For whatever reason collectors spend the last week of the month. After ending earlier today, Topps revealed the print run for Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays June Week 4. The set sold a total of 650 copies. This sets a new record for the bizarre holidays sets. June might have started slowly for these sets, but the final week brought the customers out. This matches a similar formula in May. After weeks of increases, May ended with over 600 sold as well. How will July start out?
Month: June 2020
Topps Launches Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays July Week 1
The odd daily holiday cards continue into their forth month. Today Topps launched Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays July Week 1. This marks the 14th weekly release so far in the series. This week’s set has the usual 10 cards, 5 new paintings with a/b versions. Artists Joe Simko, Brent Engstrom, David Gross, and Neil Camera painted this week’s cards. Each set also comes with a red parallel card. The sets are available for $19.99 each or in a lot of 10 for $179.99. There are also 10 x 14 posters of each card available for $19.99. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The set will be available for 7 days on Topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is the checklist along with pictures of this week’s cards.
Topps Launches On Demand #10 Garbage Pail Kids 35 Years of Untold Stories
The 35th anniversary of Garbage Pail Kids celebration continues on Topps.com. Today Topps launched On Demand #10 Garbage Pail Kids 35 Years of Untold Stories. This is a different type of set in many ways. The 90 card set is made up of comic style cards. The comics were written by former GPK Brand Manager Colin Walton. Artists doing the comic cards for the set are Darren Pepe, Chris Meeks, Dan Contois, and Neil Camera. This marks the debut of Pepe and Contois on card GPK finals. In addition to the 90 card base set, there are also two insert sets 80’s Style Skateboard Decks (Rory McQueen) and Cover Stories (Brent Engstrom/Camera). Each pack purchased comes with 24 base cards, and 1 insert from each set. Sketches are also included this time. Each set purchased has a 1:2 chance at a sketch. Sketch artists confirmed so far for the set include Jasmine Contois (40), GPK Nik (50), Robert Jimenez (40), Neil Camera (50), Joey Fitchett (50), Dan Contois (31), Rory McQueen (40), Derrin Pepe (30), Mike McHugh (60), Shane Garvey (40), Greg Trieze (40), Brandhen Snyder (50), Bekki Sharp (40), Cheduz (50), Barry Nygma (50), Chad Scheres (50), Gavin Williams (40), Jeff Dionise (?), and Anthony Skubis (40). For the first time ever special sketch card boxes will be inserted randomly at 1:100 sets ordered. Jasmine Contois, GPK Nik, Jimenez, Fitchett, and Camera all painted 4 sketch boxes. With 20 sketch boxes there appears to be 2000 total packs available. That translates to 533 base sets, 400 skateboard insert sets, and 285 Cover Insert sets. Each pack can be purchased for $40. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The packs will be on sale for 7 days or until they sell out. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is the checklist along with pictures of the cards.
•Adam Bomb – Darrin Pepe (1-9)
• Nasty Nick – Chris Meeks (10-27)
• Alin Al – Daniel Contois (28-36)
• Slobbie Robbie – Darrin Pepe ( 37-45)
• Wrinkled Randy – Chris Meeks (46-63)
• Virus Iris – Neil Camera (64-72)
• New Wave Dave – Neil Camera (73-90)
(5) 80s Style Skateboard Deck Stickers
(7) Cover Story Stickers
Topps Reveals Print Run for Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays June Week 3
Results for the most recent holiday set are in. After ending yesterday, Topps revealed the print run for Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays June Week 3. Sales continue to creep up for the odd holiday sets, as last week’s set sold a total of 502. Those numbers are slightly higher than the previous week, but remain cocnsistant with sales throughout the spring. The final set for June is up for sale now, and collectors can expect the holidays to continue throughout July.
Topps Teases Next Wax Digital Release Garbage Pail Kids Gone Exotic
After weeks of rumors online, Topps has confirmed the next digital release with their Wax partnership. Garbage Pail Kids Gone Exotic will be making its digital debut. No release date or other details were shared, just that the set will be coming see. The first WAX x Topps release was OS1 and was a huge success, selling out in just over a day. Demand of the limited product has remained high on the various secondary markets. It will be interesting if the newer Gone Exotic cards will see similar demand. While not officially announced yet, OS 2 should also see a digital release in short order.
