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Post Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:18 pm 
 

mdr003 wrote:Actually, I'm flying to SF in the middle of the trip for three days to visit a friend who lives in San Jose. He's lined up tickets to the Raiders game against Tennessee, followed by two days skiing in Lake Tahoe.


Mike, when are you coming out?  We should have an Acaeum gathering at Jon's house :D


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Post Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:19 pm 
 

On the relative-worth of comic strips front, I guess I'm about the only gamer on the planet who has never found KODT funny ;)

So, anyone else have any details about other Finieous Fingers appearances, items, etc.?


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Post Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:39 am 
 

Howdy,


Fineous items I have:

Fineous Miniatures Set (Thunderbolt Mountain)
Bored Flak's Ring of Range Finding (for lobbing fireballs)
Fineous Treasury (TSR; Dragon Periodicals)


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Post Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:01 pm 
 

Hi Allan -

I fly into SF Saturday evening on the 18th. I think the plan is to go out to the Raiders game on Sunday afternoon, and head up to Tahoe that night. Ski Monday and Tue morning, then I fly back to Chicago Tue evening.

The friend I'm visiting - I've known him since we were kids, and he was a die-hard D&D player. He's been living over here in the States for probably 10-12 years now.

I would like to meet up with you and Jon, but I'm thinking the trip is pretty crammed to try and fit it in. It would be nice to meet a couple of acaeum members, put faces to names and check out all the rares in your collections though.

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Post Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:09 pm 
 

I forgot to add - I arrived in Chicago last night after a 28 hour trip. Left Ballarat at 7.30am on Wednesday morning on the airport shuttle to Melbourne; flew to Sydney and had a two hour stopover; then 13 hours to LA. Another three hours there followed by a four hour flight to Illinois. I shouldn't complain as all the flights were on time, there was little turbulance and no crying babies.

They did manage to lose my bag though - I had it in LA to go through customs and I gave it back to United to catch the Chicago flight, but it disappeared and never came out on the carousel. I filled out a form at the airport (this was 7.30pm last night) and was too tired to be too worried about it. A guy knocked on the door at 9am this morning and handed it over, so I was happy.

I saw Invincibles photos of Lake Geneva on another thread... got me thinking about a trip up there sometime next week.

  


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Post Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:25 pm 
 

Sounds like you'll be a busy man---I'll be heading out to Wichita, KS, on the 21st, so perhaps when you come through next time we'll all be able to get together :D


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Post Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:55 pm 
 

Anyone know how many figures came with the Fineous miniature set?

  


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Post Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 11:48 pm 
 

I just confirmed with another friends who's a Finieous phreak that the set does in fact include a dragon:


-- "Allan T. Grohe Jr." <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Sean.  I actually have the non-gold set already,
though I paid more than that for them :-(

Does your set of the non-gold minis have a dragon in it?  
The set I bought did, but I'm not sure if it's original to
the set or not....


I don't have the non-gold set, so I couldn't say. Looked like exactly the same eight figs though, which include a dragon. My gold set has Murgatroid in any case. It's also '#3', which is pretty cool - that's a low number!


Anyone else able to chime in with the number pieces in the miniature sets?
This one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW
had eight as well, but I don't see a dragon in it like the one that was in my set.....


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Post Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:34 am 
 

grodog wrote:Anyone else able to chime in with the number pieces in the miniature sets?
This one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW
had eight as well, but I don't see a dragon in it like the one that was in my set.....

The dragon's the fourth figure from the right (it's a small dragon). With a closer examination you can see it's tail.

  


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Post Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:20 am 
 

Aha, thanks Desuma_Malevois---I guess the extra dragon in my set was just that then, since I do recall that one being there too (I'll double-check when I get home).


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Post Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:06 pm 
 

Thanks for the info guys. Sounds like the set we have is complete.

  


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Post Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:46 pm 
 

The Finieous Treasury...ever seen this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 41420&rd=1

This seller also has alot of stuff, some rares, and shrinked modules with BIN


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Post Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:44 am 
 

Sure, the Fineous Treasury was mentioned in this thread very early on. It's a compilation of all the Dragon strips plus a new story about Fineous' quest for the Wand of Orcus. It's a lot of fun if you happen to like FF et. al. (I do).  It's also mentioned on Acaeum's site in the Dragon Magazine Index down at the bottom of the page.

  


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Post Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:17 am 
 

Some useful additional links and info:

- FF minis pics from Manzakk Publishing (these are the "Finieous Phigures" box sets, I assume) in 1982:  Finieous Fingers - Manzakk Publishing - Lost Minis Wiki
- FF minis pics from Thunderbolt Mountin in 2004:  Talk:Finieous Fingers (Thunderbolt Mountain) - Lost Minis Wiki (apparently these are the ones that were gold-plated; wonder if the earlier set was also??)
- some useful background about JD and the minis @ [TMP] "Finieous Fingers" Topic and [TMP] "Finieous Fingers Figure Set" Topic


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Post Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 11:46 am 
 

I like Order of the Stick and Nodwick myself, fwitw.


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Post Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:39 pm 
 

There are nine figures in the set I believe.  The names of the characters are: Fineous, Fred, Charly, Mergatroid, Ranger Rupert, Boredflak, Grond, Mergatroid, and the evil wizard Kask.  I have a few Fineous minis for sale plus a few of the other characters, but not Grond (anti-paladin), Mergatroid(dragon) or Kask.  Charly carries an axe and wears a horned helmet.  Fred carries a mace and wears a visored helmet. Boredflak packs a submachine gun with a bazooka over his shoulder.  Fineous wears the watchcap.   8)


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Post Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:16 pm 
 

Glad to see someone added pics of the Thunderbolt FF minis. I've been curious about them for awhile now. Anyone know who the cleric and elf are? I don't remember them.


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Post Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:11 pm 
 

benjoshua wrote in Finieous Fingers items - what exists?:There are nine figures in the set I believe.


Now you're going to make me go count mine, Chris ;)


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