2.0097 Sledgehammer & Peyo
PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:11 pm
Am currently going through the old mushroom village newsletters (http://www.mushroomvillage.com/smurfs-smurfynews.html) and found this comment from Pete in the one for 28th April 2004
does anyone know anything about sledgehammer not being released in the US/having a postponed release in the US?[/quote]There are pieces that were made specifically for the US market; Football and Baseball Smurfs for example. These are pieces that were designed specifically to appeal to Americans, and would never have been made were it not for the US market. (There are also many Europe-only pieces, coveted by US collectors; 20007 Angry (black) Smurf was deemed too potentially controversial for race-sensitive Americans, and Peyo felt 20096 Sledgehammer was too violent for American children.)
He certainly shows up in a lot of smurf lots on US ebay