John Popadiuk

"I'm thankful for the day that nobody wants to remake anything John Popadiuk Jr. made. I'm thankful for that day in the future."

Nobody should want to remake anything John Popadiuk made anymore

"J-Pop Was a hack. He Is an art director He has wacky ideas But he needed the team at BLE Williams To create What made people love about him?...Do you think John Popadiuk invented the Theatre of Magic trunk Or the shooting stars or the disappearing magnet genie? Do you think he actually he himself Did any of that work No nothing"

John Popadiuk is a hack who was made into a rock star by BLE Williams engineers - he's an art director, not a mechanical innovator

"There is always going to be this overwhelming sentiment that everything John worked on, at Zidware, should be put in a dumpster, put gasoline on it and just light it on fire. There's so much good pinball in the world... Why are we still looking back at what that mad scientist created so many years ago when none of it ever ends up being an amazing pinball game?"

Making games based on John Popadiuk's old designs should be abandoned

"there are people that absolutely love John Popadiuk and the mind of John Popadiuk Jr. And what he brings to Pinball is this zany mad scientist sort of vibe to the hobby and he does know how to creatively art direct to make stunning games. I mean, you have to look no further than Magic Girl to know he knows how to make something that visually will be very arresting."

Kaneda is divided on John Popadiuk, acknowledging both the controversy around him and his creative abilities as a mad scientist type who makes visually stunning games

"so many people lost so much money were robbed by a con man and we need to start calling these people what they are, con men, they're fraudulent people, they lied to people's faces, they had no idea how to make these games"

John Popadiuk was a con man who robbed people and didn't know how to make games

"John Popadiuk did a lot of dumb things. He did a lot of bad things in his pinball tenure. But one thing he did do right was he found Zombie Yeti."

John Popadiuk did bad things but found Zidware artist was good

"This game is going to be a game that was designed by no other than John Popadiuk Jr. You heard it here first. A J-Pop game is actually going to be made and made in a way where it works right, made in a way where it's coded, made in a way where all the shots go to stuff, made in a way where the magnets turn on."

Mystery John Popadiuk game being made by competent company will be beautiful and limited to 500 units

"John Popadiuk is a hack. Like he doesn't know what he's doing on his own. And when he was at BLE Williams, the engineers over there made him into a superstar. Without the engineers at BLE Williams, the guy is not capable of making anything interesting."

Calls John Popadiuk a hack and attacks anyone involved with Turner/deeproot revival

"John was a constant no matter what he was going to hire John and it was like shark tank we're all like well for that we're out because the thing is I would have had to work under John I would have been John's bitch having to fix his game for him"

John Popadiuk was unworkable and lazy according to Ben Heck

"I can't believe we let John Popadiuk do it again. I really can't believe it. Are his nine lives up yet? I think so."

John Popadiuk should not have been allowed to start another company after Zidware

"are you telling me that a high school kids game is going to see more homes than a John Popadiuk game in 2021?"

A high school kid's game design will see more homes than a John Popadiuk game in 2021

"I'm tired of giving John credit because it's clear that he didn't make this stuff magical other people did because look at what he does without them"

John Popadiuk gets undeserved credit for Williams/BLE games

"a lot of the old guard it's just it's over it's over John Popadiuk could never make Guns N' Roses John Popadiuk can't even make his own game he can't even finish his own game"

John Popadiuk era is over, can't compete with modern designers

"does he have any idea how much travel costs? Like let alone assembling the game like a thousand dollars to ship two people around. You'd lose money."

John Popadiuk lacks understanding of manufacturing costs and logistics

"How much time does it take? For John Popadiuk to finish a game. How much time can he finish a game within one decade?"

