Don’t recheck your calendars, while it is 2025, Topps first set of the year is 2024 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome 7. This is the first retail set released by Topps in a year, and the first Chrome set in 18 months. Originally scheduled for release in Aug 2024, the set saw delays that pushed it into 2025. The base set follows the familiar GPK Chrome format, 100 base cards, primarily made up of reprints from the OS 7 set, 251a/b-292a/b. The card backs feature a puzzle of Barfin Barbara and brand new GPK comics done by Brent Engstrom. The ere are also 16 additional cards, 8 new subjects with a/b versions, done by; Joe Simko (1), Brent Engstrom (3), Joe McWilliams (2), and Neil Camera (2). For the first time in years, Topps finally numbered the new artwork cards correctly in the set. Instead of continuing with the OS numbers all new cards start with AN-.
While the base set format is the same as previous GPK Chrome sets, the familiarity ends there. Topps has completely revamped the parallels, inserts, and autos for the new chrome release. Topps has greatly expanded the insert sets this time around. C Name cards, Where Are They Now, Krome Krashers, and Rember the Name are all exclusive to Hobby packs, while Contests of Garbage, Art By Rory, and A Garbage Music Awards are exclusive to Retail Blaster packs. Topps made an error on at least 4 of the Art By Rory cards. The R- is missing on the card number on cards 269a, 282a, 285a, and 290a. The official checklist also mentions a separate GPK Collector Card – Superfractor Sean that is in the product. The card features the owner of High End Case Breaks. It’s unclear why a card was made of a sports card breaker. The regular version appears to be very rare. There are parallels available of the card, however the odds and production numbers of the base version are unknown. In a controversial move, Topps has removed popular parallels like Atomic Refractors, X-Fractors, Printing Plates, and most of the Wave Refractors collectors have been used to in past sets. Parallel collectors have nothing to worry about though as there are still 15 different parallels of base cards to collect including new versions like, Sparkle, Negative, and Drool Refractors. But that’s not all! For the first time, every insert set also has between two and seven parallels. Topps also moved many of the parallels to be unnumbered versions. That means between all the unnumbered parallels and new insert sets that only about half the cards in boxes will be base cards. Artist Autographs are also changed. For the first time a GPK Chrome set does not feature autographs from any original series artists. The only autos are for the 8 New Artwork cards and the 42 card insert set done by Rory McQueen. There are also parallels available for all the autographs in the set. Finally, perhaps the biggest change to the set is the introduction of sketch cards for the first time in a GPK Chrome set. Topps introduced a new sketch card process with four different sketch tiers. Falling one sketch per Hobby case, a record 95 artists completed sketches for the set.
In another rarity for Topps, it appears the odds are fairly accurate based on early breaks. If this holds, based on some quick math the production for Chrome 7 falls right in line with Chrome 4 and 6. There appears to be about the same number of hobby packs as Chrome 6, and slightly higher number of retail blaster packs then chrome 6. The total production looks to be the third highest Chrome set, but slightly lower than most of the recent regular retail sets. I will have a detailed production article in the coming days. You can find the Hobby Checklist here and the Retail Checklist here. For now here is what you can find and where you can find it in 2024 Garbage Pail Kids Chrome OS 7.
(Note: I will continue to update this post as new information comes to light and any new parallels/inserts are found.)
- Base Set – (100 Cards).
- OS 7 251a/b – 292a/b (84 Cards)
- New Art AN-1a/b-AN8a/b (16 Cards)
- Parallel Sets – Same exact cards from the Base set, except with a different color border or background pattern.
- Refractor – 1:3 (Hobby) 1:2 (Blaster) (100 Cards)
- Prism Refractor – 1:3 (Hobby) (100 Cards)
- Negative Refractor – 1:4 (Hobby) (100 Cards)
- Magenta Refractor – 1:6 (Hobby) (100 Cards)
- Purple Refractor – 1:7 (Hobby) (100 Cards)
- Drool Refractor – 1:2 (Blaster) (100 Cards)
- Sparkle Refractor /299 – 1:30 (Hobby) 1:252 (Blaster) (100 Cards)
- Aqua Refractor /199 – 1:45 (Hobby) 1:379 (Blaster) (100 Cards)
- Blue Lava Refractor /149 – 1:60 (Hobby) 1:505 (Blaster) (100 Cards)
- Green Refractor /99 – 1:90 (Hobby) 1:761 (Blaster) (100 Cards)
- Blue Wave Refractor /75 – 1:119 (Hobby) 1:1,004 (Blaster) (100 Cards)
- Gold Refractor /50 – 1:178 (Hobby) 1:1,504 (Blaster) (100 Cards)
- Orange Refractor /25 – 1:355 (Hobby) 1:3,024 (Blaster) (100 Cards)
- Red Refractor /5 – 1:1,775 (Hobby) 1:14,781 (Blaster) (100 Cards)
- Superfractor 1/1 – 1:8,871 (Hobby) 1:66,514 (Blaster) (100 Cards)
- Insert Sets – All the various insert subsets that can be found in packs.
