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Postby bradley » Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:23 am
Today was the annual Adelaide Toy Fair! Never thought I'd manage to top last years lucky haul of smurfs but I think I did just as good this year!! So I'm very happy. A lot of smurfs to find everywhere again. Common pvcs mainly. This is what I came home with:

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My first smurf buy were these 3 small framed smurf 'bubble' pictures. Has anyone seen these before? They pictures sort of have a 2D look 'bubble' off the print. It says Peyo Printed In Spain on them all. A surfing smurf, fishing smurf & musican, which this one is damaged. They were priced a little high for what they were. 18AU each but managed to get a deal for the 3 as the one was damaged. So worked out about 13AU each instead. But thought something different I haven't got in my collection & hadn't seen before. Closer pic:

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Next was the watchman keyring, which when I got home I found that I already have him. Always the way. Last years fair I passed on buying a keyring because I thought I had it already but then when I checked at home I actually didn't... so I've done the opposite this year. oh well. Next I brought the smurf bin with the smurf royal show bag inside it. Again something different I didn't have. Square bin, not in the best shape but still very nice. And the plastic bag from back during the 80s when the royal shows here in Australia had a smurfs showbag. Straight onto the next table with the asians who are always at the fair with the fakes... that fake baseball smurfette was there again. But they have a few genuine smurfs there. I brought the sleeping at desk super I didn't have. Another table I found a smurf VHS tape (my cheapest buy of the day 4AU). And lastly there was a stall with a couple of these Bburago die-cast jeep vehicles. I know I'd seen these online before. Not a huge fan but thought it was something different & brought one of them. The surfer jeep. They also had the one with the 2 smurfs in the jeep. I'm not sure but I think the boxes have been mixed up. As just thinking about it, the other box had surfer smurfs on it. The toy is loose in the box, perfect/new condition though. Does anyone know if this is the wrong box or is it correct? Here is a closer photo front & back:

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So that was my smurf buys. You can see I brought a couple non-smurf things as well. The Battlestar Galactica cylon centurion.. I have wanted one of these for a long time but they are always expensive. This one was at a good price, had been opened for display so not brand new in the box but just as mint & I haggled an even cheaper price with all the money I had left in my wallet after finishing the fair. So this was my last buy. Also a nice surprise I saw a bunch of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman old photographs on the stall I brought the diecast on. 10 photos all up. Had to have those, something different. Love Linda Carter.

So it was a great day. Looking forward to next weekend. There is a Record fair on & a collectors fair. Paper advertisement says brick brak, stamps, toys etc. Never been to that one so will take a look. Hope I'm as lucky as today.

Postby Smurfysmurf » Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:45 am
Great finds, Brad :cheers:

I don't have that keychain yet so if you want to trade let me know. One of these days I will go thru my PVC smurfs again and I know I'll find lots of doubles that I would like to sell or preferably trade for smurfs I don't have yet.

Thank you for the detailed description...I was wondering what that car is as I hadn't seen that one before :cheers:
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Postby bradley » Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:02 am
Thank you for the detailed description...I was wondering what that car is as I hadn't seen that one before :cheers:
I had only seen photos of the jeep with the 2 smurfs but I'd never taken any real notice of it. I just remember thinking these were expensive. So I hadn't seen the surfer jeep one. So that is the one I brought out of the 2. It's nice to have it with the packaging & complete in excellent condition. Just not sure if the boxes were mixed up with the jeeps loose inside.

Postby Tojo » Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:34 pm
Well done Brad :D

I like that car too - much more fun than the usual log or leaf cars :-D
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Postby bradley » Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:10 pm
I went to the records & collectibles fair yesterday but no smurfs. The collectibles were mainly old stamps, postcards, antiques, military memorabilla etc. Did buy a few records though so it wasn't a waste of time.

And today I was in TRU & they are now selling the schleich smurfs on the counter. Nice surprise. Still the same boxes as were in Kmart here some years back selling only up to the Classics set. So there are quite a few discontinued figures in the box.
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