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Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Saturday Morning Spectacular Feb 21
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Kaneda's Pinball Podcast Saturday Morning Spectacular Feb 21
Highlights
- Pokemon LE is selling for around $25,000 on the secondary market
- Pokemon LE demand is unprecedented in 13 years of Kaneda's podcast coverage
- Stern Pokemon Pro has significant mechanical features removed compared to Premium/LE
- Winchester demand is artificially inflated by scarcity, not theme quality
- 2026 will see five major pinball releases buyers want, creating financial constraint issues
- Dealers make $2,500-$2,700 profit per Pokemon LE sale
- Twippies Awards are destroyed due to Colin's poor management
- Secondary market speculation is essential to pinball's survival
Notable quotes
“Nothing. Nothing. That is the freaking demand of Pokemon LE, baby.”
“I've given you thirteen nine. All right. I now own it. Right. What happens if in four weeks Brenda loses her job? I'm not allowed to sell it.”
“Without the FOMO, without the secondhand market, this hobby's dead. And anyone who thinks otherwise is a jackass.”
“Games are selling for around $25,000. Games are selling for around $25,000. And people are going to get it.”
“These dudes will sell you a game for $13, put $2,700 in their pocket, and then six months when nobody wants the game, they're going to offer you like $4,000 less than you paid.”
“You're not allowed to ask questions. Pinball dealers built the backbone of America.”
“LE or bust, baby. And we got Charizard on here right now.”
“He will happily sell you a depreciating game and they won't sell you it at market value.”
“The owners are kind of annoying...The only reason people now want one is because they can't have one.”
“I got like six hundred and eighty just for the podcast category...What a good job, Colin. You did it. You ruined the very thing you acquired.”
Entities
- Automate It· company
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Mad Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- TWIP (This Week in Pinball)· organization
- Calvin· person
- Colin· person
- Don· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jeff· person
- John· person
- Kaneda· person
- Ken· person
- Melissa· person
- Mike Scott· person
- Troy· person
- Zach· person
- Dune· product
- Godzilla· product
- John Wick· product
- King Kong· product
- Pokemon LE· product
- Star Wars LE· product
- Winchester· product
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Episode 1229: "Something We Can All Agree On"
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TL;DR
Kaneda condemns Stern's incomplete game launches and urges community to withhold support until quality improves.
Everyone wants the same thing, but we won't get there if we keep buying right away.
