Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Ceiling fans in closed down stores around my hometown...🏬🏪

Around my hometown where I do live since I was born, there were plenty of stores that used to have various ceiling fans inside each of them. However, each of those places had their own story about how come if each of them just closed down due to various issues per each of them, including several of them which are now gone (including those fans inside). Without further ado, here are my short lists about them, shall we?

  • There was a bookstore that had bunch of old National orbit ceiling fans (the models of them were F-EQ403/F-EQ403-1 [❔], and F-EQ407, respectively), in addition of some KDK industrial exhaust fans in the back part of the place itself. Due to the store itself suddenly went out of business, it unfortunately got closed down and leased in around the last year. However, the store itself still left all of those fans inside, but I have no clue whether if they eventually get rid of them later on.
  • A small vintage store that had 2 KDK WZ56Q industrial ceiling fans, which I already recorded my original video of them both briefly back in 2015. Judging by the interior of it, it possibly used to be a cassette store that was once existed back in somewhere in ~80s, then in the meantime I recorded my aforementioned video of them both, it also used to be a small buffet restaurant. The place itself was closed down and leased, but I'm pretty sure if they left both of them inside.
  • A Soto restaurant that consisted of 2 Uchida Millennium industrial ceiling fans, which I already recorded my 🥔 video of them both briefly back in 2013. The place itself was closed down since a while ago, but I'm pretty sure if they still left both of them though.
  • A small clothing store that had National F-EY149-2 (❔) industrial ceiling fan, which replaced one of the two Matsunichi (❔) orbit ceiling fans with ludicrously wacky orbital movement. The place itself was closed down since a long time ago, but the fan itself is still left inside (and possibly one of those Matsunichi [❔] orbit ceiling fans).
  • A clothing store that had 3 Regency orbit ceiling fans and an Uchida Arctic decorative ceiling fan. The place itself was closed down since a while ago, but all of those fans themselves are still installed inside.
  • A boutique store that had Panasonic F-560A1 industrial ceiling fan, which I already recorded my original 🥔 video of it back in 2014, then followed by remake of it back in 2015 and another remake video of it in 2019. The place itself suddenly closed down since sometime ago, but the fan itself is still installed inside.
  • An old motorcycle store that had 48" DEMC industrial ceiling fan. It was closed down since more than a decade, but the fan itself is possibly still left inside.
  • A jewelry store that used to have Diamond industrial ceiling fan, which was closed down since a long time ago. I have no clue whether if the fan itself got removed or not, since the place itself seems to be intact even if it's closed.
  • Another jewelry store that had National F-EY149 industrial ceiling fan inside. The place itself was closed down since more than a decade ago, but the fan itself still left inside.
  • A small clothing store that consisted of 48" 70s SMC K48 and National F-EY149 industrial ceiling fans, which I recorded briefly in 2014 using one of my old 🥔 Android devices that I used to own. The place itself is now closed down and vacant, but both of them are still installed inside.
  • A boutique that consisted of 2 National F-560A1 industrial ceiling fans. The place itself is now closed down and vacant, but both of them are still installed inside.
  • A vintage boutique store that used to have vintage National F-EQ408 (❔) orbit ceiling fan. The entire place itself was closed down including the aforementioned fan itself, and it recently got replaced by a cafe.
  • An old cassette store that used to have National F-EY149-1 (❔) industrial ceiling fan. The place itself was closed down since more than roughly 2 decades ago, and recently they replaced it with a cafe without keeping it.
  • There was a small drugstore nearest from my childhood house, used to have National F-560A1 industrial ceiling fan. It was removed several months before the time when the store itself closed down, yet the entire place itself is now replaced with a boutique store.
  • A small variety store that used to have Panalux industrial ceiling fan with all of it's own blades were bent down, due to the way how they installed in in such cramped space. The place itself was closed down, and the fan itself also got removed.
