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Topps Selling GPK Shirts, Giving Away Pins at NYCC

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Topps once again offered no promotion for their appearance at this year’s New York Comic Con, but nevertheless Garbage Pail Kids are featured in a big way at their booth. Thanks to GPK collector Adam Marks for sending along pictures of the show! Like last year, there is a tour show goers can go through at their booth that has card history and quizzes. At the end of the tour collectors can win a GPK prize either; packs of GPK Kids At Play, Intergoolatic, or one GPK themed pin. The pins are a new item. There are five pins total, Adam Bomb, Dead Ted, Hot Head Harvey, Semi Colin, and a NYCC themed pin.

Topps is also selling GPK t-shirts featuring brand new artwork at the show. Shirts are being sold for $40 each in specific time frames at the Topps booth. The shirt done by David Gross can be purchased from 10 AM – 12 PM, the Brent Engstrom shirt from 1 PM – 3PM, and the Chris Meeks shirt from 5 PM – 7 PM.

 

Topps Files for GPK Trademark Focusing on Multimedia Goods

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File this one under the very interesting category, *eyesemoji*. The “Hobby’s Lawyer”, Paul Lesko, reported today via his twitter account that Topps this week filed for a new trademark for “GPK”. The trademark filing focuses on three things; multimedia goods based on animated characters, clothing, and entertainment services based on fictional characters. While trademarks don’t guarantee any future product announcements by a company, they can certainly give a glimpse into what Topps might be working on with it comes to GPK. As Lesko writes, “Garbage Pail Kids fans, read into that what you will.”

 

Garbage Pail Kids Part of 2024 Topps Trading Card Day

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Update 8/1/24: Topps has finally released the list of participating hobby stores that will take part of Trading Card Day. The list is posted at their Ripped Blog page, or you can click here for the PDF file.

While Topps hasn’t shared the checklist yet. They did share with GPKNews, 15 images of GPK cards in the set. All 15 feature artwork from Kids At Play. See pictures below. I’ll update this article with the checklist once it’s released.

This year’s 2024 Topps Trading Card Day is scheduled for this Saturday, 8/3/2024. It appears Garbage Pail Kids will once again be part of the promotion. Information has been scarce from Topps on this year’s promotion. While the company has a page on their website, it hasn’t been updated with participating stores, checklist, or any other information like in year’s past.

It does appear Topps is making a few changes to the program this year. Gone is the “International” title that had been part of the day in years past. Customers going into their local hobby stores can once again receive a free pack of cards. This year there are only three options, MLB, Bowman U Football, and Garbage Pail Kids. Dave & Adam’s card store appears to have received some information on this year’s promotion. They had three different sample images of GPK cards. It appears Topps is using art from 2024 GPK Kids At Play set. Examples include Pac Manuel, Buster Balloon, and Hungry Henry. There isn’t any additional information on the set including checklist, SP inserts or autos.

GPKNews has reached out to Topps for more info. If we hear back this article will be updated. Until more info is shared by Topps, start planning your Saturday route now! Call your local stores and see if they are participating!

Topps Announces GPK x Green Day Set

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Topps is currently on the middle of their yearly Industry Conference. The show is only allowed to be attended by dealers and breakers that have direct accounts with Topps. As part of the announcements at the show, the company has announced they will be producing a Garbage Pail Kids x Green Day set. The set will include both relics and autographs. It’s not clear how the set will be distributed/sold. There was no details about the set revealed yet by the company.

Topps Planning Chrome 7 & 2024S2 in 2024

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With recent changes after the Fanatics takeover of Topps, the company hasn’t produced the same yearly calendars as in the past, or at least made them public. Today distributors were sent the company’s plans for the rest of 2024 for retail card releases. Thanks for Jeff Pellegrino and Scott Calvert for sending along the info. For the GPK brand, there is finally official confirmation the company is planning a Chrome 7 set. Work has been well underway for the set now for a while. According to the document Chrome 7 will launch in Aug. 2024. Also on the document is 2024 Series 2 Garbage Pail Kids, set for an Oct. 2024 release. (Ignore the Dune and Stranger Things Chome below. Those are not GPK releases, just regular Entertainment releases by Topps.) What collectors won’t see on here are online releases. Collectors can still expect plenty of regular online, expansion, and even Sapphire for the rest of 2024. Looks to be another year filled with GPK!

