Because of their anniversary there are some articles about the smurfs in the German press recently. I thought I could open a thread where interesting articles - of course hopefully in other languages as well - could be posted.
For example I found these German articles in the internet:
http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/schlu ... 42667.html
This is an article about the history of the smurfs and especially the role of smurfs in recent years.
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/234/315127/text/
This article is about the smurfy utopia where every smurf has as an individual smurf a function though they are all living in a collective.
The fun about collecting the smurf figures is described as well. The man says, that you don't interact with the figures (because you can't move them), but can put them together to build a story.
There are some more articles and the "Smurfs and the Magic Flute" will even be shown on German TV tomorrow.
Here's an article in English from The Independent:
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