maintaining the legacy with my old Plants vs. Zombies toys and mini figures...

It's been a long time since I featured all of those old Plants vs. Zombies toys and mini figures that I own for years, so it's time to explain about how I maintain the legacy specifically with themselves. Since I do live in the country where it has really high humidity yet I constantly "play" with them instead of keeping them in their storage or display, resulting by how come if most of them suddenly had some wear and tear on them. Without further ado, let me explain about those figures that already suffered from the way how they withstand against it.

Before I begin, I exclude most of those Chinese mini figure sets that I also own, since they seem to survive just okay overall since I purchased them. As for the ones that they suffer from those issues apart from the fact they already accumulated quite amount of dusts on majority of them, here are my examples about them:

A. 2013 KFC Plants vs. Zombies toys (ID)

All 3 plants (such as Peashooter on Pumpkin, Cabbage-pult, and 🌻) do share their own issue where their own black eyes are easy to be erased by simply touching them any objects in the slightest touch. Because of this, I had to DIY fix one of them with the combination of the black marker and correction pen, though it obviously make the appearance of it looks slightly uglier than how it should. This also applied to the green eyebrows on the Cabbage-pult, but since I already learned the lesson with the exact same toy that I borrowed from one of my old friend's house in 2014, I have to be very careful when it comes to "playing" with it in general.

As for the 🌻, the bottom part of her stem already has some light stressing marks on it due to the way how I tried to connect her stem to the original base, since it's so loose every single time.

B. 2014 KFC Plants vs. Zombies 2 toys (ID)

All of them do seem to survive just reasonably okay, except for both of these moments that I mentioned here:

• I lost the "🔥" disc projectile that originally came with the Snapdragon, and
• I broke the inner workings of that iconic walkable Zombie toy since roughly a decade ago

Even with both of those aforementioned moments, but all of them still survive just like so, except with slight wear on each of them.

C. K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies

This one is possibly the weirdest one when it specifically comes to react against our country's high humidity. The fact I also "play" with most of those plant characters that I always wanted back then, they led to their weird issues which most of them couldn't able to fix them by myself. Apart from their original pieces that were loose overtime, here are more examples about the issues themselves:

• Weird darkening issues on their own original paints, specifically occurred on certain plant characters with solid plastics like Peashooter, Snow Pea, Cabbage-pult, and Garden Warfare/Garden Warfare 2 version of Peashooter. Unfortunately, those aren't fixable unless if I have to bring each of them to the paint workshop in order to make them "bright" again.
• Just like those of my old 2013 KFC Plants vs. Zombies toys, most of them do have their own similar issues where their own original prints are easy to be erased with the slightest touch from any objects (for example, 🌻's face, Peashooter or Snow Pea's black eyes, Bloomerang's face and his own boomerang's petal accents, 🌹's mouth [and possibly her eyes], and so on).
• Some light stressing marks that already occurred on most of them, such as 🌻's stem, 🌹's feet, and so on.
• Cracks on the bottom "leafy" part of my Fire Peashooter, since it clearly made using a translucent plastic, therefore it's partially hard to mount it on any of those Lego or any of those popular Chinese building block plates with ease anymore.
• Even if I saved my Kernel 🌽 on the storage (for this case, a small jar), it strangely has some tiny bit of black spots on it's own yellow 🌽 parts (possibly some sort of mold spots, especially for his head).

Because of all of those issues, I had to DIY fix it to most of them depending on how difficult I could able to restore each of their appearance, otherwise I just simply accepted their fate (since all of them are obviously nowhere to be possible to search each of their identical replacements in case if I accidently break or lose each of them, even if they're already flawed to begin with since they produced them from an unknown factory in China).

D. Other figures...

That one cheap static Plants vs. Zombies 2 Grave Buster mini figure that I got since 2014, it has it's own issue where it suddenly separated both the top part and bottom part of it due to the fact I accidently dropped it to the floor multiple times, though it's still easy to be fixable by simply gluing both of those pieces together.

Well then, there you have it for the way how I maintain the legacy with those of my following old Plants vs. Zombies toys and mini figures that I particularly have for years. If you have your own story related to this, be sure to write your own short story in the comments section if you're able to. Anyway, that's basically it from what I could particularly say over this, and as always, thanks for reading this exact article. 

My favorite stuffs from Plants vs. Zombies shooter games...

