Garbage Pail Kids News
GPK Nation is gearing up for more launches this week. A brand new Dead Ted patch is set to get things started. The patch will launch on Tuesday, 1/5 at 1:00 PM EST on their website. Then coming on Friday, 1/8 at 1:00 PM EST will be the Bony Joanie Rose Gold plated playing card coin. The coin will be limited to only 20 copies. GPK Nation is sure to have other surprises this week as well.
GPK Nation co-founder Louis Gregory is running a special auction to support charity. Up for auction is a rare 24k gold plated playing card coin set. According to the auction, there were only 4 gold plated sets made, and all were given as gifts. Gregory is auctioning his personal set with a starting bid of $1000. 100% of the proceeds of the auction will go to SIDES, a charity focused on helping families with a child that has Ewing’s Sarcoma. Collectors can place their bid on the auction post on the GPK Nation Facebook page.
Today, Greenlight Collectibles shared the deco sample images for their upcoming Garbage Pail Kids Series 3 diecast cars. A snowplow, serf van, and ambulance highlight the next series of 6 cars featuring GPK inspired art. Each car comes with a GPK card. There are five existing characters, and one new one, Traffic Lady Katie. Once again, there will be random limited Green Machine chase figures to search for. The cars are set to be released in April 2021. Here is the list of cars and cards, along with pictures.
– 54050-A: 1:64 Garbage Pail Kids Series 3 – Bruce Moose – 1955 Chevrolet Nomad
– 54050-B: 1:64 Garbage Pail Kids Series 3 – Surf’s Up Chuck – 1964 Volkswagen Samba Bus with Surfboards
– 54050-C: 1:64 Garbage Pail Kids Series 3 – Mauled Paul – 1965 Volkswagen Panel Van Ambulance
– 54050-D: 1:64 Garbage Pail Kids Series 3 – Shattered Shelby – 1966 Shelby GT350
– 54050-E: 1:64 Garbage Pail Kids Series 3 – Ig Lou – 2015 Ram 1500 with Snow Plow and Salt Spreader
– 54050-F: 1:64 Garbage Pail Kids Series 3 – Traffic Lady Katie – 1962 Austin Mini Cooper MkI
After taking a small break for Christmas, GPK Nation will be back on its regular launch schedule this week. He company has many new projects in the pipeline for 2021, with the first launching this week. First up will be a new coaster. The Double Heather coaster is set to launch Tuesday, 12/29 at 1:00 PM EST. The coaster joins Nick and the 35th logo in their coaster set.
Now that the artist collaboration series is over, a new coin is set to launch. The coin, designed by Topps, features the artwork for Live Mike. The coin also glows in the dark. It will be limited to 100 copies. The coin will go up for sale this Friday, 1/1, at 1:00 PM EST. The coin will get 2021 going, in what is sure to be another year full of GPK Nation surprises.
For the first time, the mobile game, GPK the Game released brand new character art. With today’s update 1.2.168, on both iPhone and Andriod, the character Christmas Carol was added to the game. The game developers also added new Christmas themed events, Jingle Junk Jamboree and Mean Gene’s Holiday Buffet.
The game has continued to be updated in recent week’s after nearly a year of inactivity by developers. The game also, launched on Android devices just a few weeks ago. Today’s update also promised some squashed bugs and changes to some existing characters.
The second Joe Simko piece as part of the artist collaboration with GPK Nation is set to go on sale this week. Simko’s take on Adam Bomb will launch tomorrow, Tuesday 12/22 at 1:00 PM EST. Since Christmas is on Friday, for the first time, GPK Nation will launch the pin and coins the same day. The Adam Bomb pin will be limited to 200 copies. Additionally, there will be two coins offered, Adam Bomb and Blaster Billy, also limited to 200 copies each.
GPK Nation has another full week of launches planned. Joe Simko is the next artist as part of their artist collaboration. Coming tomorrow, Tuesday, 12/15 at 1:00 PM EST will be the Roy Bot pin, featuring Simko’s artwork. Like previous pins, it will be limited to 200 copies. Then coming this Friday, 12/18 at 1:00 PM EST time, will be two new coins. The Hot Head Harvey and Roy Bot coins will also be limited to 200 copies.
GPK Nation also has an Adam Bomb Christmas ornament set to go on sale durimg Tuesday’s 1:00 PM EST launch. The ornament will be limited to 200 copies. It’s sure to be a busy week at GPKNation.
Pictures have surface online of the new batch of Garbage Pail Kids Funko POPs. Leaky Lindsay, Spilt Kit, Ali Gator, and Jay Decay will mark the next wave. No info has been release yet if there will chase figure. Figures are expected in stores in 2021.