John Popadiuk takes too long to finish games and may be dragging deeproot down the same path

"part of me starts to believe like some of this just feels like, is this just J-Pop's karma catching up with him that he's destined to do this, to sink all these pinball efforts by creating a game that can just never be finished... because of all the people John might have ripped off is this all coming back to bite him"

John Popadiuk's failures might be karma catching up with him for ripping people off

"You could show up to the party with Mussolini and of course you'd get a lot of attention. But needing John Popadiuk to put yourself on the map was a colossal mistake. They basically acquired a toxic figure that nobody liked and they did it strategically to make themselves get awareness"

Partnering with John Popadiuk was a colossal strategic mistake done purely for attention

"part of me and you'll hear in this interview I just have this this gut feeling that the engineers at BLE Williams are the ones who propped him up and the people surrounding him are the ones who created the stuff that we fell in love with and left to his own accord for many many years. He's yet to develop anything that even comes remotely close to what we've seen in his previous games"

John Popadiuk's engineering success was due to Williams/BLE team, not his own abilities

"I think John Papadue Jr. is overrated and out of ideas and I say that and I say that because when I look at the game, I'm seeing carry over ideas from Magic Girl. I'm seeing stuff from Magic Girl that didn't really work like that black spinning disc and the Magna Save and it's just he doesn't have the ability to make a game as great as he used to"

John Popadiuk is overrated and out of ideas

"something died inside me... part of the allure part of the magic part of the reason why we lusted after magic girl and Raza was simple because they were unobtainium they were these rare precious games... now taking that and then mass producing it you lose something you do you lose some of the exclusivity you lose some of the specialness and you lose some of the like mythology surrounding it"

Mass producing John Popadiuk games loses the exclusivity and mythology that made them special

"I still wish you would just apologize for once. Just say I'm sorry how things went down. He just needs to say those two words together. I'm sorry."

John Popadiuk should apologize for past business failures

"I do think John Popadiuk is the kind of guy that is constantly dreaming up radical new ways to try to put magic into a pinball game. Whether they work or not, I think he is always trying to experiment about what's possible in a machine"

John Popadiuk is a dreamer who can't execute but keeps trying innovative ideas

"John Popadiuk has still not come out, come out publicly, and really apologize for what he did... Instead of saying he's sorry and he's going to make right, he's suing, he's suing the people that invested in Zidware. Counter-suing them. That is not the move of a man who is sorry"

John Popadiuk should apologize but is counter-suing victims instead

"Now, that just goes to show you that John pulled the fast one. And here's what John did. John sold more magic girls and promised more magic girls to people than he originally intended. He was supposed to make 16 to 20. And what happened was he owed other people games because he made a lot of handshake deals with people, a lot of verbal agreements and contracts over the game."

Magic Girl prototype #00 being sold is not actually a prototype - John Popadiuk pulled a fast one

"I think he's a creative genius who has a certain style. We want that style as a part of our platform."

John Popadiuk is a creative genius who needs the right collaborative environment to succeed

"I don't think this man should stick around in the Pinball hobby. I think at some point people have to learn when it's time to just go away. You don't get to come back this many times, you've used up all your lifelines in the Pinball world."

John Popadiuk should be removed from pinball permanently after legal conviction

"The games look incredible. The games have magical things going on in them. The games are bright. The games have like awesome sound and callouts. It feels like a fun. I get it immediately pinball experience."

John Popadiuk games are loved by collectors for their visual appeal, not tournament play

"I guarantee you Working with john to redesign a john pop-a-doo game is gonna be a colossal nightmare There is there's no way this thing is gonna go smoothly"

Prediction: Working with John to redesign a John Popadiuk game will be a colossal nightmare and won't go smoothly.

"And I 100% agree with Orc that like you know what? No they don't, no they don't. These people took a risk, they took a gamble, they went in on something before they even saw something."

Zidware customers don't deserve to be made whole - they took a risk and should live with the consequences

"he is not a guy in the history of pinball that has been able to accomplish anything alone. He never had, he never did in BLE and Williams. He was always propped up by other people."

Black Knight dismisses John Popadiuk's capabilities as a standalone designer

"John Popadiuk is a pinball genius mad scientist lunatic... The man has a way with pinball and a way with artists that nobody else does"

John Popadiuk is a pinball genius despite being the worst businessman

"I just think the notion of enabling Popadiuk... That's my own personal opinion, but I'm never on the show. So I'm just going to say it. I just think the notion of enabling Popadiuk"

Kaneda calls enabling John Popadiuk's fourth attempt at Magic Girl 'disgusting'

"People just don't understand that John Popadiuk will be the anchor that sinks the ship of any new pinball venture because he carries with him all the bad baggage from the Zidware days and you just can't forget it and move on."

