KANEDA EXCLUSIVE: "A Title Confirmed. I'm Buying This Game On Theme ALONE!"

Kaneda's Pinball Podcast (Patreon feed)·podcast_episode·13m 42s·held·Mar 6, 2025

Analysis

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TL;DR

Predator pinball confirmed: Pinball Brothers widebody April 25 reveal, in-house design, $8-9K pricing.

Summary

Kaneda enthusiastically announces that Pinball Brothers is developing a Predator widebody pinball machine based on the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film, with an exclusive reveal date of April 25th at Pinfest in Allentown. He confirms the game is designed in-house, will be priced competitively at $8-9K, and expresses high confidence it will sell well due to strong nostalgia appeal and theme quality targeting the 40-60 male demographic.

Key Claims

Pinball Brothers is releasing a Predator pinball machine based on the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie
high confidence · Kaneda states directly: 'Pinball Brothers is coming out with Predator. It is going to be based on the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.'
Predator will be revealed on April 25th (a Friday)
high confidence · Kaneda claims exclusive details: 'this game is going to be revealed in April and the reveal date I hearing is April 25th which is a Friday'
The reveal will happen at Pinfest in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where Pinball Brothers displays in the coin taker booth
high confidence · Kaneda explains the timing: 'a week after that date is going to be the local show The Pinball Brothers biggest distributor goes to every year Pinfest in Allentown, Pennsylvania'
Predator is being designed in-house by Pinball Brothers
high confidence · Kaneda states: 'I also know the game was designed in house. Of course that makes me nervous.'
Predator will be a widebody machine
high confidence · Kaneda discusses: 'when you make a wide-body machine dis usually means because you wanna put more into the game itself'
Predator will be priced at $8-9K for the top-tier version
high confidence · Kaneda states: 'the game is still going to be priced very competitively...It's more like eight to nine thousand dollars'
Pinball Brothers will produce over 1,000 units of Predator
medium confidence · Kaneda claims: 'I think they going to make more like a thousand or more of these games'
Harry Potter pinball from Barrels of Fun will likely not release until May
medium confidence · Kaneda reports: 'Harry Potter is most likely not going to be out until May'

Notable Quotes

“I am ordering this game. I will own this game. I will own this game even if the design is not great, even if the art is not great, even if the layout isn't incredible.”
Kaneda @ Opening — Demonstrates extreme theme-based buying motivation despite uncertainty about game quality; sets up the episode's central thesis about nostalgia-driven purchasing.
“I would love this game to be designed by someone of notoriety that we know knows how to make great games, but they are designing this game in house.”
Kaneda @ Mid-discussion — Reveals concern about in-house design but dismisses it due to theme appeal; indicates potential quality risk.
“Theme is like 80% of it for me. It really is.”
Kaneda @ Near end — Explicitly states Kaneda's prioritization framework for pinball purchases, emphasizing theme over mechanics/art/design.
“We finally get a theme that's for men, 40 to 60, and we get an Arnold movie that is still to this day a classic and it kicks ass.”
Kaneda @ Final segment — Identifies target demographic and positions Predator as filling a market gap in recent pinball releases.
“Alien Pinball was these guys making up for all the mistakes of freaking Andrew Highway. And we know these guys are not making up for the mistakes of Kevin Kulek with this version of Predator.”
Kaneda @ Mid-discussion — References industry history (Alien development issues, prior Predator work) and positions new game as fresh start without baggage.

Entities

Kanedaperson Pinball Brotherscompany PredatorgamePinfesteventBarrels of Funcompany[name withheld pending review]personChicago Gaming Company

