The Smurfiness Continues!
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The smurfs are back in another big, beautiful anthology!

As you may have gathered from the cover art, this Anthology contains Smurfette's introduction story, as well as five other stories, including one of Johan and Peewits adventures with the smurfs!

-Contents
"The Smurfette" (with introduction by Matt. Murray, Smurfologist)
"The Hungry Smurfs"
"The Smurfs and the Egg" (with introduction by Matt. Murray, Smurfologist)
"The Fake Smurf"
"The Hundredth Smurf"
"The War of the 7 Springs" (with introduction by Matt. Murray, Smurfologist)

-Smurfette Controversy
Although Smurfette is known as one of the most beloved and level-headed smurfs, she didn't always start that way. Originally she was created by Gargamel to bring ruin to the Smurfs. Please think of every irritating female stereotype you have ever heard of, and you can be certain that the original Smurfette had it. She was extremely silly and annoying. But by the end of the story, she takes notice that her actions have consequences, and begins to grow as a Smurf. She decides to leave so that she may have the opportunity to grow more, instead of causing chaos and rivalry among the Smurfs. She does not reappear in any of the other five stories in this Anthology.

Many readers have expressed resentment to the way females are perceived in this story- as they should- and have unfortunately decided not to let their children read it. Keep in mind that this story was written for a different audience half a century ago. Other readers have taken this opportunity to sit down with their children and discuss sexism and how it has evolved over time. I recommend the latter approach. Honestly, I enjoyed the story since it helps give a little more background to Smurfette's past and to the time period that this story was written.

-Comments
Before the Smurfs had their own series, they were side characters for six issues of Peyo's other comic series 'Johan and Peewit.' But due to the Smurfs overwhelming popularity, readers forgot about Johan and Peewit, and focused their attention exclusively, on the Smurfs. The majority of those six issues have never been published in English. I am glad that Papercutz is putting the effort to translate those stories, and include one of them in each new Smurf Anthology. Personally, I enjoy them tremendously, but looking at the other reviews below, I can see that this opinion is not shared by everyone.

Overall it's fun for all ages, kids and adults! It helps spark the imagination and takes you to a new magical world! Nowadays, it's rare to find a big, tall, hardcover book filled with beautifully illustrated comics at an affordable price. For the amount of joy this series brings to the reader, it's a steal!
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Kurt is back and stumbling into trouble yet again. I don't want to, but Tim Baker makes me feed for this hapless fellow.
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I pre-ordered this game for my niece who is a huge Avatar fan. She was quite excited to receive it today and being to play. However, her excitement soon turned to frustration and then to utter disappointment as the game locked up due to missing level files.

Three installs on three different computers with all of the set-up options and each time the same error occurred: missing azw files.

I think it's pretty preposterous for a game company to hype its wares to kids and then bitterly disappoint them with an incomplete product.

THQ and SMERC (and Nickelodeon, too!) should all be ashamed of themselves!

I hope they are at least courteous enough to provide a patch to install the missing files.
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If your idea of variety is a blue level and a green level then this may not apply to you. This game suffers badly from repetitive levels with very little control by the player. You jump and use a power/action button, that appears to be it. You collect smurf berries (as a score) and gold medals to unlock more smurfs. Game play is broken up a bit by some boss fights which consists of dodging / jumping out of the way and then jumping on the boss.

I may be able to forgive all of this but there are three additional issues, first is collision detection. Players may not occupy the same spot at the same time, which means if you are both trying to jump on something neither of you will make it (or one will push the other player off) also if one player runs right, and the other player is to their right, they get pushed.

The second issue is the environmental parts of the game, meant to jump on or ride often are unavailable for the next person, making them wait a few seconds to make the same jump or die. Extremely frustrating. I figured with quality platformers like Rayman made by Ubisoft the game would be more like that, but it's not.

Lastly is the poor menu management system. Honestly there is no reason at this point of gaming for this issue. It's very easy for another player to mess up the level select by pressing left or right as the other person is selecting A.

