Very surprisingly, I got these Plants vs. Zombies toys for FREE!!!

WARNING: Before you read this post, this is gonna be another sneak peek of My Plants vs. Zombies collection (part 4), albeit my Instagram pictures about them in my personal account already spoiled them completely...

Yes! And I'm not completely joking, now I got all 4 plants that came from this set based on this picture above here for free. There are several reasons why now I owned all 4 of those things, there is a story behind them. For the start about this story about it, I'm gonna show you a review video about them by a famous YouTuber here (I already know him a lot though):

Despite these toys are released back in the middle of 2017, I really wanted to get one plant that is my most favorite, albeit it looks pretty much different than the ones that I'm familiar with... Started off by messing around international online shops, especially e-Bay and it's local joint venture of it, but I failed to get one of those. Just like what I told to you in my previous post called I'm sorry, our Plants vs. Zombies lovers... :(, there are many reasons that I couldn't get that back then, after I got the basic one from the original game, straight during it was freshly packed in it's own blind bag. From various issues like buggy options, server issues, and so on... So it means, I couldn't get that thing permanently back then.

But... There was a miracle about those things. The famous YouTuber who made this video above here offered me to sent all 4 toys as a free gift to me via direct chat in a social media... I mean, yes, he literally sent those toys to me with that method after I met him straight after my "Hello!" word, and I'm very surprised! But it wasn't an easy task to do that, because it took almost 2 months of conversation between me and him to sent those things for free. After I showed him my home address to him and many reasons about why I couldn't get those things anymore (including that apologize post that I made and mentioned earlier), he sent that by packing them inside a big white bag. It took for at least 2 weeks for shipping it from USA to Indonesia, my country where I'm living in.

During the time where it arrived in my house, I was changing my outfit from the school uniform into one of my normal outfits that I always use everyday while in my house, then suddenly, there was a postman waited me in the terrace of my house. I opened the front door of my house, and he gave me the bag that contains them inside that caused me very surprised! I was afraid to open it, despite it contained one of my favorite plants inside. Then I contacted that famous YouTuber for the update of those things, and he also surprised as well. After I received the mail bag that contains it, my parents came and suspiciously thought it contained some forbidden drugs inside, but apparently it blatantly wasn't. I opened them, and there's my favorite plant packed inside the transparent bag... Not only that figure, there are several of other extra things of it that still packed inside their blind bags. So, here are the contents about the things that he sent them to me:

• Peashooter from K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 Series 4 figure (the plant that I always wanted), it was opened already and packed separately in the transparent bag. No original instructions of it though.
• 3 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 Series 4 blind bags. Each of them contains the other 3 plants besides the Peashooter that are bundled on this set.
• 6 K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Series 3 blind bags, each of them contains different figures such as Laser Bean, Snapdragon, another Fire Peashooter, Big Wave Beach Zombie, Adventurer Zombie, and Cave Zombie.

And here's a note from him:

Yep, you guessed it... He mentioned me from my Instagram account, instead of my Google accounts...

There you go! There's the note from him... In case you've wondering, why it mentioned "the squirrels" on it, because basically, he reviewed any of the toys or any action figures  on his YouTube channel with his squirrel toys with several names on the bottom of the note there... That's the main point about why this note mentioned those words on it, so. Okay, back to those Plants vs. Zombies toys... Unfortunately, I only keep all 4 plants from K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2, because they're look so original, and they look quite interesting, especially for the Peashooter, which caused me kissed it so much. The rest of them, I sell it online, because if I keep them in my collection, that would sounds too redundant, so. Even it has another one of my favorites, which is the Fire Peashooter, it's basically the same plant whatsoever that I got back in My Plants vs. Zombies collection (part 3). Unless he sent the regular Peashooter instead of it, I'd love to open it for the spare parts, due to one of K'NEX Plants vs. Zombies toys in my collection did have missing pieces, which was the same thing, but in frozen variant.

And basically that's it from what I received from him. I was totally happy to own some more of my Plants vs. Zombies toys, despite it wasn't an easy thing to get some of those things there. Unfortunately though, I do miss one more favorite plant that he didn't send it, due to he didn't have an extra figure of it, and it's basically the same plant that I always wanted like what he sent it to me here, except for different color, and it had newer K'NEX logo. So it means, that's the next of I'm sorry, our Plants vs. Zombies lovers topic thread.

