Ripz & Sipz is the RIPZ vending machine for breweries, taprooms, sports bars and bars in Florida, stocked with trading card packs, sports cards, blind-box collectibles, squishies and fidget toys. Each venue chooses its own mix with us, so a brewery can carry only sports cards if that suits its crowd. Every machine carries a short code on a sticker. Scan it and this site shows you what is inside that machine and where the next one is.
What you'll find
Every Ripz & Sipz machine is stocked by hand, so the mix changes with the venue and with the week. These are the four kinds of thing you will find behind the glass, and each venue chooses the mix that suits its own crowd.
The machine holds sealed packs from the big trading card games, and you open them at the table so everyone sees what came out.
Blind boxes and small collectible figures are the surprise side of the machine. A blind box is sealed, so you do not know which figure is inside until you open it.
Premium squishies and fidget toys give your hands something soft to squeeze or spin while you sit awhile, and they are the part of the machine made for the kids.
Sealed packs of baseball, football, basketball and hockey cards suit a bar with the game on, and some venues choose to carry nothing else.
Where it lives
Ripz & Sipz is built for the places where grown-ups sit down and stay awhile. It fits a brewery taproom, a neighbourhood bar with a few tables, or a sports bar with the game on every screen. The machine stands against a wall near the seating, and the rest happens at the table.
A brewery with a taproom is the home ground. Guests already sit at a table for an hour or more, and a pack of cards gives the table something to open together.
A taproom or a neighbourhood bar works the same way. The machine takes a small piece of wall near the seating, and the packs get opened at the table with friends watching.
A sports bar is a natural home for the machine. Guests sit through a whole game, and a pack of sports cards gives the table something to open between plays.
The first machines are being wrapped right now, and each venue will appear here, and on Find a RIPZ, as soon as its machine is in place. If you run a brewery, a taproom or a bar and would like one on your floor, we would like to hear from you.
The machines
RIPZ is being built across four machine formats so it can fit the room it is given, from a full-size cabinet to a screen on the wall. Every format wears the same matte black body with the orange and blue stripes, the lit glass front and the touchscreen, and every one carries the code you scan. The pictures here are concept renders of the four formats, from the taproom floor to the wall behind the till.
The full-size cabinet with a soft-drop elevator inside, so it can hold booster boxes, sealed product, collectibles and the bigger items without dropping any of them.
A full-size cabinet built for trading cards and sports cards alone, with more rows of packs behind the glass and nothing else taking up the space.
The same cabinet made narrow, for a bar with a tighter footprint where a full-size machine would be in the way.
A screen on the wall and no cabinet at all, for a venue with no floor space to give. You choose and pay on the screen, and we send what you picked to you.
Bring it to your place
A brewery, a taproom or a bar gives a Ripz & Sipz machine a wall near a power outlet, and we do the rest. It starts with a conversation, and the brand is already picked when you reach the form.
You run a brewery, a taproom or a bar, and you have a wall with a power outlet near it. We bring the machine, we keep it stocked and we look after it. Your guests get something to open while they stay awhile, and we agree terms that suit your place.
Talk to us about hostingJoin RIPZ
Joining RIPZ puts you on the only mailing list we run. When sign-up opens, you will get a one-time code by email or text instead of a password to remember. Members hear first when new cards land in a machine, which we call a drop, and about events and member trades.
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