Blue Cavern

Because of their anniversary there are some articles about the smurfs in the German press recently. I thought I could open a thread where interesting articles - of course hopefully in other languages as well - could be posted.

For example I found these German articles in the internet:

http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/schlu ... 42667.html
This is an article about the history of the smurfs and especially the role of smurfs in recent years.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/234/315127/text/
This article is about the smurfy utopia where every smurf has as an individual smurf a function though they are all living in a collective.
The fun about collecting the smurf figures is described as well. The man says, that you don't interact with the figures (because you can't move them), but can put them together to build a story.

There are some more articles and the "Smurfs and the Magic Flute" will even be shown on German TV tomorrow.

Good idea Simon. Here's an article in English from The Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 69506.html

I didn't found any articles (but didn't really looked for any), but yesterday I woke up to the news in the radio (as usual) and the lady was talking about the smurfs annyversary being "today" and how she had the houses and stuff.

Was a nice smurfy way to wake & get up.

News also that The Smurfs will have a giant character helium balloon and float at this years Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.

How cool does he look!


http://www.shoppingblog.com/cgi-bin/sbl ... og=1022085

Brad.

Excellent news Bradley.. I just can't wait for the Chinese version to come out on eBay for 99c + postage!!!! Opps sorry pre-empting it.. give them a few days first

I feel that is what I am missing in my life... a large helium smurf to float over my bed as I sleep. Oddly I would bid on that!!!

He is rather lovely!

I agree

Whooo!!! It's so nice to be back.

Btw. here what I post on Steve's board within the last forty-eight hours.


Today the smurfs celebrate their 50th birthday!!! Here's to the next 50 years to come!!!

Btw. to celebrate their birthday. "The smurfs and the magic flute" will be finally broadcasted for the very first time in Germany this eve at 8.15 pm CET on Super RTL.

Therefore I just selected some news from around the world.

Austria:
http://oe3.orf.at/aktuell/stories/316797/

Belgium:
http://www.rtlinfo.be/news/article/1861 ... umpf+alors+
http://www.graphivore.be/news.php?idnews=1729 (Spirou special anniversary edition, I'd love to have a copy of this mag)
http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/989/Binnen ... icef.dhtml
(The special celebrity smurfs auction brought more than 124,000 Euro for UNICEF)

France:
http://www.francesoir.fr/culture/2008/1 ... ugies.html
http://www.levif.be/actualite/culture/7 ... gies-.html
http://www.lalsace.fr/article/saga-on-s ... 609e5d3a65
http://culture.france2.fr/livres/bd/47826515-fr.php
http://www.france-info.com/spip.php?art ... s_theme=39

Germany:
http://www.fnp.de/fnp/welt/vermischtes/ ... 878.de.htm
http://www.wdr.de/themen/kultur/stichta ... 0/23.jhtml
http://www.wdr5.de/sendungen/zeitzeiche ... 04835f0555
http://gffstream-5.vo.llnwd.net/c1/m/12 ... 3_0930.mp3 (a podcast available for four weeks)
http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2008/10/ ... html?cmf=1
http://www.swr.de/kultur/schlumpfjubila ... 80/j0yz8k/
http://www.newsclick.de/index.jsp/menui ... id/9312926
http://www.tlz.de/tlz/tlz.juniorline.vo ... dbserver=1
http://www.wz-newsline.de/?redid=325246
http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/schlu ... 42667.html
http://www.presseportal.de/pm/6892/1286730/super_rtl

The Netherlands:
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currenta ... h-birthday
http://www.nos.nl/jeugdjournaal/artikel ... urfen.html

Sweden:
http://sydsvenskan.se/nojen/article3817 ... s-dag.html

Taiwan:
http://english.rti.org.tw/Content/GetSi ... ntID=67039

United Kingdom:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 69506.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... refer=muse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... tumes.html (a very funny story)

US:
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar ... 303/-1/ART
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/h ... &dist=hppr

I guess, I will be busy taping as many news programmes as I can throughout the whole evening.

Btw. if you happen to find more news, just feel free to post them here.

You have been a busy little bee, Dom

Great to see you back on here and thanks for all the articles.


Brad,
that is great news that the smurfs will be in this year's parade

NP Maureen.

Thanks Dominique!

You are very much welcome, Nance.

Btw. wish I would have been able to go to the auction with you, Michelle &Veronique. Glad you had such a lovely time being there.

You missed this one, where there are some very familiar quotes...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7686070.stm

News also that The Smurfs will have a giant character helium balloon and float at this years Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.

I might have to go to the parade this year then to see this

I think you should

Thanks for showing us the link Alan, good report..but why do they always put things like 'they're smurf a FORTUNE' and then show a picture of macdonalds smurfs which are worth nothing..expect a flood of ebay auctions for macdonalds smurfs at silly prices

I saw this on my homepage today about the Smurfs....titled:

The Smurfs get feminist

http://www.yourtv.com.au/news/?i=146274

Dyar

Thanks for the link Dyar.

Love the float balloon-thing!
I'm excited about all the coverage for Smurfs, those are some great articles!

Nice to know that Peyo's son is stepping up to defend his Dad's work.