[bradley]

Just noticed listings today on ebay for 3 new plush smurfs. Normal, Papa & Smurfette. Just looked them up. They are made by a company called "NANCO". http://www.nancobos.com/ Looks like they make amusement park stuffed toys. Not for retail. Just looking at their catalog & you can see the smurfs http://nancobos.com/2010amusement/ Looks like the plush are available in different sizes. I think these toys would be found in arcade games like claw machines & amusement parks as prizes. Or like in Australia at the royal shows. That would be great.

[steveparkes]

Very interesting Brad, I like them, wish they were available over here. I used to be good at those grab machines in the arcades. Came home from the beach once with 11 prizes

[bradley]

Very interesting Brad, I like them, wish they were available over here. I used to be good at those grab machines in the arcades. Came home from the beach once with 11 prizes

well these are available in America. So I hope they export to arcade & royal shows in Australia too. I was only thinking & saying last weekend when I went to the cinema & afterwards my mate was trying to win toys from the claw machines that had current movie toys in. I thought I'll have to be checking those machines around the time the smurfs movie comes out as I'm sure they'll have smurfs in one. I'll be wasting a whole heap of money trying to win them. What is the trick with these machines??? any tips??

[steveparkes]

My tips are to pick a toy that's not too deeply buried and the claw can get round easily. Also, wait for the claw to stop swinging before you lower it

[Nivid]

these new smurfs are ugly! I hope they come out with some cute ones soon!

[Smurfysmurf]

I never pay any attention to those machine, but this will change now...I am no good with them but maybe I can find somebody who is

I expect we will get new smurfs with the new movie...they are already doing the teaser so I expect to see more smurf stuff soon and I'd say some of it will be really cute

[eggie smurf]

Those are interesting...it's carnival season around here so may have to take a look and see if any smurfs are up for prizes

[bradley]

just found these photos on flickr

description for this claw machine photo says "In an Atlantic City claw machine"



And guessing this is at the same place:

[steveparkes]

OMG - I soooo want to have a go at that machine. I won a singing gummy bear from one the other day so I'm sure I could win one of these

[Smurfysmurf]

Just got an e-mail with this picture....the smurfs have been spotted at Hershey Park, PA

Eyewitnesses have reported that two of each were picked up tonight

[bradley]

oh cool! I so want to have a go at these machines. I've never managed to be sucessful on a claw machine so I think it'll be frustrating not to win a smurf. Hope these toys make it into machines in Australia... I'm guessing not until next year when the smurfs movie is out though.

[eggie smurf]

These smurfs were pretty easy to grab with the claw compared to other machines I have tried in my day. Their big hats help....of course, being a claw machine, it was easy to get them in the air before the claw decided to jolt hard enough to try to drop the smurfs back into the pile That happened more than once but we were successful

The next day we found a second machine with a smaller size in them (photos to follow)

[bradley]

cool Staci! look forward to some photos

[André]

Great Staci!!

I bet you stood there for a long time, so the small children was not able to try the claw machine!!

I think I would try to buy the smurfs from winners instead. I usually never wins on these machines.

[Tojo]

Well done Staci I love that photo

[eggie smurf]

I bet you stood there for a long time, so the small children was not able to try the claw machine!!

Surprisingly, no one wanted to play and win smurfs

I lined up the smurfs to show the size difference but Kaz decided to jump in and get his photo taken as well



The smaller smurfs were in a Mega Circus machine and only cost 50 cents per try instead of $1 for the larger sized smurfs in the Pinnacle machine.

[Nivid]

Very cute dog!!!!

[bwalters]

@ Moey its not that you are no good at these machines. There are desiged to grab harder every so often. If you happen to miss when it grabs harder. It may take you forever to win one. I saw that on sliced on the hist channel. How much did it cost you Staci to will all of those?

[Smurfysmurf]

I am just not patient enough, Bill.

Thankfully, I have friends who are

[bradley]

Staci, you did really well on the claw machines to win that many smurfs... just wondering how many shots it took to get them all & how many hours standing there trying to win them, lol.