Suprize

Suprize (also referred to as "Suprize Suprize" due to Suprize being written twice on the marquee) is a 2 player corner crane. The cabinet was manufactured by Harry Levy, although it is unknown if they also made the technical components but it is possible they didn't as another crane they made, known as Lucky Loco, used Paokai's technology while Harry Levy built the cabinet. The exact year Suprize was made is unknown, although it would had to have been 1993 or earlier, as the Mr. Bean episode "Mind the Baby Mr. Bean" was filmed in 1993 and a Suprize crane can been seen in the background of one scene.

Cabinet Design

Suprize cranes to date are known to come in a red & orange cabinet featuring a talking black bear in the back (as photographed above) as well as a blue and purple(?) cabinet with a talking yellow bear. (the other version definitely has a blue cabinet I can't remember for sure if there was purple too as I'm going off memory and I haven't seen one for years now) The shape of the cabinet is somewhat of a semi circle with the back being a triangle shape so it can fit into corners (hence why referred to as a corner crane before)

Other Information


 * Good luck ever trying to find one of these! Suprize cranes are among one of the rarest arcade machines in existence, I personally only ever recall seeing one, that being at the now defunct Queens Bowling Centre in Rhyl.
 * As previously mentioned, a Suprize crane can be briefly seen in the 1994 Mr. Bean episode "Mind the Baby Mr. Bean"
 * Footage of a Suprize crane can be seen here featuring some dialogue from the talking bear.
 * Although the actual word is spelt "Surprize" this crane's name has the first R removed thus it being called "Suprize" it's not a spelling mistake on my part that's literally what the machine is called 😂