Today marks the final day of the year long Project 70 baseball card online set. With that also comes the final GPK mashup in the set. Topps today launched Project 70 Card 936 Ken Griffey Jr. by Keith Shore. The card features a GPK version of Hall of Famer Griffey swimming in a sea of Shore’s Project 2020 Griffey card. The normal Garbage Pail Kids banner is replaced with a Seattle Mariners banner, and the nameplate reads Collector Ken. Collectors buying the card have the random chance of receiving a 99k Ken “b” name, Rainbow Foil parallel /70, and a Gold parallel 1/1. The card can be purchased for $19.99 each, in a lot of 5 for $81.49, or a lot of 10 for $144.99. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The card will be available on Topps.com for 3 days. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale.
Category Archives: Online Sets
Topps Teases Garbage Pail Kids Valentine’s Day Set
Topps today begin teasing their next online Garbage Pail Kids set. According to the official GPK Facebook page, GPK Valentine’s Day will be coming this Thursday, 2/10, to Topps.com. Snooty Sam is shown decked out in his Valentine’s best. The card appears to be a red heart parallel card, suggesting that the set might an an On Demand set, similar to previous year’s releases.
Topps Launches Project 70 Ichiro x Garbage Pail Kids Mashup
The onslaught of Garbage Pail Kids being featured in the Project 70 online baseball card set from Topps continues. Today Topps launched Project 70 Card 869 Ichiro by Ermsy. This is Ermsy’s final Project 70 card and the 5th to feature a GPK character. The card features future Hall of Famer Ichiro together with classic GPK character Weird Wendy. Collectors who purchase the card will have the chance to also receive a rainbow foil parallel /70, or a gold parallel 1/1. Each card can be purchased for $19.99, or in a lot of 5 for $81.49, or a lot of 10 for $144.99. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The card will be available on Topps.com for 3 days. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale.
Topps Launches Project 70 Stan Musial x GPK Mashup
As Topps begins to wind down the Project 70 baseball card set, the mashups with Garbage Pail Kids continue to surface. Today Topps launched Project 70 Card 838 1986 Stan Musial by Keith Shore. This is the fourth of five planned GPK mashups in the set from Keith Shore. The card features the Cardinals legend as GPK Handy Randy, now named Hand Musial. The GPK banner is redone with a St. Louis Cardinals banner. Collectors who order a card have the chance to randomly receive a rainbow foil parallel /70, or a gold parallel 1/1. Each card can be purchased for $19.99, in a lot of 5 for $81.49, or a lot of 10 for $144.99. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The card will be available for 3 days on Topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the card.
Topps Finishes 2021 GPK Collector Club with Binder & Set 4
Collectors who signed up last January for the 2021 Garbage Pail Kids Collector’s Club are just starting to receive their last set and gift. Thanks to Uncle Louie from GPK Nation for the pictures. The club has seen a lot of controversy but most collectors should be satisfied with the final gift, a Collector’s Club binder. The binder was first teased as a gift when the club first went on sale on Topps UK site, but that information was quickly removed. The binder itself features the same picture and header on the front and back of the binder. Collectors also received the final 21 card set titled, I’m Always Cranky. This concludes the first year of the club. Topps has not announced if there will be another club offer in 2022.
Topps Launches Project 70 Honus Wagner x GPK Mashup
The daily online baseball card set Project 70 continues to incorporate Garbage Pail Kids into some of the cards. Today Topps launched Project 70 Card 827 Honus Wagner by Ermsy. This mashup includes one of the most sought after baseball cards from around the beginning of the 1900’s with GPK character Nervous Rex. This is the forth card Ermsy has done that’s incorporated GPKs. Customers ordering a card have the chance to randomly receive a Rainbow Foil parallel /70 and a Gold parallel 1/1. Each card can be purchased for $19.99, in a lot of 5 for $81.49, or a lot of 10 for $144.99. Shipping is free choosing the SmartPost option. The card is available for sale on Topps.com for 3 days. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale.
Topps Reveals Print Run for Garbage Pail Kids 2021 Was the Worst
2021 may have been the worst, but with GPK Collectors sales turned out to be one of the best. After ending yesterday, Topps revealed the print run for Garbage Pail Kids 2021 Was the Worst. The set sold a total of 1,876 copies. That marks the second best selling regular (non-On Demand) online set this year, behind the wildly successful Gamestonk set. The set features a number of gags based on some of the highlights or lowlights of 2021. This is the final scheduled online release for GPK of 2021. Looks like Topps went out with a bang to end the year.
Garbage Pail Kids ComplexCon Sets Feature Different Backs
Are you Team Red or Team Black? If you attended the in person ComplexCon show and was able to purchase the 12 card ComplexCon set you might have noticed the backs of the cards are Red with ComplexCon is black ink. Collectors who purchased the ComplexCon sets from Topps.com will notice the backs of their cards are Black with the ComplexCon in white ink. The print run of the topps.com version is 1233, Topps did not release the number of sales for the in person event. Expect the in person Red Back version to be much smaller, as very few have shown up on secondary markets.
Topps Launches Garbage Pail Kids 2021 Was the Worst Online Set
Was 2021 the worst? That’s debatable, but Topps is going for that theme in their brand new online set. Today Topps launched Garbage Pail Kids 2021 Was the Worst. The set features 10 cards, 5 new pieces with a/b versions. Each set also comes with one sad face parallel card. Art for the cards were done by David Gross, Neil Camera, and Brent Engstrom. This is the last planned online GPK release for Topps in 2021. Each set can be purchased for $19.99 or in a lot of 10 for $189.99. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The set will be on sale on Topps.com for 7 days. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is the checklist along with pictures of the cards.
1A Ejected ELON
2A Meta MARK
3A Ad Space ALEXANDRIA
4A Cloned SLOAN
5A Stuck CHUCK
1B Jettisoned JEFF
2B ZUCKER Punch
3B MEGAN Gala
4B Mammoth MARY
5B NED Wedge
Topps Reveals Print Run for Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays March Week 4
After ending earlier today, Topps revealed the print run for Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays March Week 4. The set couldn’t quite keep the GPK hot streak alive. Total sales for the set ended at 542 copies. Those numbers are right in line with what the other Bizarre Holidays sets were selling for back in March. Sales of the final set in the year long series were put on hold when Topps sent GPKs to timeout after a controversial BTS themed card was put up for sale. Collectors who stuck with the set through the entire year finally are now finally able to finish off their binders!