[Rachel]

Hi guys, I came across a fabulous quote from someone today:

zoomar says:
In high school, a friend and I used to shoplift smurfs, repaint them and then take them back to the store and mix them into the display box. We did a gay smurf, a jesus smurf with bloody hands and death smurf with black clothing with skulls. I always hope I'll run into somone who bought one.
Posted 20 months ago.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhcooper/129244319/

A nice pic of the smurf display at the comic convention in New York that was mentioned a while back and then I read that post below. It did make me laugh as this could have really messed with a collector's head if they had picked up one of the "modified" smurfs.

[Tojo]

Ha ha that is funny Wouldn't it be funny to come across one of those modified smurfs somewhere Smurf in black with skulls sounds cool

[SA Smurfette]

Cheeky buggers

[smurfieduck]

I wouldn't mind seeing these little guys though. They would be nice fakes to have. Other all, they're still smurfies!!

[Guest]

Funny story

[Rachel]

Can you imagine how this could cause problems though. A collector who swears blind that these are original because he / she bought them new from a shop which of course they did.

I can see the funny side of it of course and like Tojo, would love to come across one of these smurfs.

[Cassiebsg]

That was great! And they seem to have some inventive ideas

Now, I would probably be convinced that those were real original ones, after all, shop bought. Dog probably would start wondering never seeing them again in shops... only one? Can one be _that_ lucky?

[Smurf1303]

I'm on the funny side too.
Love the display box in the link btw, and the guy dressed as skeletor, ah brings back memories of playing he-man with my younger cousin ...

[Syd Smurf]

That is amusing Rach.....it would confuse me for a min unless the paint was so obvious.

So maybe that former member of our's was right....maybe they were from his childhood and bought from a shop and.....and pigs may fly.......no I didn't mean that literally Stace. Settle down Fishy.

Dyar

[Michelle]

This is amazing, imagine you've bought one.... but in the mean time because it has his own story.

I want one of these

Michelle

[Rachel]

So maybe that former member of our's was right....maybe they were from his childhood and bought from a shop and.....and pigs may fly......