Category Archives: 2016 GPK Pie

Despite their second special 24 hour online GPK sale within a three day period, the Super Tuesday GPK Presidential Candidates Set proved to still be a hit with collectors. While selling less than the New Hampshire set, and half of the Iowa set, the Super Tuesday set still outsold the Not-Scar set by almost double. Political candidates are proving to be quite popular among GPK collectors. As with the primary results the best selling candidate cards show to be the leaders of each party. Here are the print runs for the Super Tuesday set as revealed by Topps via their Topps Blog.

Donald Trump – 508
Hillary Clinton – 477
Bernie Sanders – 475
Ted Cruz – 465
Marco Rubio – 465

Topps continues to receive mainstream press via Gizmoto subsite Toyland. As part of their article Toyland says this will be Topps last candidates for a few months. With former candidate Mitt Romney and New York Gov. Michael Bloomberg making noises about running, will Topps be able to hold off?

Just two days offering the Not-Scars as a special 24 hour online exclusive, Topps is at it again. Early Tuesday afternoon Topps launched the Super Tuesday Presidential Candidates Set. This time there are 5 subjects with brand new artwork. Each subject can be purchased as a two card a/b set for $9.99, or the entire set can be purchased for $29.99. As with previous releases Topps will reveal the print run on their Topps blog after the sale is over. Here is the checklist along with pictures of the cards.

1a) Distressed Donald
1b) Terrified Trump
2a) Tabby Ted
2b) Kitty Cruz
3a) Mecha Marco
3b) Robotic Rubio
4a) Hand Puppet Hillary
4b) Crony Clinton
5a) Basket Bernie
5b) Slam Dunk Sanders

Kanye West didn’t win any awards at this year’s Grammys, but he’s proven to be the big winner of the Shammys! Topps today revealed the print run for their 24 hour+ sale of the special Garbage Pail Kids Shammys cards. The Shammys were not as successful as the previous Pesidential Candidate sets from Iowa and New Hampshire. However, the numbers are greater than sales from the recent 5×7 campaign posters, which are still for sale. The official numbers for each artist set released via the Topps Blog are:

Kanye West – 281
Adam Levine – 272
Justin Beiber – 262
Lady Gaga – 257
Nicki Minaj – 256
Glenn Frey – 256
Pink – 254
Kendrick Lamar – 252
Sia – 251

What else does Topps have up their sleeve for this extension of the Apple Pie set?

Topps is going to the Shammy’s! Fresh off two successful 24 hour online sales of Presidential Candidate sets, Topps today launched another online set this time based on tonight’s Grammy Awards. The Shammy’s is an 18 card set featuring 9 music artists each with a/b cards. The artists depicted are; Kendrick Lamar, Adam Levine, Nicki Minaj, Glenn Frey, Justin Bieber, Pink, Lady Gaga, Sia Furler, and Kanye West. Like the previous presidential candidate sets each two card artist set can be bought separately for $9.99 each, while the entire 18 card set is $49.99.

Once again Topps has stated this will be a 24 hour sale. They will announced the print runs for the set tomorrow via their Topps Blog.

The Presidential Candidate theme continues in a big way this weekend, as Topps launches a new line of Campaign Posters. Taking a book from past sports card and Garbage Pail Kids products Topps is going all out by offering 10 x 14 posters. Topps first off is offering posters based on the original artwork in the 2016 GPK Apple Pie set. All 10 cards (5 candidates with both a/b versions) can be purchases individually as a 10 x 14 poster for $19.99 each.

Next Topps is offering the new artwork from the New Hampshire online set reworked into a mock campaign poster for 6 of the presidential candidates, (poor Kasich and Christie were left out). Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Jed Bush 10 x 14 campaign posters can be purchased individually also for $19.99 each. There doesn’t appear to be a limit on the number of regular posters that can be purchased.

Topps is also taking those same 10 x 14 posters and producing a Gold version limited to 1/1 of each candidate. Right after the posters went up for sale the Trump, Clinton, and Sanders posters were snatched up.

Finally Topps has two 5 X 7 Poster sets listed for sale. A set limited to /199 is available for $14.99, while the Gold set limited to /49 will set you back $29.99.

Topps decided to full this President’s Day weekend with a full offering of presidential candidates. Are even more sets on their way?

Topps has shown they are all in on this year’s presidential race. Following a very successful Iowa Caucus online sale, Topps had another success with their 24 hour sale of the GPK New Hampshire Primart set. Upping the set size and price didn’t seem to dissuade many collectors. Buoyed by a new round of mainstream and social media press Topps made more money on the New Hampshire set than the Iowa one.

As promised  Topps announced print run information just a few hours after the special 24 hour sale ended. Once again, Donald Trump led the way, but all candidates were popular. Here are the print runs for each card:

Donald Trump: 758
Hilary Clinton: 729
Bernie Sanders: 722
Ted Cruz: 712
Chris Christie: 703
John Kasich: 699
Ben Carson: 698
Marco Rubio: 697
Jeb Bush: 696

Despite over 300 less of each card Topps actually grossed more due to the higher price point. Does Topps go for round 3 with South Carolina and Nevada, or do they wait until Super Tuesday? Regardless due to their success there are sure to be more Presidential Candidate sets in our future.

A new week, a new primary, a new Presidential Candidates Set. Coming off their very successful sale online sale last week of the Iowa Caucus parallel set, Topps begin offering today a set based off the New Hampshire Primary. This time Topps is changing things up, with the set no longer a parallel set. The 18 card set features brand new artwork for all candidates, and adds in 4 additional candidates. In addition to the hold overs from the last set, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, and Bernie Sanders, Topps decided to add Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich to the set. The cards sport the same Patriotic Nameplate, and have a stamp of New Hampshire on the card back. As before you can buy individual 2 card sets of each candidate for $9.99, or you can buy the entire 18 card set for $49.99.

Topps is once again getting a media push. Toyland a subsite of gizmodo.com, has another article focusing on the new set. Also ESPN Financial Analyst Darren Rovell tweeted out information on the new set to his 1 million plus followers. Like the Iowa Caucus set Topps states this will be a 24 hour sale only, and they will release print run information tomorrow via their Topps Blog. See below of images of the new cards.