The All-New Series
1 (ANS1) GPK Album Sticker set was published in the late summer of 2004 by the
Topps Europe Ltd company (distributed by Merlin Stickers) and released throughout
northern Europe. A total of one print run was released during a resurrection of
the 80’s GPK nostaglia period in the U.S. with new releases that started in August
of 2003. The UK GPK album set is comprised of 192 images from the ANS1 set, the
ANS2 set and several images from the later Original Series (OS) releases without
any A-name or B-name twin cards. The set contains 181 base stickers and Foil stickers
along with 11 poster stickers that are placed on poster-page taken from the album.
Each paper pack contains 4 stickers and one Foil sticker on thin card stock. Instead
of the old cigarette card-size of earlier UK releases, often referred to as ‘mini’,
this set contains cards roughly the same size as the U.S. release measuring 2.5
x 3.5 inches.

192
TOTAL CARDS = 181 STICKERS + 11 POSTER STICKERS
NO CARD VARIATIONS : NO CHANGES
: 1 PRINT RUN

COUNTER
DISPLAY BOX — BOX CODE: NONE
MERLIN STICKERS — TOPPS EUROPE

PACKAGING ARTWORK: JOHN POUND

STICKER
PACK — WRAPPER CODE: NONE
MERLIN STICKERS — TOPPS EUROPE
PACKAGING
ARTWORK: JOHN POUND

STICKER
ALBUM — CODE: NONE
MERLIN STICKERS — TOPPS EUROPE
ALBUM ARTWORK:
JOHN POUND

PROMO
SHEET — CODE: NONE
MERLIN STICKERS — TOPPS EUROPE
COMIC STORE
PROMOTIONAL STICKER SHEET

DIGITAL SELL
SHEET — CODE: NONE
MERLIN STICKERS — TOPPS EUROPE
RETAILER PROMOTIONAL
MATERIAL

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The First Card in the
UK album set is the ‘Garbage Pail Kids’ title on a Foil sticker.

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The release contains GPK Banners
and sticker borders of various colours that matches the theme for
each section of the sticker album; the banner colours include: black, light blue,
light orange, red, dark green, dark blue, pink, dark orange, light purple, light
green, brown, turquoise, dark purple, aqua, grey and dark yellow (see images pictured
further below as examples).

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The set contains many Foil
Card Images from the U.S. ANS1 and ANS2 sets on non-foil sticker card stock.
These images are updated versions of characters from the Original Series (OS)
releases created digitally by Pat and Sean Glover. Some of these images are drastically
changed with heavy, outlined borders and others have just a small amount re-work
such as the eyes, arms, et cetera, in order to make them as non-CPK (Cabbage Patch
Kids) as possible for the U.S. re-release of the GPK franchise. Pictured below;
cards #79 Dead TED and #115 Bratty MADDY.

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The set contains no PEEL HERE
Arrows on the card fronts since album releases are known to be in sticker
format.

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The first Unpublished Twin
card name to be released outside of the U.S. for card #37 RACHEL Retch; the name
was listed as the ‘b’ name when the image was originally located within the base
set. The artwork was pulled from the U.S. ANS2 set and replaced in order to make
the bonus card B1 On Camera CAMERON; leaving the twin name ‘RACHEL Retch’ as unpublished,
until now.

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Paper Wrappers
are used instead of the plastic or cellophane wrappers of years past.
No packaging code is located on the packs or boxes.

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Along with the UK release, The Scandinavia
sets were released in at least four different countries; Sweden, Denmark,
and Finland. It does not appear that Norway (NO) participated. Similar
sticker album sets were also released in France, Germany, and later,
Russia. NOTE: DE, FI, SE + UK images:

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The UK release consists of Artwork
pulled from the U.S. ANS1 set, the ANS2 set (including various foil card images)
and characters from the OS GPK sets (including the OS10 through OS15 card sets).
Images from the OS13, OS14 and OS15 sets are new to the UK and not previously
released; the OS1 through OS12 characters had been released in the UK in the late
80’s and early 90’s. Please see the checklist below for more information on which
image came from which U.S. set. For more Fun Facts & Tidbits please visit
the U.S. ANS1, ANS2 and OS pages.