{"id":179209,"date":"2026-03-05T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179209\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:08:08","slug":"clawzania-arcade-brings-fun-and-prizes-to-temple-terrace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179209\/","title":{"rendered":"ClawZania arcade brings fun and prizes to Temple Terrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPLE TERRACE Fla. \u2014\u00a0Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ClawzaniaTampa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ClawZania Tampa<\/a>, where you can find hundreds and hundreds of prizes \u2014 keychains, stuffed animals and toys \u2014 waiting to come home to you, courtesy of Tony Duong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is huge in Japan, Taiwan, Korea,\u201d said Duong.<\/p>\n<p>Doung saw multi-story, 24-hour gaming centers thriving and decided to bring a smaller version to the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>The arcade&#8217;s opening celebrations were held the weekend of Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make sure our customers coming in, spending money and having a good time,&#8221; Duong said. &#8220;We want to make sure they actually win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They are several hybrid set-ups that are part video game, part prize picking.<\/p>\n<p>Duong said players can keep their prizes, or save them up to trade for bigger things.<\/p>\n<p>If successful in Hillsborough County, Duong said he hopes to expand into Pinellas County as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPLE TERRACE Fla. \u2014\u00a0Welcome to ClawZania Tampa, where you can find hundreds and hundreds of prizes \u2014 keychains,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7150,28,7151,115,139,135,137,136,106,7148,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-179209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-florida-on-a-tankful","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-on-a-tankful","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-headlines","15":"tag-tampa-news","16":"tag-things-to-do","17":"tag-virginia-johnson","18":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}