Hi Everyone!

I'm 38 years old. I Live in Brooklyn, New York. (Born and Raised) I have been a Smurf fan ever since I've seen a Smurf. I was 14 years old then and the year was 1981. I had my Smurf Collectibles and as the years went by they kind of disappeared. I still have bits and pieces of those collectibles that I will never give up because they remind me how much I love the Smurfs when I was a teen and I still do. When Saturday morning cartoons were on, I stuck to that TV like glue until the Smurfs came on and trust me, there was nobody to get me away from the set. When I reached the age of 17, I set out to get me a job and tried to obtain a Smurf Collection. Not as big as I wanted it to be, but I had obtain just a bigger collection than the first collection. I had that boxed and put away in the basement as my collection was growing and after doing this for several years, my collection was stolen. (Not many men admit this but…) I cried because after working so hard for several years for something I always wanted was gone in a matter of minutes. I can remember my sister telling me not to worry so much about it, That one day I will have double of what they had stolen from me. I still have my bits and pieces from my first collection because they never made it to that box I had stored in the basement. I gave up Smurf collecting for a while but never gave up that love I have for the Smurfs. I was afraid if I built another collection it would be stolen from me.
After so many years have gone by, thought I give it another shot at collecting Smurfs again. Now the year is 1998 and I couldn’t find a Smurf PVC figure any where I went in New York. I went on my WebTV and did some research on the Smurfs and found The Official Smurf Web Site and just kept going on from there. After that I learned about MushroomVillage.com (former eSMURFS.com). WebTV was slow searching, so I updated to a computer and I also learned about eBay.com and many other sites that were selling Smurfs. I can still remember my sister telling me how I would gain double of the collection I had stolen from me. And she was right. Today I have a collection of over 350+ Smurf PVCs, Smurf Coffee Mugs, Smurf Drinking Glasses, Smurf Porcelain Collectibles - (Plates, Cups, Trinkets, etc.) I have a few pieces of Silverware too and Smurf Toys and so on. I even gained a Smurf Display Case. The one where I remember going to the store where they sold Smurfs and I gave it a twirl and said; "I'll take these three today." What a memory.

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Your True Blue Friend,

Awesome pic! I'm Melissa, Pete's sister, and I have been helping out since almost the beggining of his Smurf endeavors, around 1999. I remember the first big shipment of Smurfs I helped out on was the Millenium Smurf in the beggining of 2000. We sure have grown a LOT since then! I am 28 years old and the Smurfs was my favorite cartoon when I was 10 years old, in 1988. I know that because I have a creative writing booklet I made in 5th grade and the teacher made us fill out a questionaire of sorts, and one of the questions was what is your favorite show? My answer was the Smurfs, of course! I have a few family photos from my childhood where I am wearing a Smurfette shirt with a rainbow, and Pete had a sweatshirt with Super Smurf on it that I inherited when he outgrew it. Those were the days! I never had smurf toys though. I never even saw them until Pete met his future wife who had collected them since childhood. And her collection is pretty much how MushroomVillage (formerly eSmurfs.com) was born! But thats another story...

I just wanted to comment on your smurf poster, with the stop sign. I have one from the same series hanging on the wall here at our Smurf shop. It is Lazy Smurf sleeping on a shovel (like figure 20043 digger) and he's got a bubble over his head that says "I love work... I can dream about it for hours"
I love Lazy. He might be my favorite So laid back! Thanks for listening!

-Melissa
Customer Service
MushroomVillage.com

Hi Melissa,
Nice to meet you. Glad to see Pete is not alone in the Smurf Business, especially in family. I wish I had family that like Smurfs as much as I do as I come from a large one. (4 Brothers and 6 Sisters, with me... 11) Yeah, Mom and Dad had no TV, LOL.

I remember that lazy poster you're talking about. This one with the stop sign also had a saying about "Adults Not Admitted Unless Accompanied By A Child" but I have trimmed it down since then from the corners all being bent and broken. The cause to the damage was me packing it up and taking it everywhere I knew I was going to be away from home.

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Your True Blue Friend,

Any smurfette bedding, pillow cases? Awesome collection!!!

Thanks
Brandy

Hi everyone. I'm a new collecter. I didn't believe that the smurfs were so huge worldwide until I started getting into it.
I'm finding some of the collection lingo hard to understand... hopefully this site will help me.