Comments on: Plush Fin Fin virtual pet toy needed by distraught Boing Boing reader's grandson

By: TokyoSpark

TokyoSpark — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:34:00 +0000

I live in Japan and… work for Fujitsu, so I’ll give it my best shot tracking one down for you.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:17:00 +0000

How about posting a photo of the reunion? Now I need closure :-)

By: mborus

mborus — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:20:00 +0000

@edgore – glad you found a finfin.

I was tempted to offer mine – but I’d much rather keep it :)

By: Andrew Pam

Andrew Pam — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:37:00 +0000

Heh – I’m an Australian collector who sadly only has the software-with-microphone edition. I would totally have bought the one with the plush if I had seen one at the time!

By: edgore

edgore — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:41:00 +0000

I thought of that, but there’s not a lot of good photo reference, and four year olds are *smart* when you lie to them you have to make it pretty convincing.

By: edgore

edgore — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:40:00 +0000

My assumption is that after I buy one for $6,000 dollars from an Australian collector I will notice the he’s sitting right on the couch.

Honest though, over the last few weeks I’ve torn the house apart, unmade and remade beds, looked under things with flashlights, questioned the dog, everything.

By: edgore

edgore — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:38:00 +0000

Thank you Boing Boing! A kind soul has contacted me with an offer of squeaking-plush-dolphin-bird-thing. Yay internet!

By: a1penguin

a1penguin — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:50:00 +0000

Check inside pillow cases. My son lost his Plopper the Dog plushy and several days after failing to locate a replacement on the internet I found it stuffed all the way inside his pillow case.

By: cjporkchop

cjporkchop — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:47:00 +0000

Have you considered hiring someone to custom-make a replica Fin Fin? I bet someone on Etsy could make a pretty good approximation.

Good luck!

By: gsilas

gsilas — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:59:00 +0000

Same person, tracked to Flickr. Fin Fin spotted unboxed as of Nov 6th, 2011.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctrymaus/6317998919/

By: edgore

edgore — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:52:00 +0000

Thanks so much for the help Cory!

I’ve already attempted contacting everyone I could find related in any way to Fin Fin on the interwebs – people with fan pages (including the one mentioned above), German Fin Fin forums, flickr users users with Fin Fin pictures – it’s actually kinda creepy.

All of the ones listed on ebay are software only or software with microphone, not the version with the doll.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help.

(also, that’s the last time I type something as long as that original message on my iPad, late at night, without glasses on – jeez typos!)

By: foobar

foobar — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:38:00 +0000

And they’re still in 1996, so it should be easy to get one.

By: gsilas

gsilas — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:19:00 +0000

http://www.bookmice.net/fleur/othervpets.html
This guy has one.

edit: page clearly last updated 2007, despite what it looks like.

By: Stephen Schenck

Stephen Schenck — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:16:00 +0000

It doesn’t. They need the “Fin Fin Fun Pak” as pictured above.

http://www.elisoftware.org/index.php?title=Fin_Fin_Fun_Pak_%28PC,_CD-ROM%29_Fujitsu_Interactive_-_1997_USA,_Canada_Release

By: Henry Pootel

Henry Pootel — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:09:00 +0000

Have they contacted this seller to see if it comes with the plushy?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/fin-fin-Virtual-Pet-Fujitsu-Computer-Creature-PC-NIB-/260671893663?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3cb141709f

**edit** ah never mind that’s not the deluxe/fun pack version …