Anyway, that's all of the story about all of those Plants vs. Zombies toys that I wanted here, and thanks for reading... Oh, be sure to check Instagram pictures about this post, right here:

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New peashooting plant has been entered on my collection! #peashooter#pvz#plantsvszombies#minifigure#pvzgw#pvzgw2#plantsvszombiesgardenwarfare#pvz2#plantsvszombiesgardenwarfare2#green#knex#new#mini

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Another new plant out from PVZGW2 blind bag... I'm not really a fan of it, but it's nice for an add-on PVZ mini figures in my collection... #pvzgw#pvzgw2#plantsvszombies#pvz#knex#minifigure#oy#toys#rose#figure#hobby#hobbies

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Here goes the other 2 plants out from their K'NEX PVZGW2 blind bags... Again, I'm not really a fan of them, but I opened and assembled them just for add-on figures, and now it's all complete for all 4 plants in this set... #plantsvszombies#pvz#pvz2#pvzgw#pvzgw2#figures#minifigure#minifigures#toys#citron#kernelcorn#knex#actionfigures#pvztoy#pvztoys#plantversuszombie

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Plants vs. Zombies 2: Summary of my devices...

As you may read both of my certain post, called Plants vs. Zombies 2: results on my devices and it's updated one, here is a summary of devices with this game on them. Each of them has different story, just like those two posts that I made before. So, here's the summary of them:

1. Cheap Advan T1Ci tablet

• Game runs very slow. In fact, the game runs five times (or maybe ten times) slower on this device, compared to playing it on premium devices. Playing any Endless Zone modes on this game was like a total nightmare, slow as hell, and the system didn't like it by crashing it down.
• Loading screen sometimes took at least 40 second, or even a minute or more.
• Since the game runs so slow, it had a lag during I pressed anything on it, about a millisecond, if I recalled it correct.
• The way how it crashed the game numerous times was embarrassingly, extremely bad. In the middle of the game, sometimes the game crashed by itself without any message at all. Sometimes it did have the typical "Unfortunately, PvZ 2 has stopped." message, but it rarely happened, it's just simply crashed without that message. Not only this game, the other apps that I tested, such as fake PvZ 2 game, original Plants vs. Zombies game, some high-quality games, and so on... Well, they didn't seem to work properly on this piece of crap. They simply crash, or either it worked but then it crashed, so that's IT!

2. Asus Zenfone 5

• Game runs slightly better than my piece of crap Advan T1Ci tablet. Although it did suffer from any slowdown. The tutorial of this game did work properly, but in the middle of the game, like Endless Zone modes, the game slowed down just like my old tablet there. In fact, it slowed down four times slower in the slowest speed of the game on this device.
• Loading screen sometimes took the same amount of time as my old tablet... A bit faster though, but sometimes it took about a minute or more.
• The lag during I pressed anything on the game is far less compared to my old tablet. However, it depended on how fast the device was, maybe relatively fast or slow as my old tablet.
• Unlike my old tablet, the way how the game crashed numerous times on this device was far more pleasant, with typical application crash message. However, it crashed on few ways, such as the game crashed after I did something on the game, the game crashed after the video of advertisement, and the game crashed after the game froze for about few seconds.
• In certain times of the game on this device, the game didn't open until I change the phone's language into English.

3. Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1

• Game runs... FAR better than previous two devices since it has a bigger RAM, which was three times bigger compared to the previous device. Everything runs fast like it should be, but it has few slowdown, such as playing Endless Zone modes with too many zombies, the game slowed down just like previous devices.
• The way how it launches the game, also FAR faster. First time I opened it, it has usual PopCap logo, then EA logo, loading screen... Boom, here goes for the game! After I opened the game for a second time, it instantly went to the game itself, which was amazing. Or, with EA logo and loading screen before, it also instantly went to the game itself. 
• Tiny frame rate issues, but no lag while I press anything on the game.
• No crash on many sessions of the game, such as random advertisement video, and so on. However, after I closed certain of some advertisement videos, it simply froze the screen until I manually close the game by myself, then I opened it back, and it launched the game immediately.
• Bit of audio issues on certain amount of time while I play the game.

Enjoy!

I almost get my favorite ceiling fan...

I'm not gonna tell this to anyone, but it was actually happened several months ago (maybe more), since that happened. It happened during I was messing around with one of the fan collectors via a social media's direct chat. Also, I know if this sounds so silly for you, but again, it actually happened, then I cancelled it, though. Let's prove it by this relatively short story that I made here:

Back in several months ago, I was meeting one of the fan collectors on that aforementioned social media's direct chat there. Although it was so normal at the start about the way how I meet anybody in several of social medias, I asked it by "requesting" my most favorite style of the ceiling fan that he had. In case you wondering what kind of ceiling fan that I wanted from him, here are some traits about it:

• It's an industrial ceiling fan,
• Made in England many years ago,
• It was one of the cheap industrial ceiling fans in that era, around early eighties to late of the nineties,
• The bottom part of the motor is flat,
• Sometimes it has a blue color accent on the top part of the motor, or even plain white,
• It has both typical stepped canopies,
• The blades on them are straight, and plain, and
• While it's running, it makes some typical whirlwind noises.

