I agree though that they are pretty nice quality compared to what I thought they might of been like.
I agree about their high quality. With the one I found in China, if I didn't know the model was a fake, I wouldn't otherwise be able to tell. It is very well crafted, looks good, and is made of good quality rubber / PVC / whatever (not resin)(it smells like rubber and can be pinched slightly). Mine is slightly misfit at the waist (where stomach joins the trousers), but it isn't a worse misfit than similar "official" toys that can be re-posed.
Mine came in a ribbon-tied, transparent plastic bag with no identification markings on the bag (careless of supporting the archeological record, I threw the bag away in China).
I was pretty shocked by the find. I'd been in Beijing for two weeks and not found a trace of smurfs. Then, on an overnight tour of Chengde, a small city 225 km north of Beijing, I found the smurf by accident when I happened to stop inside a small toy shop on an after-supper walk to find a convenience store.
At 98 yuan (about US$12), the toy is probably over-priced for the Chinese market, and considering that smurfs (lan-jing-lings) are considered "so yesterday" now in China, the toy's twin (which I now regret not buying) will probably be languishing there for a long time. (The shop was a little grimy, and I almost didn't even buy one because I feared the cloak would be mildewy and nasty--on the contrary, it was just fine).
Attom 
