigged these machines are, they would never retrieve him.
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u/thisaccountwashacked 1d ago
"Well, son, from now you're the claw. Just watch how people use the joystick, grab a toy for them, and then just fuckin yeet it at the glass, and that's about it. See you in the next life."
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u/McCool303 1d ago
He did it with so much confidence that it’s clearly not his first time being sent into the machine.
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u/civildisobedient 1d ago
Yeah looked like extraction required a little more effort. I suspect this trick isn't going to last another birthday.
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u/sillymanbilly 1d ago
If he didn’t, they just just put a couple quarters in and grab him by the britches with the claw, no worries
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u/Necrotitis 1d ago
This is why there is a flap on all of these to grab the prize thing.
I haven't seen one without the flap since the 90s, because people were sick of getting stuck kids out, even if they have the keys.
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u/Testiculese 1d ago
Looks Russian, so since they are still in the 70's, kid's safe.
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u/CTR_Pyongyang 20h ago
It’s Kazakhstan. Another country redditors know nothing about, but now you know; Cyrillic too. Also universal healthcare. So stuck in the past with these social programs
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u/PsychoNerd92 19h ago
What are you talking about? Reddit knows tons about Kazakhstan. Granted, none of it's true and it's entirely based on half-remembered bits from Borat, but still.
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u/omnipotentqueue 1d ago
That kid knew exactly what he signed up for - little man made that his fucking job lol.
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u/boomerangthrowaway 1d ago
As a younger sibling of an older one - I have absolutely had mine risk my life on more than one occasion and we will both never tell our parents about it. Young me had a blast, lol. Ah well.
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u/IvanTheTerrible69 1d ago
This is video is very satisfying
They just lived through every one of our frustrated claw machine fantasies
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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 1d ago
I recently overcame those frustrations the other way - i bought my own claw machine and turned up the claw strength. Now I can win quite easily and it's very satisfying!
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u/IvanTheTerrible69 1d ago
That requires money, savings, and proper investment
On Reddit, most people are broke
JK that’s actually awesome
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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 1d ago
Agreed - it's not realistic or recommended for most people. But it was a recently realized goal of mine and there've been no other chances for me to mention it naturally thus far.
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u/SugarHooves 1d ago
I would play the hell out of a personal claw machine. The dopamine hit would be so fulfilling.
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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 1d ago
It is!
I thought there'd be some diminishing returns, since I had to buy the plush the fill it, but nope! The first time I won it was exhilarating!
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u/WarzoneGringo 1d ago
I want a pinball table so bad but I hear they are a bitch to maintain.
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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 1d ago
Yeah, they absolutely are!
I've been looking into that too. If you really want one, from one collector to another, look into virtual pinball tables. Good ones have shakers so you get force feedback when the ball hits the sides or the bumpers, and they sink the screen and put in LED strips to add depth. Some virtual tables look just as good as real tables, and can emulate hundreds, or thousands, of different tables. And because the tables are fanmade and unlicensed, they are free to download and install.
I'm usually a hardware purist, but for pinball I personally think virtual is the way to go.
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u/WarzoneGringo 1d ago
Yeah in the age of everything being a video game I really want something real. Id settle for a regular billiards table, I used to play a bunch when I was younger, but I dont have the space for it.
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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 23h ago
Totally fair.
A good pool table can be somewhat reasonable. I got a full-size 9-foot table, slate top with a cherry wood frame, for $3k. But that needs basically its own room. The bar-size tables are "only" six feet long so those are usually easier to fit in a home, but you still need a few feet of clearance on every side.
(If you can't tell, video games and general amusements are my passion.)
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u/Sargentrock 1d ago
The one kid with his hood up--that kid knows what's up. They probably have a route they clean these things out on...
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u/SlakingSWAG 1d ago
Kid's gonna be telling tales of this heist for the rest of his life, what a lad
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u/Piscator629 22h ago
35 years ago I am sitting in a bar when the vendor restocked a crane game. Right in the middle was a Dominoes Noid plushy. I nailed it by the giant nose first quarter and fluffed up all the things packed around it. The other patrons proceeded to get almost every last thing out in an hour. I just sat there petting my precious.
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u/kikioko 1d ago
Congratulations, you just stole 50$ worth of 🧸 risking your kids life...
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u/ClamJammin 1d ago
$50 is super generous.
At a bar i worked at we had a claw game and we would get a bag of 100 medium pieces for $250.
This was 2012 so I’m sure it’s gone up a lot but claw game prizes are cheap as dirt.
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u/Kinglink 1d ago edited 1d ago
Claw-Game-like prizes are pretty expensive where I am, but they're also so gimmicked it won't matter. But you can win decent sized figurine, games, and more around me. (Though if anyone doesn't know look up the secrets of claw games, they're great for profit because you can control the win rates.
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u/1SweetChuck 1d ago
That’s actually quite a bit higher than when I was in the Carny circuit in the mid 90s. Mediums were like a buck a piece.
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u/perldawg 1d ago
what’s life threatening about this?
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u/mark636199 1d ago
My little brother was strangled by a malfunctioning claw. The claw refused to let go as his lifeless body was hanging ready to be dropped in the prize bin
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u/Batchet 1d ago
Imagine if the claw went haywire?!
Human detected! Aiming for eyeball mode... Engaged!!
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u/BlueTumbas 1d ago
You joke but this is how my grandad died on my 11th birthday party. Those kids do not know the danger they were in. It could of gone real bad real quick.
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u/SkellyboneZ 1d ago
That kid was away from their tablet and outside of their bubble! How can he live outside of his mom's basement!
Some people on this site were so sheltered growing up. They really missed out on a lot in life.
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u/1SweetChuck 1d ago
Getting stuck in the chute. Probably not life threatening unless older bro started pulling on him real hard to get him out.
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u/TheEmporersFinest 18h ago edited 14h ago
He had to move through a narrow tightly angled channel that the one on the outside had to drag him back out of with visible difficulty in awkward, jerking tugs, It is so obvious that they could easily have broken the kids neck if they tugged wrong or he got caught weird in the entrance flap that, surprisingly, was not designed for anyone to travel back and forth through.
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u/Shiveron 1d ago
Dramatic much? Those are all kids, and there is no risk to life.... It's a big plastic box, not the hulk containment chamber. Be an inconvenience at most to take side off with some basic hand tools if he actually got stuck.
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u/seamustheseagull 1d ago
15 years later when this kid is arrested for theft and assault:
"I don't know how this happened, we're good parents"
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u/red-fish-yellow-fish 1d ago
Did they really take the piss and ask for a free plastic bag for their loot?
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u/derixithy 1d ago
I hoped that he would get stuck so they had to stay there until help arrived. But I also would have been sad for the kid if that would happen.
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u/exgiexpcv 1d ago
They are absolutely going to add anti-intrusion spikes to them now.
Sorry, schemy kids of he future.
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u/Brave_Accountant7646 1d ago
Alot of those stuffed toys have money notes attached to them
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u/psilonox 1d ago
If they left the kid I feel like the only people playing the claw machine would be ____________.
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u/Latestarter13 1d ago
It’s all fun and games until the day the kid is small enough to fit in but too big to get out. 😂
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u/MyMiddleground 14h ago
That kid is going to have so many flashbacks and dreams of being stuck inside shit when he becomes an adult!
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u/Darkmesah 12h ago
I love the way the little kid squirms in and out of the machine like he makes a cartoony "pop" sound effect once he's full in/out
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