Unfortunately, I decided to cancel it. There are few reasons of why I cancelled it, despite I just wanted it before. It's because few reasons that he told to me. First, very expensive shipping from the country where he lives in to my country where I'm living in. Secondly, there are no best parts of the fan that I wanted, since they're in not-so-good condition, albeit they looked good in terms of their appearance based on what his YouTube channel showed those aforementioned fans that I wanted before. Thirdly, no enough space of my house to mount one of those, since that fan is too big for my house. And lastly, after I done the cancellation of it, his phone broke... And that's it, I didn't get that favorite ceiling fan that I wanted there.

I'm sorry if I did this way, because many reasons that I told to you here that caused me can't get that ceiling fan that I wanted there. So, that's my unfortunate of it, and hope you can pay the attention about this, though.

Plants vs. Zombies 2: Results on my devices (UPDATED)

Ugh, another one of those? Well, it is! It's because lately, I have a major update about this game that I played through my devices. You may remember the post that I posted before with the same title that I made back then, now here's an update about this game's results based on my device's enjoyment with this game. Is it way better than before? Let's find out, by reading this below here right now.

1. Asus Zenfone 5 (late usage)

"... Hopefully this device must be last longer and works better than the Advan T1Ci tablet, which was very bad like that device got a lot of virusses."-Original "Plants vs. Zombies 2: results on my devices" post

Well, unfortunately, this device got some problems during operating this game like that old cheap Advan tablet, again. Just let you know, even though you may think it worked properly, it's NOT! Although it was way better than that piece of crap tablet, it did job poorly, which made me want to smash the screen with my bare hands. Just like my old tablet... Just like my old tablet... Typical old Android device that is well-known for performance issues such as it doesn't run this game as it should be. But this one was way less worse than that tablet, but I still hated it. The game ran seamlessly, just like my old tablet. First off, during the Modern Day update (I think), the game just didn't start until I changed this device's language into English. The way how it didn't start was astonishing. Black screen... simple as that, until it shows "PvZ 2 is not responding" message. Not only that problem, there's another one that is my most frustrating problem that I ever seen in every old Android devices, so there's no exception for this game. After few minutes or maybe quarter of an hour of gameplay, the game crashed. But the way how it crashed was pleasant (with typical "Unfortunately" message), unlike my old tablet. There were 3 ways of how this game crashed, so here we go:

Way #1:

A----------------=======-----=========|=|=|=|=|=|=||=||=B

Way #2:

A-----------==========-$|B

Way #3:

A---------------========-----======------------|________B

Note:

A means I launched the game

- means the game works, but bit of slowdown

= means the game just slowed down than -

| only, means the game stops by itself entirely

|= means the game just slowed down than =

||= means the game just slowed down than |=, nearly unplayable

$ means there is a random Google or unknown ad

B means where it crashes

Yeah, how embarrassed it was. It had 3 ways of how this game crashed on this device. Way #1, I didn't know when it happened, maybe in earlier days with it with this game towards to somewhere in 2016. Then, way #2, I guessed it happened in mid of 2017, and finally, way #3, it happened many times lately until I got a way better device than this one. Among 3 of them, way #2 and #3 are my most hateful way of how the game crashed, which made almost want to smash this with the hammer like my old tablet did. But, since I had some logic ways about this game, there is one way to solve those problems, is NOT play this game so often ever again. With my better device that came lately, I did backup several data about this game to play it on my better device, and it's done for this phone for 3 years of service with this game.

2. Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1

Now, here's my better device that I mentioned above. It's the same brand, but way better than that, it's Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1! You can guessed it why I bought this and mentioned it here, because I want to play this game even faster than before. Guess what? It runs FAR better than Zenfone 5, which was horrible, but less horrible than that junk tablet.  With my bit of knowledge about the way how I backup the game from my old phone, it turned out just very well. It runs almost good as the champ, which means I can play this game even longer than before with relatively excellent speed like what you play it on many premium devices that do you have, like iPhone. Tiny bit of frame rate issues though, but it doesn't bother me to play this game on this beast. However, it also lags as well, but NOT that bad at all, it only lags on any Endless Zones where are too much zombies like a thousand of them, or most of the session in this game, but again, far less than my old phone was... One more thing, there are some annoying random video ads which caused the game stop responding, but I can solve it by quitting it down as it doesn't crash, and relaunch the game, which is way faster to get it back... So, that's my new device to play this game, and it concluded as my best device to play this game so far... Alright!