John Popadiuk is a toxic member of the pinball community who will sink any venture

"Everything that John has touched has fallen apart. I'm really curious to see what pinball engineers are going to swoop in and fix the tons of issues surrounding Magic Girl and Raza and Alice in Wonderland"

John Popadiuk will fail again with deeproot despite new backing

"I think that shows an unbelievable level of arrogance of arrogance to think that he solely could replace the army of people that made his games work that designed his games, that built his games that engineered his games. He really put himself above all of those people at BLE Williams who made his games great."

Harsh criticism of John Popadiuk showing arrogance in thinking he could replace an army of Williams people

"Right. My prediction is this nobody has ever proven to have successfully been able to work with John pop it."

Prediction: Nobody has ever successfully been able to work with John Popadiuk.

"My prediction is this nobody has ever proven to have successfully been able to work with John pop it... I think John sold them on a bunch of lies like John always does and we will see nothing from deeproot in 2018."

John Popadiuk is a scumbag and deeproot will fail

"I'll never know why Dovel or anyone would ever think working with John Popadiuk would be a good idea or would have a positive outcome... every time john touches something it just turns to mush"

Working with John Popadiuk never has a positive outcome

"John Popadiuk is a great designer. He is the greatest creative director. I believe in the history of pinball. He's not an engineer. He can't make mechanisms. He can't make parts. He can't do it all. He tried to do it all."

John Popadiuk is greatest creative director in pinball history but not an engineer - tried to do everything and failed

"you would realize immediately that john Popadiuk isn't magical that john Popadiuk doesn't know how to make a pinball machine"

John Popadiuk doesn't know how to make pinball machines

"you decide to go with the one designer that is toxic, that is lost so much money for people, that nobody has any faith in or any trust or credibility in. So you hit your horse to him, which by the way time and time again is proven to fail."

Choosing John Popadiuk as designer is toxic and financially destructive decision

"J-Pop's become sort of like the Donald Trump of Pinball. He's just like a constant headache and I just don't understand, you know why? Why? Like, we can't just be done with it."

John Popadiuk has become the Donald Trump of pinball - a constant headache

"Nobody's willing to give John another shot in pinball. I don't know why these guys are doing it"

Nobody wants to give John Popadiuk another shot in pinball

"John took $1.5 million of your money and delivered 22 machines he didn't even do it American pinball paid 300 plus thousand dollars they get those magic girls built for you guys"

John Popadiuk took $1.5 million and only delivered 22 Magic Girl machines

"John Popadiuk saying the price on a fully featured full functioning pirates of the Caribbean might be too expensive. What is it? $8,500 where John Popadiuk sold people $16,000 magic girls that don't even freaking work. That nothing on it works. That is all you need to know about John Popadiuk. I'm sick of the man. I want nothing more to do with him"

Kaneda attacks John Popadiuk for hypocrisy - saying Pirates pricing might be too much while selling broken $16K Magic Girls

"I don't think these guys are ever going to figure out the game. I'll tell you why because John Papaduch is the designer and he doesn't know how to make it work and he's working with them to make it work. They've tried this three times already. Why would it be different now?"

John Popadiuk will never successfully deliver Magic Girl even with deeproot's backing

"no one associated with J-Pop, should be allowed to come to, to shows and expose and panel discussions and talk and reveal their plans to the pinball world, because you know what, we shouldn't let people back into the hobby that have ripped people off. Kevin shouldn't be allowed at shows, John Popadiuk shouldn't be allowed at shows, okay? People who have really wronged the community, the community should stand up and say nope, you're never coming back"

John Popadiuk and associates should be permanently banned from pinball shows

"john Popadiuk is like George Lucas you're just going to get a better product when you kick his ass to the curb he might have had some great concepts and ideas that he was able to execute in his youth but he clearly has shown that he has no no right being anywhere near his very own creations anymore"

John Popadiuk is the George Lucas of pinball - better products when you kick him to the curb

"everyone knocked it out of the park except for John Popadiuk he everything that he was in charge of to make work doesn't really work the big mechanisms the different toys the different functionality doesn't function on the game he simply stood on the shoulders of some very talented people and and he let them down"

John Popadiuk let everyone down on Magic Girl - everything else was perfect

"because if this is what he's capable of magic girl then why would anyone pump more money into his next endeavor uh at the end of the day what he should do is just sell the artwork and sell the cat designs and let someone go build it but you would want him nowhere near the project"

John Popadiuk should never make another pinball machine