- C-Name Variation – 1:25 (Hobby) (50 Cards)
- Aqua Refractor /199 – 1:80 (Hobby) (50 Cards)
- Green Refractor /99 – 1:160 (Hobby) (50 Cards)
- Blue Wave Refractor /75 – 1:211 (Hobby) (50 Cards)
- Gold Refractor /50 – 1:316 (Hobby) (50 Cards)
- Orange Refractor /25 – 1:631 (Hobby) (50 Cards)
- Red Refractor /5 – 1:3,142 (Hobby) (50 Cards)
- Superfractor 1/1 – 1:15,389 (Hobby) (50 Cards)
- Where Are They Now – 1:37 (Hobby) (42 Cards)
- Aqua Refractor /199 – 1:95 (Hobby) (42 Cards)
- Green Refractor /99 – 1:190 (Hobby) (42 Cards)
- Blue Wave Refractor /75 – 1:251 (Hobby) (42 Cards)
- Gold Refractor /50 – 1:376 (Hobby) (42 Cards)
- Orange Refractor /25 – 1:752 (Hobby) (42 Cards)
- Red Refractor /5 – 1:3,752 (Hobby) (42 Cards)
- Superfractor 1/1 – 1:18,392 (Hobby) (42 Cards)
- Khrome Krashers – 1:61 (Hobby) (20 Cards)
- Aqua Refractor /199 – 1:199 (Hobby) (20 Cards)
- Green Refractor /99 – 1:399 (Hobby) (20 Cards)
- Blue Wave Refractor /75 – 1:526 (Hobby) (20 Cards)
- Gold Refractor /50 – 1:789 (Hobby) (20 Cards)
- Orange Refractor /25 – 1:1,575 (Hobby) (20 Cards)
- Red Refractor /5 – 1:1,7774 (Hobby) (20 Cards)
- Superfractor 1/1 – 1:37,702 (Hobby) (20 Cards)
- Contests of Garbage – 1:4 (Blaster) (26 Cards)
- Green Refractor /99 – 1:320 (Blaster) (26 Cards)
- Gold Refractor /50 – 1:632 (Blaster) (26 Cards)
- Orange Refractor /25 – 1:1,261 (Blaster) (26 Cards)
- Red Refractor /5 – 1:6,188 (Blaster) (26 Cards)
- Superfractor 1/1 – 1:29,562 (Blaster) (26 Cards)
- Art By Rory – 1:2 (Blaster) (42 Cards)
- Green Refractor /99 – 1:198 (Blaster) (42 Cards)
- Gold Refractor /50 – 1:392 (Blaster) (42 Cards)
- Orange Refractor /25 – 1:783 (Blaster) (42 Cards)
- Red Refractor /5 – 1:3,913 (Blaster) (42 Cards)
- Superfractor 1/1 – 1:19,004 (Blaster) (42 Cards)
- A Garbage Music Awards – 1:7 (Blaster) (54 Cards)
- Green Refractor /99 – 1:154 (Blaster) (54 Cards)
- Gold Refractor /50 – 1:305 (Blaster) (54 Cards)
- Orange Refractor /25 – 1:608 (Blaster) (54 Cards)
- Red Refractor /5 – 1:3,024 (Blaster) (54 Cards)
- Superfractor 1/1 – 1:14,781 (Blaster) (54 Cards)
- Remember the Name Short Print – 1:577 (Hobby) (10 Cards)
- Red Refractor /5 – 1:15,389 (Hobby) (10 Cards)
- Superfractor 1/1 – 1:37,702 (Hobby) (10 Cards)
- C-Name Variation – 1:25 (Hobby) (50 Cards)
- Autographs/Sketches/Others
- GPK Collector Card – Superfractor Sean (Odds Unknown) (Hobby)(Blaster) (1 Card) *Has not surfaced
- Artist Autograph – 1:911 (Hobby) 1:912 (Blaster) (8 Cards)
- Gold Refractor /50 – 1:4,099 (Hobby) 1:4,094 (Blaster) (8 Cards)
- Red Refractor!/5 – 1:41,891 (Hobby) 1:38,008 (Blaster) (8 Cards)
- Superfractor 1/1 – 1:188,509 (Hobby) 1:266,056 (Blaster) (8 Cards)
- Art By Rory Autograph – 1:341 (Hobby) 1:342 (Blaster) (42 Cards)
- Gold Refractor /50 – 1:770 (Hobby) 1:769 (Blaster) (42 Cards)
- Red Refractor /5 – 1:7,695 (Hobby) 1:7,602 (Blaster) (42 Cards)
- Superfractor 1/1 – 1:37,702 (Hobby) 1:38,008 (Blaster) (42 Cards)
- Sketch Cards (95 total artists within 4 Tiers)
- Green Sketch Card – 1:481 (Hobby)
- Silver Sketch Card – 1:1,152 (Hobby)
- Gold Sketch Card – 1:2,878 (Hobby)
- Black Sketch Card – 1:5,766 (Hobby)
