At the end of the 10th month of weekly holiday sets, sales remains strong. Today, Topps revealed the print run for Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays Jan. Week 5. The set sold a total of 703 copies. The sales are just slightly lower than the previous week’s high, and is the second best selling weekly holiday set. It appears that despite being in the home stretch the weekly sets are picking up steam. GPK has continued to see demand not seen in decades. Topps will no doubt be satisfying that demand with more sets to come.
Topps Reveals Print Run for 2021 Garbage Pail Kids Gamestonk
After ending earlier this morning, Topps revealed the print run for 2021 Garbage Pail Kids Gamestonk. Most collectors assumed the set would sell well, I’m not sure anyone expected the kind of sales it got. The set sold a massive 13,075 copies! This shatters all online GPK sales records to date, nothing comes even close. The set appealed not only to collectors, but to the masses with cards based on the news of the last few weeks. Topps will surely look to go back to producing timely news based cards based off these results.
Topps Launches Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays Feb. Week 1
This week marks the start to month eleven of the weekly holiday sets. Today Topps launched Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays Feb. Week 1. This week’s set contains 10 cards, 5 with a/b versions. The set also comes with one deep purple card. Each set can be purchased for $19.99, or in a lot of ten for $179.99. There are also 10×14 posters of each card available for $19.99. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The set will be available for 7 days on topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is the checklist along with pictures of the cards.
•1A Broad Maude
•1B Spunky Stella
•2A Thanks Phil
•2B Mail Munch Mitch
•3A Joe Blow
•3B Brad Zooka
•4A Stormy Stan
•4B Meteorologist Mat
•5A Frank N Stein
•5B Shocked Skyler
2021 Topps Series 1 Baseball to Feature Garbage Pail Kids Card
The flagship baseball card set for Topps is scheduled to feature a Garbage Pail Kids card. According to the checklist released today for 2021 Series 1 Topps Baseball, there will be a card commemorating the launch of the Garbage Pail Kids. The card will be part of the History of Topps insert set that helps celebrate the 70th anniversary of Topps making cards. There is no info on what artwork will be on the card. The checklist shows it will be card #HOT-5. Collectors will want to keep their eyes open on the secondary market. 2021 Topps Series 1 Baseball is set to be released 2/10/21.
Live Mike Pin Next Launch at GPK Nation this Week
Live Mike is next up in the weekly pin series from GPK Nation. Tomorrow, Tuesday 2/2 at 1:00 PM EST the third pin of the 12 pin series will launch. The pin is limited to 50 made.
This coming Friday’s launch is being reserved for a special retro 89’s non-licensed art piece done by Joe Simko titled, “It All Starts Here”. GPK Nation also has information on their Facebook page advertising a charity raffle benefitting SIDES where collectors can buy tickets to win some rare GPK coins. Be sure to checkout GPK Nation on Facebook for all the details.
Topps Reveals Print Run for Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays Jan. Week 4
After ending last Tuesday, Topps revealed the print run for Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays Jan. Week 4. Collectors came out in full force as sales soared to a record high. The set sold a total of 736 copies. This is now the highest selling Bizarre Holiday set to date, beating out June Week 4 that was at 650. Adam Bomb always sells well, but with multiple weeks having Adam cards, it’s unclear what caused the increase in sales. GPK continues to be scorching hot in the card collecting world.
Topps Launches 2021 Garbage Pail Kids Gamestonk
Topps has been quick to the punch this week. Today they launched 2021 Garbage Pail Kids Gamestonk online set. This 12 card set consists of 6 new pieces available in a/b versions. The set takes aim at the recent news headlines led by GameStop, Reddit, and Bernie Sanders. The set can be purchased for $19.99, or in a lot of 10 for $179.99. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The set is available for 7 days on Topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is the checklist along with some images of the cards.
