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2016 Garbage Pail Kids Apple Pie Explained

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wrapperAfter 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)

2016 GPK Apple Pie Blister Pack Odds

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Just like the 30th Anniversary release Topps has created 3 pack Blister packs for the new 2016 GPK Apple Pie set. Blisters have been found so far at both Wal-mart and Toys R Us stores. In addition to getting 3 retail packs you get 2 special Adam Bomb/Boom cards. There are 4 cards in the special subset each with two different backs. So overall, you’ll need to collect 8 cards to get them all. Thanks to Randy Bagget for correcting my error. There are only 4 cards in the set, two with orange backs and two with yellow backs. Thanks to GPK collecter Adam for the pictures! Here are the odds:

Blister Pack Odds
Gold Dust 1:44
Printing Plate 1:1536
Artist Autograph 1:200
Sketch Card 1:266

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2016 GPK Apple Pie Hobby/Collector Odds

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Release day is upon us! 2016 Garbage Pail Kids As American as Apple Pie In Your Face finally releases 1/20/16. Collector and Hobby boxes have begun shipping out to collectors, and pack odds are below. Thanks to GPK collector Ke We for the Collector box odds, and Mikee Friesen for the Hobby odds! At first glance the odds for printing plates and sketches seems to be much lower than in year’s past. One other important note many parallels, autographs, patch, and relics are numbered for the first time in a regular GPK release. Previously, Topps only numbered parallels in the Chrome sets.

Collector Pack Odds
Spit 1:4
Bloddy Nose 1:3
Gold Dust 1:44
Printing Plate 1:241
Artist Autograph 1:65
Comic Cover 1:24
Horror Sticker 1:24
Shaped Sketch 1:144
Double Artist Panoramic Sketch 1:362
Patch Card 1:73
Artist Relic 1:61

Hobby Pack Odds
Spit 1:4
Gold Dust 1:44
Printing Plate 1:1536
Artist Autograph 1:200
Comic Cover 1:24
Horror Sticker 1:24
Shaped Sketch 1:158

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2016 GPK Apple Pie Blaster Box Odds

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Blaster boxes begin showing up in the wild today. Thanks to collectors GPK Joe and Matt Steffens for the picture and info on odds. Below are the odds on the side of the boxes. As usual it appears the odds are the same as retail packs. The notable exception are the odds for the Loaded Sketches, which for this set are exclusive to Blaster Boxes.

Blaster Box Odds per pack
Gold Dust 1:44
Printing Plate 1:1536
Artist Autograph 1:200
Sketch Card 1:266
Blaster Box Odds per box
Loaded Puzzle Sketch Card 1:68

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Sell Sheet for 2016 Garbage Pail Kids Apple Pie Set

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The sell sheet is out for Topps’s 2016 Garbage Pail Kids American as Apple Pie In Your Face set. Here’s a link to the PDF version, or you can scroll down. Some highlights I noticed:

  • Autographs look to be returning to the old way. Each card in the base set with an on card auto. However sell sheet says only 110 cards autographed. So maybe only the “A” cards will be auto’d. Each one limited to 25.
  • Sell Sheet says 440 Printing Plates? Again it looks like they are only going to do the “A” name for plates similar to the 30th set.
  • Parallels – Bruised (1 per Collector Pack) Black & Blue splats on border, Spit Splatter (Hobby /99) are Blue splats on border, and Bloody Nose (Collector /75) are red splats on border, Gold Dust (Found all packs /50).
  • “Bonus” sets return to 8 card sets. Comic Covers and Horror, one per box Hobby/Collector.
  • Duel Artist Panoramic Sketch cards! Two artists doing one card, interesting.
  • 6 card Relic set limited to /99 of each. Patch card set remains at 10 but /50 this time.

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GPK 30th Production Part 2

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collectoroddsThis is Part 2 of a study on how large the print run was in the Garbage Pail Kids 30th Anniversary set. If you missed part 1 you can go here to get caught up.

In the first article, based on information from the odds and sell sheets, I wrote about how many packs/boxes/cases were made for Hobby/Collector/Retail for the GPK 30th set.

We have 577,000 Retail Packs + 51,000 Hobby Packs + 41,000 Collector Packs = 669,000 Packs.

I’ll be using those numbers to attempt to figure how how many of each card/parallel were made. This can give you a good idea how tough a set will be to put together or how rare that last card you need for your rainbow is! As a reminder I had to use some educated guesswork and assumptions to come to these numbers. But I’m pretty sure we are in the ballpark.

So how many of each card was made? We aren’t able to answer this for all cards. Some of this is easy, Topps gave away this information on the sell sheet! According to the sell sheet there are 384 Italian Stamp Relics, 500 Die-Cut sketches, 19 Pen Relics, 15 total Triple Autos, 40 total Duel Autos, etc.