  • A (some sort of) electronic parts store used to have Greet (❔) industrial ceiling fan. The place itself is now long gone (and so for the aforementioned fan itself), and it got replaced by the bank's expansion.
  • A 💈 shop that used to have 48" CMC industrial ceiling fans, painted in red color. The place itself was closed down and demolished, and it recently replaced by an expansion of the supermarket (which surprisingly has bunch of industrial ceiling fans inside).
  • A variety store that used to have CMC Flashycom industrial ceiling fan, which I recorded my original video of it in 2014 and remake video of it in 2015. The place itself was closed down and the fan itself got removed, and it recently replaced it with a cafe.
  • A 🛍 store that used to consist of 2 CMC Niko (❔) industrial ceiling fans. The place itself was closed down since a while ago, but I'm pretty sure if both of them were removed already.
  • A fruit shop that used to have CMC and 48" Guang Dian (❔) industrial ceiling fans, which this place also used to have another CMC which got removed firstly. The place itself eventually went out of business yet they removed all of those fans, and then the entire place itself was replaced by a cafe.
  • A small fried chicken restaurant that used to have 48" Uchida industrial ceiling fan. The place itself was closed down and the fan itself was removed, yet it recently replaced with a roasted bread eatery without it.
  • An old cafe and karaoke place that was located in the corner of the intersection, used to have few black National F-EY141 industrial ceiling fans. The entire place itself was closed down since almost two decades ago, and all of those fans were removed already. FYI, this exact place also used to be another cafe that used to have some MT. EDMA ceiling fans inside, but then the place itself also got closed down right after almost a year later (I have no clue whether if they still left those fans though).
  • A fried chicken restaurant that used to have 2 Sanyo industrial ceiling fans. The entire place itself was closed down since few years ago, and both of them were removed already.
  • A bookstore that used to have 3 Sanyo industrial ceiling fans. The entire place itself was closed down since few years ago, and all of them were removed already... It recently got replaced with a Miniso store.
  • An old clothing store that used to have 10 National F-EQ401 (❔) orbit ceiling fans, which I recorded my 🥔 video of it briefly back in 2014. Due to fatal administration issues that was occurred in that store, it got closed down and all of those fans were removed already.*
  • An old shoe store that used to have a 48" Evernal (❔) industrial ceiling fan, installed in such low ceiling. The place itself was closed down yet the aforementioned fan itself also got removed, and it recently replaced by a cafe.
  • Another clothing store that used to have of 4 Panasonic, 1 KDK and 1 Maspion orbit ceiling fans (which the KDK and Panasonics replaced all of those Maspions), which I already recorded my original video of it with all of those Maspions in 2015 and remake video featuring those of the aforementioned replacement fans in the late of 2017. FYI, before this place was initially existed, it used to be some sort of variety store that used to have 3 old 48" Matsunichi and 48" CMC industrial ceiling fans (which one of the Matsunichis got replaced by a 48" National F-EY129-2 [❔])... Due to fatal administration issues that was occurred in that store, it got closed down and all of those fans were removed already.*
  • A fairly large supermarket and arcade game center that used to have certain old industrial ceiling fans (such as CMCs, Alaskas [PT. AMI], Diamond [which was just like a CMC], and National F-EY149-1s), and National F-EQ403-1 (?) orbit ceiling fan. That place also had other fans like Katsu and CKE industrial wall fans, unknown industrial exhaust fans, and some KDK industrial exhaust fans that replaced those of the unknown industrial exhaust fans. I already recorded my original 🥔 video of it briefly back in 2013, and then followed by my remake video of it 2 years later. Due to fatal administration issues that was occurred in that store, the entire place itself was moved into another location and all of those fans were removed already.*
  • A clothing store that used to have 4 Uchida Millennium industrial ceiling fans. Due to fatal administration issues that was occurred in that store, it got closed down and all of those fans were removed already.*

