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Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Saturday Morning Spectacular March 28
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Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Saturday Morning Spectacular March 28
Highlights
- Pokemon LE will not drop below $13,000 in value within one year
- King Kong LE has lost $5,000 in value compared to launch price, now selling for ~$8,000-$9,000 with topper
- Spooky Beetlejuice production is around 200 units as of late March, behind schedule heading into April
- Turner Pinball can only produce approximately 250 games per year despite factory expansion
- Winchester has quality control issues requiring metal filing on tower mechanism hitting house sculpt
- Stern is developing games tentatively titled 'Fallout' and 'Transformers' that insiders are excited about
- Turner's U-Kan Yeti manufacturing timeline makes it uncompetitive against 2026 releases (Sonic, Fallout, Back to the Future, Goonies)
- King Kong's art package is identical across Pro/Premium/LE editions, which was a major business mistake
- Pokemon LE owners paid premiums ($250+) to request specific serial numbers during production run
- Stern did not manufacture all Pokemon LE units by March 28; some dealers/distributors are still waiting
Notable quotes
“Pokemon LE owners are not gonna sell, it's a beautiful game, the LE package is awesome, it looks incredible. And Stern is gonna just like code this thing to be like one of the best coded games they've ever done.”
“Kong looks like a unicorn vomited all over the playfield. That's why people don't want to buy it, bro.”
“There's a lot of fake success in pinball where like the numbers aren't good and then you promote it as being good and you're like sold out but you didn't make many you barely made any and the number is embarrassing that's why you won't release the number.”
“They don't look like that hard to put together. But why does it take so long? You know, like the expensive part is labor... Turner to me is more of like a design studio than a manufacturing facility.”
“I think he changed it, but it's still like, hmm... He gets all this feedback on the art which is unanimously negative and he's stuck with it... that's where Chris's mistake ultimately will be is like you can't have it both ways.”
“There's a reason why we have the most subscribers out of any pinball content creator ever... it's weird that people are still angry about it. I don't get it.”
“It's like nothing on there's like no real anything happening on the screen... I don't even think the game was ready to really show.”
“I wish they would have got the call outs to a place where they wanted them and they add it to the experience. It's weird to do call outs for a game and then recommend that your customers don't even use it.”
Entities
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Turner Pinball· company
- Beetlejuice (game)· game
- Evil Dead (game)· game
- Guns N' Roses (game)· game
- Harry Potter (game)· game
- King Kong (game)· game
- Pokemon (game)· game
- U-Kan Yeti (game)· game
- Winchester Mystery House (game)· game
- Pinside· organization
- Brenda· person
- Chris Turner· person
- Christopher Franchi· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Jerry (Multimorphic)· person
- Kaneda· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Killian· person
- Tanya Kleiss· person
- Automated (location)· venue
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