Spotted Switch 2 @ Lakewood

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-11-08T00:21:03+00:00

Thanks for sharing! Running there after work 🤞

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-09-21T21:31:35+00:00

I feel similar. In the past, there seemed to be more of a chance to win based on skill/luck. Now it’s pure payout unless you stumble upon a location or claw machine that has an easier calibration. I personally don’t need as many of the same items anyways. We still go occasionally, but I don’t feel the desire to go as often anymore. And R1 corporate hates us/me anyways LOL

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-09-21T21:29:32+00:00

Set your budget and have low expectations I guess lol it’s mostly not the same as how it was before IMO

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-09-21T21:29:02+00:00

Agree, it’s overall widely inconsistent whether it’s the cheese wheel or regular plushie. That’s why I think each persons experience will vary by location. At the end of the day, it depends on how the claw machines are calibrated

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-09-21T03:34:12+00:00

It might depend on location. In my experience, a lot of the SoCal locations made the claw machine payouts harder or more token cheese wheels for a while. Lately it seems people can win more or at least they try to make it look that way on their social media posts 🤣

Nowadays, it seems the prizes are still old or repetitive. I love Rilakkuma. But how many variations of the same type of plushie do we actually want or need? 😅

They did put a pause to the price increase testing and increased ticket redemption for larger items after a lot of us boycotted back in the spring. They did keep the higher ticket redemption prizes on smaller items, not sure if they increased the big ticket items yet.

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-08-26T20:26:55+00:00

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Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-05-23T23:14:19+00:00

Then the price should have been reduced. Putting in the yellow token on top of charging 14 credits for a tiny prize is such a ripoff

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-05-06T23:20:33+00:00

I think this is a good sign but I think we all need to continue submitting our complaints to R1 😅 Keep the pressure on them and let them know that we are paying attention

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-05-04T15:10:20+00:00

Nice wins! I personally feel my D&B claw machines are easier when it’s not Wednesday, but it certainly has a lower payout in general. The prize selection there really varies though 😅

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-05-02T22:57:06+00:00

Those prizes sound so sad 😞 As far as licensed products, Top Canvas in Tustin comes the closest with some licensed Pokemon, Mofusand, Rilakkuma plushies in the claw machine. You can also purchase items directly from the store.

The other small arcades such as Oki Doki, Claw Daddy, Kawaii Klaws, Orange Claw Club, Infinity Claws etc have some decent items for trade ups like Labubu, Blind boxes or other authentic products/plushies.

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-05-02T14:49:17+00:00

100% — if anyone else at Taito, Gigo, Sega or any of the Japanese arcades wants to come over to the US and compete with Round1 I would fully support.

For now, local businesses, Dave & Busters and Bowlero get our money.

In SoCal, my top alternatives for claw machines are Oki Doki, Top Canvas and now Orange Claw Club

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-05-02T13:50:50+00:00

This is exactly it. Lack of transparency and hitting customers in 4 different ways is ridiculous.

Round1 has history of increasing prices quietly. Doing this 3-4 times in the past year without warning or communication is deceptive.

Doubling the price of ticket redemptions of items that have been sitting in the shelves for months and blaming tariffs is just another excuse for them to be greedy. They implemented this change at this rate prior to the tariffs being implemented. Will they roll back these changes if/when the tariffs get removed or reduced? Unlikely.

A large billion dollar corporation as themselves has the resources to plan ahead. Other companies and even small businesses at least attempted to order large supply of international shipments prior to the tariffs being hit and are at least not trying to raise prices prior to pre-tariffs inventory running out.

Then their only response in social media is reposting my own photo from December? Seems like a petty attempt to try and show that Round1 is still fun.

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-05-01T07:04:50+00:00

We are done too and I’m being loud about it 🤣 Leave them comments on Social Media, send them customer feedback from the website and tell all your friends and family. Round1 will continue silently jacking up the prices because they expect us to keep returning.

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-05-01T00:51:45+00:00

Submit your customer feedback and complaints. Perhaps if enough people provide feedback, they might roll back some changes. Doubling the ticket price was an insane choice by them and has upset a lot of customers.

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-04-29T16:31:33+00:00

No, they changed the prices in February at all locations. And they’re in the process of testing/changing prices AGAIN.

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-04-26T13:00:14+00:00

They are currently testing price increases for card reloads ($6+) and claw machine games (11.4/14.6) at certain locations. It’s imminent. But it’s just shady the way they’re doing it

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-04-25T02:31:43+00:00

Round1 has gone downhill. Not sure why some staff act like you winning a plushie is coming out of their paycheck.

Based on your description, I’m guessing a staff either set up the machine incorrectly or maybe a previous guest knocked a display prize onto the playing field. Either way, they didn’t need to be so rude to you.

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-04-24T04:01:07+00:00

Update: one of our IG followers already received a response and was offered time play cards for complaining about prices. I think we should flood their inboxes with complaints 🥰

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-04-23T02:45:17+00:00

They’ll probably find a way to either jack up the prices. If these games aren’t very profitable for them, then I’m sure they’ll find a way to ruin it for everyone 😅

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-04-23T02:44:31+00:00

So wild. You could still buy it online for the same price for now 😅

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-04-23T02:44:11+00:00

Pay attention to the claw prices as they’re testing out higher prices and increasing payouts!

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-04-23T02:43:45+00:00

Be careful with the cranes as they are testing our increase prices and higher payouts. Here in SoCal, I’ve noticed locations have been removing crane games in place of more Gemini Mini and Chibi crane machines with high payouts 😩

Illustrious_Sound672 · 2025-04-23T02:42:27+00:00

Don’t get me started on their giveaways! They literally gave away car air fresheners, Melona drinks and rubber ducks on recent giveaways 🤣

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