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!

Marching/drum band stuffs...❔ 🥁🎺 (ID)

Believe or not, I was an ex-marching band player. Although it only lasted only on 3 schools where I used to study in each of them which had their own marching or drum bands, such as my 2 separate kindergartens, and my old primary school. However, I'm not gonna tell you about how come if I decided to stop doing so during I was in my primary school by all of the sudden, it's because that would be my "top secret" to totally expose the truth about why... Speaking about the marching/drum band in general though, I also had lot of experience of watching marching/drum band displays or parades performed by various schools (or certain institutes, albeit it is insanely rare to invite at least one of those particularly in my hometown where I do live since I was born in here), until all the way about how I simply watch any of them on YouTube. Without further ado, let me categorize into 3 different sections, which are from those of my old schools, watching parades or displays in person, and watching many of those YouTube videos of them.

A. Marching/drum bands from your old schools? 🥁🎺

As what I clearly stated just earlier, I was an ex-marching band player from those 3 aforementioned old schools where I used to study back in those days per each of them. Except, I used to wield one of the percussion instruments only, rather than certain of those melodica or brass instruments though. As for the percussion instruments that I was referring to, I only used to wield mainly snare drums, simply because it was an easy percussion instrument that I ever played since those of my childhood days in my very first kindergarten until those days in my old primary school IMO (albeit the one in my primary school was obviously more advanced for sure).

As for the display and parades from one of them (for this case, my old primary school, because why not), here are both of my notable moments about each of them both:

• Display : I remembered that time when I and several of my old friends used to perform our drum band display that was held in someone's senior high school in order to win a display competition against many other marching/drum bands from various other primary schools around my entire hometown. Even though we eventually got the second place, but it was highly amazing experience to say the least.
• Parade : The word itself is pretty much self-explanatory in general (because this one was obviously more common than the display), although I remembered the time when I was totally exhausted while the parade itself was on-going, I had to take a break by sitting on my school's janitor's pedicab that was ridden by himself, alongside with the snare drum itself that I used to wield it with me for a moment (yep, the snare drum itself was somewhat heavy to me).🥁

B. Marching/drum band parades around your hometown? 🥁🎺

Moving on to how I watched various marching/drum band parades around my hometown, specifically performed by various schools (such as kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools, and senior/vocational high schools). Even though those were much more common to encounter them per each of them since my childhood per each of those days where the whole government used to host each of the aforementioned parade events themselves every once per year, but I remembered if our whole government from our hometown used to invite two special guest military style cadet drum bands into my hometown, which those were both Indonesian Naval Academy and Institute of Home Affairs, respectively. However, I didn't even watch the Indonesian Naval Academy's cadet drum band in person though (though they used to invite them twice), instead I used to briefly watch the Institute of Home Affairs one from more than a decade ago. The aforementioned drum band itself was exactly what I highly excited for, more so than those of the common marching/drum bands that were performed casually by various schools around my entire hometown (except for few of them that looked great IMO). Overall, I'm glad if I used to watch at least one of those cadet military style bands in person, but I highly doubt it if our current government from our hometown will able to invite another one of those anytime soon for now.

C. Marching/drum band videos on YouTube...🥁🎺

Of course if I ever watched many of those marching/drum band that were performed by various schools around my hometown where I do live, I also watch many YouTube videos of themselves too! However, I actually watched them since my childhood, back when I specifically used to briefly watch them from my old laptop or my very first smartphone. Even though it was painfully difficult to connect them both to the internet to begin with, at least I was able to watch my very first marching/drum band videos on YouTube, which were various marching/drum band parades from various schools in Rantepao, North Toraja, South Sulawesi (unfortunately, all of those old videos of them were deleted already, although I was able to download them though when they were available online from back then).

Surprisingly, right after roughly more than a decade without watching those YouTube videos of them, I decided to watch even more of them due to my boredom against all of my own stuffs that I'm currently enjoying them these days. Anyway, the list of the videos of them are:

• Various videos of popular cadet military style bands from our whole country (such as Indonesian Armed Forces Academy, Indonesian Naval Academy, Indonesian Air Force Academy, and Indonesian Police Academy). Others such as Institute of Home Affairs do count for this category, and so for many more cadet military/marching bands from certain other academics, polytechnics or universities (such as merchant marine polytechnic[s], land transport academy, defense university, etc.).

• Various videos of certain military style bands that are "inspired" their styles from those of the aforementioned popular cadet military bands from our whole country, including those that are from the senior cadet high schools and those of non-civil institutes.
• Many videos of those marching/drum bands performed by various schools around my hometown, although majority of them (except for kindergartens and most of the primary schools) are now using modern marching style bands instead of the classic ones.

• Some of the "cheapo" marching/drum band groups performed by certain small communities or simply by a small group of people, including those from my hometown where I do live.
• More videos of various marching/drum band parades and displays from various schools around the eastern part of our whole country (for this case, Rantepao [North Toraja, South Sulawesi], Baubau [Buton Islands, Southeast Sulawesi], and so on).

• Those of the "dance-able" marching/band groups, performed by bunch of those performers per each of the groups from rural areas in entire regency of Sukabumi (excluding the Sukabumi City), West Java.

