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Originally Posted by AVPlaya
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Shokukan and Kaado
The very first sketch is devoted to Kona's awesome skills at finding rare prizes in snack boxes and rare game cards. The included prizes in these snack foods are called 食玩（Shokugan, short for "food toys"), and there's an incredible amount of variety of them in Japan. Although some snacks include prizes in every pack, most of the treasured prizes are limited edition promotional items made to boost sales. They are highly popular because they are usually very well-made for a free toy; some good ones even rival the the detail offered by PVC figurines. Like Gashapons, real otas would collect the rare ones. Same goes with collectible game cards, which in Japan there are about 10x more variety; finding the rare ones takes skill.
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Just want to say that I LOVE the little prizes that come with candies and snackies. I have a whole collection of foamy-paper, detailed little trains (and station), rubber robot figures, various toys from anime I've never heard of, nice plastic puzzle pieces (can never get every puzzle piece in a series, DANG!), tons and tons of pogs (including my holographic Tiny Tunes and Pokemon ones as well), stickers - jumbo and regular sized, regular and holographic, etc. etc...
Can you tell I really load up on Korean snacks?