* means not only the fact they were closed down, the entire government from my hometown also seized those places in order to reuse them as their own property. 

Well then, those are literally the ones that I recognized through all these years since I created my YouTube channel that is dedicated for them, so. If you have your own short stories regarding to this particular topic, feel free to share your own story in the comments section if your memory serves it right. That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this exact article.




Friday, December 6, 2024

The truth behind my dad's old Maspion orbit ceiling fan...

After I made 6 videos particularly about it since I made my own YouTube channel of fans from more than a decade ago, which my videos of them were:

  1. Original video from 2014,
  2. First remake video from 2015,
  3. Second remake video from 2019,
  4. Update video from 2020,
  5. Third remake video from this year, and
  6. Another update video from this year

This time, I decided to tell you specifically about how come if my dad literally acquired this exact old Maspion MOF-40 orbit ceiling fan since first time he acquired it from more than roughly 2 decades ago. Without further ado, let me share my own short story about how come if my dad owned this particular old orbit ceiling fan since then.

Basically, he acquired this old Maspion particularly from someone else which I had no clue where it originally came from, and it originally didn't work at all. However, he was able to resurrect it by repairing it's own fan motor (and possibly it's own internal wiring) to make it works again, including it's own orbital motor too (if I guessed that right)... Every parts on the entire fan itself were seemingly original (including it's own 3-speed regulator that came with it), judging by how this fan used to equip that one transparent light blue blade set before the aforementioned blade itself broke. From what I could recognize back in those good old days before I recorded my original video of it, it originally used to work on all 3 speeds like what it is now, except the low and medium speeds were way slower, and eventually it used to stuck on low speed just like what I clearly showed in my original 2014 video of it. As for the original orbital motor that used to equip on it back in those days, it used to work like what it is now, except it was a tiny bit faster (but not as fast as my 2020 update video of it), before it eventually stopped working somewhere before I recorded my original 2014 video of it.

Through many years since he acquired it specifically since then, it eventually ran into few noticeable issues, such as it used to work only on one speed, it used to barely blow any air delivery with that one solid dark blue blade that was once equipped on it, and it also caused one of the LED lights in his personal workplace just flickered endlessly as well, which occurred few months ago before a repairman repaired the entire thing to make it works better later on... However, after the repairman did the aforementioned job for doing so, it now works better as what I and he expected, in addition about how he was able to replace certain parts with a better one (such as fan motor, orbital motor, capacitor [❔], and the blade set itself). Even though right after that repairman already repaired it, it also used to suddenly stop working entirely by itself before he decided to call another repairman to repair it again. With the current state that it has since I made my second update video of it from this year, I'm glad if it's still works great after all these years in general, even if it used to ran into few of those aforementioned issues that I already mentioned just earlier.

Well, there you have it for the truth behind my dad's old Maspion orbit ceiling fan. If you have your good old memories regarding to this exact topic (such as watching those of my old videos about it, or owning experience with one of those orbit ceiling fans of the similar brand and model if you have at least one of those [except for generation, unless if you still somehow keep it or not]), feel free to share your own story in the comments section if your memory serves it right. That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this short article.





Tuesday, November 5, 2024

your favorite K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Peashooter mini figures...❔

All of my K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Peashooter mini figures that I have (except for one of them which I still didn't have that yet)

Can't believe it if I actually made yet another article that literally explained about one of those official Plants vs. Zombies mini figure sets that were once existed back in those days, and of course you definitely familiar with several of those ones that I have in my own collection since a while, which are those of the old K'NEX mini figure sets of themselves... However, I will spot some of my favorite plant characters that I always excited the most which they used to feature them in majority of those sets that they released back in those days, which are Peashooter and 4 of his following variants, respectively.

Even though I already made my article that briefly explained about them in general from roughly 6 years ago (based on their raw designs that they designed and manufactured them in general), but I decided to take another look at them again based on my own personal opinion about how come if I always excited over these mini figures for multitude reasons. Without further ado, let me answer about the aforementioned topic about them, shall we?

Before I begin, you probably remembered those of the very early days of K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies in general, right? If so, how about their first blind bag series that they ever released on the market from then? Well, if you still remember those good old times when they used to pack all 8 figures in each of their own blind bags, they literally packed each of them inside some sort of tissue papers (and so for some K'NEX bricks that were wrapped inside their own separate plastic transparent bag)... General traits of them aside, how about the appearance of those figures that they used to produce them back then though? Well, at first glance, they all look exactly the same as each of their own ordinary designs that they clearly featured in each of the sets that featured them, specifically between their dedicated graphic designs of themselves and the actual mini figures of themselves. However, after I somehow keep watching those of the old review videos of them from various YouTubers for many years since then, I noticed a bit of difference on those of the plant figures. It might be hard to compare between those of the newer ones and those of the first iteration of themselves, but it was somewhat noticeable for a bit on the Peashooters.