Topps Launches Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays June Week 4
Topps today continued their weekly holidays series by launching Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays June Week 4. This marks the end of the third month of weekly sets celebrating all those odd daily holidays. Once again this week’s set has 10 cards, 5 with a/b versions. Artists Joe Simko, Brent Engstrom, and Neil Camera painted the art for this week’s set. Each set also comes with one purple parallel card. The set is available for $19.99 or in a lot of 10 for $179.99. There are also 10×14 posters of each card available for $19.99. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The set will be on sale for 7 days on Topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is the checklist along with pictures of the cards.
Topps Launches Garbage Pail Kids Trashy Treasures
Topps is trying their hand at GPK figures for the third time. Today Topps launched Garbage Pail Kids Trashy Treasures Series 1. It started with Cheap Toys in the 80’s, Minikins came just a few years ago, and now Trashy Treasures is the third in house shot at figures. Series 1 consists of 5 different figures, all individually boxed in their own character box. The checklist consists of Adam Bomb, Leaky Lindsay, Corroded Carl, New Wave Dave, and Richie Retch. Each box also comes with a sticker. The figures are made out of resin. The figures stand approximately 3 1/4” tall, with Adam Bomb being 4 1/2” tall. The base figures are fully painted. Each purchase also has a chance at various parallels. Parallels exists in red (1:5), green (1:10), black (1:25), silver (1:100) and an all-gold version that are 1/1 (1:500). Based on the odds given It would appear the print run for each character would be base (324), red (100), green (50), black (20), silver (5), gold (1). Figures can be purchased for 19.99 each, there is no discounts for multiple purchased… Shipping is not free with the cheapest option for single figures $7.50. The figures are available on Topps.com with no time table on purchases, until they are sold out.
Topps Teases New Garbage Pail Kids Trashy Treasures
Update #2: The official Topps GPK pages shared a picture of the 1/1 Gold figure.
Update: More info from Topps on these were included in the daily sales email sent to customers. The figures will be known as Garbage Pail Kids Trashy Treasures. There will be 5 in the “Series 1” set, Adam Bomb, Leaky Lindsay, Corroded Carl, New Wave Dave, and Richie Retch. Beyond just base figures there will also be “red, green, black, an all-silver variation and the ultra-rare 1-of-1 all-gold variation“. The sides of the boxes also advertises there will be a sticker included. No size or pricing information was revealed by Topps. Topps says the figures will go on sale tomorrow on Topps.com.
This morning on the Topps Facebook account, they began to tease a new line of Garbage Pail Kids Figures. No info other than the picture was shared by Topps. These don’t look like Funkos, so let the speculation begin! GPKNews has reached out to Topps for more info, if they respond this article will be updated.
Topps Reveals Print Run for Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays June Week 2
After ending yesterday, Topps revealed the print run for Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays June Week 2. The holiday sets continue to retain a core customer base. The total for the second set this month was 492. This is slightly above last week’s sales, but well down from May. With no end in sight, it will be interesting to see how sales develop.
Topps Launches Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays June Week 3
The daily holidays continue on Topps’ website. Today’s Topps launched Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays June Week 3. As usual this week’s set features 10 cards, 5 new paintings with a/b versions. This week’s cards were done by Joe Simko, Brent Engstrom, David Gross, and Neil Camera. The set also comes with one purple parallel card. Sets are available for $19.99 each or in lots of 10 for $179.99. 10 x 14 posters of each card are also available for $19.99 each. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The set will be available for 7 days on Topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is the checklist and pictures of this week’s cards.
•11A Veronica Veggie (Neil Camera)
• 11B Green Jean
• 12A Salt Lake Sally (Joe Simko)
• 12B Fishing Phyllis
• 13A Smoochy Sue Ellen (Joe Simko)
• 13B Bloated Blair
• 14A Narcissistic Nancy (David Gross)
• 14B Selfie Sara
• 15A Thrasher Asher (Brent Engstrom)
• 15B Shredding Shawn
