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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

my Android phone's battery suddenly did this... (and eventually...) 📱🔋

I thought my current Android smartphone that I purchased back in early of 2019 would last longer than my older Android devices before this one, it's because the batteries on those of my aforementioned older devices had seemingly crappy battery life... However, I encountered a problem where it's own battery itself suddenly had crappy battery life, yet it also indicated by how the whole device itself looked a bit crooked on one of the sides specifically on the back part of the said device itself. Well, it's time to find the actual truth about how come if it suddenly occurred particularly like so, until how I was able to troubleshoot the problem itself later on.📱🔋

Basically, I've been heavily using this particular daily driver for more than 5 years without any signs of issues whatsoever since I newly acquired it from then. Ranging from various stuffs from opening bunch of social media apps, editing pictures or videos on it, taking photos and videos, until all the way to playing some games on it, albeit it's obviously somewhat underwhelming nowadays compared to majority of those modern day Android phones that are available on market nowadays. When it comes to the battery life itself, they claimed if the battery itself originally would last for almost a day (or two), depending on which apps or games that I open, otherwise it would end up draining it faster if I keep doing it for too long.📱🔋

However, since roughly a year ago (or two), I realized if it's own battery itself suddenly went weaker overtime, specifically when I opened certain apps that usually drain it's own battery life quicker, which technically would do so as what I worried for... It also eventually made the matters itself even worse since around the beginning of this year, it's own battery life itself just went weaker than ever, which means it originally used to last for almost a day (or two), but then it only lasted for LESS than an hour (or even LESS than several minutes [depending on the usage of it]). I also realized when this occurred all the time, my entire device just heated up in such an unusual way, even if I mostly put the device itself on standby. It also made me shocked upon I checked the back part of it by opening the rubber case of the device itself, because one of the sides just suddenly went crooked! You know that means... My phone's battery just already inflated for real! Yep, even if it did so slightly, but that's the definite reason about how come if I felt a little bit uncomfortable every single time using it during this occurred. Moreover, I also worried if I keep recklessly using it in that exact state (including about how I charged it every single time, which I did it way more often during this occurred [yet it also sometimes wouldn't charge all the way up to 100%]), the non-removable battery itself would either explodes or erupts into smoke by all of the sudden if I still don't take a serious action with it yet.📱🔋

My phone's old faulty battery, notice for the year of it's production printed on it though...

Well then, after I decided to take the aforementioned serious action for real by replacing it's own old faulty battery with a new one, it now does last longer like what it originally used to be...... sort of. The phone repair technician revealed the actual truth about why my phone's old battery suddenly did that, it's because there was something shorted on it, therefore it caused all of those weird overheating and slight inflating behaviors during I used it in that state just earlier. Even though it also costed IDR 200.000 for replacing it in his service center, but it was really manageable for doing so anyway, as if it's still works just reasonably okay after all these years since I acquired the whole device itself from then... Just like what I clearly stated just earlier, depending on which apps or games that I open specifically on it, otherwise it'll drain it's own battery life faster if I keep recklessly doing it for too long. Oh, and one more thing, unlike most of those modern day Android smartphones that they currently sell these days which they claimed if they can charge any of those phone's batteries approximately within two hours (or even less, thanks to their original charging adapters), this one still charges it's own battery for at least 4 hours from anywhere near 0% to 100% (depending on what kind of aftermarket charging adapters that I use for charging it though, otherwise it will takes a while to do so for sure [it's because the original charging adapter that came with it was dead, which I also trashed it away as well]).📱🔋

If you have your own experience regarding to this exact situation with your own phones, please let me know particularly about it in the comments section if you're able to. Anyway, that's basically it for what I could say to this update article specifically about how come if my phone's battery suddenly does so, and pay attention when it comes to treating your own phones, especially when it's own battery life suddenly goes weaker overtime, or on worse scenario, it will end up becoming like that for sure.

in memoriam with that person from my entire family...🥀

Well, it's time to share some of my own stories particularly about my good old days with one of the members from my entire family (preferably from my mom's side) that was once existed since I was born, and then he recently passed away due to the fact he suddenly got a fatal disease. Without further ado, let me share my own stories particularly about my good old days with him in general, ranging from those days when I was a kid, until all the way to final moments with him before he passed away...

A. My childhood times with him...

Back when I was a kid, I was hanging around with him for roughly many times, including my grandma that was also once existed back in those days. Those were the sweet times overall, with an exception about how come if I ever broke his old Sony Ericcsson feature phone with monochrome screens that he newly purchased it in ~2006 by slamming it to the floor of my childhood house, especially when there was an incoming SMS with it's own ringtone. Sure, I was once got annoyed by the ringtone itself, but thankfully, he didn't feel really that mad on me when I particularly did that though.