Oh, for anybody who interested in my Plants vs. Zombies collection series on my own blogspot here, I finally made another one. Here's one of the new stuffs that I got here, belongs to that:

Guess what it is?

Just like usual, until I have enough stuffs that I got on that, I will eventually post that for you guys, so stay tuned for that, though... So, that's it for this purpose, and enjoy your electric fan and toys, guys!

Your favorite Plants vs. Zombies characters through actual timeline...

So, I decided to list Plants vs. Zombies characters that I liked through actual timeline, from where I started playing this game, till to the present day setting. Here are list about them based through the years with the reason why I liked it on most of them:

2012

Plants vs. Zombies:

• Repeater
• Split Pea

2013

Plants vs. Zombies:

• Peashooter*
• Sunflower*
• Repeater
• Split Pea
• Cabbage-pult*

* due to KFC toy of it that caused me liked it back then

2014-present

Plants vs. Zombies:

• Peashooter
• Sunflower
• Snow Pea
• Repeater
• Split Pea
• Cabbage-pult
• Melon-pult
• Gatling Pea
• Winter Melon
• Cob Cannon

Plants vs. Zombies 2:

• Peashooter
• Sunflower
• Cabbage-pult
• Bloomerang
• Snow Pea
• Repeater
• Threepeater
• Split Pea
• Melon-pult
• Winter Melon
• Laser Bean
• Pepper-pult (2015)
• Fire Peashooter (2016)
• Dusk Lobber (2017)
• Shadow Peashooter (2018)

Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare:

Just two, Peashooter and Sunflower.

Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2:

• Peashooter
• Sunflower
• Rose
• Kernel Corn

Plants vs. Zombies Heroes:

I didn't play this one so often, but my favorite characters are most of the ones that returned from original game, sequel, and some Garden Warfare 2 characters.

Turns out I only liked plants, not including zombies... Oh well, that's it for the list of my favorite Plants vs. Zombies characters through actual timeline. Enjoy!

My budget Plants vs. Zombies toys...

You think the title of this post may refer to one of my Plants vs. Zombies collection in one of the parts that I made... Yes, it is! It refers to this set here that I used to have all of them like this:

The unknown Ancient Egypt figure toy set

Excuse about the poor quality of the picture of this set here... Anyway, I will tell the flashback about this set, because that's what the title of this post refers to those figure toys. So, here's the story about it, and also why most of the figures weren't stay in my collection anymore.

Back in mid-to-late of 2014, during I didn't have any of my actual Plants vs. Zombies toys or collectible stuffs that I own straight after I returned my old's friend's KFC Plants vs. Zombies Cabbage-pult, I decided to buy this set. The reason why I bought this back in the day, because I thought this set impressed me, due to well-known plants like Cabbage-pult and Bloomerang were presented nicely in this set (I know if Bloomerang figure wasn't exist in anywhere else that is official back in those days, other than K'NEX and Jazwares).

I bought this set came from an online local toy community who owned all of those PVC toys, including this one. Came in my mail packed inside a box with the name of the toy community itself, and all of the 10 figures were packed in their transparent bags (which is common for those type of the figures).

So far, this set was only my actual Plants vs. Zombies toys that I owned, until I bought all 4 KFC Plants vs. Zombies 2 directly from KFC. Despite this set combined by those 4 toys, it didn't make any conflicts between two of those Plants vs. Zombies figure toy sets.

This set has been worked out pretty well for me to start my actual Plants vs. Zombies collection, despite they're not good for fanatic collectors like me nowadays. However, in 2015 to now, things getting complex that caused most of the figures in this set were forgotten in their final days of me with those figures. With many greater Plants vs. Zombies figure toys that I got from online shops and such more, I decided to give away most of this figure set. 8 of them I gave them to somebody who also loved Plants vs. Zombies, with my message to them, "Don't let them break", said me to them. So, here are the reason why I gave those figures to themselves based on each figures, which most of them connected to the similar toys that are better than those:

• All 5 mummy zombies: I personally don't like them, despite there are no replacements of all of those zombies. One of the zombie figures has a broken arm, and I didn't bother to glue it up.
• Bloomerang: The whole boomerang petals were loose, and I didn't bother to glue it up as well. Replaced it with a K'NEX figure of it.
• Cabbage-pult: The catapult broke, sometimes. Replaced it with K'NEX figure of it, and also my most wanted one that came from somebody who kindly kept that online, the one from KFC in May 2013.
• Bonk Choy: Not really a fan of this one, because I didn't even touch this so often. Despite there is a KFC toy of it, this figure still exists without any usage before I gave it away, along with the others.