2023S2 GPK InterGoolatic Mayhem to be Hobby Only Product

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For maybe the first time ever, Garbage Pail Kids collectors will not be able find packs of a major GPK release in big box retailers. This past Monday, Topps released the Hobby Sell Sheet for 2023 Series 2 GPK InterGoolatic Mayhem. Generally, distributors will receive the Retail Sell Sheet the same day or shortly thereafter. That didn’t happen, instead distributors were contacting Topps to find out where the info was. GPKNews has confirmed with Topps that there will be no Value Boxes (Blasters) or Retail Display boxes for this series. The reason why was not completely clear. Some distributors were told by their Topps’ sales rep, that retail was not being produced due to a production issue. GPKNews was not given an official reason from Topps for no retail product.

So what will be available, and where will collectors find it? Both Collector and Hobby boxes are being produced, and will be the only two SKUs offered. It’s not clear if Topps will label the Hobby boxes with the “H”, or if the box will continue to be the Retail Display box, this time only sold as Hobby. Those boxes will continue to be available everywhere they usually are. Brick & Morter Hobby shops, along with large online card retailers and resellers should have product available either for pre-order or after release. This release isn’t the first product Topps has not offered retail boxes on this year. Certain baseball card brands have suffered the same fate. It’s unknown if Topps will offer a pre-order window on their website for the series as they have with a handful of baseball releases. Collectors can however expect boxes to be available at launch on Topps.com.

What does this mean for the inserts, parallels, and print runs? All the insert sets that were painted and planned for the set are being produced and will be inserted into packs. 3D cards, Patch cards, Kosmic Krashers, and Wacky Packages are all Collector only inserts. It’s not clear if Space Farce and Time Warp insert sets will appear in just Hobby or both box types. Collectors who like the yellow parallel cards will be out of luck, as those won’t be printed since there are no Blasters. Green and Blue parallels will be exclusive to Hobby boxes, Black and Red exclusive to Collector boxes, and Gray, Gold, Plates, and Autos in both box types. Sketches are changing up a bit. Loaded Puzzle sketches are moving from Blasters to Hobby boxes and will be exclusive to those along with the regular size sketch. Shaped and Triptych sketches remain exclusive to Collector boxes. Panoramic sketches will be inserted into both box types. Usually Blasters make up around 50% or more of the total print run. It’s unknown how the elimination of retail boxes will affect the print run. One distributor said he was told there would be plenty product available.

Not having product available at Targets & Walmarts is not good news for the brand. The casual collector will not come across product to continue their collection. It also makes it that much harder to get new collectors into the hobby. The big question will be, was this due to production issues and will we see the return of retail product in 2024? Or will GPKs be left to just current collectors who are familiar with where to find hobby product? It won’t be long until we find out as there is a retail set being planned for a Q1 2024 release.

Details on Garbage Pail Kids NYCC Promo Set

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Collectors visiting the Topps booth at this year’s New York Comic Con do indeed have an opportunity to obtain some promo cards. Topps has not done any advertising for the show, but there is a 10 card Garbage Pail Kids NYCC promo set. Collectors who play a couple of games at the booth are able to receive a mystery prize from the Topps vending machine. There appear to be two different GPK packs each containing 5 different cards that make up the entire set. There are also Star Wars cards and tshirts that can come out of the vending machine. The GPK set is made up of artwork from previous series with a New York theme. The card backs feature the NYCC banner. The booth had uncut sheets from the set on display. Employees at the booth are also wearing t-shirts featuring artwork from the set. Thanks to collector Adam Marks for sending along pictures of the cards! Here is the checklist along with pictures of the cards and booth.

  • GPKNY-1 Alice Island (OS 3)
  • GPKNY-2 Dinah Saur (OS 3)
  • GPKNY-3 Ashley Can (OS 4)
  • GPKNY-4 Homer Runt (OS 7)
  • GPKNY-5 Sprayed Wade (OS 5)
  • GPKNY-6 Brandon’s Bargains (2021 Bizarre Holidays)
  • GPKNY-7 Skye Scraper (2021 Bizarre Holidays)
  • GPKNY-8 Brewed Billy (2021 Bizarre Holidays)
  • GPKNY-9 Peg Piegon (2015S2 30th Anniversary)
  • GPKNY-10 Wallace Street (2016S1 AAAP)

Ongoing GPK at NYCC Post

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Since Topps didn’t see fit to promote anything at this year’s NYCC we will reveal here what collectors come across at the show. This post will be updated throughout the weekend as new info is revealed.