Although I was able to meet him many times in my childhood house, he was once had some random jobs somewhere in Malaysia for few years right after roughly two years after that time where I broke his aforementioned phone, until he decided to return back into Indonesia, specifically in my hometown where I do live. He decided to do so in order to marry his wife in 2011, and then they both took a birth of their first children several years later, followed by how they also took a birth to their second children right after the previous one several years later too.

B. In relation of my YouTube channel of fans...

When it comes to the relation of my YouTube channel of fans, there's not much else that I could say to him apart from the fact he had fairly good treatment with all of the electric fans that they own around my entire family since past several years, specifically from mine and those that was once used to be in my childhood house (back when my grandma used to exist). He was also a relatively good helper when it comes to installing certain of my fans, including some of my mini ceiling fans that I ever installed in the back porch of my old house (and so for that one [not so] mini ceiling fan that he also installed it in my current compact house where I'm currently settling in nowadays since almost a year ago). Overall, he was a reasonably crucial person when it comes to this in general, and so for how he somehow able to fix some broken fans with his own hands quite well too.

C. His local jobs...

Believe or not, he also had another job during he decided to settle in my hometown where I do live since I was born, which was making lots of homemade TV antennas out from metal sticks, metal sheets, and PVC pipes... FYI, he used to work in a large house that was once owned by a Chinese couple, although his legitimate wife was passed away firstly in 2014. During those times, he made lots of those TV antennas in order to sell them for relatively cheap price to the legitimate owner of that particular house. Even though he didn't earn that much bucks from those, but it was worth his job in order to satisfy some customers who used to buy those TV antennas that he made in there, and so for how he was able to find some bucks for his own mini family too...  📺📡

After the aforementioned owner of that large house was passed away in the late of 2023, he obviously lost his aforementioned job for a moment, and then he decided to switch his job into stone worker, which unfortunately earned way less amount of bucks compared to his previous job. Because of that, his mental suddenly felt out of control, which led to his disease which just caused from all of his mental stresses that he had in that exact state, unfortunately. 

D. Final moments with him...🥀

Unfortunately, this particular section clearly explains about how come he passed away due to his fatal disease that he had... Before he got hospitalized, he suddenly felt some pain on his heart (and followed by how he felt really hard to breathe most of the time), and he decided to visit the hospital by himself with his own motorcycle. Then, after he entered the emergency department for few days, he immediately got sent into surgery room in order to have some surgery to his heart. After he did the aforementioned surgery, he eventually got sent into the ICU room for additional recovery from the said surgery. However, things weren't look and sound great when it comes to recovering him in general, although he used to look quite normal at first, considered if he had to wear an oxygen respirator right in front of his nose all the time during he took a long rest in that particular room. 🏥

Things were getting much intense once he had unexpected actions during he had those of the aforementioned recoveries of his health in that room, especially about how come if he was able to recklessly REMOVE the aforementioned respirator bunch of times by himself specifically with his hands, resulting in his worse condition of his health overall. This was occurred due to the fact he wanted to go home quicker, especially about how come if he would want to see his wife and all of their beloved little children too after this particular disaster occurring on him... It also made the matters worse, every single time certain visitors from my entire family (including my mom) were attempted to consume certain food and beverages on his mouth in that exact state, he would eventually threw up numerous times, thus it led to even worse condition of himself that totally harmed his health entirely. 💉💊

After almost two weeks of him being hospitalized, my mom and I got a bad news from most of those doctors who works in there. They said if he ran into a fatal state where he had some sort of heart stroke, followed by how his blood just clumped into his brain, which they also concluded if they were totally impossible to revive him back to his former state... Not too long after my mom visited him in THAT particular deadly state (along with my dad, my uncle, my aunt, and some members of my entire family)............ they also said if he eventually passed away................ After he passed away, they brought the corpse of himself into his funeral home using a corpse car from that hospital. Lastly, I, certain members around my family, and many of his neighborhood around that village where he used to live were brought and buried his coffin contained his corpse to the graveyard nearest from their current house where they're currently settling in. 🥀⚰