Kids don't seem to care about the game being repetitive, but their both under 7. They enjoy the Smurfs enough and haven't played enough games yet to know better. Good for them, bad for me to play with them.
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So I bought this game for my little brother, it was a birthday present! He was so excited after unwrapping it. He couldn't wait to play... That's when the disappointment hit. First I should say I have gotten into the game for maybe tops is 5mins. The graphics are pretty neat and I was in love with the trailers, but unfortunately the game keeps kicking us out since day one! It's already been about three weeks since we bought the game. I've played blizzard games before and they've been petty damn good. (was a WOW gamer until blizzard ruined it, I also play Diablo.) This game is just horrible! I can't even play a full on game never have.. I see a lot of positive reviews about how people spend hrs. on end.. and then there are the few who have my same problem yet blizzard doesn't fix it! I first thought it was my internet connection had to call them and see what was going on. After talking to them and thinking the problem was fix I decided to give it a go again boom I was in. I couldn't believe it! As I was finally getting ready to try it out, I get discounted yet again... Really!? Like Really?! I'm to damn pissed about this game and my little brothers don't even want the game anymore which cost me 60 dollars!  (btw bought the game at GAME STOP) It's a massive disappointment! I wouldn't waste your money on this game. When you look more into it like I did. I found out a couple of things, like the game hasn't been finished and it use to have multiplayer and on top of that I hear Overwatch has a new update where if you keep disconnecting you'll get a penalty! Seriously even though it's BLIZZARDS damn fault I still have to deal with this crap! I try to  connect into the game every damn day and still nothing. I've written on Blizzards webpage too about the issue, and you're going to love this part! Instead of them trying to resolve it, they delete your post so people don't know about the issue! That's why I'm writing on Amazon! WORD OF ADVICE PEOPLE DON'T BUY THE GAME! You might be one of the lucky ones like me and have wasted 60 dollars for nothing!!!
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All I have to say is what a damn disappointment! I actually thought,since I'm a huge fan of the hilarious show,that this was gonna be a great game. Guess I was wrong. No storyline,celebrities that you've either never heard of or that are has-beens are the characters,and the new characters you have to "earn" are famous horror movie monsters!
At first,the game is just OK,until you see the create a "Celebrity" part and think you can actually create a celebrity! Well,you can create people out of tacky clothing and stupid hairstyles that don't even belong to celebrities,but you can't actually make a person that even looks like a celebrity! One of the many rip-offs! And,even when you set the game on "Hard",you can beat the game in less than 2 minutes! Even Nick Diamond and Johnny Gomez's funny comments can't save this piece of crap! Like I said,stick to the TV show!
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I JUST WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT I HAVE JUST PURCHASED ALL THE SMURFS EPISODES!IT'S TRUE! THE SMURFS ARE HERE AND THEY ARE HERE TO STAY! AFTER NUMEROUS SEARCHES I WAS ON VACATION AND I FOUND THE SMURFS EVERY SINGLE EPISODE! THE FIRST SET HAS 223 EPISODES! THE FINAL SET CONTAINS 200 EPISODES! A TOTAL OF 423 SMURFTASTIC EPISODES! I WAS GETTING TIRED OF HEARING PEOPLE SAY WHY DON'T THEY RELEASE ALL THE EPISODES OF THE SMURFS BECAUSE I WAS 1 OF THOSE PEOPLE. NOW I AM NOT 1 OF THOSE ANYMORE. ALL THANKS TO GOD & LADY LUCK! I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW JUST HOW HAPPY IT MAKES ME & MY SON FEEL TO OWN SUCH A TREASURE IN ANIMATION HISTORY! THE SETS ALSO GIVE YOU INFO ON PEYO ( PIERRE CULLIFORD) THE CREATOR OF THE SMURFS! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS EMAIL ME AT infamouz@live.ca IF YOU LOVE THE SMURFS AS MUCH AS ME & MY SON DO! HAVE A SMURFY DAY & NIGHT!
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Expansion 3 adds more laughs to the game. This game is going down as the game I most enjoy playing with others. I am going to say this one more time: GET THE GAME FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE AND DO NOT BOTHER WITH THOSE RESELLING IT.
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Tommaso (Immortal Matchmakers, Inc 2) by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

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Oh my, Mimi has done it again, woven that wonderful web of hilariously messed up paranormal matchmaking.  I'm really not sure who I adore more in these books, as all the characters are so brilliantly warped!

I'm going to give very little away here ... this book follows the adventures of Tommaso and his mission to meet and claim his mate. However Char doesn't react quite how he expects and their journey together is, as always, totally insane and addictive.

