Blue Cavern

Tracker smurf.. If you are ever up in fond du lac go to the mall, there is a farm toy store in there that sells schleich and they have smurfs there. Not sure if the new ones came in yet but they are pretty well stocked on the current range and it's fun going through and looking for variations or paint mistakes.

Have not received my set yet but orderd it already.. can't wait to smell that new smurf smell

@smurfowen: Andre has already answered that mystery here: http://forum.bluecavern.com/viewtopic.p ... 088#183088

Sorry to say this Andre, but that answer is not good enough. There are so much romours flying around at the moment about color. numbers etc etc, that i actually phoned schleich personally and asked a few of my own and the marketing manager can not conferm that there is a missing smurf, but what she can confirm is that schleich is a large international company and although they do make mistakes she can assure me that they would not of got catalogue numbers wrong as it would mess up there systems. So its a wait and see.

@smurfowen: Andre has already answered that mystery here: http://forum.bluecavern.com/viewtopic.p ... 088#183088

Sorry to say this Andre, but that answer is not good enough. There are so much romours flying around at the moment about color. numbers etc etc, that i actually phoned schleich personally and asked a few of my own and the marketing manager can not conferm that there is a missing smurf, but what she can confirm is that schleich is a large international company and although they do make mistakes she can assure me that they would not of got catalogue numbers wrong as it would mess up there systems. So its a wait and see.

I don´t think anyone have talked about a missing smurf??? Schleich only confirmed to me that this number was "forgotten", meaning not used for some reason, nothing about a missing smurf. They don´t have any item connected to that articlenumber and that also seems to be the answer you got I assume??? It is not that hard for Schleich to check if they have an active articlenumber or not, especially not a new one??

the rumors flying around are from collectors who desperately want a color variation or some other "missing" smurf..it's the classic story of how somebody comes up with an idea of what could be, broadcasts it and others pick it up and suddenly it becomes the truth.