One Club calls D&AD arcade game a rip-off

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Claw vending machines,” otherwise known as “toy crane machines,” are those arcade games where you operate a claw and try to grab a prize (usually a stuffed animal). Until now, they’ve mostly made headlines when little children somehow manage to crawl inside them. But now they’re at the center of a dust-up between The One Club and D&AD. The One Club created a claw vending machine called the “Pencil Catcher” as part of its call for entries in Japan in 2005, with a gold Pencil up for grabs inside.

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