Stefan,
that landscape among the last pictures is awesome!!!
I have a question regarding some pictures in the catalogues. These are dealers catalogues, right?? Have you compared these with the booklets for the customers???
I mean are some of the parts in the catalogues only possible to get in the end of the year. Like todays catalogues where the release dates are january, may and september, but still shows in the same catalogue.
For example some of the items like Gargamels lab and Smurfettes bedroom seems to be faar from the versions they sold. And both my combiboxes number 1 and 2 have the articlenumber 40601 and 40602.
For some reason they changed this and when Gargamels lab and Smurfettes bedroom was sold they changed the numbers and gave the combisets new numbers.
Could off course have been that the combisets was released in another country the year before, but I don´t think so if you check the smurfs in the combiset.
The 2nd version is that they by mistake printed the wrong number on the boxes the first year. ???
All other playsets 1 and 2 after this has a sticker over the originalnumber with correct one. When I think about it a printingmistake is actually very possible.
What do you think ???
For me I would say gargamels lab and Smurfettes bedroom was sold second half of 83 or in 84. Both have moldyear 83.