My deepest condolences to that particular section of my entire family who recently lost their dad, but that also throwbacks me to those times where I suddenly lost my grandma in 2017. She also hospitalized in the same place as him, except she had completely different disease before she lost it's life. Even then, she also even got hospitalized in different hospital in around the late of 2016 before that one occurred few months later... This is also one of my highly traumatic moments in my entire life ever, especially about what if it'll also occur to both of my parents anytime and anywhere soon, considered if my mental is still not ready for basically everything that I must do in the future for now on. 🥀

i'm leaving plants vs. zombies franchise? but...🎮

So, it's been a long time since I'm explaining about myself with my own Plants vs. Zombies stuffs in general. Unfortunately, the franchise itself is pretty much in the destroyed state thanks to how both P**pC**p and Electronic F***s somehow ruined this exact franchise that I enjoyed since more than a decade as a whole. Well, even though they released a brand new sequel of the standard Plants vs. Zombies mobile game recently, but that doesn't hype me that much at all unlike the first two standard mobile games that I know, albeit the Plants vs. Zombies 2 recently has certain of their own issues occurring per each of the updates that they keep jam packing into... FYI, when it comes to my own stuffs with them, there's not much else that I could particularly say about it apart from the fact I definitely have some sort of burnout occurring over them, because for some reason I still keep doing the exact same insanity on one of the Plants vs. Zombies standard mobile games that I still play until today. Without further ado, I'll split into two categories for this, one is for the series of the games themselves, and the other is obviously for the collectible stuffs from them.

A. Games (in general) 🎮📱

Yep, as what I'm clearly stated just before, there's not much else that I could particularly say about them in general these days, except for how I was so excited during those good old days when the original Plants vs. Zombies was the only legitimate game that I ever played back in those sweet old days through different devices, except for the console and Nintendo DS platforms. That also shared with some of the newer titles right after the original one (such as Plants vs. Zombies 2, both of the Garden Warfare shooter games, and Heroes), albeit I still never play both of those aforementioned shooter games until today due to I have no proper device to play them both though. Those were definitely the simpler times, until the earliest version of Plants vs. Zombies 2 was newly released worldwide. Although I was so hyped to play that too, but I encountered many of those fake apps that pretended to be the real deal of it that were once existed, therefore I got fooled by those instead, which almost harmed my old Android device that I had back then... BTW, in the same time where I used to hype over Plants vs. Zombies 2, I also used to play Plants vs. Zombies Adventures in Facebook multiple times before it got disappeared later on (yes, I used to explore around Facebook with my own account that I used to have back in those days).

After I found the legitimate version of the Plants vs. Zombies 2 later on, things were changed severely, especially when it comes to beating the whole Adventure Mode of it through all 11 different worlds casually. Sure, it was clearly more challenging compared to the original one, but it was worth some fun when it comes to playing it almost in similar fashion as the original. Yes, it has plethora of both plant and zombie characters (which is in fact a LOT of them compared to the original), but I still do understand about how to beat them in various levels, especially for certain zombies with special abilities on them as well, just like what I did with the original one with no issues whatsoever... Everything about the whole game itself was reasonably okay, until certain major updates (such as "Power Plants" update, "Arena" update, "Penny's Pursuit" update, and so on) were heavily butchered the game itself as a whole.

All of my favorite plants in Plants vs. Zombies 2 (well, there are more of them though)

With all of those recent constant updates that they recently added in Plants vs. Zombies 2 since last 6 years, either if I'd enjoy or not, I still keep playing it no matter what, especially for which game modes that I usually play. However, I only play most of the game modes that are IMO, somewhat easy to play these days, considered if I collected many of those plants in that game already, including how I was able to "hoard" TONS of certain resources in there too (most commonly are coins, gems, mints, and gauntlets)... However, this is also the turning point particularly about how come if I still play the whole game itself, even down to all of those content messes and "bugs" that they keep adding nowadays, yet they also made certain levels of themselves are somewhat more repetitive between one way to another compared to what it used to be... Again, I keep enjoying the insanity from the whole game itself though (ngl), but not all of the game modes that I play though for sure.

As for the other Plants vs. Zombies games besides the first two standard games, I actually played 2 more games in my Android device(s), those were the Heroes and the earliest version of the Plants vs. Zombies 3... For the Heroes, because I was simply suck at one of those card games, I only played it for several months until I stopped playing it. As for the earliest version of Plants vs. Zombies 3, I actually played it for few months until they suddenly "sunsetted" it later on. It honestly wasn't all that exciting at all compared to the first two standard games, but it was really that fun (or wasn't it though, because it is literally just a lazy rip-off from another popular modern day mobile game). There's also a Battle for Neighborville shooter game, but again, I have no proper device to play that though.

