Lia,
I am like you and I don´t like when the shops start christmasdecorations in october.
But when I was looking through my boxes I found this one and remember the picture from this years Schleichcatalogue.
My children has always loved to play with the animals around the crib at my wifes parents place during Christmas, so we started with our own crib.
And since they collect Schleich animals it is perfect that Schleich also had this crib( not in production anymore). I have used the "futterstelle" from the wildlife-serie from Schleich as stable before, but I think this one will be better.
And think like this: If they releases 3 new playsets this year, we always can dream that they will release one for the smurfs also in a few years.
Maybe like these ones: a couple of normalsmurfs, one or two supersmurfs and a playset.
Which would you pick?
/André
Maureen 
