Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a mom of four, Le-An Than is always looking for new ways to entertain her kiddos. After all, there are only so many museums and playgrounds to patronize ...
Like the little green aliens in Disney’s “Toy Story,” people — often kids — may find themselves obsessed with “the claw.” Claw machines, also known as crane machines, dot arcades, malls, even grocery ...
Le-An Than is the co-owner of Crane Games, a new claw machine arcade in Aurora, Colorado. Crane Games opened in July of 2024. Than and her business partner were inspired to open the arcade after a ...
The crane machine—also known as claw machines, crane games and, in Japan, as “UFO catchers” due to their proclivity for aerial abductions—first gripped the public imagination in the early 1900s. Even ...
As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to ...
Christopher Salazar could not stop with the plush round Kool-Aid Man. The 11-year-old claw machine master had to have more. So, outside a South Side strip mall on a recent early evening, he and his ...
A crane claw game presented an extra challenge for customers in Blair County as one of the “prizes” was actually alive. A groundhog somehow made its way into a coin-operated game at Meadows Family Fun ...
IT IS A LOT OF THERE. IT IS. THIS IS A LOT OF FUN. THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING STORY. SO CLAW MACHINES YOU KNOW THEY’RE NORMALLY PACKED WITH THOSE TOYS AND STUFFED ANIMALS. BUT THERE’S ONE MACHINE IN ...