Blue Cavern

Just to let you guys know that there is a guy on facebook that has a smurf collection to die for. Its enough to make any collector sososososososos jealous.

But besides this he has left me stund, confused etc etc.

I always believed that the three christmas prototype smurfs were just that. Now I see that by the looks of it there are colour variations of the original three also. Does anybody have more info?

Hi Owen

The ones in front look real to me.
The others i really don't know.
There are a lot of fakes made of these.
A few years back someone showed me this one, even for a fake i didn't have the money for it.

Tintin

I don't know why Schleich didn't make more of these....They are really nice!

The three in the front are Originals.

The different colored angels are fakes...I have one as well and the material is clearly a fake. The good thing is that it was never sold as anything else.

Also looks like the collector got a set from SmurfySteve in the back.

About the second row....it's hard to tell from the picture...they look really good but off hand I would have to say probably fake (expecially when you look at TinTin's picture). I do believe, however, there are raws available of the prototypes. I think I heard that from somebody and it would make sense that not all were painted after Schleich decided to discontinue the production of them.

Here is another question...by now I know of quite a few collectors who own these prototypes and all swear theirs are genuine...all of them are collectors I trust to know what they are talking about, but when you count them, you come up with at least 10 or more collectors owning them (not all of them owe a full set though). For me a prototype is something that was made in a VERY limited number like 5 or less....so did Schleich actually produce more of these than we first thought? Obviously they are still the rarest molds of genuine Schleich molds...but how rare are they?

Out of curiousity, Pierre, I know there are a few German collectors with collections to die for...is this collector from Germany?

The smurfs in this picture are worth more than an entire collection!

The smurf angel in the front don't seems to be original in my opinion, but I don't have got an original one to be sure of my thought, in every way... great photo!! The owner of these smurfs should be very happy!!!

the collector is a friend of mine! I don't know about the angel variation, I have some doubts on it.