Update #2 – There are cards! GPKNews was tipped off last night that there would be some GPK promo cards at the Topps booth. Collectors that signup and attend the “factory experience” at the booth, get a free pack of promo cards from the Topps vending machine. The factory experience is a very small part of the booth with some mini games to play. GPKNews was told the NYCC GPK promo set would be 10 cards, mostly of reprinted artwork that had a NYC theme, the cardbacks feature the NYCC logo. There appears to be two different packs available that make up the complete 10 card set. Additionally, the factory experience had an uncut sheet of cards from the NYCC set on display. Employees were also wearing shirts at the booth with artwork from the GPK NYCC set. Thanks again to Adam Marks for sending along info on the cards!

Update #1 – As usual Topps has large blowup cards on the walls of their booth. Some of the GPK cards feature new artwork that appears to be from the unannounced 2023S2 retail set. In the worst kept secret in the hobby the set will be a space/sci-fi theme, and is expected to release in late November. Thanks to Adam Marks for the pictures and info!

Fanatics CEO Becomes a Garbage Pail Kid

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Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin is a Garbage Pail Kid. The company’s head hancho posted the photo to his Instagram account yesterday showing off the custom GPK that was created. Collectors are going to have a hard time getting their hands on this one though. The card was created for a Fanatics leadership conference. The card was done by longtime GPK artist David Gross. There is no information on how many of the card was printed or who was given a copy. No one is safe from becoming a GPK!

Topps Releases Checklist for 2023 International Trading Card Day

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This Saturday, 8/5, is the annual tradition, 2023 Topps International Trading Card Day. Collectors visiting participating card shops are able to get a free 5-card pack of Garbage Pail Kids cards. Collectors can also choose from Baseball, UEFA Soccer, Formula 1, Bowman U Football, or Athlete’s Unlimited.

Topps has released the checklist, and once again there is a full 30 card GPK checklist, along with random artist autographs. The checklist begins with five brand new trading card related themes. The artwork is done by David Gross, Joe Simko, Brent Engstrom, and Joe McWilliams. There are then 10 OS reprints, followed by 15 reprints from 2023S1. All artwork is on the Trading Card Day borders. There are also 10 randomly inserted artist autographs from 2023S1. Topps used left over stickers autos from last year’s set for the autos.

To find the participating hobby store in your area go to the Topps Ripped page for ITCD and scroll to the bottom of the page, enter your address and you can see the stores in your area. For the full ITCD checklist you can click here, otherwise see below for just the GPK portion.

GPK BASE CARDS
1 Batty KATTIE
2 MICKEY MUCUS
3 PETE S.A. 1
4 TINTIN TEN
5 TRAYDEN CARD

GPK OS1 BASE CARDS
GPKOS2-1 SY CLOPS
GPKOS2-2 LEAKY LINDSAY
GPKOS2-3 RAPPIN’ RON
GPKOS2-4 DISGUSTIN’ JUSTIN
GPKOS2-5 DOUBLE HEATHER
GPKOS2-6 JOLTED JOEL
GPKOS2-7 FRYIN’ RYAN
GPKOS2-8 CRACKED JACK
GPKOS2-9 SPACEY STACY
GPKOS2-10 OLIVER TWISTED

2023 GPK S1 BASE CARDS
GPK23-1 SUITCASE CHASE
GPK23-2 LIGHTER THAN AARON
GPK23-3 POOL PAUL
GPK23-4 THELMA THEME PARK
GPK23-5 CARA CAROUSEL
GPK23-6 BILLIE BIDET
GPK23-7 WILL YOU SHUT UP!
GPK23-8 ARI BNB
GPK23-9 BURIED BARRY
GPK23-10 TYLER TANIC
GPK23-11 BRAIN LES
GPK23-12 COLE FAITHFUL
GPK23-13 CONCH SHELLY
GPK23-14 ANGELA A-ROMA
GPK23-15 BEN SNORKELING

GPK ARTIST AUTOGRAPH CARDS
GPKA-AA ANGELA A-ROMA
GPKA-BD BILLIE BIDET
GPKA-BS BEN SNORKELING
GPKA-CC CARA CAROUSEL
GPKA-CS CONCH SHELLY
GPKA-LA LIGHTER THAN AARON
GPKA-PP POOL PAUL
GPKA-SC SUITCASE CHASE
GPKA-TTP THELMA THEME PARK
GPKA-WYSU WILL YOU SHUT UP!