Even though if I clearly only play standard Plants vs. Zombies tower defense games on various of my devices that I own, but since I also watch various of Plants vs. Zombies shooter gameplay videos on YouTube by various YouTubers who uploaded them since my childhood, I decided to create this particular article here because I also interested by all of those contents that are available on each of the games themselves, ranging from the characters themselves from both plant and zombie sides, until all the way to the IRL merchandises that were once existed back in those days. So, as usual, let's take a look about the particular topic that this particular article's title clearly says, shall we?

A. Characters

There are lot of characters from both plant and zombies sides across three games that are my favorites from certain aspects that I decided to list them here (though not all of them that I enjoy though), so those are:

1. Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

a. Plants

• Peashooter
• Ice Pea ❄
• Agent Pea
• Law Pea
• Plasma Pea
• Chomper
• Fire Chomper 🔥
• Count Chompula
• Sunflower
• Fire Flower 🔥
• Mystic Flower
• Sun Pharaoh
• Alien Flower
• Cactus
• Power Cactus ⚡
• Future Cactus
• Citrus Cactus*

b. Zombies

• Foot Soldier
• Super Commando
• Tank Commander
• Arctic Trooper ❄
• Engineer
• Welder 🔥
• Mechanic
• Plumber
• Sanitation Expert
• Scientist
• Marine Biologist
• Astronaut
• Paleontologist 🔥
• All Star
• Rugby Star
• Golf Star

* means promotional characters

2. Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

Example of Rose variants, which 3 of them are listed below... (Courtesy: Twothless' YouTube channel [though most of them are from Plants vs. Zombies Fandom/Wiki GG too])

Note : Many of those returning characters from the first Garden Warfare aren't included in this list (excluding those of the promotional characters), because they all look exactly the same, except for their designs and certain buffs or nerfs that were occurred on most of those characters through many of those patch notes that were once available per each of those updates from their first one from the first Garden Warfare until all the way to their last one from it's sequel that they did.

a. Plants

• Electro Pea ⚡
• Disco Chomper
• Unicorn Chomper
• Twilight Chomper
• Stuffy Flower
• Petrified Cactus
• Citron
• Frozen Citron ❄
• Iron Citron
• Party Citron
• Rose
• Frost Rose ❄
• Party Rose
• Nec'Rose
• Kernel Corn
• Pops Corn
• Party Corn
• Commando Corn
• Torchwood 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

b. Zombies

• Scuba Soldier
• Roadie Z
• Computer Scientist
• Moto-X Star
• Imp
• Pylon Imp
• S.H.R.Imp
• Party Imp
• Z7 Imp
• Super Brainz
• Toxic Brainz 
• Party Brainz
• Breakfast Brainz
• Captain Deadbeard
• Captain Cannon
• Captain Partyman
• Hover-Goat 3000

3. Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville

a. Plants

• Peashooter
• Kernel Corn
• Snapdragon
• Acorn (and Oak)
• Citron
• Sunflower
• Rose
• Wildflower

b. Zombies

• Foot Soldier
• Imp
• Super Brainz
• 80s Action Hero
• Space Cadet (and Space Station)
• Captain Deadbeard
• Scientist
• Wizard
• TV Head

B. Character abilities

Through three different games themselves, there are bunch of those character abilities from both plant and zombie sides that are my favorites (though not all of them that I listed here, especially for those ones that are from Battle for Neighborville [which they're somewhat obscure to tell]), so those are:

1. Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and it's sequel...

a. Plants

• Peashooter : Chili Bean Bomb, Hyper, Pea Gatling, and Sombrero Bean Bomb
• Chomper : Goop, Burrow, Spikeweed, and Vampweed (Garden Warfare 2 only)
• Sunflower : Heal Beam, Heal Flower, and Solar Flare Beam
• Cactus : Potato Mine, Garlic Drone, and Iron Maiden (including it's bling version, thanks to that one YouTuber's joke about it)
• Citron (including in his ball form) : E.M.Peach, Peel Shield, Mood Shield, Hyper Ball, and Spin Dash
• Rose : Arcane Enigma and Arcane Lotus
• Kernel Corn : Husk Hop, Shuck Shot, and Bigger Better Butter
• Torchwood : Blazing Blast

