Well that was fast! After launching at 12:00 Eastern time today, the Mega Packs of the new Topps x WAX Blockchain Garbage Pail Kids have sold out. The packs cost collectors $24.99 for 30 digital cards. It’s basically like buying 6 packs for the price of 5. There were 2,000 Mega packs created for the launch. After the first hour they had sold over 500 packs. It ended up taking just over 7 hours to sell out of the Mega packs. The Standard packs have not had the same luck. As of press time there are still a little more than 8,300 of the 10,000 Standard packs still available. Still I’m not sure many GPK collectors could have predicted the rate at which these have been selling.
Collectors have been trading all day, despite some odd random errors popping up on the site. WAX has been busy squashing bugs as the day has gone on. Collectors familiar with the cryptocurrency world have also been listing cards for sale. There is currently no integrated marketplace on the WAX website. The company is working on that feature. In the meantime WAX has suggested to collectors in tweets to use the wax.simplemarket.io to buy and sell cards. There looks to be a steep learning curve for collectors not already involved in the crypto world. However, websites like this one will be the main place to buy/sell until WAX incorporates that into their website.
Collectors have also been asking about the “print run” for each type of card. Is that what we should be calling it, “print run”?? Here’s a rundown based on the math of the percentages they’ve given:
- Total Cards – 110,000
- Standard: 10,000 Packs x 5 cards per pack = 50,000 cards
- Mega: 2,000 packs x 30 cards per pack = 60,000 cards
- Prism “B” Names – 20,000
- Standard: 10,000 packs x 1 per pack = 10,000
- Mega: 2,000 x 5 per pack = 10,000
- 20,000 total prism / 41 different names = 487 each B name Prism
- Prism “A” Names – 11,000
- Standard: 10,000 packs x 0.5 per pack = 5,000
- Mega: 2,000 x 3 per pack = 6,000
- 11,000 total prism / 41 different names = 268 each A name Prism
- Sketch “B” Names – 3,000
- Standard: 10,000 packs x 0.1 per pack = 1,000
- Mega: 2,000 x 1 per pack = 2,000
- 3,000 total sketch / 41 different names = 73 each B name Sketch
- Sketch “A” Names – 1,500
- Standard: 10,000 packs x 0.05 per pack = 500
- Mega: 2,000 x 0.5 per pack = 1,000
- 1,500 total sketch / 41 different names = 36 each A name Sketch
- Collector Edition – 40
- Standard: 10,000 packs x 0.002 per pack = 20
- Mega: 2,000 x .01 per pack = 20
- 40 total Collector / 8 different names = 5 each Collector Edition
- Base Cards – 74,460
- Standard: 50,000 – 15,000 Prisms – 1,500 Sketch – 20 Collector = 33,480 total base cards
- Mega: 60,000 – 16,000 Prisms – 3,000 Sketch – 20 Collector = 40,980 total base cards
- 74,460 total base cards / 82 cards = 908 per base card
If my math is off on any of these, please let me know. Interesting numbers. The math doesn’t come out exact on the parallels. Most likely because the pack odds are rounded, much like Topps does with physical cards. These numbers should be very close to what’s out there for each card type.
https://collectables.io/stats/gpk-rarity