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The little blue creatures known as the Smurfs first appeared in October of 1958. However, it would take the 1980’s Saturday morning cartoon to launch them into stardom and cartoon history. Perhaps one of the most highly merchandised cartoon characters ever, the Smurfs once permeated the world of toys and games. Companies such as Milton Bradley, Hasbro, Kenner, Tiger, and Playskool supplied children with everything imaginable.

Naturally, there were the traditional board games such as The Smurf 3D game where the object was to be the first to reach home with 4 different baskets of food and the Smurf Spin A Round game. Yet, since this was era of home video games it only stands to reason that there were electronic hand held games as well as an Atari video game featuring these little blue guys. But Smurf Mania didn’t stop there. In homes everywhere there were toys like the Smurf Sit-n-Spin, the Smurf version of Lite-Brite and of course Smurf Roller-skates. Who could forget toys like the View Master Smurf Theater; the Smurf Colorforms play set which allowed children of the 80’s to create their own Smurf Adventures or the Smurf Shrinky Dinks.

Today Smurf fans can still purchase a wide variety of Smurf figurines, plush dolls, and other toys on the internet. This means if someone didn’t get the Velcro Smurf Dartboard when they were a child, they might still be able to get their hands on one.