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This weekend Lauchringen, Germany hosted an event to break a world record. That record: the world’s largest group of people dressed as Smurfs.
The rules included:
- Participants couldn’t show any non-blue skin.
- They could dress as Papa Smurf with his trademark red cap and a white beard, Smurfette with blonde hair and a white skirt or dress, or one of the many other Smurfs in white pants and hat.
- Characters like the evil wizard Gargamel or his cat Azrael were strictly off limits.
The standing record was 2510 Smurfs in the UK back in 2009. This German event counted a grand total of 2762 Smurfs.
Holy Smurf, that’s a lot of Smurfin’ Smurfs.
Oddly, there’s a local Wisconsin Smurf record on the books, too. Gerda Sheuers of Ripon, Wisconsin set the record for the largest collection of Smurf-themed memorabilia in 2014 with a total of 6,320 items.
