I recently saw a video on YouTube were a kid is going around to different arcade games
trying to win prizes. Many of the coin pusher machines drop card onto the field, and if you collect
one of each cards you win a bonus. These machine are themed based...Star Wars, Willy Wonka, Hello Kitty etc...
I was just wondering if anyone collected these cards as part of their collection

Do not know for sure but from time to time I see vending machine cards up for grabs ,
Most of them seem to be sparkly and Marvel.
Look under Vending Machine cards if you are interested but they are quiet pricey.
Thats all I know.

When I've gone down the shore, I have seen many of those machines with DC Comics cards (Superman and Batman, and their villains) and ones for the 1971 Willy Wonka film with Gene Wilder.

I have the Willy Wonka set and a handful of others. I always liked playing these machines, now that they've added cards (they're more like credit cards) it's a no-brainer.

I have seen many vending and arcade machines that include cards. Have not been down to the Jersey shore in ages. Nobody is saying who made these cards you are talking about. Is there a manufacturer named? Are the cards licensed for the theme? Are the games licensed? If so, does the license extend to the cards?

The question isn't whether or not the cards are nice looking and people keep them. People can keep anything they want. The question was are these coin pusher cards collectible to a person who has a card collection?

If you can identify origin and prove licensed manufacturing, the answer is YES.

If you can't and they are unlicensed, the answer is NO. They would have no collectible value because they are technically counterfeit, created by an unknown company, in unknown numbers, for an unknown time. Whatever selling value they may have is purely as novelties and they shouldn't be mixed into anybody's legacy card collection. Unlicensed cards taint the collection.

This is an example of what I have seen


https://www.bing.com/images/se...layview&mode=overlay

The ones I’ve seen have been in licensed machines at Andretti Indoor Karting locations. Can’t believe that they would not be licensed there, especially since they have all the interactive video games that are.

Just goes to show that there are new card topics out there. I can't recall anyone discussing these Coin Pusher cards on Card Talk before. So I did a quick search on the forum and nothing besides this new thread came up. On Blowout there is a couple of older short mentions, but not about licenses.

So, looking at the card backs on a Google search, they have TM DC. I see no specific manufacturer stated. This Bandai Namco seems to be the amusement game machine maker. These cards are classified as collectible card games. I have only seen DC characters so far, nothing of the other titles mentioned.

Without knowing who makes them and in what editions, they would appear to be licensed under the broad DC franchise. Now Upper Deck has a DC license for entertainment trading cards, which we know. These Coin Pusher cards are not the same thing, so there could be multiple DC licenses.

Because the ones I've seen are drawn DC characters, I don't know how much the market value could be, unless there are prizes involved.

This subject is a new one on me, but the facts remain the same. If these cards are licensed by DC they are indeed collectible. If you get any other cards out of vending machines that have no license when there is a copyright holder, they are not collectibles, just cheap novelties.

They have been availible for years but not many have been on E Bay they just dont turn up .
My experience is you have to do a search for them I have a few but got them so long ago I can not put my hands on them now . I class them as Promos.
Mainly Hulk Spiderman Captain America and they were not even then cheap and as far as i know they were licenced .I think the earlier ones were obtained by redeeming tickets you won fron arcade gaming machines so many tickets got you a card.I have been to the nearest arcade to me here but the person running it could not help me .
I think it was only a USA thing.

This brings up the interpretation of the meaning of an unlicensed card. Many people get it wrong. They believe any card without a license is automatically unlicensed.

That is not true, because many cards don't need a license. They use subjects in the public domain, or they work around stepping on anyone's copyrights. They don't violate any existing license holders and are therefore in compliance with the law.

An unlicensed card is a card that is created without getting the approval or paying for the approval of the existing copyright holder. If that happens, those cards are considered counterfeit merchandise, especially when mass produced for sale. Custom cards are a bit different when made strictly as an individual hobby, but selling can be a problem.

I have heard card collectors refer to certain products like Pop Century as unlicensed. No, Leaf may not have specific property licenses when making these celebrity cards but works around them in photos and text.

Whereas making cards of DC characters or Marvel characters or Disney characters without a license is counterfeit unlicensed merchandise. It's not really a gray area. If someone holds an existing copyright license, that license must be bought or rented before anyone else can reproduce images, and especially for profit.

I can not imagine Marvel DC letting unlicenced product especially these being issued must be thousands out there.Also it is unusual for there to be so few for sale but have not looked lately as there would be lots of them around .Kids must of discarded them after redeeming then as the thrill wore off.