I suppose you may enjoyed My Plants vs. Zombies collection series, and some other post that I've posted as well. This time, yet another Identify a specific brand type Plants vs. Zombies's messing around things, and I'd like to share it again about an unique type of the Plants vs. Zombies toy figures that are being sold anywhere in USA, K'NEX. "Hey dude! You already featured it in another post!" Well, it is, but I'm going to explain them by myself about one of my most loved type of K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies plant figures instead of my story between me and this Plants vs. Zombies toy figure brand, of course I won't be happy without them, Peashooters.
1. General
These plants are known for attacking zombies with their pea projectiles, and K'NEX decided to make certain amount of the peashooting plants from those series of the game themselves by converting them into K'NEX figures. Now, currently there are 5 variant of them. First off, there was a regular Peashooter, then followed by it's ice counterpart, as well as the fire counterpart of it, and lastly, even some Garden Warfare variants, which kinda interesting. For description of each of them based on their parts, here are the lists of them, so:
- Peashooter: Has light green body, dark green on the leaf, and so the rest of the parts.
- Snow Pea: Has blue body, and so the projectile. Instead on the green leaf on the back part, it's just piece of the icicles, but still retains the dark green color on the rest of the parts as well.
- Fire Peashooter: Exact same thing as regular one, but it's in all translucent red, except for the "leaf" that supposed to be a piece of fire like in the actual game itself, and so the projectile itself, which are in translucent yellow.
- Peashooter from Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Almost all of the parts are dark green, and still retains the exact same shape of the head, except it has larger eyes and green eyebrows. It also has a different style of the stem and the bottom portion as well, because the way how it's designed based on that third-person shooter game.
- Plasma Pea: Again, exact same thing as the previous one, except it's different in terms of colors. Translucent purple for a whole plant itself, eyes are white with blue ring but no eyebrows, and so the projectile.
2. Building sets that features them:
- Peashooter: Series 1 blind bags (Common) and Wild West Skirmish Set
- Snow Pea: Series 2 blind bags (Elite)
- Fire Peashooter: Series 3 blind bags (Elite)
- Peashooter from Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Series 4 blind bags (Rare) and Boat Blast Building Set
- Plasma Pea: Series 5 blind bags (Elite)
3. Specific things
These K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies toy figures are one of the best toy figures that you'll probably pick in most of the products of them that K'NEX offers to the consumers, especially for the blind bags, if you're lucky enough to get one or more. Compared to those Chinese cheap ones, these do look pretty outstanding. In terms of how they look, even though they're still not great as they're still made in China, the design of those plants are always in their top notch of the official toy figures, so what more do you want to them though. Then, to make the matters better, the style of their heads are considered good, even with some minor errors and defective parts. From their snouts until their back parts, they do look very nice, because the snout looks so relatively thick compared to other Plants vs. Zombies's toy brands (well, Jazwares and DST are the close ones to these, in terms on the same sizes), so they do make a difference which are pretty decent. The great bonus about them are of course they can shoot projectiles, hence why their snouts look so "versatile". By pulling their leafs as a trigger on the back part, or either flick to shoot projectiles, even though they only load one projectile. However, they provides the projectile more than one, so it's a good sign if you lost one. There is also a K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies toy figure which shares the same trait as these, which is Coconut Cannon, but it's not the same type of the plant that are mentioned here, as in fact it's based on a coconut, not a pea. However, the size of those projectiles of it is a tiny bit larger, because again, that's the way how it designed to work like in the actual video game itself.
4. Trivia
- Since K'NEX has a feature to mount them on Lego-based parts, these plants do have their bottom portion adaptor to mount on them as well, so don't bother.
- Sometimes the projectile just stuck inside the shooter themselves and barely works at all, but it's rarely happened in all 5 plants that mentioned here.
- These models of the peashooting plants are only the model that can't be ripped off by any other toy companies or factories so far. However, some years ago in Alibaba.com, there is a loose ripoff of those that looks like this:
See? It looks like those but with larger body, different leaf on the back part, and it looks like it shoots softer projectiles instead of hard plastic. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the stem and the base, and there is no clue to mass producing them - Every normal K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies's peashooting plants (normal Peashooter, Snow Pea and Fire Peashooter) always have an unique numbers on their base itself, it says 2926. It's unknown what does it mean, probably it refers to a code of the factory who made customized OEM figures in certain designs, guts of how it works and sizes such as those. However, in most of K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies figures, it says 2928, and so on, followed by other K'NEX video game based franchises, if you found those numbers already.
- If you look closely at projectiles, and take a look at their hollowed up guide holes, there is a random alphabetic letters such as B, C, D, N, X, and so on. It does happen with the Sunflower as well, as that plant also included them. It's also unknown what does they mean.
- Sometimes the connection between the stem and the base themselves are loose, especially for normal K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies's peashooting plants in all 3 elements.
- If you look closely on random of YouTube videos or random pictures on internet about these normal K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies's peashooting plants, sometimes the stem on them does look thick, and sometimes quite thin. However, it is rarely happened in Snow Pea, which always come with quite thin stem per each blind bag that contains it.
- The eyes on most of them sometimes look larger than they should, especially for early mass reproductions of the normal K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies's peashooting plants, back when Peashooter still wrapped inside the tissue bag in the blind bag series.
- Every plants always have their specific watermark of them. Each of them says: (CE logo), Made in China, 2014(C) K'NEX LPG. For these plants, these watermarks are printed on the bottom part, just behind the hole where you connect their stems with.
- The new Peashooter from Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 was supposed to be have a green ring on his eyes. But, K'NEX didn't apply it to them, and just replaced it with larger black eyes with a tiny white dot on the center of their eyes.
- It's unknown why actual Plasma Pea made by this company also have one missing parts in terms of painting, which are eyebrows.