b. Zombies

• Foot Soldier : ZPG, Rocket Leap, and Super Stink Cloud
• Engineer : Sonic Grenade, Zombot Drone (Garden Warfare only), Rocket Drone (Garden Warfare only), and Jackhammer
• Scientist : Warp, Zombie Heal Station, Energy Warp, and Mega Heal Bomb
• All Star : Imp Punt, Sprint Tackle, and Future Dummy (Garden Warfare 2 only)
• Imp (as himself) : Gravity Grenade and Impkata
• Super Brainz : Heroic Kick and Super Ultra Ball
• Captain Deadbeard : Barrel Blast and Parrot Pal
• Hover-Goat 3000 : Damage Buff Booster Beam and Mega Awesome Laser

c. Imp and each of his respective variant's Z-Mechs...

• Z-Mech and Party Mech : Missile Madness
• Drake Mech : Dragon Swoop
• Pylon Mech (and it's bling version) : Pylon Mine
• S.H.R.Imp Mech : Shrimp Jump
• Z7 Mech : Zomni-Blade
• Scallywag Mech : Crusty Gigabomb and Peg Leg Kata

2. Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville

a. Plants

• Peashooter : Chili Bean Bomb, Pea Gatling, and Pea Suped
• Chomper : Grody Goop, Burrow, and Spikeweed
• Kernel Corn : Husk Hop and Shuck Shot
• Nightcap : Fung Fu
• Snapdragon : Swoop Slam and Blazing Trail
• Citron : E.M.Peach and Navel Laser
• Cactus : Potato Mine and Garlic Drone
• Acorn and Oak : Sap Trap, Super Sap Trap, and Roll for Damage
• Sunflower : Sunny Side Up and Heal Beam
• Rose : Jinx and Arcane Enigma
• Wildflower : Weed Out

b. Zombies

• Foot Soldier : ZPG
• Super Brainz : Hyper Jump Thump
• Imp (and his Z-Mech) : Gravity Grenade, Impkata, and Missile Madness
• 80s Action Hero : Can't Missile and Dynamite Dodge
• Electric Slide : Outta Fight!
• All Star : Sprint Tackle and Imp Punt
• Captain Deadbeard : Barrel Blast and Parrot Pal
• Space Cadet (and her Space Station) : Big Bang Beam and Crater Maker
• Scientist : Warp and Healing Hose
• Engineer : Bullhorn Swarm and Heavy Helper
• Wizard : Co-star and Spell Disaster
• TV Head : Yeti, Set, Go!

C. Maps

Through three different games themselves, there are plenty of those locations that are my favorites (though not all of them that I listed here, especially for those ones that are from Battle for Neighborville [which they're somewhat obscure to tell]), so those are:

1. Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

a. Multi game modes

• Garden Center
• Zomboss Estate
• Suburban Flats
• Port Scallywag
• Crash Course
• Jewel Junction

b. Gardens & Graveyards

• Main Street
• Driftwood Shores
• Cactus Canyon

2. Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

a. Multi game modes

• Z-Tech Factory
• Zen Peak
• Frosty Creek
• Boney Island
• Sandy Sands
• Frontline Flats

b. Turf Takeover

• Seeds of Time
• Great White North
• Moon Base Z
• Zombopolis

3. Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville

a. Multi game modes

• Town Center
• Ruiny Ruins
• Mount Steep
• Funderdome

b. Turf Takeover

• Turning Point
• Goopy Gully
• Peachy District
• Preserve Pastures

D. Ports

Even though I still clearly don't have any physical copies of (at least) one of those games and proper device to play them since then, but if I want to play them, the PC port is definitely the one that I'm looking for. However, since there are lot of total hacker problems in PC version of Garden Warfare 2 since last several years since the entire game's initial launch (excluding those of the genuine mods by several of their respective genuine authors out there), the console version is also my good option. Also, the Switch version of Battle for Neighborville is possibly my good option as well.

E. IRL merchandises...

Believe or not, since I also centering around the IRL merchandises of the franchise as a whole (both from the standard tower defense games section and shooter games section), there were plenty of official IRL merchandises that were existed somewhere from several years ago, which those were Diamond Select Toys, Minimates, Funko Pop, Jazwares, and K'NEX, respectively. So, those ones that are my favorites are:

1. Diamond Select Toys

• Scientist and Peashooter (in his Pea Gatling ability)*
• All Star and Shadow Flower*
• Foot Soldier and Camo Cactus*
• Marine Biologist and Toxic Pea*
• Goalie Star and Sunflower*
• Captain Deadbeard and Kernel Corn**
• Super Brainz and Rose**
• Disco Zombie and Peashooter**

* means it was based from the Garden Warfare.
** means it was based from the Garden Warfare 2.

