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Claw machines & Tech (intersection of tags)

4 Claw machines posts • 473 Tech posts • 4 in common

  • The day I crawled into a giant claw machine that was a bus July 28, 2014
    Standing silently with other commuters at the bus stop. Only when the bus arrives, it’s not a bus, but a giant claw machine! The two dollars you slide into the bus vendor box gains you admittance inside the claw machine.…
  • Verizon is giving away Droid phones via the claw machine on Michigan Avenue in Chicago October 20, 2009
    (that is not me in the photo, but that is my Bluetooth headset I won) I won! I won! Here’s how it happened. Pre-game I’m sitting at work in the Tribune Tower. Outside my window at 11 am, I could…
  • I rule the claw machine. Raaaaaaaaaaar! June 26, 2007
    Those toy vending machines with a joystick-controlled claw are just too much fun (as I’ve blogged earlier.) Recently I defeated the claw machine twice in one day at two locations to win these two stuffed animals. I rule the claw…
  • Claw vending machine suck you in with dollars September 25, 2006
    It’s rather sneaky that claw vending machines take dollar bills. If they only took quarters, then I wouldn’t be as likely to play them, because I don’t always have change on me–let alone two quarters. Plus the dollar enables the…

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