The Smurfs Be@rbrick Vinyl Figures by Medicom Toy

Medicom Toy is releasing an awesome new The Smurfs Be@rbrick vinyl figure of your basic generic Smurf. The Blot’s hoping this will lead to many more Smurfs characters released as Be@rbrick figures in the future! The Smurfs 100% Be@rbrick has already been released as part of Medicom's Be@rbrick Blind Box Series 49, stands 2.75” tall, and will retail for around $10-15. The Smurfs 400% Be@rbrick stands 11” tall and will retail for around $130. The new 400% Be@rbrick will hit store shelves in December 2025.

San Diego Comic-Con 2024 Exclusive Funko Pop! & Vinyl Soda Figures

Funko will be at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 this week where they will be releasing a ton of new convention exclusive Pop! and Vinyl Soda figures!  However, as is with the trend with Funko exclusives recently, almost all of them are shared exclusives, which will be available at other retailers as well. This is also the smallest list of Funko exclusives in years. Not sure what that says about the future of Funko Comic-Con releases.

Funko’s San Diego Comic-Con 2024 Exclusives includes DC Comics Batman / Superman Fusion Pop!, Godzilla Pop!, Peanuts Beagle Scout Snoopy Pop!, The Smurfs Papa Smurf Pop!, Stranger Things Vaporizing 001 Pop!, Zenon Girl of the 21st Century Proto Zoa Pop!, The Incredibles Edna Mode Pop!, The Muppets Kermit the Frog Pop!, The Nightmare Before Christmas Zero Pop!, Big Hero 6 Baymax Super Pop!, Project Fred Deadpool Edition Vinyl Figure, Marvel Minster Sinister Pop!, Marvel Spider-Boy Pop!, Star Wars: Ahsoka Grand Admiral Thrawn Pop!, and Star Wars Darth Vader Pop!

But that’s not all! Funko’s SDCC 2024 Exclusives also include One Piece Sugar Pop!, Jujutsu Kaisen Satoru Gojo Pop! With defeated Jogo, Demon Slayer Shinobu Kocho Pop!, Naruto: Shippuden Gaara Pop!, Yu-Gi-Oh! Elemental Hero Flame Wingman! Stop Pop!, Pokemon Arceus Jumbo Pop!, Looney Tunes Marvin the Martian Pop!, Voltron Super Pop!, Sesame Street Elmo Pop! With Rocco, Dungeons and Dragons Lord Soth Pop!, “Expecto Patronum” Harry Potter Pop!, Wednesday and Enid Pop! Moment, Wizard of Oz Wicked Witch of the West with a Winged Monkey Pop! Set, Honey Smacks Dig ‘Em Frog Pop!, Can-O-Corn Freddy Soda, Funmart Freddy Soda, Pizzario Proto Pop!, Roller Drive-In Franny Pop!, Mayor Freddy Pop!,  Freddy, Franny and Proto Bitty Pop! Box Set and Black and White Deco Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Bitty Pop! Box Sets.

The Smurfs “Papa Cupcakes” T-Shirt by Johnny Cupcakes

On Black Friday, Johnny Cupcakes released a ton of awesome pop culture designs, including this adorable new Cupcake and Crossbones t-shirt. Now Johnny Cupcakes iconic logo has been transformed into everyone’s favorite blue grandpa, Papa Smurf! The Blot’s a huge fan of this new “Papa Cupcakes” tee, with “The Cupcakes” written on the back in the classic Smurfs font. This new Johnny Cupcakes Crossbones t-shirt (and so much) is available now at the Johnny Cupcakes online store in guys and girls styles, sizes S-XXXL, for $35.99 each.

“Three Apples High” The Smurfs Screen Print by Tim Doyle

Last night Spoke Art welcomed back Austin artist Tim Doyle for his third solo exhibition with the gallery, and the latest installment in his ongoing “UnReal Estate” series. Inspired by the popular culture landscape, quite literally, Doyle re-interprets the iconic settings found in contemporary cult television. The Blot was blown away by Doyle’s first two “UnReal Estate” shows, and I’m super excited about his new crop of screen prints. We’re featuring a different print each day this week in honor of the show, which opened on Thursday, February 6th, at Spoke Art in San Francisco.

The fourth UnReal Estate III print we’re spotlighting here on TheBlotSays.com is “Three Apples High”, which is a reference to the height of everyone’s favorite blue creatures, The Smurfs! The Blot’s always loved The Smurfs, but I love Doyle’s explanation of why he made this print even more: “There are always a few prints every year for this show that I do JUST BECAUSE I want to do them. The Sesame Street and King of the Hill prints from year one, and the Downton Abbey and Mr. Rogers one from year two are other examples. They’re prints that I feel very strongly about, fully aware that to most people, they’re not ‘cool’ or ‘current’ or ‘what the heck is this guy thinking?’ Hey, I did a Smurfs print. No regrets. I love how weird and whimsical that show was.”

“Three Apples High” is a 16"x20" The Smurfs screen print. The Standard Edition has a limited edition run size of 125 pieces, while the Variant is limited to just 35 prints. All of the limited edition screen prints from the show were first made available to attendees of the February 6th opening reception, with all remaining copies available online at the Spoke Art online store starting today, Friday, February 7th.

The Smurfs x Scott Tolleson Mixed Parts Deadbeets

As you all know The Blot loves pop culture inspired colorways, so when Scott Tolleson announced he was releasing not one but two The Smurfs inspired Deadbeets I got pretty freaking excited. The Shmurfy Beet (blue body with white hat) and the Undead Shmurfy Beet (white body with blue hat) are unpainted mixed parts 7.5” vinyl figures cast in Japanese soft vinyl. What's great about this release is they really look like Smurfs without needing any paint at all.  And the headercards Scott designed for this release (inspired by The Smurfs' creator Peyo) look so spot on it's ridiculous.  All in all a classic release The Blot's gotta snag!

Sold only as a Smurfy set, these Deadbeets have a limited edition run size of just 20 pieces and will retail for $130 per set. Catch these Smurftastic Deadbeets if you can when they drop at 10am PST this Friday, March 29th, at Scott Tolleson’s online store.