A giant Mr Beast-style claw machine where visitors win huge prizes would be an unbeatable retail spectacle.
Sam pitches scaling the claw machine up Mr Beast-style into a store-sized spectacle where prizes are a PS5 up to a golf cart, arguing the wow factor and manufactured lines drive foot traffic and attention. ✦ AI generated
Sam · My First Million · 2026-08-06 · original ↗
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I think claw machine, but just scaled up Mr. Beast style. So, like, don't you ever go shopping like in your downtown and you're like, how is this store open? Like, who how many people are buying candles from here?... So, we find one of those and we just replace the building with a giant claw machine. So, it's a claw game, but the claw is huge and the prizes are huger... a PS5 is the smallest prize you could get... There's like a baby grand piano in there. There's like, you know, a small golf cart... but it's the same odds, but it's like, you know, 10 bucks ago... And I just think that would be a spectacle. And I think people would want to see people doing it... I'm a big like sucker for lines. If I see that there's a line to a place, my brain just automatically assumes it must be great and worth it.
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17:43crazy high for cars to sell it to them [laughter] and I It's pretty crazy to buy a phone, buy a car in your phone. So, it's pretty awesome." >> So, you you got one out too? You sold and bought? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> When When you bought, was it like a car vending machine? >> No, they brought it to our house. >> Oh, okay. But >> but it's a crazy service. So, I'm a big
18:02Carvana guy. I don't know how on earth they make a profit, but it's amazing. [laughter] >> So, uh, here's the idea. I think claw machine, but just scaled up Mr. Beast style. So, like, don't you ever go shopping like in your downtown and you're like, how is this store open? Like, who how many people are buying candles from here? Like, this how could you possibly pay the rent? So, we find
18:24one of those and we just replace the building with a giant claw machine. So, it's a claw game, but the claw is huge and the prizes are huger. >> [laughter] >> They're real people. >> Finally, something for people like us or whatever you said the tagline was of that other thing. [laughter] So, so it's like a claw machine, but the thing you get out is like, you know, a
18:44PS5 is the smallest prize you could get. [laughter] You know what I mean? There's like a baby grand piano in there. There's like, you know, a small golf cart that you could get out of this thing. And so, you just entire like a family trek bicycle with the buggy in the back. like you just there's just huge prizes, but it's the same odds, but it's like, you know, 10 bucks ago,
19:04right? You you got to you got to spend some to get some. And I just think that would be a spectacle. And I think people would want to see people doing it. And I think you could fake it till you make it with these types of things. So, I'm a big like sucker for lines. If I see that there's a line to a place, my brain just
19:22automatically assumes it must be great and worth it. >> Yeah. Yeah. Or if it has a sign that says world's greatest, like world's greatest coffee. I stop every time. >> Yeah. I'm I'm like a personal Guinness book like tester who's like I'll tell you if it's the greatest or not. And when I went to go visit you in New York, New York is like the king of this. By
19:38the way, the best ice cream I ever had, Cafe Pana in New York. That was unbelievable ice cream. That was that was true. They actually did have the best ice cream. But most places just had crazy lines. And in New York, I went to one place and the guy who owned it fessed up. He goes, "Yeah, for the first two months, I just paid people to stand
19:52outside." He goes, "We just faked the line for the first two months." He goes, "And now we've had a line for two years." >> And I was like, "Wow." >> Funny. >> So, I think you could do that with pretty much any of the ideas we've said so far. >> Why would he tell you that? >> What? >> Why would he tell you that? Did you ask?