Update: Topps has added additional information to their preorder page for the set. There will be a 100 card base set consisting of a/b names, in addition to rare C name inserts. The base cards will be reprints from sets over the past 40 years. Each card will have the 40th logo on them. There will be plenty of parallels including the new “rare” Ruby parallel. There will be a 40 card insert set of Adam Bomb, Homage to Garbahj. The set features 40 new versions and Adam Bomb done by 40 different artists. Topps mentions there will be autograph cards, rare parallels and the usual sketch cards. There is a mention of looking for super rare 40rh sketch cards done by artists Joe Simko and Tom Bunk. Finally there is mention of a contest to have your own GPK card in a future product. Topps also mentioned Hobby boxes will indeed be 8 pack/5 card boxes. This might be all the info that is released for the preorder.
Topps today, via their Twitter account, revealed a couple of interesting tidbits about the upcoming preorder for 2025 Worst of Garbage Pail Kids 40th Anniversary. In their weekly schedule release tweet the company posted that Tuesday’s preorder would be for 5 card/8 pack boxes. The Hobby Box price is listed as “TBA”. The release time is set for 12:00 PM EST. The pack/box structure would be a major change in a retail GPK product. Not only is the pack total per box lower, but cards per pack is significantly lower at 5 cards per pack. GPKNews has heard today from one Retail Blaster distributor that this will be a Hobby only product. GPKNews has reached out to Topps for confirmation, but has not heard back. Since the Fanatics takeover of Topps, the company has moved to releasing very little information about products ahead of time. No sell sheets have been released about the product. The hope is Topps releases that with tomorrow’s preorder. 2025 continues to be a year of change for GPK.
