These are just a ton of real life stories I have that I'm writing down in here cause this is practically a Pokémon diary.

Now ahem... despite my age I've actually a ton of Pokémon toys that I collect from many places... and nope, I don't intend on stopping lol.

One of my first Pokémon toys is from Macdonald's when I was really young. I remember having a victini and my cousin having a Tepig. To this day I still have the victini but I've no idea if my cousin still has the Tepig.

Once for my friend's birthday, we caught two big pikachu plushies from a random claw machine. I think we got both in like... 10 tries... maybe even only 5. The plushies went to my friend cause... that's why we were catching them to begin with. My friend still has those plushies to this day... I think.

Once as a birthday present, my mum allowed me to play the claw machine. Due to a lack of coins I could only play it once, and I managed to hook a small clefairy soft toy from it. It nearly fell just before the hole... so yea I'm glad I've got it. Incidentally, another person before us managed to catch a squirtle by its tag from the same machine. (There were many people watching us so you can imagine how many would try to catch themselves something afterwards. I mean most claw machines are rigged after all).

Once while I was overseas, my mum allowed me to use the claw machine again. This time I caught 3 pokeballs (with Pokémon in them) using 4 tries. I actually caught 4, because during one of the tries, two pokeballs had tags that were hooked together. However they both got caught on the divider between the hole and the rest of the machine and the company running the machine decided to only give us one of the two. This machine has a pretty strong claw, meaning that it's easy to catch stuff from it. (In other words it's not rigged) this is especially surprising since my other aunt tried catching something from another machine nearby and the claw didn't even close... (definitely rigged)

Once at an airport (same trip as the previous one) we found a Pokémon capsule dispenser machine with keychains in it. Me, my mum and my sis all had a go and my mum got a Zamazenta from the machine. (Which was like... one of the two bigger prizes in the machine) it's pretty amazing actually.