2. Minimates

Even though there were bunch of them that packed inside those blisters, but I spotted few of them that were my favorites, so those were:

a. Plants

• Peashooter
• Fire Pea
• Sunflower
• Shadow Flower
• Kernel Corn
• Rose

b. Zombies

• Foot Soldier
• Scientist
• Captain Deadbeard
• Super Brainz

3. Funko Pop

AFAIK, Funko Pop only released just a single Super Brainz figure. Though it wasn't my favorite, but the design of it was great overall.

4. Jazwares

Believe or not, Jazwares did release some of the figure sets that were based from the shooter games section, specifically from Garden Warfare 2. Though those weren't as memorable as their tower defense game's counterparts which they used to produce and manufacture them initially since 2012, but I spotted couple of them that were my favorites. So, those sets were:

• Captain Deadbeard and Parrot Pal, and
• that one box which contained 6 certain figures like Peashooter, Chomper, Kernel Corn, Foot Soldier, Imp, and Captain Deadbeard, respectively.

5. K'NEX

Courtesy: SquirrelStampede's YouTube channel

Courtesy: SquirrelStampede's YouTube channel

And finally, those ones that I always excited the most since 2014, which were those of the K'NEX ones. Similarly to the Jazwares, they also used to release those characters from the shooter games section right after they initially released those ones that were from the tower defense games section, specifically based off Plants vs. Zombies 2 judging by their designs... Since I own most of those figures since I got them from a while ago, I spotted plenty of them that were my favorites, which majority of them were the plant characters (because why not, every zombie characters just simply didn't come with their primary weapons, except Super Brainz [since he is a melee character class]). Anyway, those figures were:

a. Series 4 blind bags

• Kernel Corn
• Rose
• Citron
• Peashooter
• Super Brainz

b. Series 5 and 6 blind bags

Note : Kernel Corn, Rose, and Citron aren't included in this particular list, because they all look exactly the same.

• Power Flower
• Plasma Pea

c. Small building sets...

Courtesy: SquirrelStampede's YouTube channel (which was the one that featured me in there...)

I would choose that Crazy Targets one, since that set was the only one that exclusively featured that Sunflower, albeit it also obviously came with the Foot Soldier with that weird looking ZPG... That Boat Blast building set was also my favorite thanks to the presence of that Peashooter, although I was so utterly disappointed by how awful the building set itself looked.

6. Others...

a. Limited edition figure of Z7 Imp in his mech...

Similarly to that Funko Pop Super Brainz figure, it also wasn't my favorite, but the design of it was great though.

b. Bootleg figures...

Of course those of the bootleg ones were existed, although they were rare to come by, unlike those of the mad common ones that were from the tower defense games section. Despite it's existence, I spotted few of them that were my favorites, which were those of the cheap knockoff version of the Diamond Select Toys ones.

Before I wrap up this entire article, do you have your own memories when it comes to playing those of the Plants vs. Zombies shooter game trilogy? Or even collecting those figure sets from those games instead? If so, feel free to share your own story in your comments section if you still remembered them though. Anyway, that's basically it for what I could share particularly about my favorite stuffs from Plants vs. Zombies shooter games as a whole, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article.

FAQs: my childhood YouTube stuffs...

Believe or not, I watched any kinds of YouTube videos particularly since 2012. Although the ones that I'm watching right now are basically just the ones that resembles to what I usually upload on both of my own YouTube channels that I have, but there were even more of YouTube videos of any kind that I ever watched particularly since then... Without further ado, let me answer them into this sort of frequently asked question essays, ranging from the common ones, until all the way to bunch of those specific ones that are related to both of my own YouTube channels. So, here are my essays particularly about them, right away.

Q : What was your very first YouTube videos that you ever watched in general?