In case you've wondering about what are those traits of that K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Peashooter mini figure that I'm referring to, here are my lists about it, right away:

  1. First iteration: Slightly thicker stem*, slightly larger eyes**, and had simple hexagonal (❔) hole design on each of it's own pea projectiles.
  2. Second iteration: Slightly thinner stem and slightly smaller eyes compared to the first iteration, but it retained the similar style of the hole design on each of it's own pea projectiles.
  3. Third iteration: Roughly similar to the second iteration, except with vastly different hole design on each of it's own pea projectiles compared to the first or second iterations (literally the same projectile's hole design that they used it initially on each of the Cabbage-pult's cabbage projectiles, and then it eventually shared into majority of the plant figures later on [including Peashooter and 4 of his variants]).

* means also applied sometimes with Fire Peashooter.
** means not sure if this was the case, because it sometimes had slightly smaller eyes similarly to both of it's newer iterations. This trait also applied sometimes with Fire Peashooter too, albeit it was somewhat inconsistent.

Example of the first iteration of K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Peashooter mini figure (Courtesy: SquirrelStampede's YouTube channel)

Of course the one that I own is the third iteration, it's because I purchased it NOS from somewhere in 2017, while it was originally packed inside it's own K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 1 that literally lurked it inside... Although I literally have it since a while, but I always prefer the first iteration of it, simply because the design of that one was slightly beefier compared to any of those newer ones that I already mentioned above.

Now, how about those variants besides the original one that I mentioned just earlier? There were 4 of them that literally existed IRL after the original one, those were the Snow Pea, Fire Peashooter, Peashooter from Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, and Plasma Pea from Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare... Among all of them, I liked the Snow Pea the most. It's because I simply enjoyed the in-game accurate design of it for it's size, unlike that one cheapo PVC mini figure of himself of the similar character... As for the rest besides the Snow Pea, that Peashooter from Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is definitely my second favorite. Even though the design of it is slightly off compared to how he should look like in both of those Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare games, but I still excited over it too, thanks to the popularity of the Peashooter himself in both of those aforementioned Plants vs. Zombies shooter games (yep, because of his highly iconic in-game model of him and his highly memorable kazoo-y voice lines, thanks PopCap)... For the last two Peashooter variants (which are Fire Peashooter and Plasma Pea from Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare), both of these are probably my least favorites. Even though I also own that Fire Peashooter, I decided to say so due to the way they designed it, they literally used the similar shape as the original one instead of the current one that clearly exists in Plants vs. Zombies 2 since a long time ago, except for the fact it used the transparent plastic materials instead of the usual solid ones (no wonder why I already cracked, chipped, and shattered most parts of mine already). Lastly, specifically for the Plasma Pea, although I still didn't have it yet until this day, it still shared the same traits in similar fashion about how I excited over that regular Peashooter too (even though it looked partially tacky to me in my own opinion).

Note: Even though those are always my favorites, they all shared their dreaded goof where the connection between the stem and the bottom leafy part of each of them were loose as heck (and so for both of those that were from the shooter game's counterparts too, which the connection between the stem and both of their pea pod arms were loose).

2 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Fire Peashooter mini figures... (one of them has slightly thinner stem compared to the other one)

Well then, there you have it for what I could particularly say over those old K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies mini figures of themselves. Even though there are lot of those Chinese sets that are somewhat "inspired" their shapes from them nowadays by "enlarging" each of them (except for those from the shooter games), but those of the said mini figures of themselves were still my personal favorites to this day, even if the plastic quality of them weren't that great, however. Anyway, if you have your own thoughts and good old memories regarding to this exact topic, feel free to share your own story in the comments section if you're able to. That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this entire article.



