Blue Cavern

Most of you will know my fascination with the Jungle smurf. I was watching a raw jungle on the weekend and it ended while I was driving home from Perth (2hr drive) so I was kinda biting my nails all the way home wondering if I'd won or not. Anyway I did win and heres a pic of the little fella. I am stoked!

So much for the "I will not buy fakes and I will not buy raws"

Never say never. Then I started collecting, I promised myself not to collect non pvc-smurf items. But resulting from the worldwide success of ebay, it was much more difficult for me to find any pvc smurf in great condition.
But since I prefer to buy old smurfs at fleamarkets, I won't give in.

That's why I started to look out for non pvc items again, about one year ago, too.


Your wild raw fake looks amazing and I'm so glad you won it !!!

A great addition to your collection Linda, he's really great........



Smurfy regards
Steve

great rohling

I know exactly what you mean, Linda....... I broke down about two months ago and bought my first raw from an Australian seller ( ) and have bought more since then....

I love your raw Wild Smurf. Will you be buying more raws now?

Hi Linda, congratulations, he is a lovely smurf.

Will this be the start of someting bigger though? Next the green tirolese or the brown biscuit smurfs?

Will this be the start of someting bigger though? Next the green tirolese or the brown biscuit smurfs?

ummmm well I did already buy the biscuit raw cos he just looks oh so chocolatey... unfortunately he's in one of those missing packages

But thats it...no more....seriously...no more...why do I get the feeling no-one is believing me???

hi Linda!

very good news that you won him! congrats!

also I think you did even better as I have not seen this one before

maybe I missed these..but I have a raw and so does dyar but they are not like the won you WOn! you have a special one! with eyes and mouth! he is superb!!!!!!! rare! ours have no details..



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He's lovely Linda

It is really amazing how many different raw from Waldbaur/Nestle are existing.
For myself it would be interesting how many different types and colours are known.... But I think they'll never know the truth

hi cheesy!~

I remember when I first started collecting, I was told by several collectors on another site that their were only 8

but as you know we see tons on EBAY, so who knows?

hi cheesy!~

I remember when I first started collecting, I was told by several collectors on another site that their were only 8

but as you know we see tons on EBAY, so who knows?

Only 8.........



Smurfy regards
Steve

I *think* that there might have been only 8 figures shown on the original Waldbaur packaging but I don't have one so I can't confirm this.

There are a few different types of coloured raws so I don't know of anywhere that shows every single one that has been produced. The DSK does show a good selection but doesn't list the different types or all of their markings.

Because of the title of this topic Linda I keep singing to the tune of Boney M's "Brown girl in the ring"- "Wild man in the raw, tra la la la la"



Smurfy regards
Steve

He looks great Linda!

Well Done

Trish

I can imagine these raws are easily faked also.....Is there a good way to recognize fakes, like with the other smurfs? I really grow to love the raws now that I have quite a few, but I still hold on to my conviction not to get any fakes if I can help it (wonder how long those conviction will hold )

.... Or do I have a blonde moment here because the raws are fakes????

Is it just me, but everytime I think I know just about everything about smurf collecting, new and harder questions arise

Hey Linda

That's a really nice smurf you have there and no I don't believe you about stopping here.

Dyar

PS - Can you email me with the Schonwald sockels you still need

normally you can see faked raws always (better sometimes) on bad mold, ridges (I hope that's the right word for ???) , hard material,soft material, bad smell , sellers name, fuzzy markings and (tatata the best one) by comparing it to your own originals (Yeah that was way I have to go to get 21 original Bundesliga soccer smurfs... to get everyone at least twice for comparing (That's the reason why I still do not know my Herta BSC Berlin is original or not ))))
BTW you could sell you sorted out to me

Last week I got the prisoner as Waldbaur raw. Never seeon before, blue material, black stripes eyes and mouth.

I really love all that raw stuff but only the funny coloured one...... The white one are just boring...

PS - Can you email me with the Schonwald sockels you still need

no worries...done

hi Cheesy!

that prisoner sounds amazing! nice find!