A : My very first YouTube videos that I ever watched were various videos of drum band parades performed by various schools (mainly junior high schools and senior high schools) in Rantepao (North Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia). Those videos were originally recorded specifically several days after our entire country's 62th independence day (August 17th, 2007)... Those were also my very first YouTube videos which I also downloaded them from the internet, and surprisingly I still keep most of them, although those were got deleted from YouTube later on since around a decade ago. 🥁

Q : Did you ever watch that legendary Jawed's "Me at the zoo" video that he uploaded back in 2005?

A : Unfortunately, no I didn't.

Q : How did you able to watch YouTube videos initially in those times specifically from then?

A : I used to watch them casually using a browser on my very first laptop, which I connected to the internet using a (some sort of) painfully slow USB modem that always didn't deliver it's own internet access very well... Even though I also used to have my very first smartphone, but that also wasn't really that reliable to do so, because I always opened the browser instead of the YouTube app itself.

Q : What was your very first YouTube gaming videos that you ever watched in general?

A : If I guessed that right, both of the original game trailers of Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies, respectively... That also applied to most of the retro gaming videos too, because the fact I used to play some of those NES or Famicom games on my old Famiclone that I used to own (which the one that I used to have was the one that shaped like original Playstation 1), and so for those of the bootleg Game Boy Advance multicarts that contained hundreds of NES or Famicom games that I also used to play them on my old original Game Boy Advance. 🎮

Q : What was your very first YouTube music videos that you ever watched or listened?

A : This might be a tricky question, but my very first YouTube music videos that I ever watched or listened were various of music covers from one of my favorite dangdut koplo bands in our whole country that were existed in those days (specifically from East Java province), though those videos were deleted due to the obvious copyright infringement... As for any foreign music tracks that I ever listened, those of the 009 Sound System songs were also the inclusions for this too, since I watched many of those electric fan videos, most of the people used to equip random songs from themselves in those days (which YouTube obviously demonetized them anyway, including most of mine as well).🎶

Q : What was your very first YouTube animation videos (of any kind) that you ever watched?

A : Those of the earliest Alan Becker's creations of his famous animated cartoon videos, followed by FunVideoTV's 3D fanmade animation videos of their own Angry Birds stuffs.

Q : What was your very first YouTube channel that you ever subscribed?

A : Rfm vs Games, because the fact I started enjoying Plants vs. Zombies franchise since then, I also decided to watch YouTube videos in it's days by subscribing him thanks to his entertaining contents that were relevant to the aforementioned franchise itself.🎮

Q : What was your very first YouTube electric fan video that you ever watched in general?

A : "World's Loudest Ceiling Fan".

Q : What was your very first YouTube electric fan videos by some collectors and enthusiasts that you ever watched in general?

A : There were plenty of those that I watched since then, especially that one ceiling fan collection video by a fan collector who used to live in a trailer park filled with themselves... However, certain people such as Vintage Fans & More (formerly known as Cole S.), Dan "Spiffy" Neuman, and Pankaat (that one fan collector from UAE) were the ones that I always recognized the most until today.

Q : What was your very first YouTube electric fan videos specifically from your country that wasn't from your own?

A : From what I remembered since then, those of TheeXtremeFanEnthusiast's first electric fan videos that he uploaded in the late of 2013. Not only just that, I also watched bunch of electric fan videos by a guy who lives in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia (unfortunately, his old channel got deleted later on in favor of his current one that exists since few years ago [though some of his friends were able to retrieve some of his old footages of themselves]).

Q : What was your very first YouTube smashing stuff video that you ever watched in general?

A : That one Beno's video of him smashing a desk fan and messing around with it's own 220v/50Hz AC motor that came with it, simple as that.🔨

Q : What was your very first YouTube smashing stuff channels that you ever subscribed?

A : Garret Claridge and Shawn K... For Garret Claridge's case, it's because it was my very first YouTube smashing stuff channel that I ever subscribed thanks to his unique contents of mainly blowing speakers and smashing random items (though most of them were vintage electronics though, so yeah)... Meanwhile, as for the Shawn K's case, I was impressed by the way how he and Matt smashed random electronic items in their own entertaining way which caused I sometimes laughed every single time I watched his destruction videos (though they both also ever destroyed certain random vintage electronic items, especially for that Macintosh Classic II that they both did in 2013, but it's okay I guess).🔨

Q : What was your very first YouTube toy review videos that you ever watched?

A : Probably the reviews of those of the Jazwares sets of the original Plants vs. Zombies mini figure sets (both blister packs and blind bags). Those were existed right when K'NEX mini figure sets of themselves still yet to be existed until roughly around a year later... Not sure for other franchises like Angry Birds though.