Sunday, October 6, 2024

vintage ceiling fan sites...❔

Being an electric fan enthusiast, pretty sure if I already visited some sites that literally explained about vintage ceiling fans, right? Well, yes, but only two of them that are recognizable specifically in my own mind, since I literally visited both of those sites, but now only one of them that are still remains, even if most parts of the remaining entire site itself is now no longer accessible like one of them would for some reason. Without further ado, let me particularly explain two of those vintage ceiling fan sites, shall we?

Note: Even if I recognized both of these sites, I never log in to each of them both. Which means, I only visited both of them purely for viewing purposes only.

A. vintageceilingfans.com (Adam D.)

"vintageceilingfans.com"  main page

Started off with my most recognizable vintage ceiling fan sites that I ever visited, which is the "vintageceilingfans.com", owned by the legitimate owner himself who also owns his YouTube channel of the same name as the site that he made there... Believe or not, I visited bunch of his sites through 3 different sections of his entire site many times, ranging from visiting his own gallery of his own vintage ceiling fan acquisitions, until all the way to checking his entire Proboards forum of it, consists of discussing anything about it (and certain other things such as vintage portable fans) from various fan enthusiast members around the world through many of those forum threads since more than two decades ago, which majority of them are from the US and Canada (with few exception such as that one fan collector from UAE and certain others).

Even though this particular website still exists after all these years, I already encountered some flaws while I'm visiting some of his own sites in general. Those are:

  • Majority of the fan enthusiasts and collectors who posted in his entire Proboards forum of it, hosted their own pictures using Photobucket. Because Photobucket recently doing their own mega pay-to-win features, they decided to delete them later on. Some of those pictures that are still remains in there do have their obvious Photobucket watermark on each of them.
  • His separate member galleries site is now no longer accessible since a while ago. I tried to access it (as of nowadays), and it leads to a 503 error code.
  • I tried to visit each of the member's personal forum threads in his entire Proboards forum site of it in order to check their own threads, it didn't allow me to do so if I didn't log in to there yet.

B. DT Vintage Fans (Zachary Yarnes)

DT Vintage Fans main page

Another vintage ceiling fan site that used to exist alongside with that "vintageceilingfans.com" site that I mentioned just earlier, which was DT Vintage Fans, owned by a YouTuber nicknamed Zachary Yarnes. It had roughly similar fashion just like that "vintageceilingfans.com" site as a whole, but with some differences between this and that one, those are:

  • Unlike "vintageceilingfans.com" which had 3 sections of the site itself (such as main site, separate member galleries site, and forum site), this one simply had 2 sections, which only consisted of just main site + galleries combo and forum site (which he also used Proboards too), respectively.
  • Unlike "vintageceilingfans.com" which prominently featured almost all of the fan brands around the entire world in that separate member galleries section of that site, this one only featured various fan brands that were available exclusively in the US and Canada in his own member galleries of the main site itself, including certain overseas brands that were made their way to both of those aforementioned countries too (for example: SMC, Matsushita brands [KDK, National or Panasonic], Sanyo, Mistral, Hitachi, etc.).

For some reason, the entire site itself just suddenly vanished from the internet. Simple as that, and I really had no clue about what was wrong with the entire site itself. Before it occurred, I used to visit the main site itself casually, specifically checking for various galleries of themselves through their respective brands in general without any issues. I also remembered right after the entire site went vanished, it literally redirected into a random site that had nothing to do with the URL link itself (specifically about how the "www" on the address bar just immediately changed into "ww7" for unbelievably odd reason). Not too long after I visited that particular random site that used this exact URL link, all I got from that URL link is now blank site............ although you could able to see the remnants of all of that stuffs from it using Wayback Machine.

Well then, there you have it for my short story of those two vintage ceiling fan sites that I recognized the most, although only one of them that still remains until today. If you have your own memories of visiting both of those sites online, feel free to share your own story particularly about it in the comments section if you're able to. Anyway, that's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this article.



Tuesday, September 10, 2024

K'NEX products in YOUR country❓ (ID)

Pretty sure if all K'NEX products of any kinds were supposed to exist exclusively around certain countries like those countries on North America region, right? Well, apparently no. Even though those were used to be common everywhere on those countries of that particular region, but they also made their way to more countries like United Kingdom and certain other countries within whole continent of Europe, for example... However, those products also shockingly made it's way to even more foreign countries besides those ones that I mentioned just before, being one of them is specifically from our country (Indonesia).

