"I'm a speculator on rare pins. And a magic girl was as magical as Toden and there's only 20. The value of those things would have been like 50, 60,000 dollars easily the way that game looked, the way if it played the way it was supposed to."
Magic Girl buyers were speculators betting on rarity, not actual pinball quality
"I am no longer obsessed with chasing after these rare versions of machines that come with nothing but headaches. Because at the end of the day if you stop enjoying pinball because you gave money on a machine that never shipped or you paid more than you should have for something that you got the quality shitty... it ruins the hobby"
Kaneda selling Magic Girl to focus on enjoying pinball rather than collecting rare broken games
"If these owners were smart, they'd all get together and slowly sell one every few months. Instead, they're like flooding the market. There's more freaking magic girls available than Batman SLEs. There's more magic girls available than Ghostbusters Lles right now."
Magic Girl sellers are flooding the market and pricing themselves out by not coordinating sales
"No one's going to make 30 more magic girls. I keep reading this like well we'll just make more and auction them off. There's no money to make them. All right so just common sense guys. Where do you think John got the money to make the 25 he did? It wasn't from your Razamoney, he wasn't from your Alice in Wonderland money. It was from American pinball."
Magic Girl won't get additional machines produced because John Popadiuk has no funding source after American Pinball stopped supporting him
"It'll never be appreciated by the tournament players that are looking for wizard modes. It'll never be appreciated by guys that don't understand collectible items. Why collectible items are worth what they're worth?"
Magic Girl provides a unique collectible experience that tournament players and those who don't understand collectibles won't appreciate
"I also wish that people, if they're going to point a finger at someone to blame for Magic Girl not coming out, the finger needs to be pointed at John and John only. Do not blame Bill Brandis. Do not say that his legal actions are keeping Magic Girl out. Do not blame American pinball for being conned or duped into this situation."
John Popadiuk is solely to blame for Magic Girl delays, not other parties
"I think it's fitting that John Popadiuk has given the world the most beautiful pinball machine ever created. It doesn't even function as a pinball machine... It's so weird. It's like ironic in that way that even if it's physically in front of you you still can't play it."
Magic Girl as non-functional artwork is actually fitting and ironic
"Can you really blame these guys for making you know another 15,000 dollars overnight on just a quick flip"
Current Magic Girl pricing of $30-45k is justified by rarity and collector demand
"Hilton I will give you a hundred dollars You know hilton. I'll give you a thousand dollars if you ever discover Magic girl number 26 you heard it here first Kaneda will give hilton one thousand dollars if he can verify magic girl number 26 and prototypes don't count"
Prediction: Kaneda predicts that Hilton will never discover Magic Girl pinball machine serial number 26, offering $1000 if proven wrong.
"I told people, you're never going to see another pinball machine as beautiful as Magic Girl. It's just never going to see it. You're never going to see it because there'll never be a game where years were spent making it look amazing."
Magic Girl represents a pinnacle of pinball artwork that will never be matched