Q : What was your very first YouTube bootleg toy review videos that you ever watched?

A : Those reviews of the weird, cheap bootleg Plants vs. Zombies mini figure brick sets, including plenty of those that ripped off their packaging from K'NEX.

Q : What was your very first YouTube device review videos of any kind that you ever watched?

A : I believe it was that Ashens' video of reviewing that exact fake iPhone 4, called "Airphone 4", followed by most of his "Pop Station" mini LCD handheld games that he reviewed too... Bootleg devices aside, I couldn't remember my very first YouTube's official device review videos that I ever watched though (including those that are particularly available from our entire country too).

Q : Apart from electric fans, toys, gaming stuffs, music, marching or drum band stuffs, smashing stuffs, and hardware reviews...... What was your first random YouTube videos that weren't from those of the aforementioned categories that you ever watched?

A : Somewhere around a decade ago, I used to watch various random YouTube videos that weren't from those of the said categories; those were abandoned places videos, random compilation videos, random skit videos, random documentary videos, and so on.

Well then, there you have it for my frequently asked question essays particularly about my own childhood YouTube stuffs. If you have your own good old memories regarding to this particular article, feel free to share your own story in the comments section if you still recognized them though from your own perspective. That's it for what I could particularly say about this particular topic, and cheers!

My mini ceiling fans that were once existed on my collection...

It's been a while since I made bunch of my YouTube fan videos of themselves, so it's time for explaining about those of my mini ceiling fans that were once existed on my collection. However, all of them had their own stories per each of those, which I ended up got rid each of them for good (except for one of them which it simply lost). Without further ado, let me list all of those aforementioned mini ceiling fans that I'm referring to, right away.

1. Another Elitesat FC-08-50 500mm

First off, you may recognize this exact blue Elitesat mini ceiling fan which I featured bunch of times on my YouTube channel already, but I actually used to have another identical Elitesat mini ceiling fan, and that one was my very first mini ceiling fan that I ever purchased in my life back in 2008, followed by this one. It worked similarly as this one, except it was slightly less wobbly compared to this one too... It initially used to mount in the living room of that house (and so for this one), but then I decided to move it in two different bedrooms of that house (and so for this one too). However, during the mini renovation of my childhood house where I used to born in there, I accidently forgot about where I temporarily saved both of these while both of them were dismantled from the ceiling (including this one), therefore I lost that one, which means this one was the only one that remained until one of it's own original blades broke off and lost. I had no clue about how come if I accidently lost that particular one, but I also feel sad for not keeping that with me.

2. Extend 700mm

After I purchased both of those Elitesat mini ceiling fans, I also purchased this one. It was also my very first mini ceiling fan that was larger than 500mm, although the color of it was roughly the same (albeit it was brighter). It worked perfectly fine, and it generated averagely the same amount of air delivery as both of those Elitesats were, except it was slightly less. Everything about it was okay until I decided to mount it in the kitchen of my childhood house, right after I used to mount it in the living room of that house first... Due to the intense heat of the kitchen itself, it caused all of it's own blades broke off so easily by itself. So that was basically it, I wasn't even able to glue it's own brittle blades probably due to they simply lost right when they broke per each of them while it was operating, which I also ended up trashing it later on.

3. Meet 500mm

Well, after roughly 5 years since I purchased both of those Elitesats and Extend, I finally purchased my very first mini ceiling fan that wasn't in blue color, which was this one. It did generate fairly good amount of air thanks to slightly steeper blade pitch that it had compared to those of my aforementioned blue mini ceiling fans that I purchased a while before, except for that one hiccupping problem while it was hanging in the living room of that house. This problem literally lasted until one of it's own blades broke off by itself. Due to the weird state of it, there was no way to fix it which I ended up trashing it later on, except for one of it's own blades which I used it on that remaining Elitesat there in those times.

4. Sivicom FC-08-50 (SV-500) 500mm

Not too long after I purchased that Meet, I also purchased this one simply because of how different it looked compared to the average mini ceiling fans that were available on sale in those times. Although this one was cheaper than that Meet, it worked perfectly fine without hiccupping problems, and it generated reasonably good amount of air with it's own original white blades (it's because this was the old version of it, meanwhile for the newer versions have turquoise blades)... During those times in my childhood house, it initially used to mount in the living room of that house. However, after I moved out from that house, it eventually moved into one of the bedrooms (which used to be my bedroom of that house), until I decided to pluck it with me and mount it in the kitchen of my previous house, and then one of the family's relative's replaced it with the Oshaky in that exact room of my childhood house.