Before I begin, obviously I'm not mention myself with all of those K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies mini figures that I own... Instead, I will mention some people who used to own or sell those K'NEX products of any kinds, which majority of them are just mini figure sets and certain K'NEX building sets with their licensed franchises that they used to license them like so. Without further ado, here are bunch of my mini lists about them, right away:

  • An online seller from Bandung, West Java used to sell K'NEX The Beatles Yellow Submarine mini figure set, packed inside it's own original blister. It was sold to someone else already.
  • An online seller used to sell pair of loose K'NEX Super Mario mini figures, which both of them were green Yoshi. Both of them were sold to two separate people already.
  • Somebody from Batam, Riau Islands, used to sell K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Wild West Skirmish Set in his/her account of an online marketplace. Don't know what happened to it though, because right after I checked it few times, it suddenly disappeared later on.
  • A guy from Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, used to sell K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Wild West Skirmish Set in his account of an online marketplace. It lasted for few weeks until somebody purchased it later on.
  • Somebody from Jakarta used to sell K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 3 blind bags on his/her account of an online marketplace. I asked to his/her account through the direct message chat of the marketplace itself, and turned out if the items themselves were still stored somewhere in the US, judging by how fairly costly it was per one item. However, the listing itself just disappeared by itself later on for some reason.
  • A random world traveler guy owned certain K'NEX mini figures, which he prominently featured them on his Instagram account. Those characters were certain Plants vs. Zombies characters (such as Sunflower, Wall-nut, and Basic Zombie, respectively), and that green Yoshi from K'NEX Super Mario. However, he captured the picture of his K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Sunflower mini figure somewhere in Austria though, which indicated if he acquired all of those mini figures during one of his random world trips from somewhere else in any countries within the whole continent of Europe.

Well then, that's basically it for what I could particularly say about this topic in general. I don't think if I actually encounter even more people who own or sell them besides myself and those people that I already mentioned there in general, considered if majority of the people from our country would highly prefer many of those cheap mini figure sets from those alternative (or bootleg) brands that are "inspired" from it instead... Anyway, that's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and as always, thanks for reading this article.


Friday, August 2, 2024

More of the lost K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies review videos from YouTube...

After I made my original article about those of the aforementioned review videos of themselves that were once available on YouTube by their respective channels, so I decided to make this particular sequel article about them. This time, I will list more of them since I discovered more of those videos that were once existed back in those days, specifically since I made my original article about them in the meantime... Before I begin, I made a single error that I made in one of the lists particularly in my original article about them. Remember the time I mentioned this exact statement in there, which was this one?

"There was another quite popular YouTuber of toys that is well-known for obsessing Disney characters (judging by the name of his channel), reviewed certain K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies sets, such as some Series 1 blind bags, Wall-nut Bowling Set, Pirate Ship Building Set, and Wild West Skirmish Set."

Turned out if his channel still exists until today even after all these years, including his old contents of themselves too! Of course, YouTube automatically flagged vast majority of his review videos as YouTube Kids videos per each of them (because why not, thanks COPPA)... Okay, back to the main topic of this particular article. Even though I only encountered slightly less quantity compared to what I mentioned in my original article about them, but I actually encountered more videos of them that were once existed on YouTube, but then their respective owners decided to delete or set them as private for some reason that I obviously couldn't tell you. Without further ado, here are my short lists about them, right away.

