Gashapon Bandai Official Shop - Los Angeles, California

K J

Not bad if you are a fan of gatcha/just trying to get a small souvenier. Seemed like they have pretty new selections coming in every now and then. I didn’t end up purchasing anything. Also was weird how they would only let you purchase credits in increments of five but some of the gashas cost 4 credits.

Lisa H

I'm a bit crazy for spending my adult money in these tiny toys. But I was happy. I was on the hunt for Mofusand figures & my heart skipped a beat momentarily with joy when I found some.
1 token = $2, so I spent at least $4 on one figurine (>_<) Didn't see any machines that took only 1 token. They are cheaper than the blind boxes sold elsewhere, so... It'll be a long while I come back here again to blow my allowance money. LOL Parents, don't take your kids here. Buy them a bigger toy from Walmart, Target, Miniso, Daiso or wherever.

Lesly Molina

First time here and I loved it! We need one store like this in Orlando

Russo Mutuc

Spent $10 to get two toys for my kid. She was happy! The experience for kids lights up their faces. You change your dollars to coins and go to a dispenser and put in the exact amount of coins. Spin the knob and comes out the suprise toy.

Cool place to bring kids and event adults.

c-c-c-carlos

It’s a good time and it’s not a big deal that some machines are duplicates inside. At the moment they’re waiting for new prizes to arrive but I’ve had a blast operating what’s in there now. It’s super fun and the staff here are way kind.

Chun Chan

Small and tightly packed shop with vending machines that dispense toys. It was crowded and I would say while there are probably around 100 machines, the products in the machines repeat a lot. The price varies for each toy depending on how many tokens. Each token is $2 and you can get it from the token machine which takes credit card. Most of the toys I got were $4 to $6.

The bad thing which is beyond the store's control is the bums around Little Tokyo. Every time I go to Little Tokyo I have a bad experience. This time a lady bum decided to pee near my car parked on the street. The bums are all around, one was hanging outside this shop asking for money.

Mika Mika

UPDATED REVIEW:

Gave this place another chance and they must have listened to the reviews! The store has newly stocked sets from Spring 2023. It's unfortunate that they do not carry ALL of them and I noticed that the USA Gashapon excludes some characters.

Overall it was a way better experience!

Changed my 3 stars to 5 stars.

OLD REVIEW:

I planned a day to go to this place just to find out nothing was in stock. All the Sanrio and Kirby gachapons were out of stock. I really wanted to love this store but it's not worth spending time & gas if there's barely anything to roll.

Side note: All of the staff were kind and they helped us everytime we were in trouble. 3 stars just for the staff themselves.

Roger Aba

Okay.. I am a fan of Gachapon.. and when I am in Japan, I can spend quite a few Yen on them.

Bandai makes some good ones. But to to be clear, there are tons of other companies making gacha toys.

I just got back from Japan a bout 1.5 months ago and bought the stuff I liked.
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Okay.
There is a small waiting line when I was here. 5-10 mins wait.
I hate to say this... but the selection is limited. I saw quite a few repeats (example is the Shark series).

But, I am into Gachapon and very critical when see these machines.

I was also the same way when I was in Ikebukuro's Gachapon world (3000 machines), but most of the stuff is recent and nothing of past series or older gachapon.