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Gashapon (ガシャポン), also called gachapon (ガチャポン), is a kind of vending machine-dispensed capsule toy manufactured and sold by Bandai and popular in Japan. It originated in the 1960s.
Gashapon is a type of a Japanese vending machine in which people insert a coin to acquire a random toy capsule. In gacha games, players pay virtual currency (bought with real money or acquired in-game) to acquire random game characters or pieces of equipment of varying rarity and usefulness.
Subsequently, products like Bandai's Gashapon HG series helped capsule toys gain recognition in society, and other companies like Yujin joined in as well, resulting in numerous series becoming highly successful merchandise platforms. Since the late 1990s, the market has expanded to include not only children, but also older age groups, and the ...
Gashapon, a kind of toy that originated in Japan which is sold inside a plastic capsule. Commonly sold in vending machines Commonly sold in vending machines Gacha game , video games that are monetized via a concept that is similar to gashapon.
Due to the randomized nature of gacha games, many original gachas are often strategy games or feature elements of strong strategy considerations, encouraging the player to improvise their own solution to problems while also being attentive about new additions to the roster of obtainable characters/items that can add more flexibility to a player's strategy in late/post-game modes such as boss ...
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Bandai Co., Ltd. [a] is a Japanese multinational toy manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Taitō, Tokyo.Its international branches, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectables America and Bandai UK, are respectively headquartered in Irvine, California, and Richmond, London.
In Japan, Bandai has released 418 different types of figures, and it was mainly sold through Gashapon. [ 97 ] [ 98 ] As it attracted the Northern American market's interest, it was brought out by Mattel under the name M.U.S.C.L.E., and a total of 236 figures were traded domestically in the 1980s.