During those times in my previous house, it managed to last for approximately 6 years before it stopped working suddenly by itself. Well, after it stopped working specifically like so, I let my dad to take it down, but for some reason he decided to do so by passing it's own motor to the top part of the wood travers of the asbestos roof above that house's back porch, which caused the it's own motor housing got dented severely. Although I was able to salvage it's own original blades, but I was once used it as a horizontal windmill by removing some parts of it's own synchronous motor, except I used Jiamei blades on it. It was all that fun until a random squirrel that came from nowhere accidently dropped it while it was hanging, which caused all of the Jiamei blades that I equipped on it got destroyed to bunch of small mosaic pieces, right when it got impacted to the concrete. Due to the state of it after that exact accident, I ended up trashing the motor itself later on.

5. Bright-G FC-08-50 (BG-500) 500mm

Some of you may recognize this exact Bright-G mini ceiling fan that I purchased specifically back in 2015, which I mounted it in the back porch of my previous house along with my other mini ceiling fans that I used to mount in there. Judging by the classic style of it, it was a new old stock fan according to one of the online fellow fan enthusiasts... As for the fan itself, it worked perfectly fine and generated fairly good amount of air. However, instead of keeping it with me like the rest of my mini ceiling fans that I'm currently own, I decided to give it away for free to my vocational high school in order to install it in the canteen of that school (don't ask me about how come if I did so). However, some of the senior students didn't able to connect it's own cable properly, which they ended up trashing it instead in that location, including about how come if they also destroyed those blades too. 🤦‍♂️

6. Bright-G FD-10-70E 700mm

Believe or not, this one was purchased initially by my dad in order to mount this in his main workplace first until it's own original blades broke off (which for that case, in order to replace one of the Jiamei mini clip fans in there)... After all of it's own blades broke off, he was able to find another nearly identical blade set that perfectly fit of it by simply glued all of them on it. Then, he asked me in order to bring it home from his personal workplace, and I decided to mount it in the kitchen of my previous house in 2021. It worked just alright, except it used to have all of that squeaking and grinding noises while it's operating until I was able to fix it by oiling it's own synchronous motor. Everything about it was okay until the time where I moved out from there in 2023, I had to take it down even with it's own daily beater condition that it particularly had (because my mom always turned it on while she used to cook in there). After I moved out from there, I was once attempted to remove it's own brittle blades out from it (and so for cleaning it), but I ended up breaking them instead due to the difficulty of me tried to do so with all of it's own blades that he glued into it. Due to the horrible state that it specifically had, unfortunately I decided to trash it away.

Before I wrap up this article, here are two random fans that were once existed but then I got rid of each of them later on, except I didn't purchase both of these in the first place (though one of them wasn't even from my collection anyway). So, both of those fans were:

• Unknown black-red oldie 500mm : This one was originally purchased by my cousin back in ~2005 (if I guessed that right), and it used to mount in one of the bedrooms of my childhood house before he and his parents moved into his current house (including this fan by installing it on his bedroom). It lasted for approximately 7 years before it broke off and replaced by that 500mm Shukaku SKU MF-50, however I was once able to pluck it from his current house and use it as a display of my mini ceiling fan collection in my previous house, even if all of it's own red blades were lost already. Due to the fact it was broken since then, I just got rid of it right when I moved out from my previous house.
• Jiamei JM-590 700mm : This one was originally purchased by one of my family's relative's from my mom's side in early of 2016 in order to mount it inside my grandma's bedroom of my childhood house. After she was deceased in 2017, my dad eventually used this fan in his main workplace, in order to replace his HTC industrial ceiling fan with it a year later. It lasted for few years before it stopped working by itself. I was able to salvage it's own blades, but unfortunately he decided to trash the motor itself later on.

Well then, there you have it for those mini ceiling fans that were once existed on my collection, but then I had to get rid each of them for good due to each of the reasons that I already mentioned above (except for one of them, which it was simply lost). If you have your own good old memories 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.

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.

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.