UK
Variations Discovery
Not
long after we rediscovered smurfs we noticed that
certain smurf variations (often yellow colours) were
being found mainly in the UK and there was very little
information in the German guides regarding these smurfs,
some of which were not even mentioned. After discussing
these smurfs with other UK smurf collectors we discovered
that in fact it is likely that these variations were
in fact only released in the UK during the National
Petrol promotions of the late 70's and early 80's.
Up until this point these smurfs were relatively unknown
to the rest of the World smurf collectors and certainly
not recognised as being UK variations. We have listed
the "newly discovered" smurfs below the
photo although it must be remembered that as well
as the smurfs mentioned, some of the rugby and football
colour variations were also only available in the
UK.
Due
to the fact that these smurfs were only available
in one country and for only a limited time, the values
of some of them can be quite high and they can be
very hard to find. The UK variations have now been
included in the most recent German guides and smurf
collectors from around the World are now searching
Ebay UK to find these variations.