• Some lyre cover videos, both from our country or outside our country. Heck, one of them used to cover my favorite video game's soundtracks too (for this case, some of the original Plants vs. Zombies soundtracks like Watery Graves [Pool level], Graze the Roof [Roof level], Brainiac Maniac [Dr. Zomboss battle], and Cerebrawl [Puzzle mode, both Vasebreaker and I, Zombie levels]). Not sure for any other videos with different melodica instruments besides lyre though (as for now).
• Bunch of marching/drum band groups performed by any foreign people who lives in their respective countries that aren't from our country, albeit I rarely watch them though besides most of those lyre cover videos that I mentioned just earlier (as for now).

Well, there you have it for my own story about the marching/drum band stuffs in general, ranging about how I used to perform in each of the marching/drum bands in those of my old schools where I used to study back in those days, then I used to watch all of those marching/drum band parades in my hometown where I do live, and how I still watch many of those YouTube videos of them since those good old days too. If you have your good old memories regarding to this exact topic (such as performing at least one of those in your own school[s], or probably remembering the time when your hometown's government used to invite one of those special military style cadet drum bands [if any]), feel free to share your own story in the comments section if you still recognize them though until today. 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 NON Peashooter mini figures...

After I made my article that clearly explained particularly about my favorite K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Peashooter mini figures, so it's time for explaining about my other favorite K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies plant mini figures that aren't Peashooters... I know if most of those figures weren't my personal favorites, but I spotted plenty of them that were also my favorites, so. Well then, let's take a look at those of the said figures of them, shall we?

According to what I clearly stated in one of my older articles that I made particularly back from almost 6 years ago, there were 4 of them that were my favorites (although one of them is now no longer my favorites), so those were:

1. Sunflower : Possibly one of my favorite Sunflower mini figures that I ever seen, although I still prefer that 2013 Indonesian KFC toy equivalent of the similar character. This was also the one and only Sunflower mini figure that had it's own ability where I was able to rotate her head 360 degree, unlike majority of toys and mini figures from various toy companies that featured her in each if the sets... That also applied to her Garden Warfare counterpart of the said character too (including one of her variants; for this case, it was Power Flower), but unfortunately I didn't have that one yet to this day (and so for that aforementioned variant of herself too, bummer).🌻
2. Bloomerang : This was possibly my most favorite K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies mini figure that wasn't Peashooter or any of his variants. Although I used to have one of those mad common cheap PVC mini figure equivalent of the similar character, but as soon as I acquired this one, I was so amazed by the design of it overall. Even though there was the Jazwares mini figure equivalent of the aforementioned character, but I still prefer this one because it somewhat had better versatility where I was able to flick his own "hockey stick" boomerang projectiles.
3. Cabbage-pult : Even though this used to be one of my favorites, especially about how I used to be a mad enthusiast with it instead of Peashooter and all of his variants... As for the figure itself, it was possibly one of my favorites where it simply had partially better appearance compared to one of those mad common cheap PVC mini figure equivalent of the similar character that I used to own.
4. Rose (Garden Warfare 2) : This was my favorite K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 mini figure that I ever acquired that wasn't the Peashooter or one of his variants that they featured (for this case, it was Plasma Pea), although it wasn't on the same level as that Peashooter would do. Design-wise, I know if this wasn't the greatest (which was lower tier than the Citron and Kernel Corn), but it is somewhat better versatility than that costly Diamond Select Toys figure equivalent of her... For some odd reason, the one that I specifically own had slightly better appearance compared to most people who owned it (especially for both of her eyes though, if I'm not mistaken), including several people who discovered them through many old YouTube reviews that featured them from a while back.🌹

(Video courtesy on the 📱 that I'm holding there: Puppet Steve's YouTube channel)

As for the other plant figures besides those that I clearly mentioned above, here are the honorable mentions of the rest of the plant mini figures about them:

• Wall-nut and Infi-nut : I decided to mention them both here because these were definitely my least favorite K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies plant figures that I ever seen so far, being the Infi-nut was the worse one between the two.
• Bonk Choy : Even though this one wasn't my personal favorite, but I'm pretty sure you used to excite over it, including the dark transparent green version of it too.
• Snapdragon : Again, even though this one wasn't my personal favorite, but some people out there would remember the time when they used to discover this exact character in one of the blind bag series, it was definitely the most dangerous K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies plant mini figure that they ever assembled.
• Laser Bean : Similarly to the previous 4 plants of the same reason, but I'm pretty sure most of the people would used to excite over it instead, either from that particular building set that exclusively featured it or one of the blind bag series.
• Coconut Cannon : Again, similarly to the previous 5 plants of the same reason, except it was only featured exclusively in the one and the only building set that featured him, so.🥥
• Kernel Corn (Garden Warfare 2) : Even though I own this one which isn't my personal favorites, but I had to admit if the design of the entire figure itself was definitely one of the greater ones that they ever designed and produced in general.🌽
• Citron (Garden Warfare 2) : Similarly to the Kernel Corn of the same reason, but with vastly greater design since this was the one and the only IRL figure of the aforementioned character itself that specifically existed in those times.🍊

Well then, there you have it for what I could particularly say over those old K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies mini figures of themselves, specifically for any other plant figures besides the Peashooter and all of his variants which I already mentioned in one of my articles that exposed about them from couple of months ago. Again, even though there are lot of those Chinese sets that are somewhat "inspired" most of their designs from them nowadays (excluding the ones from the shooter games section), but those of the said mini figures of themselves were still my personal favorites to this day, but still, the plastic quality of them weren't that great either... 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.

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.

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.

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.