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All little Marlene Englert wanted was a toy - instead she got stuck.
The toddler managed to crawl through a tiny portal, up a chute and into an arcade machine filled with cuddly toys, which must have looked like teddy heaven to the wee tot.
Marlene got stuck while she and her family were at Auckland International Airport's domestic terminal on Saturday afternoon.
Her parents, Varena and Marcus Englert, entertained the toddler as the airport's emergency services team was called in to help get her out.
Auckland Airport spokesman Richard Llewellyn said it appeared the child had climbed through the chute while no one was looking and "become perched happily inside" the machine.
"It's certainly unusual."
Mr Llewellyn said the toddler was only inside the machine for a short while, before an engineer was able to unscrew a side panel to get to her.
In March, Wellington 4-year-old Nathan Thomson had to be rescued by a fireman after his arm up to his elbow got stuck in a Coke vending machine at a Johnsonville shopping centre.
He sucked on a lollipop as he was covered in a tarpaulin before the glass front was smashed to free him.
In February last year in Queensland, toddler Lachlan Stevens also ended up in a toy machine, after his mother turned her back for a second.
Authorities who freed Lachlan tried to give him a toy but his mother told the Gympie Times that she said: "Don't you dare - he'll do it again."
The machine at Auckland's domestic terminal has been removed.