To wrap up this particular section of this category, "Which Plants vs. Zombies game that you're playing these days?" Well, I only play both of the standard games, yet the Plants vs. Zombies 2 is my most played game that I ever play nowadays... Again, even with all of those game modes and certain other messes that they recently added since more than dozens of it's own updates, but it depends on which one that I play per every single day, otherwise I would ended up having some sort of total seizure or severe burnout if I keep addictive over them for way too long.

B. Collectible stuffs from them...

Moving on to the collectible stuffs from this exact franchise. Pretty sure you might recognize all of my Plants vs. Zombies collectible stuffs that I featured on various sources that I made that involved them, including this exact Blogspot that I own here. BTW, I actually have plenty of those collectible stuffs, and few of them are exactly the ones that I always wanted the most (which majority of them are just plants). However, since around the time before the pandemic era begins, I somehow decided to stop hunting them on various online marketplaces, just like what I clearly stated about how come if I decided to do so in bunch of my previous articles about them.

Even though I already explained this numerous times in bunch of my aforementioned articles before, but from what I could sum up over them, I had to stop hunting them because there are no more of my favorite sets of (mostly) figure sets from certain official toy companies who used to license this exact franchise, except for majority of those that are directly made in China, instead of made in China but distributed exclusively for certain official toy companies outside China (for this case, USA)... Yes, I have several of my figure sets that are directly made in China, but that didn't hype me that much unlike most of those ones that I always wanted just before, considered if most people from our country would purchase those of the mad common Chinese sets from various online marketplaces for relatively cheap price (including those plushies, too).

For now, I still don't bother to hunt any of those Plants vs. Zombies collectible stuffs yet since the last ones that I acquired back in 2022. Even though I was able to check on what's left on those of my favorite figures from themselves (especially on certain international online marketplaces such as e-Bay, Amazon, and so on), but that definitely will cost WAY more costly than before, thanks to the combination of extreme inflation, extreme international shipping overall charges between two countries (or more), and extreme tax charges... So, that's basically it, I doubt it if I can acquire those of my favorite collectible stuffs from themselves anymore since the last one that I ever acquired in 2017, but I also highly doubt it if there will be another miracle that may happen in the future when it comes to this as well since that one that popular YouTuber who reviewed them back in those days literally gifted most of them to me for pure free (except for bit of tax charges).

C. Conclusion

With the current state of how both P**pC**p and Electronic F***s has fatal errors when it comes to treating this 15 year old franchise nowadays, I absolutely don't think if I can enjoy this exact franchise as excited like I used to. Either I express them by casually playing those games, or collecting any of the collectible stuffs from themselves, I obviously have no clue about when this will eventually last, because there are lot of other stuffs that are much more enjoyable than just enjoying this old franchise for sure... Even though this is in fact the unfortunate reality of the franchise itself since all of those failures of their last games that they ever released, but I still keep to enjoy it even with all of those weird disasters occurring. Otherwise, if this particular franchise will vanish entirely thanks to their greediness behind it (sooner or later; because why not, thanks Electronic F***s), I will definitely leaving this whole franchise in tears, because TBH, there is no franchise that will able to replace this one, unless if I already too much addictive over many of those popular modern day mobile games that everybody would play these days, which they somehow neglected this specific franchise entirely.

To wrap up this entire article, do I leave this exact franchise? Well, it's definitely a total dilemma when it comes to directly answering it in general, considering if I still play those games and collecting collectible stuffs from themselves, albeit in much less amount of time and quantity, respectively; unlike what I used to enjoy back from roughly around a decade ago, preferably from 2013 until roughly 5 years later. Those were definitely the best old times when it comes to enjoying this exact franchise for sure, due to the fact there were lot of potentials from this franchise, either from the games themselves, or even the collectible stuffs from various official toy companies themselves who used to license it (well, even if many of those cheapo Chinese sets were existed since then through various of their forms, even after all these years until today)... But now, since the whole franchise itself is in destroyed state thanks to them both, all I got from them nowadays are pretty much ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on my bare hands. Even though I still able to play it casually, but I already lost my hope on the whole franchise, yet I also don't even care about how's the future of this whole franchise for next following years... Just like one of my previous articles that I made particularly about it, only the time will tell about the actual truth of this specific franchise if they still care about it. On the other hand though, I don't think if they actually have a plan to deliberately vanish them if they already lose their profits over this specific franchise anyway (again, because why not, thanks Electronic F***s).

If you have your own short story regarding to the current situation of this exact franchise as a whole, feel free to write your own aforementioned story in the comments section if you're able to. Anyway, that's it for what I could particularly say about this, but I don't think this will be my last article that explained about this exact franchise for sure... As always, thanks for reading this article, and hope you can pay attention regarding to this specific situation of it in general.