The kids have to have some playtime! The first retail set of 2024 is dedicated to all types of games and activities involving Garbage Pail Kids. Once again the 200 card base set was done by artists David Gross, Brent Engstrom, Joe Simko, and Joe McWilliams. In sticking with recent tradition, Tom Bunk also did the art for one of the insert sets. After taking a set off, GPKs are returning to big box retailers like Target and Walmart. With it come additional box options. Targets and Walmarts will be stocked with the usual Value Boxes (Blasters). Those come in two versions, EA and SE, that are essentially the same odds wise. The popular Collector boxes return to hobby stores. Additionally, Topps is selling the 24 pack Retail Display box, that they also sell under the Hobby moniker. When Topps released the odds sheet on their website, they actually listed odds that were different on a handful of card types for Hobby and Retail display boxes. After some early research is does appear the boxes are the same, with the same SKUs and Package numbers. It will be tough to determine which set of odds is correct, or if both are accurate since the card types that are different have longer odds. GPKNews has reached out to Topps for clarification. That’s not the only thing that appears to be wrong with the odds sheet. Once again Green and Black odds are listed as 1:2, which is incorrect as those are 1 per pack. The odds for the Ill-Influencers insert set found in Blasters shows 1:6 on one Blaster type and 1:1 on the other. Neither of those are correct. Based on early break results it appears those are actually 1:3 for blaster packs. Finally, many of the “per box” odds are just incorrect. A lot of the parallels show as 1:1 per box, when it’s actually multiple per box. Also there are many card types like shaped sketch, that don’t match the pack odds. If the pack odds are correct then it’s 1:14 boxes, but per box odds are listed as 1:7. It’s too early to know which ones are correct and which ones are wrong. One final note, while base autos are not numbered this time around, artists have reported they signed /90 of each base auto. Those numbers are up from the previous set.
Based on some early math it appears this set is very heavily produced. It will be among the highest produced modern GPK sets. GPKNews will absorb a number of case breaks over the coming days. I’ll have much more on what odds are real in my production articles next week. To see the official Topps checklist click here. For now, here is what you can find, and where you can find it in 2024 Series 1 Garbage Pail Kids GPK Kids At Play.
(Note: I will continue to update this post as new information comes to light and any new parallels/inserts are found.)
(Note: Many of the odds below came from Topps and are incorrect. I’ve adjusted some odds where it’s obvious.)
- Base Set – 100a/b (200 Cards).
- Parallel Sets – Same exact cards from the Base set, except with a different speckled color border.
- Black Border (Collector) – 1:1 (200 Cards)
- Blue Border /99 (Hobby/Retail Display) – 1:25 (200 Cards)
- Red Border /75 (Collector) – 1:27 (200 Cards)
- Fool’s Gold Border /50 (Hobby/Retail Display) – 1:300, (Collector) – 1:428, (Blaster) 1:566 (200 Cards)
- Booger Green Border (Hobby/Retail Display/Blaster) – 1:1 (200 Cards)
- Yellow Border (Blaster) – 1:5 (200 Cards)
- Gray Border /199 (Hobby/Retail Display/Blaster) – 1:70, (Collector) 1:78 (200 Cards)
- Printing Plates –1:1,594 (Collector), 1:14,856 (Hobby), 1:14,954 (Retail Display), 1:12,225 (Blaster) (400 total – 4 per artwork)
- Insert Sets – All the various insert subsets that can be found in packs.
- Wacky Packages Playthings – 1:24 – Collector (8 cards)
- Let’s Get Physical – 1:3 – Retail Display/Hobby (5a/b – 10 Cards)
- Ill-Influencers –1:3 – Blaster (10a/b – 20 cards)
- Bored of Board Games – 1:24 – Collector (5a/b – 10 Cards)
- Game Over! – 1:8 Collector (12a/b – 24 cards)
- GPK TCG – 3 Per Box Topper Pack Collector (12 Cards)
- GPK TCG Foilfractor 1/1 Collector – 1:32,536 (12 Cards)
- GPK Parch Card /199 – 1:206 – Collector (5a/b – 10 Cards)
- GPK Patch Card Green /150 – 1:273 Collector (5a/b – 10 Cards)
- GPK Parch Card Blue /99 – 1:412 – Collector (5a/b – 10 Cards)
- GPK Parch Card Red /75 – 1:544 – Collector (5a/b – 10 Cards)
- GPK Parch Card Gold /50 – 1:816 – Collector (5a/b – 10 Cards)
- GPK Parch Card Foilfractor 1/1 – 1:39,044 – Collector (5a/b – 10 Cards)
- Artist Autograph /90 – 1:81 Collector, 1:615 Hobby/Retail Display, 1:614 Blaster, (100 Total Cards – 1 per card artwork)
- Fool’s Gold (Yellow) Artist Autograph /50 – 1:128 Collector, 1:1,184 Hobby, 1:969 Retail Display/Blaster (100 Total Cards – 1 per card artwork)
- Foilfractor Artist Autograph 1/1 – 1:6,298 Collector, 1:59,424 Hobby, 1:67,296 Retail Display, 1:48,898 Blaster (100 Total Cards – 1 per card artwork)
- Sketch Card – 1:632 Hobby, 1:249 Retail Display, 1:481 Blaster (3371 Total sketches, 68 Artists)
- Panoramic Sketch Card – 1:6,111 Blaster (194 Total sketches, 68 Artists)
- Loaded Puzzle Sketch Card – 1:3,531 Blaster (350 Total Sketches, 68 Artists)
- Shaped Sketch – 1:344 – Collector (1134 Total Sketches, 68 Artists)
- Triptych Sketch – 1:1,933 – Collector (202 Total Sketches, 68 Artists)