The Joy Of Collecting Is The Journey, Not The Destination - Soupie

We all remember those characters that everybody loved. Games took place around them, they became collectable items and are still today loved. Garbage Pail Kids is a series of trading cards produced by the Topps Company, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls created by Xavier Roberts which were immensely popular at the time.

Each sticker card featured a Garbage Pail Kid character having some comical abnormality and/or suffering some terrible fate with a humorous, word play-rich character name, such as Glandular Angela or Half-Nelson. Two versions of each card were produced, with variations featuring the same artwork but a different character.

The commercial success of the trading cards led to the production of the live-action movie, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, in 1987, as well as the creation of an animated television series.

In 2003, Topps reintroduced Garbage Pail Kids with new artwork, dubbed the All-New Series. This series was made up of artwork intended for release in the 1980s, but the year of 2004 featured brand new concepts. Unique ID numbers on the backs of silver and gold foil insert cards could be redeemed online at the official Garbage Pail Kids website where visitors build and "gross out" their own Garbage Pail Kids; as the number of unique ID numbers applied to the character increases, the more gross it becomes. Less than 6 months later the All-New Series 3 was released.

In 2005, Topps celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Garbage Pail Kids franchise with special "Sketch Cards" original art inserts for its All-New Series 4 set. These were limited to one randomly inserted card per hobby-exclusive box, which featured original artwork by series regulars John Pound, Tom Bunk, and Jay Lynch, as well as guest artists Strephon Taylor, John Czop, Don Perlin, and Justin Green.

In 2006, All-New Series 5 was released with 40 more new kids, followed by All-New Series 6 in early 2007. January 2008 saw the release of All-New Series 7 which expanded the base set to 55 new characters and was the last set to feature new artwork until 2010's Flashback Series 1 which was a subset of 6 previously unpublished kids.

Topps then released a 25th anniversary Flashback set on February 24, 2010 which featured reprints of characters from the original 1985-87 Garbage Pail Kids series plus 6 previously unpublished "Lost" characters and 10 "Where Are They Now?" cards showing classic Garbage Pail Kids drawn as they would appear today. Packs contained random chase cards which included lenticular Loco Motion, authentic Printing Plates, four levels of Parallels, and hand-drawn Artist Sketches by pop-culture artists including Layron DeJarnette, Brent Engstrom, Dave Gross, Mark Pingitore, Joe Simko, Colin Walton, Fred Wheaton, Jeff Zapata, and veteran GPK artists Tom Bunk and Jay Lynch.

A second Flashback set was released on February 23, 2011, with 65 more reprints from series 1 to 9 plus 5 additional "Lost" kids, 10 new "Where are they Now?" cards, 5 full-depth 3-D cards, one-of-a-kind Artist Sketches, and 10 "Adam Mania" cards featuring variations of Adam Bomb's iconic mushroom cloud, plus Parallels of the base and Adam Mania sets.

Garbage Pail Kids Flashback Series 3 followed on November 2, 2011, with 66 reprints, 4 "Lost" kids, 10 "Where are they Now?" cards, 5 3-D cards, 10 Adam Mania cards, Artist Sketches, and Parallels.

Via: Wikipedia,Geepeekay

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Comment by ALTESSA ALTAMURA on December 20, 2011 at 9:46

The Journey is the Joy 100% because when we reached our destination your game plan changes.

Comment by Danielle on December 20, 2011 at 10:54

Definitely so true :)

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