Other card types are impossible to figure out because not enough information is provided. For example on the retail side its not possible to determine how many Wal-Mart Blue parallels there are, or how many Poop-allels there are. While we know how many retail packs were made, we don’t know the break down between Gravity Feeds, Blasters, Jumbo, regular retail boxes, and Wal-Mart packs. We can only figure out print runs for things that have the same odds across all pack types or items in Hobby/Collector boxes.

Let’s start with Collector Boxes. The Collector Box inserts are easy to figure out:

Medallions: 41,000 Packs / 92 Odds = 445 total medallions / 6 = 75 of each medallion made. So at most only 75 collectors will have a set of these.

Barf Bags: 1708 Boxes / 1 per box (duh!) = 1708 total Barf Bags / 10 = 170 of each bag made.

Artist Relics: 41,000 Packs / 28 Odds = 1464 total relics / 4 or 5 (Its tough here because there are no odds for the “celebrity relic” so is it already part of the relic odds or is it separate? We don’t know.) = 366 or 292 of each relic depending on if Goldburg is included in the odds.

Loaded Sketch Cards: 41,000 Packs / 831 Odds = 49 Total Loaded Sketches

Let’s get Hobby boxes into the mix here as well. How many of the popular Foreign Legion cards are there?

Foreign Legion: 92,000 total packs / 24 odds = 3833 Total Foreign Legion cards / 10 = 383 of each Foreign Legion card made.

Now let’s grab all the odds and see how many parallel cards and the common inserts were made. Remember due to Topps confusing wording on packs, listed pack odds are actually 1/2 of what’s printed. I’ll be using the real odds in my numbers below. Also note when looking at these, the sell sheet says there are 85 copies of each Gold Border card.

Sepia/Pink Border Cards: 41,000 packs / 24 odds = 1708 total / 220 = 8 of each card made, and that’s with me rounding up! I know this number is hard to believe, but unless Topps is completely lying on the odds for Collector boxes there are just not that many of these to be had. Get yours when you see it!

Red/Character Back Card: 41,000 packs / 1 odds = 41,000 total / 220 = 186 of each card made.

Silver Border Card: 92,000 packs / 24 odds = 3833 total / 220 = 17 of each Silver border made.

Green Border Card: 577,000 Packs / 1 = 577,000 total / 220 = 2622 of each Green Border

Black Border: 669,000 Packs / 2 = 334,500 total / 220 = 1520 of each Black border

Famous Movie Scene: 669,000 Packs / 4 odds = 167,250 total / 15 = 11,150 of each

Horror Film: 669,000 Packs / 8 odds = 83,625 / 5 = 16,725 of each

Super Fan Tattoo: 669,000 Packs / 12 odds = 55,750 / 5 = 11,150 of each

Interesting numbers I think. I was shocked to see how some of the numbers came out. Now don’t take these numbers as gospel because like I’ve stated some guesswork and assumptions had to be used. But I think these general numbers are close to what’s really out there. I’d love to hear your comments on the numbers, and the method I used. If I’m off anywhere please let me know!

Finally, can we figure out how man base cards were made? Not exactly, but I’ll make a guess. Collector packs have 3 base cards, unless a thick card is in the pack. Hobby/Retail have 8 or 9 base cards depending on number of inserts in the pack. Because of this, even using my rounded guesswork numbers its still not really possible. Let’s see what we come up with anyway. I’m going to use 8.75 base cards per Hobby/Retail pack and 3 base cards per Collector pack for my numbers.

Base Cards: 41,000 Collector Packs x 3 cards per pack = 123,000 Base + (628,000 Hobby/Retail packs x 8.75 cards per pack) = 5,618,000 Base / 220 = Approx. 25,536 of each base card made.

Plenty of sets to go around!

30th Anniversary Garbage Pail Kids Set Explained

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Thanks to GPK Collector Ke We for the Checkilist picture!

Last Updated 7/17/15 @ 23:20

Topps decided to throw everything and the kitchen sink at the 30th Anniversary set this time around. Not only is there a record number of insert and parallel sets, but Topps decided to completely change the numbering for the base set. The base set is basically made up of individually numbered subsets. So, when searching ebay for your favorite character don’t use just the number, 1a will get you every 1a card for each subset. Let’s take a look at what we know so far.

