Minions de Arabia

With the help from a friend, I able to get the entire Minions Happy Meals set from McDonald's Qatar.

Minions Attacks

As many of Asians would have know or hear about the Minions craze in Malaysia's McDonald's during their promotion to give away the toys with the purchase of McDonald's Happy Meal. There are videos show those maniacs broke the shutter door of McDonald's. Here is the video if you have not seen it,

It is a different atmosphere for Minions in Qatar, somehow they seem unwanted here. No much craze and people queuing during the midnight. I guess McDonald's in US would have a good laugh watching Malaysian buying so many Happy Meal.  Over here in Qatar, only the kids are asking for the toys and and only kids eating Happy Meal. So relatively there are plenty of Minions inside the box so much so when a local kids ask for it they will throw bunch to them for extras. I wanted to but I don't think they will give me.. I probably make big bucks selling Minions :) Anyway there are only 8 Minions in McDonald's Qatar compare to 9 that are in Malaysia and out of the 9 only 4 of Malaysian version are the same as Qatar version which are;

Tim Giggling

Tim Giggle Grabber

Dave Gadget Grabber

Tom Googly Eye Grabber

The remaining 5 Minions from Malaysia are

Evil Minion Chomper

Stuart Light Up Grabber

Stuart Babbler Grabber almost the same as the above

Evil Minions Noisemaker

Jerry Breakdancing

 

 The 4 Minions that Qatar has and Malaysia don't are

Dave Banana Babbler

Purple Minion Giggling

Tom Babbler

Phil Jelly Whistle

I saw a few YouTube video that Australia McDonald's has few character which Malaysia and Qatar don't have which are

Purple Minion Babbler

Carl Rocket Skateboard

Jerry Whistle

There are 2 character which are not available elsewhere other than South America which are

Dave 2

Evil Minion 4

And very recent I saw another Minion appear on sale at ebay which kinda rare and I not sure which country sold that but it seems like it is sold in USA.

Stuart Blaster

I have the poster of Minions from McDonald's Malaysia and I took are picture of the display unit at McDonald's Qatar which you guys can compare yourself. I guess there are total of 19 Minions to collect or there more which are available at other country? I wonder who has all of it..

This summarized the Minions availability based on geographical area.

i kill my luggage bag........ LOCK

In my previous post I bought 2 new luggage bag and today I killed the combination lock :)  All this while I never use the numeric lock that is attached with luggage bag because I saw my mom had bad experience with it as it doesn't open. So despite the FREE lock I always used a padlock or some sort of lock.

Nothing else to do I though of testing to break the combination lock as I remember I read an article on the Internet teaches how to do it.... Not gonna mention how I kill it as you can find the instruction on YouTube. Anyway the lock is still fine but somehow the correct combination I had set doesn't pop up the lock now. I am lucky that I didn't try it while the zipper is lock with it. So yeah I screw it up I guess it crappy quality since the bag is cheap and made in China. I guess those expensive bag like Samsonite lock are better.. but next time if I would have buy those branded bag I will mess with the lock first hehe to try if it really last with abuse. I mean if a thief want to break into your bag he probably will do the same like me and end up the lock is unusable. Thanks to my itchy hand and fucking boring weekend.

Luggage Bag zipper safety

We have seen a lot of YouTube video show that how easily to open a zipper on a bag by using a ball pen. I have tried it as it is that easy with just a poke in between the zip and it is opened. Many of friends who travel a lot are worry not that people will steal item from their bag but people putting something that not suppose to be in.

And so most of them uses a hard case luggage bag with a clip on number combination lock like a briefcase, well lets call it giant briefcase OR they will wrap their bag in plastic at the airport. I am not keen with both solution mainly I am worry if the combination lock spoil which pretty often then I probably have to smash the bag into pieces and wrapping is just not my thing.

So, I though of how to improved the security using zipper bag. I am not sure if this is a foolproof but is worth to try. After you done with packing, zip up your bag and zip your bag all the way to the end don't 1/4 or in the middle since now all bag come with 2 zippers. Then and if possible when you check in or scan the bag, have the security guy or ladies at the counter to stick the security sticker just beside the zipper. This way, if the crook open the zip with a ball pen and he would have to move the zipper to close it back and this way he definitely would destroy the security sticker. :) In addition you could also get luggage strap with combination lock as an extra security  :)

I use a tape as a sample security sticker :)

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