Kicker - A big collection of little blue things

NICK EICHER, HOST: Gerda Scheuers is the owner of a one-of-a-kind collection, which has earned her two Guinness World Records.

She told TMJ4 News that her collection includes:

SCHEUERS: Everything from binders to clocks, stamps, and pencils.

Also, small blue figurines and mushroom houses.

Have you guessed what it is?

Scheuers owns the world’s largest Smurfs collection.

Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Gargemel, they’re all here, filling up multiple rooms of her home in central Wisconsin.

She’s been at this for four decades and she’s 47-years-old, so most of her life.

In 2014 Guiness recognized it as the world’s biggest with more than 6,000 pieces.

But she’s now broken even that record, expanding it to more than 11,000 pieces.

Scheuers says the most common question she gets is “Why?” And the answer is very simple.

SCHEUERS: I have fun doing it. There’s no reason other than I have fun doing it.

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