  • Base Set – 220 total cards, made of up 12 different subsets.
    • Title Card/Checklist Subset (2a/b – 4 Total Cards)
    • Adam Bomb’s “Don’t Push My Button!” Subset (10a/b – 20 Total Cards)
    • Artistic Influence Subset (10a/b – 20 Total Cards)
    • Artistic Interpretations Subset (5a/b – 10 Total Cards)
    • Comic Book Covers Subset (7a/b – 14 Total Cards)
    • Cutting Room Floor Subset (5a/b – 10 Total Cards)
    • Lost Alternate Art Subset (6a/b – 12 Total Cards)
    • Zoom-Out Subset (10a/b – 20 Total Cards)
    • 80s Spoof Subset (25a/b – 50 Total Cards)
    • Garbage Pail Pets Subset (10a/b – 20 Total Cards)
    • Garbage Pail Presidents Subset (10a/b – 20 Total Cards)
    • Garbage Pail Kids’ Kids Subset (10a/b – 20 Total Cards)
  • Parallel Sets – Same exact cards from the Base set, except with a different color border or back.
    • Black Border – 1:4 – Retail/Hobby/Collector (220 Total Cards)
    • Silver Border – 1:48 – Hobby/Collector (220 Total Cards)
    • Gold Border – 1:72 – Retail/Hobby/Collector (220 Total Cards)
    • Green Border – 1:2 – Retail (220 Total Cards)
    • Poop-allel (Brown) Border – 1:12 – Retail Gravity Feed (220 Total Cards)
    • Foil Card – 1:Wal-Mart Blister (2 Total Cards)
    • Blue Border – 1:Wal-Mart Blister (220 Total Cards)
    • Blue Border Blue Character Back – 1:21 Wal-Mart Blister (220 Total Cards)
    • Metallic Red Border – 1:2 – Collector (220 Total Cards)
    • Character Back – 1:2 – Collector (220 Total Cards)
    • Pink Border – 1:48 – Collector (220 Total Cards)
    • Sepia Border – 1:48 – Collector (220 Total Cards)
    • Printing Plates – 1:1516 – Retail/Hobby/Collector (880 Total Cards – 4 Per Base Card)
  • Insert Sets – These are all the various subsets Topps created for the 30th Anniversary set.
    • Famous Movie Scene – 1:4 – Retail/Hobby/Collector (15 Total Cards)
    • Horror Film – 1:8 – Retail/Hobby/Collector (5 Total Cards)
    • Super Fan Tattoo – 1:12 – Retail/Hobby/Collector (5 Total Cards)
    • Foreign Legion – 1:24 – Hobby/Collector (10 Total Cards)
    • Blaster Box 1986 Poster Set Reprint – 1 Per Blaster Box (18 Total Cards)
    • Jumbo Pack 1986 Giant Series 2 Reprint – 1 per Jumbo Pack (15 Total Cards)
    • Sketch Card – 1:288 – Retail (21 Artists/Unknown Total Sketches)
    • Die-Cut Sketch – 1:237 Hobby 1:144 – Collector (21 Artists/500 Total Sketches)
    • Loaded Sketch – 1:831 – Collector (10 Artists/Unknown Total Sketches)
    • Panoramic Sketch Cards – ??:?? – Retail Blaster Box (11 Artists/Unknown Total Sketches)
    • Autograph Card – 1:288 Retail, 1:96 Collector, 1:244 Hobby (16 Total Artists/3000 Total Autos)
    • Duel Autograph – 1:1017 – Collector (4 Total Csrds)
    • Triple Autograph – 1:2712 – Collector (3 Total Cards)
    • Artist Relic – 1:28 – Collector (4 Total Cards)
    • Celebrity Relic – Unknown Odds – Collector (1 Total Card)
    • i Mitici Sgorbions Stamp Relic – 1:115 – Collector (384 Total 1/1 Cards)
    • Manufactured Medallion Card – 1:92 – Collector (6 Total Cards)
    • Autographed Pen Relic – 1:2543 – Collector (19 Total 1/1 Cards)
    • Barf Bags – 1:Collector Box – (10 Total Cards)
    • Stamped Buyback – 1:?? Retail 1:24 Hobby/Collector (Unknown # of Total Cards. None found in retail to date.)
    • C-Named Short Prints – 1:100 – Retail/Hobby/Collector (Sell Sheet says 10 Total Cards. None found to date.)

I’ll continue to update this post as information comes in including Hobby pack odds.

Blue Borders/Foil Cards in Wal-Mart 30th GPK Packs

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walmartThe rumors are true. Thanks to GPK collectors Robert Smith and Raymond Ledesma who were some of the first to spot these special retail packs found only in Wal-Mart Stores. The packs come with 3 retail packs and 2 special cards. You will get 1 of 2 special foil parallels of either Trekkie Travis or Loony Leonard. You also will get a special blue border parallel card found outside the packs like the foil cards. It appears the Blue Borders come in all 220 base cards.

The odds on the back of the cardboard mention a special Blue Border “Character Back”. Are they referring to the blue borders found in the pack and just label it wrong, or does it mean there is yet another Blue Border Character Back waiting to be found? I’ll update this article should more information become available.

Thanks for GPK collector Nick Bulblitz for the confirmation. There are also Blue Adam Bomb Character Back Blue Border parallels inserted 1:21 in the Wal-Mart packs. These will be tough finds.

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