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 ...

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As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro — already notorious for street muggings, corrupt politicians, ruthless militias and Kalashnikov-toting drug traffickers — has a new public enemy: plushies. Or, more ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A little boy was so passionate about getting that stuffed animal in Palatine he found himself stuck in a toy-claw machine. Firefighters had to rescue a 3-year-old boy after he got ...

Crazed surveillance footage captured the shocking moment the toy-hunting tot, seemingly alone, wandered around the Mason Community Center in Mason, Ohio, before crawling headfirst into the prize chute ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A young boy was caught in a bind Saturday afternoon when his arm got stuck in a claw game machine at a bowling alley on the west side of Indianapolis. A crew from the Wayne Township ...

About 80 percent of the 22,000 arcades Japan had in 1989 have shut down, but revenues have held up thanks to claw machines, ...

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