[Groop] re miniatures

[Ruben Arellano]

My foggy memory seems to recall that story as being fairly accurate.

I guess early on there I had a real case of DESSESBO, but then along came Gary......


Ruben.

----- Original Message -----
From: bj <bjtrapp at sasktel.net>
Date: Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:57 pm
Subject: [Groop] re miniatures

> Scott wrote:
> 
> > Not to sound really lame here... but WHAT MINIATURE SET???
> > (checking the couch for spare kopins now)
> >  
> >
> Ah Scott, you have stumbled onto the end of a story that grew to 
> epic 
> proportions.  In the early years of this list several people 
> posted 
> about the Groo miniatures and what possible chance there was of 
> even 
> finding a set.  They were produced under licence by a Company that 
> called themselves Dark Horse Miniatures which was made up of two 
> people.  Alas they were no longer in business and could not be 
> located.  
> I think Ruben was one of the people who attempted to track down 
> the two 
> by doing an internet search by name.  (it turned out one of the 
> names 
> was misspelled in Groo-grams and the other one returned to Sweden 
> or 
> someplace.)  Again I think it was Ruben who lamented that probably 
> the 
> only way most of us would ever see a miniature set was if someone 
> found 
> a "Lost Crate" of them in the back room of some comic book store 
> or 
> warehouse.    A month or two later Tony Dodds, from Boise, posted 
> that 
> the guy who made them lived right there in his town and he would 
> ask 
> about them.  It turned out that Wolfe had a couple of cartons of 
> them 
> that had been returned from a bankrupt comic store and would sell 
> one or 
> two sets to any member of the Groop at a real good price.  There 
> were 
> four different packs with various Groo figures (Groo, witch of 
> Caan, 
> Arcadio, Sage, Mulch, Minstrel, Tarantowarrior, wench, a figure of 
> Sergio with a giant pencil [I may have missed a few]) in lead 
> about and 
> inch or so high.  The fifth pack was the dragon.    (it was the 
> cover 
> dragon from one of the real early comics.  It came in about 5 
> pieces and 
> had to be assembled. ) He ran out of the dragon real early and 
> some of 
> us never got one, although Wolfe thought there might be some in 
> some 
> other cartons along with some Ninja Turtle minis.  Sadly; shortly 
> after 
> this Wolfe discovered eBay, and was soon getting up to $55 for a 
> dragon 
> with lesser prices for the other packs.    Now; the best chance of 
> finding them is to watch eBay and hope for a slow auction with 
> other 
> Groo fanciers on vacation.
> Bunny
> 
> 
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