A toddler has been reunited with his mother after he was discovered inside a claw crane machine filled with stuffed animal toys at a nearby bowling alley. Police say the boy's mother called 911 after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A claw machine sits inside a metro station in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. The Rio police press office said they were ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Interior Ministry has banned the arcade "claw crane" machines at many shopping malls, deeming them gambling tools. The order banning the machines was signed by Pawin Chamniprasart, deputy interior ...

You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who, at some point in their lives, has not been done dirty by a claw machine—most are designed with a too-weak grip that drops or barely caresses the prizes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claw machines have been around since before World War II, but have gone through some radical transformation since (Philip FONG) ...

Claw machines always look so promising. Pop in a 50 cents and grab the toy or gadget of your choosing. A simple snatch and grab, it should be easy, right? Wrong, of course. You probably already know ...

Claw crane game machines are a big thing in Asia, and game arcade operators often have to add the latest toys and gadgets to their machines to keep up with competition. But one operator in Tainan city ...

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. In one of these gaming meccas in the ...