  • There were 2 videos being reviewed by a random toy guy, opened 3 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 1 blind bags. One of them contained (possibly) the Cowboy Zombie, and the rest two were Peashooters (which only one of them that he assembled it on camera, while the other one was still inside it's own bag, even if he already ripped the top part of the bag itself).
  • A little boy opened 2 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 1 blind bags. One of them had Cowboy Zombie inside, and the other one had Peashooter inside.
  • There was another little boy opened a single K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 1 blind bag. It had Peashooter inside.
  • There was yet another little boy opened 5 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 1 blind bags. 3 of them were the zombies (which 2 of them were the Basic Zombies, and one of them was a Future Conehead Zombie [which he already opened it right before he recorded the video of it]), and the rest two were the Peashooter and Bonk Choy, respectively. He even showed the codes on each of the blind bags to tell which one that he would get, although you couldn't even see them well due to low video quality that he uploaded there (which was in 240p), yet he also didn't assemble most of those figures that he got in there too. Interestingly, he uploaded particular right 2 days in prior to how I acquired mine that had Peashooter inside.
  • There was yet again, another little boy opened 3 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 1 blind bags. He even mentioned SquirrelStampede in it too, which means, he was able to get 3 different figures by checking the code numbers that were printed on the back parts of the blind bag (per each of them, which one of them was underlined). The 3 figures that he acquired were Peashooter, Sunflower, and (possibly) Mummy Zombie, respectively.
  • A teenager opened a single K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 1 blind bag, and it had Peashooter inside.
Courtesy: her YouTube channel (but she already deleted it)
  • A girl reviewed bunch of K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies figures that she owned in her collection. The Peashooter was the only plant that she had, and the rest were the zombie figures.
  • There was yet again and again, another little boy opened 4 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 1 blind bags. One of them was Cowboy Zombie, and the rest were Peashooters!
  • A woman opened 6 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 2 blind bags, including the obvious method for getting them without any duplicates by checking the code numbers that were printed on the back parts of the blind bag (per each of them, which one of them was underlined). She got 6 out of 8 different figures, except for frozen zombie and Conehead Mummy. Even though she deleted the review of it on YouTube, but her old picture that featured 2 of those figures still exists on her Instagram account, despite she posted lots of her random pictures and videos of her hobby and her random stuffs in general.
  • A little boy opened 2 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 3, which consisted of Adventurer Zombie and Fire Peashooter, respectively.
  • There were pair of toy reviewer YouTubers who owned by a Japanese couple (judging by both of their name), opened some K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 3 in two of their random blind bag opening videos that featured them. One of them contained Fire Peashooter, by the way.
  • A little boy opened a single K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 Series 4 blind bag, which had Peashooter inside.
  • There was a random YouTuber who uploaded bunch of his Minecraft gameplay videos (including how he was able to build some Plants vs. Zombies characters on the aforementioned game itself), opened a single K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 Series 4 blind bag. It had a Kernel Corn inside.

Courtesy: their YouTube channel (but now they already deleted it)

  • A popular toy review YouTuber from Mexico (?), owned by a family, opened all 8 different characters from each of the K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 Series 4 blind bags in one of their surprise egg videos. The review video that they featured them had Super Brainz character on the surprise egg itself, yet they also reviewed a random cheapo Chinese Plants vs. Zombies Peashooter popper toy in it too.

Courtesy: his YouTube channel (but he already deleted it)

Courtesy: his YouTube channel (but he already deleted it)

  • A high profile YouTuber that is well-known for reviewing vast majority of official Lego mini figures and large building sets (and so for his own LEGO MOCs), opened all 8 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 Series 4 blind bags, including how he showed the codes to tell what was inside per each of the bags. He opened 7 out of 8 different figures in his ordinary review video of them, and then he opened Super Brainz in his review of that large Lego Wall-E building set video later on. FYI, he also stated if he actually got them for free straight from K'NEX themselves in one of his K'NEX Super Mario blind bag videos in order to review them in general, judging by how he literally received a cardboard box from them, which consisted of a display case contained lots of K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 Series 4 blind bags, and 2 display cases contained lots of K'NEX Super Mario blind bags (which both of them had different series, which were Series 9 and Series 10, respectively). Even though he deleted those reviews of them on YouTube, but his short review videos of them still exists on his Instagram account alongside with his other pictures and his other short videos that he posted in there (including those two K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 building sets as well [those were Boat Blast and Crazy Targets, respectively]).

