Ultraman

game
38 mentions Positive: 30Negative: 6Hot Takes: 2 50% hostile
Ask Kaneda about Ultraman
"If I had simply waited, I could have bought Ultraman for 40% off of MSRP"

Personal experience losing money on Ultraman pre-order, could have saved $5000 by waiting

opinion negative Ep. 747 · Dec 6, 2022
"You just lost $4,500 in value on your 10 five purchase...500 Ultraman owners right now have all lost at least three to four to five thousand dollars"

Ultraman pinball is a massive financial disaster for owners

opinion negative Ep. 728 · Oct 1, 2022
"It is absolutely gonna be a downhill spiral ride for any Ultraman owner out there. There's just not enough of a fan base in America who wants the pin. And now that everyone's gone sort of south on the game itself, I think you're gonna see these Ultraman slide into like the $5,500 range in the next six months."

Ultraman will continue declining in value to $5,500 range due to lack of American fanbase

opinion negative Ep. 727 · Sep 29, 2022
"I think now is a good time to officially announce I'm walking away from Ultraman. I'm not buying Ultraman number 500. I'm not going in on it."

Walking away from Ultraman and not buying games sight unseen anymore

opinion negative Ep. 689 · Jun 27, 2022
"I saw that there's an Ultraman new inbox. I think for like $6,890. That game is just heading south and south and south. Yes, I'm walking away from my deposit."

Walking away from Ultraman pre-order as game value continues declining

opinion negative Ep. 688 · Jun 18, 2022
"I don't think there's 500 diehard Ultraman fans who collect Pinball machines. I don't. I think Ultraman's going to be the one... is going to be the one that actually goes down in value more than Halloween."

Ultraman will lose value more than Halloween due to weaker theme appeal

opinion negative Ep. 681 · May 23, 2022
"I actually think Ultraman came out looking superior. I think Ultraman and its campiness and its colorful nature and the music and the light show and everything about Ultraman just felt fun."

Ultraman looks superior to Halloween based on stream

opinion positive Ep. 606 · Aug 9, 2021
"do you think that would be a cool move for me to take the game and flip it like not even open it not even play it I am not going to sell ultra man number 500 when it's still in a box it will be opened it will be put into my home one day I guarantee it"

Prediction: His Ultraman pinball game number 500 will be opened and put into his home one day, not sold unopened.

hot take mixed Ep. 605 · Aug 6, 2021
"Ultraman was nowhere near on anyone's top 100 themes we can't wait to see in pinball. If I had done a survey of the top 100 themes you would love to see in a pinball machine, Ultraman wouldn't even make the list and yet it was still spoken for in one day."

Ultraman wasn't even a top 100 requested theme but still sold out in one day

hot take mixed medium Ep. 599 · Jul 15, 2021
"Yeah, it was a head scratcher. Again, I mean, I knew what it was, And I'm like, oh man, this is, It felt really, really niche."

Ultraman is very niche theme that many people weren't sure would succeed

opinion mixed Ep. 598 · Jul 13, 2021
"Greg says he's like, this is amazing. This is basically the Japanese version of Batman 66. And I'm like, oh, that's a good way of putting it."

Ultraman plays like Japanese version of Batman 66

opinion positive Ep. 598 · Jul 13, 2021

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