Signals

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announcement: Predator pinball machine officially confirmed for April 25th reveal at Pinfest, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
high · Kaneda claims exclusive details: 'reveal date I hearing is April 25th which is a Friday' and confirms timing with Pinfest one week later.
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product_launch: Pinball Brothers planning to manufacture 1,000+ units of Predator, indicating confidence in market demand and significant production commitment.
medium · Kaneda states: 'I think they going to make more like a thousand or more of these games' and contrasts with concern about smaller production runs.
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market_signal: Predator priced competitively at $8-9K for top-tier version, positioning below premium tier ($12-15K) common with larger manufacturers like Stern.
high · Kaneda confirms: 'It's more like eight to nine thousand dollars' and contrasts with higher competitor pricing.
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collector_signal: Strong theme-driven demand for Predator targeting 40-60 male demographic with 1980s action film nostalgia; potential secondary market impact on older Predator variants.
high · Kaneda emphasizes: 'Theme is like 80% of it for me' and 'We finally get a theme that's for men, 40 to 60'; expresses willingness to buy regardless of design quality.
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design_philosophy: Pinball Brothers designing Predator in-house rather than licensing established designer; Kaneda flags this as a quality risk but dismisses it due to theme appeal.
high · Kaneda states: 'I also know the game was designed in house. Of course that makes me nervous' but concludes 'I don't care. I want to own this game.'

Transcript

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I'm so excited right now. I am ordering this game. I will own this game. I will own this game even if the design is not great, even if the art is not great, even if the layout isn't incredible. I will own this game. And the reason why I will own this game and like I said, I don't know if it's great or not, but I'm going to own this game on theme alone. This is a movie that I grew up watching with my I'm a twin brother. Probably about 500 times I've seen this movie. I could quote this movie. I could remember every single scene from this movie. And I remember why this movie became so forged in my little sort of brain when I was just maybe around like 10 or 11. I remember that this movie came out and it was R rated and I wasn't allowed to go see The movie in the theater with my twin brother my dad took my older brother to go see the movie and I remember still to this day We were not allowed to go into the theater We went to go see another movie and me and my twin brother were waiting outside of this movie's door And we just listened to what was going on in the film We were so blown away Pen fica es Cuileam, This week's topic is about the most important thing in pinball and stuff that has nostalgia attached to it has way more, way more appeal for you and I than stuff that's brand new like a John Wick. There's just something about things that you bonded with in a period in your life in which you were innocent and stuff and stuff just hit on a different level. And I mean it, like the stuff before the internet, the stuff that you watched over and over and Simultстру 100,000 Australian Wayf прек Himself Ind Slow Online Dunks Through Accept Force, I'm going to be some curse words in these movie lines. So please move them away from Kenaida Pinball Podcast starting now Son of a bitch What the matter The CIA got you pushing too many pencils This stuff will make you a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus Just like me. Spread this on your sore ass plane. Knock knock! The stick around Son of a bitch is dug in like an Alabama tick

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I also know the game was designed in house. Of course that makes me nervous. I would love this game to be designed by someone of notoriety that we know knows how to make great games, but they are designing this game in house. I don't know who the artist is on the game. Does it even matter? Canada? Not really. I don't care. I want to play this I have a lot of them. I'm gonna put it in my garage. I hope it's great. If it's not, I don't care. I want to own a Predator pinball machine. I finally am getting a theme based on a movie that I have a lot of nostalgia for and just makes me giddy. And here's some more details for you. I'm also hearing that this game is going to look really nice next to your alien. 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Predator, wide body machine based on the Arnold movie with assets from the movie coming out real soon. This makes me so excited. I can't wait. Over a thousand medieval madnesses coming back in remake form from CGC in the next couple of months. And then we're going to have Harry Potter and King Kong battling it out. This is such a fun time to be a spectator. But I am telling you right now, my money out of all these titles, I don't care. My money is going to predator because the theme is something I love that much more than everything coming out. Theme is like 80% of it for me. It really is. And most of the themes have been horrible in pinball over the last like three to four years. So congratulations. You get Kaneda's seal of endorsement on picking a theme that's perfect for the pinball buying demographic. We finally get a theme that's for men, 40 to 60, and we get an Arnold movie that is still to this day a classic and it kicks ass. Let's end with a more extended scene from that movie that I just love so damn much. Kaneda out. You sell some? It's all bullshit. All of it. The cabinet minister, the whole business got us in here to do your dirty work. Look, we just stopped a major invasion and three days later been across the border with this stuff. Why us? Because nobody else could have pulled it off. You pissed about the cover story. I knew I couldn't get you in here without it. So what story did you hand to Hopper? Look, we've been looking for this place for months. My men were in that chopper when it got hit. Hopper's orders were to go in and get my men and he disappeared. He didn't disappear. He was skinned alive. And my orders were to get somebody and who could crack these bastards. So you cooked up a story and dropped the six of us in a meat grinder. What happened to you, Dylan?