World’s Most Popular Laser Tag

HELIOS Laser Tag is the latest and greatest in laser tag technology. Brought to you by Zone Laser Tag Group of Companies, we are the largest and oldest manufacturer in the world. The leading fun centers and laser tag facilities all use Zone Laser Tag because of its durability, reliability and playability. Visit www.lasertag.com or call 866-966-3797 for more information. 

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Rhode Island Novelty – Merchandising Ideas

Redemption Tip #5 – Comparing Game Rooms: Look, Compare, Discuss

Rhode Island Novelty has compiled statistics and input from their customers and are providing their cumulative results as a tool to better evaluate your operation. The data is based on a small sampling of family fun centers and arcades in the industry, but the figures are usefil in showing which practices achieve the best results.

For more information, call 800.435.3456, email [email protected] or visit, www.rinovelty.com.

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HMS Monaco – What’s Hot for Spring

Minecraft Plush and Novelties – Minecraft is a wildly popular, award winning  video game played on computers, home game systems, and smart phones.  It’s an immersive and challenging game where players test their skills gathering resources, crafting, exploring, and engaging in combat.

HMS offers a full line of licensed Minecraft plush, vinyl figures, hats, t-shirts and other novelties for redemption counters and prize dispensing games.

FIFA World Cup Soccer – Every four years, the FIFA World Cup Soccer Tournament is held in a different country pitting the world’s best men’s soccer teams against one another.  The World Cup Soccer tournament is the most followed and watched sporting event in history, with over 700 million fans watching the final game.  National teams from 31 countries will compete this summer in Brazil from June 12 to July 13th to decide the winner.

HMS features a line of plush, performance jerseys, hats, plush, key chains  and other licensed novelties.  We’re also offering World Cup Soccer Prize Kits for cranes as well as hanging prize machines like Key Master, Stacker, Winners Cube, Barber Cut, etc.

Licensed Sports Snapback and Beanie Hats – Our amusement customers are filling their prize machines and redemption counters with our line of licensed sport team hats.  We offer both Snapback and Beanie Hats in MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL teams.  You pick the hometown teams of your choice.  It’s not unusual for these sport hats to generate 4 figure weekly revenues in prize machines.

WHAT’S HOT – SHOWCASE IDEAS – GREAT REDEMPTION COUNTERS

Here’s the Ticket!

The key to making money in this industry is to have prizes that the public wants and have high perceived values. Choosing the right prizes (and displaying them properly) takes guidance from people who spend full time in this sector and enjoy staying on top of the latest trends. The other key is to purchase these top prizes at fair prices.

Sureshot Redemption – New Product Showcase

Sureshot Redemption Has JUMBO Sized Their Candy Selection!

New to the line are jumbo sized candy. Jumbo size candy tube banks are the following: Smarties (#25630), Warheads (#25631), Now & Later (#25633), and Airheads (#25632). Each candy tube is filled with 12 ounces of candy and makes a great bank to save your change. Jumbo Dum-Dums (#25634) are filled with regular size Dum-Dums in a 12.75” Dum-Dums pop. Candy Buttons (#25635) doubled in size with two extra large sheets of the classic candy. Enjoy one pound of fun with jumbo sized Sugar Daddy (#33538) and Twizzlers (#25638). Ginormous candy boxes of Mike and Ikes (#33532) and Hot Tamales (#33533) are filled with 1.5 pounds of candy.

For more information call 888.887.8783 or go to www.sureshot-redemption.com.

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BMI Merchandise – New Product Launch

Always Trend-Forward! BMI Merchandise (Bonita Marie Intl.) Launches Robust Range of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Merchandise, In Advance of the TMNT Theatrical Blockbuster

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are headed to the big screen this summer, courtesy of mega-producer Michael Bay (of Transformers movies fame) – and BMI Merchandise is right in sync with a complete range of Turtles products, ideal for redemption and merchandiser games.

BMI’s Turtles items are priced right, in-stock and selected to hit key prize values, ranging from 200-1000 points. Items are great for merchandisers and cranes, along with the redemption counter. With Turtles merchandise presently hard to find, BMI’s range represents an opportunity for locations to trump retail as the go-to source for this resurgent mega-brand.

“Turtles were all the buzz following Toy Fair last week, with the new Paramount summer blockbuster eagerly anticipated,” said Dave Schwartz, BMI Merchandise’s V.P., Sales/Mktg. “BMI’s passion is major player-demand brands that drive arcade revenue, and we feel Turtles merchandise is ideal for multi-tainment venues seeking to enhance their location’s popularity with players,” he concluded.

For a look at BMI’s complete product line, please visit www.bmimerchandise.com. To view pricing, register on-site or call/e-mail [email protected], (800) 272-6375. 

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Alpha-Omega Amusements – Crane Merchandise

In addition to using ticket bundles in candy cranes, regular cranes, and ticket point cards and coupons in high end merchandisers, we still have many cranes that are filled with licensed hard and soft goods. The cranes and merchandisers that are grossing the highest revenues over the past month are stocked with:

• Despicable Me2, 9.5” @ $3.60 ea.
• Despicable Me2, 7” @ $2.75 ea.
• Marvel Super Hero, 14” @ $4.00 ea.
• Treasure Chests, @ $4.00 ea. from Rhode Island Novelty, filled with 8 game tokens and 5 WOZ collector cards.
• Love Donuts @ $2.70 ea.
• Pac Man plush @ $4.00 ea. from Namco.
• Jack the Dog @ $6.00 ea. from Toy Factory (used in Monster Crane).
• Pop Vinyl, @$6.30 from Funko

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Here’s the Ticket!

The Top 50 Redemption & Merchandiser Combined List is put together from actual collections from games owned and operated by Alpha-Omega Amusements. The purpose of the list is for you to see where your own games rank and see where other games that you do not have would rank in your facility.

We test many of the new games and you can see where they rank among the Top 50. It should be noted that there are other games that we do not yet own or test so we do not have confirmed revenue data on those games.  Recently I have received reliable collection reports from two large FECs and I have been tracking the few games that are not reported on our Top 50 List.  These games are the giant (Extreme) games made by Benchmark:

• Monster Drop Extreme
• Slam-a-Winner Extreme
• Pop-It Extreme

Based on their revenues over the past several weeks, I can clearly state that Monster Drop Extreme would rank #2, just behind Wizard of Oz 6 Pl and above Big Bass Wheel Dlx.  Benchmark’s other Extreme models would all place between #6 and #15. All of the Benchmark games were priced at $2/play.

Top 50 Redemption & Merchandise Games – Combined

TRR has compiled the Top 35 Redemption & Top 14 Merchandise Dispensing Games that Alpha-Omega Amusements & Sales currently has at one of its locations. Included in the ranking is an Apple Photo Booth. There were 79 games in operation at this particular location at the time of this report.