Enjoy!

Electric fan lover, meet my "twins"...

You may know I do love electric fans, but this time, I will tell you about the interesting stuff behind us. I do have some friends who loved electric fans online too, but one of my friends just came to my house, recently. Even though that occasion happened several months ago, but I do have some interesting stuffs about him. He lives in the exact same province where I'm living in, but I live in one of the small towns of this province where I'm living in (just far away from him), and he lives in the capital of this province where I'm living in also. So, here are some stories about him, including bit of his biography:

His name is Leonard Winarta. He has the same age as me, because he also born in 16th December 2000 (judging by the title, that's why I called it like that). He lives somewhere in the northern part of Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. He also loves electric fans as well, especially for really old or vintage ones. He also collects some types of electric fans just like us, such as portable fans, ceiling fans (even though he doesn't have any other than the mini ceiling fans), and some more appliances related to them. So, here's his YouTube channel's About description:

"Hi everyone!, Welcome to my Channel! I love electric stuffs since I was little.At this channel. I showing video about electric fans. Not electric fans only,at this channel,I show video about Air Conditioner.Cause there are my favorite electric Stuffs. And I also have Some Catalog About electric Fans and Air Conditioner. Please subscribe to my channel. I live at Surabaya, east java,Indonesia. I born at 16 december 2000."

Although I put his channel's About description just like that, but he always type words just like what do you see in his channel. It looks like he has too much pressing the Enter button after a few words each, but alright, alright, it's just the way that he typed them into... Anyway, that's bit of his biography, so now it's time for the story about he met me in my house several months ago, so here are my pictures about him:

My mom (left), Leonard himself (middle), and his mom (right)

He captured and filmed my decorative ceiling fan there...

With it's own light kit turned on...

And... he captured and filmed my orbit ceiling fan (and featuring pictures of me and my parents in those wall frames)

See, here are the pictures about him with my fans. Okay, time for the story about how he did come to my house in that day...

Back in that day, I wasn't expecting to "be like this feature"... I got met by any electric fan lovers, basically. So, during I was doing some normal things in my house like what I'm doing usually (unless there was a homework), somebody was waiting in front of the door of my house. I thought it was a packet for my parents, but turned out it didn't. It turned out there were some people out there with two different vehicles. One was one of my dad's workmates with his motorcycle, and behind him there were unknown persons with their own car, and after I looked it closer at those, turned out it's Leonard with his parents.

One of my dad's workmates said something to me about it, "They find you. Because he kept hugged me due to he thought I'm you."... And this is where the story between me and him started. He and his parents visited my dad's workplace first, because he already know about the workplace that I listed on my Google+ About section that I wrote it many millenniums ago. Then, he hugged to the said my dad's workmate and said, "Ade!!! Ade!!". "No, I'm not Ade, I'm one of his dad's workmates here." said to the said dad's workmate. And he told more about me to him, "He's in his house now. Come on, I'm gonna guide you to his house.". So, without any longer time, he eventually did guide them to my house.

After they reached to my house, I was surprised if I never knew in the day I just met by one of my electric fan collectors out there, and I did. He and his parents entered in my house and he met me. The reason why they visited my house, it's because they got invited by their relative's wedding party in a hotel that occurred in the same day (I think), not too far from my house. So, that's why they decided to visit my house first, then they went to the party there. Just like me (well, almost), if I visited somebody's house or public places with some interesting electric fans inside, I always capture and film them up. And so for his, he captured and filmed almost all of my fans in my house as well, except to me he feels quite bit exaggerated by his actual attitude. But, it's not problem though, even I did have a bad start loving electric fans, and so for his as well. Okay, back to the story.

Simply enough, I met him each other by showing off some galleries of electric fans that we captured through the years. He's still not satisfied enough, he continued by capturing and filming almost all of the fans in my house, from my 2 ceiling fans and all of the portable fans that I do own them. The way how he filmed them was quite tricky, unlike me. He told it to everybody who surrounded him to shut up for a moment during he filming the video of my fans, if I recalled it correct. After he filmed them, he and his parents were talking each other to us related to our hobby that we do nowadays. Finally, after anything from him about me was over, they went away from my house, because the time was cramped, and they went to the hotel that was located just near to my house.

So, that's one of my fellow friend fan lovers that I explained here. I wish there are more of my fellow fan lovers will visit my house soon. That's it for the explanation and some stories about him, and thanks for reading.