I simply can't wait for the next installment of crazy, what with the bald chickens, clowns, raw meat on the golf course, strawberry lube oh and not forgetting the wonderfully crazied up world of Cimil and her invisible unicorn !

If paranormal mixed with crazy a** humour is your thing then this series is definitely worth a one-click !
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Once again we find our meddling mutt Scooby-Doo in the third volume of his new series.  The four episodes this disc has (and again, not much else) are:

"Battle of the Humungonauts" - A pair of hulking creatures start wrecking places in Crystal Cove.  Mayor Jones asks Fred and the gang to find out what's what.  So they do and with a new look to boot - Fred's idea; no surprise.

"Howl of the Fright Hound" - Scooby is accused of attacking innocent people throughout the town.  Either he's to blame or else Scooby must find the real culprit.

"The Secret Serum" - A vampire runs rampant and starts stealing some unusual items.  The prime suspect for this case, however, is Daphne's mom.

"The Shrieking Madness" - The kids spend the weekend at a campus called Darrow College.  All of a sudden, a monster known as Char Gar Gothakon is terrorizing everyone.

Not to be a spoiler or anything, but I think I heard that the rest of the first season will be coming to a special 2-disc set in the near future with the last 14 episodes on there.  I'm sure it'll be worth waiting for even if the season ended on a sad note.  Perhaps I've said too much....
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Yeah, what a great game! I can see a new approach was taken by the developers. Lets' make a game that DOESN'T work! Listen, more than two and a half hours was spent getting the damn thing to install only to find that the game wouldn't even load. Yeah, even downloaded the V1.2 patch but to no avail. A consumer should NEVER have to hunt down solutions so painstakingly, and customize their computer's settings so specifically, to make up for a developer's SHODDY PROGRAMMING STANDARDS. If you've got some spare change, spare time and alot of spare patience;

use it on something else and flush this log down the toilet.

If I were faced with a choice of two fates:

1) Entering a dark, damp, torture chamber filled with bloody instruments of medieval misery and agonistic screams of pain.

Or

2) A pleasant, clean, looking room with mood lighting and soft jazz with a computer with this vile game in it...

I would choose the first. At least I'd know what to expect.
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Another fabulous little read in this smutty little series!! I love all these sassy ladies and their alpha lion mates. Such delicious reads.

Hillary and Oscar are a great pairing and have fabulous chemistry. I am a big fan of couples with playful banter, this fits that perfectly!

The overall series is really engaging and I am enjoying the variety in the plots. While they are all a bit connected they have differences in their individual situations. I can not wait for the next book!!

I am officially addicted and wishing a smexy lion would come sweep me off my feet! Oh, did I mention this is a scorching hawt smexy read? Have the ice cream handy to help you cool down!!!
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To bad they don't allow us to select negative stars in the rating!
I must say that this is the worst game I've seen in a long time.  Within 15 minutes of opeing the package and installing the game the questions were  repeating.  If you lose and play again, there's a 75% chance that the same  question will appear again the next round.  This was just pittifull.  Save your money!
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This game is awful!!! People are buying it for their kids thinking it is harmless. My kids were playing it all the time and talked about it all the time. Then one day, my kid created some portal that went to HELL!! Really!!! That's not it. After looking into it, I realized a much darker side of Minecraft. Apparently there are worlds that you can access that have nudity, sex, and, rape. Who knows what else is lurking in this game. Take this game away from your kids. They will get over it!! Also, if they are watching Minecraft videos on YouTube, the language is awful!!
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The lead female character in this series is becoming cringe-worthy. Getting tired of the flip-flop, back and forth emotional drama. This series is in need of an ending. FAST!
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Stiga is legendary, and these orange bad boys will light up posers like a christmas tree. Particularly fun is mercilessly destroying the Joola robot trainer in straight sets. What kind of "trainer" doesn't even have hands? Or a paddle even?? I smacked Joola so hard in the robot face one time, there was no doubt it was seeing "stars"---Stiga 1 stars, that is. Looks like the "trainer" is now the student....what a joke.
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if you like kindergarten intellect, and wanna-be tough guy antics then check out anything from these guys!! honestly how can this album be any worse than the first one? they actually had to work at sucking.