How did you rediscover the smurfs?
Hi guys, this question is really for those who rediscovered smurfs as adults after starting their collections as kids - many of us seem to fall into this catergory.
Here is our story, we first went on the internet in about 1995 and surfed around as you do, not really knowing how it worked or what to look for. I know I definitely did a search for smurfs and found a couple of sites (and I mean a couple) which weren't particularly good. A few bits of clipart and very slow loading photos so I suppose I didn't really take much notice. This combined with the fact it was very expensive to go online meant once again smurfs returned to the back of my mind as a distant childhood memory.
Then in 2000, a friend of ours mentioned Ebay and what a brilliant website and idea. We investigated and then spent the next few days trying to get a PlayStation 2! With no luck I then started to search for other things being sold on Ebay and of course I did a search for smurfs, hey presto there was about 3 auctions in the UK for smurf figures. After a little bidding war (we were all newbies!) I managed to win an auction. How exciting!!! I am sure many of you remember THAT feeling. Well, the smurfs arrived a few days later and that was the start. There really weren't many auctions for smurfs in the UK back then, normally about a page and most of them were McDonalds so when I discovered Ebay in other countries and that they were far more popular I couldn't believe it. I must have driven people nuts for those first few months, asking everyone if they had any!
After the Ebay discovery I then started searching for smurf websites to find out more information and was very pleasantly suprised to see that smurf collecting was a popular hobby worldwide and I wasn't alone in my crazy quest.
What's your story?