Prize Figures

"Prize Figures" as a term started because lower-value mass-produced figures were actually prizes in crane games in arcades within Japan. Think of a boardwalk at any American beach except instead of stuffed animals and basketballs, it's 8-inch static figures of Hatsune Miku. Cool right? Because of how easy it is to produce a large quantity of these figures, they started being available for individual sale overseas. Now, rather than have to have someone win them out of a crane for 500 Yen in Japan and then ship them to you, you can just buy the one you want straight-up for anywhere from $25-50. Not a bad deal!