This week marks the second piece from Brent Engstrom in the artist collaboration with GPKNation.com. Set to launch Tuesday 12/8 at 1:00 PM EST will be the Nasty Nick pin. Like previous pins it is limited to 200 copies. Then on Friday 12/11 at 1:00 PM EST there will be two coins launching, one for Nasty Nick and one for Evil Eddie. The coins are also limited to 200 copies.
GPKNation also launched the Glow in the Dark Garbage Pail Kids Patch this week. The patches also come with a blue hat to attach them to. There are sure to be more surprises from the company this week.
Update: YouTube version is now up! Full video along with cast credits is at the end of this article. A lot more in this one than the NTWRK version.
As part of this weekend’s Beyond the Streets art fair, NTWR debuted Garbage Pail Kids Mad Mike Fury Load Vol. 1 animated short. The video debuted on the NTWRK app. The video is the brain child of GPK collector and the popular TV show The Goldbergs creator, Adam F. Goldberg. The video is part one of a three part series based off of the recent GPK Krashers set. Joe Simko did the art for that set, and he is a producer on this video series along with Topps’ Ira Friedman. Adam F. Goldberg wrote and funded the making of the animated short. The production was handled by Jam Roll studios, who did a number of stop motion videos for Topps about a year ago. A number of voice actors donated their time to the project including popular actor Christian Slater. The video includes Adam F. Goldberg going over Garbage Pail Kids and his collection. There will be a slightly different version of the video released on Topps’ You Tube channel this coming Monday, which will include the cast credits.
GPKNews caught up with Adam F. Goldberg to answer a couple of questions on the new animated short.
GPKNews – How did the idea of the video and the process of getting it green lit come about?
Adam F. Goldberg – For the past few years I’ve been talking with Ira about making a GPK animated series for a streaming service like Netflix or Disney+. The pandemic unfortunately ended the Goldbergs spin-off Schooled, so I suddenly had a few weeks free, which rarely happens these days. I reached out to Ira and Joe Simko and proposed we stopped talking about a GPK project and just make one ourselves. In that email I pitched 20 ideas for short films that would run 10 to 15 minutes, most were parodies of my favorite 80s movies. Joe immediately replied with his GPK Krashers artwork and said we have to do your Mad Max idea and use my vehicles. And so Fury Load was born!
GPKNews – How did working with Topps, Jam Roll, and the crew compare to other TV projects you’ve been involved with?
AG – Let me start by saying this only happened because of Ira Friedman from Topps, (Incrudible Ira from his unannounced 2020 card). In my opinion, Ira is the sole reason GPK is back in the conversation today. He resurrected this brand and has made such brilliant moves on how to make it profitable for Topps. It’s hard to compete with Baseball cards, but Ira proved GPK can. Ira is the one who found jamroll studios and he spearheaded the original GPK minute long shorts. He had no budget, so found creative ways to make those initial shorts. The creative process with Ira was a dream, mostly because he let me have all the creative control! That typically doesn’t happen. Topps was thrilled that I wanted to fund a movie myself and get stars like Christian Slater to donate their voices. They just let me do my thing and only had one note — originally Mad Mike was the “CHODE WARRIOR” and the joke made it into our final cut, but was swapped out last minute to maintain a family friendly feel. Once the script was locked, Jamroll took my mad ramblings and really made it sing. They’re truly brilliant animators and did the impossible on a small budget. I wanted each scene to be filled with Easer Eggs specifically for the collectors. I scripted a few, but Jamroll did amazing work in this area. I love in the first scene alone you see tons of GPK march, even the Monopoly game.
It’s also worth mentioning, there’s even Easter eggs about the infamous 80s movie, and Topps helped me cast some of the original actors into roles here! You’ll see how that pans out in parts 2 and 3.
GPKNews – After this video, do you have any plans for future GPK videos, shows, movies, etc.
AG – Currently, Michael Eisner’s company Tornate own both Topps AND the Tornate TV studio, (they produced Bojack Horeseman for Netflix). Topps agrees I’m the geek to make a GPK series, but the problem is my TV company is at Disney. So basically, I’m employed by another company who only wants me to work on their properties. It’s a shame because I spent a year creating a whole TV pitch which is one of my favorite things ever. The concept is that Topps unlocked their vault and is finally airing the 80s cartoon that parents banned 35 years ago. Only we make a new GPK cartoon now which is a satire of all the classic good vs. evil toons from the 80s (GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, etc.). I even scripted out fake commercial breaks where we have parody toy commercials that never actually existed. I wish I could pitch it!
The video is still available to watch on the NTWRK app within the listing for the GPK cards. I’ll embed the YouTube video once it launches on Monday.
