One of the most popular games in the arcade is the claw machine, or the crane machine, where players control a claw and try to pick up a prize after inserting tokens or coins. Usually there's a ...

A three-year-old child from Australia was rescued from the grips of a claw machine by the police at a shopping centre in Queensland. The child, named Ethan, crawled up the prize dispenser to grab ...

The father of a three-year-old boy who became trapped in a claw machine at a south-east Queensland shopping centre says his son "was having the time of his life". Three-year-old Ethan climbed into ...

It's a frustratingly familiar experience for many a fair-goer: just as the coveted plushie makes its way towards the chute of a claw machine, the claw slackens, letting go of the prize.