Gashapon (ガシャポン) or gachapon (ガチャポン), also referred to as "capsule toy", is a Japanese onomatopoeia, made up of two sounds: "gacha" for the turning of a crank on a toy vending machine, and "pon" for the sound of the toy capsule dropping into the receptacle.Umm... How, exactly? I don't hear it. It sounds more like clink-clink-clink to me.
Gachapon toys are awesome, though. You insert a buck or two and you get an awesome little toy. I still remember this Pokéball/Pikachu transformer thing that I got. It's so soft and cuddly. :D
They also make excellent birthday presents though the Japanese give you weird-ass stuff like Final-Fantasy-poisoned Hello Kitty plushies (happy birthday, Selena ._.). Of course, that's only in Canada. You can apparently get either coffee or a dildo from the same gachapon in Japan. D:
Mommy! Mommy! I wanted a NeoNaruPoké-Oh Egyptian pyramid but look at what I got instead! A vibrating banana! Yum.o_o
Thanks for the frog-look-a-like-but-turned-out-to-be-a-green-hello-kitty Hello Kitty! :D
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