As for bonus besides those ones that I mentioned above to wrap up this particular article, there was a video from a highly popular toy review YouTuber owned by a little boy and his family (but now he's grown up already just averagely similar to myself nowadays, and so for his entire family). There was a random unboxing video from them, and they got all K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies sets while they were still packed inside their original packaging per each sets (such as Wild West Skirmish Set, Pirate Seas Plank Walk Set, Far Future Building Set, Wall-nut Bowling Set, Pirate Ship Building Set, Football Mech, Cone Mech, and some of those Series 1 blind bags). However, I didn't encounter their ordinary review video of all of those sets that they clearly got in there though, even after all these years since they uploaded that video from then.

Again, there are some more of those lost videos of them from YouTube, but I'm not sure if I actually found more of those lost videos than the ones that I listed them here, or even my original article about them that I made since a while ago. FYI, I was once tried to search most of them on YouTube specifically using Wayback Machine, but none of them would appear in there whatsoever... If you still remember those review videos that I already listed there, feel free to share your own story about them if you still remember them though. Anyway, that's basically it for this particular article, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article.




Tuesday, July 2, 2024

The unseen Plants vs. Zombies collectible items...

Well, it's time to find out on anything around my own Plants vs. Zombies collectible items, which majority of them that I have nowadays are toys and figures. However, I also own several of them that I almost didn't feature them on camera, yet it also the ultimate reason about how come if I only feature just plant characters in vast majority of the pictures that I took since almost a decade since I got my very first actual toys and figures from themselves.

Actually, there's not much else that I could particularly say about those items though, because almost all of those sets that I'm talking about are mostly the zombie characters that I somehow don't bother to show them for various reasons. Even though I only mentioned just three of them in here, but I'm going to tell you about the current state about those sets in general. Those three sets are:

A. 5 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 2 blind bags...

You probably remember that time where I wasted a lot of bucks over these of the exact K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies blind bags that I purchased from e-Bay from almost a decade ago. For some reason, I purchased the 8 packs of all characters from it instead of just focusing on one of the plant characters that I always wanted the most among all of them (for this case, it was the Snow Pea). However, after I opened 3 of them (which were Cabbage-pult, Snow Pea, and Infi-nut), I somehow regretted it by not opening the remaining 5 blind bags that are still sealed until today. Because of that, I simply left them intact inside the small cardboard box, and taped the whole box itself with LOTS of duct tapes around the whole box itself for their extra layer of protection. I was once put these blind bags on sale in one of the local online marketplaces in my country, but nobody would purchase it anyway.

(this was taken right before I opened one of them, hence why there are 6 of these)

B. 6 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 3 blind bags...

Still from the K'NEX section, except these were obtained for 🆓 from that one legendary YouTuber who sent me these blind bags and 3 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 Series 4 blind bags to me (which I obviously opened them already, which consisted of stock plant character trio from that particular shooter game per each of the blind bags, in addition of that loose Peashooter)... Just like how I treated with those of the remaining K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 2 blind bags, I didn't even open any of them too, except for the one that had Fire Peashooter inside for simply comparing between it and my old one. Again, I was once put these blind bags on sale in one of the local online marketplaces in my country, but nobody would purchase it anyway. Even if I was once attempted to offer my own free giveaway to some other Plants vs. Zombies fans online through social media's direct chat message (or even some random geeks online), but it still didn't occur yet due to their procrastinations per each of them.

C. 12 Chinese Plants vs. Zombies mini figure surprise eggs...

If those plant figures that came from each of these plastic surprise eggs are exist in my collection, obviously each of the surprise eggs also comes with each of the zombie figures that are exist alongside with each of the plant characters too. For some reason, I didn't bother to assemble all of those zombie figures though, despite I just clearly wasted my bucks over these... Simple as that, and no offense specifically about these ones though.

So, there you have it for those of the unseen Plants vs. Zombies collectible items that I have laying around somewhere, with an exception for those that were once existed on my collection, but then I gave them to another enthusiast... Don't ask me about how come if I still left most of them inside their original packaging, because I have so many technical difficulties for directly answering it about why, apart from the fact I suddenly don't like most of those characters from most of them. If you have your experience when it comes to keeping those figures in similar fashion to those, feel free to share your own story about it in the comments section if your memory still serves it right. That's it for what I could particularly say about it, and as always, thanks for reading this specific article.