- 1A Big Screen Bernie
- 1B Sanders Cinema
- 2A Adam Bomb
- 2B Busted Billy
- 3A Reditt Remy
- 3B Stock Upton
- 4A Electic Elon
- 4B U. Musk Invest
- 5A Cash Machine Chamath
- 5B Pay Day Paul
- 6A Industrubctible Ian
- 6B For-Chen 500
Topps Digital Launches Garbage Pail Kids Bernventures Digital WAX Set
If you’ve been awake in the last week you’ve certainly seen some of the hundreds of Bernie Sanders memes taking over the internet. US senator and former Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was photographed at the inauguration last week casually hanging out in his mittens, and the internet took it from there. Topps Digital is adding to the fun today by launching Garbage Pail Kids Bernventures set on the WAX Blockchain. The set launched as a surprise launch today at 3:30 PM EST at https://gpkbernventures.com. Cards were launched using the Atomic Assets standard. Packs are available for purchase in WAX only, with the cost being $5 worth of WAX tokens. Each pack comes with 2 different digital cards. There is no limit to packs available for sale. Packs will remain for sale for 3 days, with the sale ending at Friday, 1/29 at 1:00 PM EST. There is a countdown timer and packs sold counter on the website. Packs can be opened on the website under the inventory tab. Cards can also be viewed and sorted on the same tab. (At press time pictures were not displaying for cards/packs and the sorting feature for cards was not working. Topps is working on a resolution.)
The set contains 9 cards done by Topps artist Lars Kommienezuspadt. There are both a and b name versions making the total set 18 cards. Collectors can pull four different types of cards from packs; base (Base “a” 59.5%/Base “b” “?”) , rare artist sketches (10.5%), epic artist raws (3%), and legendary artist signatures (0.5%). The number of cards minted is not set and will be limited by the number of packs sold during the 3 day event.
Perhaps the main draw of the sale is the burn event that will go on at the same time as the sale. Once collectors open their cards they can burn then to earn points. Each card type has the following Burn Value: Base b (1 point), Base a (2 points), Artist Sketch (5 points), Artist Raws (20 points), Artist Signatures (150 points). Collectors can burn cards within the inventory tab by clicking on each card type. Cards can be burned only until 2/1/21. At the end of the event collectors will earn 1 Mitten Pack for every 5 points they have burned. Mitten packs will contain base mitten cards along with the chance to receive Golden Mitten cards, and rare animation cards.
Topps Launches Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays Jan. Week 5
Everyone likes a good puzzle. Today Topps launched Garbage Pail Kids Bizarre Holidays Jan. Week 5. This week’s set contains 10 cards, 5 with a/b versions. The set also comes with one deep red parallel card. Each set can be purchased for $19.99, or in a lot of ten for $179.99. There are also 10×14 posters of each card available for $19.99. Shipping is free when choosing the SmartPost option. The set will be available for 7 days on topps.com. Topps will reveal the print run at the end of the sale. Here is the checklist along with pictures of the cards.
•21A Nick At Night
•21B Nighty Nicole
•22A Punchy PAULY
•22B Clocked In CARL
•23A Cornelius Kazoo
•23B Nicholas Nose-Flute
•24A Puzzled Paul
•24B Jigsaw Jerry
•25A Invered Otto
•25B About-Face ATA
Pins, and More Pins Set for GPK Nation This Week
The 12 week pin party continues this week, with a bonus pin. First up is the Janet Planet weekly pin launch set for tomorrow, 1/26, at 1:00 PM EST. This is the second pin in the weekly series. There will also be a bonus pin launch tomorrow. The Dead Ted headshot pin uses the same artwork previously used in the iron on patch. Both pins will launch at the same time.
Then on Friday, 1/29, at 1:00 PM EST will be the final rose gold playing card coin, Adam Bomb. The coin will be limited to /20 copies. Friday will also see the launch of the Dead Ted mini card coin. Similar to the Adam Bomb, just a bit smaller. This 3 inch tall coin has a mini version of Dead Ted produced by Topps and imbedded into the back of the coin. The coin also glows in the dark. The coin will be limited to /100 copies. A full week of launches are planned at GPK Nation.
