Hi André,
By the way, is page 8 the same as in the german catalogues?
Thank you for your good eyes, I had forgotten Nr. 8, now everything is adjusted and page 8 is now available.
But I see that they added 20153 ( santa smurfette) as a normal and not only as a Christmas variation!
Like I said: very good eyes!!! You're right. They just No. 53 on a blue stone added. Very quietly! I don't know why at the moment.
We all have seen the playsets 40009 and 40019 and know these exists.
Thats right? Both of them exist really!
Nr. 40009 with older stuff (like pictured on the box) and later then with a white label and some newer stuff!
But the cottages 40016 and 40017 were also sold as playsets with a smurf inside. In this case they only used a sticker on the boxes and did not make and new boxes like for the large house- and windmill-playsets.
Also right. But André I personally never seen 40016 with the sticker and the smurf! (I think the Nr. 40616 which is written in the catalog page Nr. 21 is not correct).
Also notice that the treestump playset was sold both with smurfs and without. As I wrote about before they used a sticker in this case also. I have had boxes of this playset both with and without sticker and the "garnie" in this playset was the 3 smurfs pictured on the outside of the box.
I think its the same with the combi-sets 40701 - 40704 (which are shown on page Nr. 26).
They simply stuck red, French sticker on the printed label.
MAFI produced no new packaging for the four combi-sets.
There is also a Farmplayset with number 40022 but I have never seen any box and have no idea if it only contained smurfs and had a sticker?? Or if it had a larger box and also accessories( like furnitures)???
I have never seen or heard something about it.