After a successful 30th Anniversary set, Topps took a 6 month break before offering collectors a new set. With the release of 2016 Garbage Pail Kids As American As Apple Pie In Your Face, Topps kept some changes they made with the 30th set, while at the same time completely changing the way other aspects of the release is handled. Returning once again is the large 220 base card set, broken into different subsets with card numbers on the backs. Topps decided to completely revamp the parallels not only in look and name, but also numbering many parallels on the cards backs for the first time in a regular GPK set. Familiar inserts and “hits” also return to the series. Topps also decided not to print checklist card backs for this set. Topps did release a checklist which you can find here. Production is way down on this set compared to the 30th set. I’ll have a couple of articles breaking down production numbers in the coming days. For now here is what you can find in 2016 GPK Apple Pie!
(Note: I will continue to update this post as new information comes to light and any new parallels/inserts are found.)
- Base Set – 220 total cards made up of 9 different subsets.
- As American As Apple Pie (42a/b – 84 Total Cards)
- 2016 Presidential Candidate (5a/b – 10 Total Cards)
- Americana Devolved (9a/b – 18 Total Cards)
- US Historical Events (9a/b – 18 Total Cards)
- American Icons (9a/b – 18 Total Cards)
- American Inventors (9a/b – 18 Total Cards)
- America’s Pastimes (9a/b – 18 Total Cards)
- Americana Sweep Under the Rug (9a/b – 18 Total Cards)
- US Summer Olya-Picks (9a/b – 18 Total Cards)
- Parallel Sets – Same exact cards from the Base set, except with a different speckled color border.
- Bruised Border (Dark Blue/Black) – 1:1 – Collector (220 Cards)
- Spit Border (Light Blue) /99 – 1:4 – Hobby/Collector (220 Cards)
- Bloody Nose Border (Red) /75 – 1:3 – Collector (220 Cards)
- Gold Dust Border (Gold) /50 – 1:44 – Retail/Hobby/Collector (220 Cards)
- Puke Border (Green) – 1:1 – Retail (220 Cards)
- Pee Border (Yellow) – 1:4 – Target Retail Gravity Feed (220 Cards)
- Printing Plates – 1:241 Collector, 1:1536 Hobby/Retail, 1:746 Retail Jumbo (440 Total Plates – 4 per card artwork)
- Insert Sets – All the various insert subsets that can be found in packs.
- Comic Cover – 1:24 – Hobby/Collector (4a/b – 8 Total Cards)
- Horror Sticker – 1:24 – Hobby Collector (4a/b – 8 Total Cards)
- Classic Patriots – 2 Per Jumbo Retail (9a/b – 18 Total Cards)
- Gross Bears – 3 Per SE Blaster Box (1-5,1L – 6 Total Cards)
- Bathroom Buddies – 3 Per EA Blaster Box (3a/b – 6 Total Cards)
- Adam Bomb/Boom Americana – 2 Per Blister Pack (2a/b – 4 Total cards)
- Patch Card /50 – 1:73 – Collector (10 Total Cards)
- Artist Relics /99 – 1:61 – Collector (6 Total Cards)
- Artist Autograph /25 – 1:65 Collector, 1:200 Hobby/Retail (110 Total Cards – 1 per card artwork)
- Sketch Card – 1:266 – Retail (22 Artists/2000 Total Sketches)
- Die-Cut Sketch – 1:158 Hobby 1:144 – Collector (22 Artists/500 Total Sketches)
- Double Artist Panoramic Sketch – 1:362 – Collector (?? Artists/100 Total Sketches)
- Loaded Sketch – 1:68 – Blaster Box (?? Artists/250 Total Sketches)
- Panoramic Sketch Cards – 1:401 – Jumbo Retail (?? Artists/100 Total Sketches)