The
semi-nostalgic “We Hate the 90s”, 2019 Series 1 (aka “2019S1”
project, for short) bi-yearly thematic GPK set announcement was released by the
Topps Company, Inc. on Wednesday September 12, 2018, with hobby electronic sell
sheets breaking down the source material with mock-up promotional images and retail
sheets following close behind on September 14th. The wacky and wistful parody
set was scheduled to be released on Wednesday, January 16, 2019, and stated that
“the Garbage Pail Kids ‘We Hate the 90s’ edition features all-new art, parodying
cartoons, toys, TV, films, video games, fashion and more, broken down into genre-specific
subsets”.

def’n:
HATE – to feel intense or passionate dislike for
something.
def’n: ’90s – is an abbreviation
for “The Nineties” or “1990s” decade.

The
GPK series includes all-new artwork and contributions by artists Brent Engstrom,
Joe Simko, David Gross, Layron DeJarnette, Fred Wheaton, Miran Kim, Neil Camera,
Smokin’ Joe McWilliams, JungHwa Im, Colin Walton (editor, art director, writer)
and Mark Von Ohlen (brand manager); along with original series artwork by veteran
artists John Pound and Tom Bunk. Most individuals involved submitted their own
concepts and nomenclature, otherwise Topps attempted with their own efforts; this
set would mark the last set that art director Colin Walton would almost complete
before leaving Topps and the first retail set that stand-in art director Jessica
Kanzer would take over. This release also marks the first set to have all-new
material represented on the packaging without using original-series characters.
and the last installment of the 90s Bathroom Buddies. For the first print run,
each foil or plastic pack (with a suggested retail price of $1.99) contains eight
sticker cards, except for the Hobby Collector Edition box with exclusive premium
content packs that contain eight stickers per pack or may contain seven stickers
per pack with a special insert.

NOTE:
FIRST CROOKED GPK LOGO ON PACKAGING
MAIN BOX + WRAPPER ARTWORK : BRENT ENGSTROM

SIDE ARTWORK : ENGSTROM, GROSS + IM — LAYOUT DESIGN : COLIN WALTON

The artists were requested by Topps to start submitting
concepts in early May while approvals and production of the artwork ran through
July. Art director Colin Walton had artist Brent Engstrom complete nine of his
approved 90s concepts early, in the middle of production of the 2018S2 Horror-ible
paintings, in order to have finished artwork ready for the product release sheets.
The nine images were: ‘torn jeans’; used for a sell sheet promo card image, as
the main artwork for the hobby display box and hobby collector wrapper image,
and the retail display and blaster boxes, ‘pocket pet’; used for a sell sheet
promo card image, ‘prepackaged lunch’; used for a sell sheet promo card image
and as the hobby display and retail (display, blaster and fat pack) images, ‘royale
with cheese’ used for a sell sheet promo card image and the hobby collector inlay
image, ‘pog slammer’ used for a sell sheet promo card image and side box artwork,
‘hip sack’; not used, ‘pin art’; not used, ‘mortal combat’; not used, and ‘barfing
terminator’; used for a sell sheet promo card image and as the main artwork for
the hobby collector box.

220
A+B CARD SET : SUBSETS BASE CARDS
SUBSETS
: 10 Cartoons & Comics + 10 Fads + 9 Fashion + 20 Films + 8 Music + 9 Politics
& News + 18 Toys + 20 Television + 6 Video Games.
NOTE: Target & Specialty Gravity Feed boxes cancelled
as of June & September 2018, respectively.

BASE
+ CHASE INSERT CARDS
1,847 Total Cards
= 220 Base Card Stickers + 220 Puke Parallel (R+H) + 220 Spit Parallel (HC) +
220 Bruised Parallel (HC) + 220 Bloody Nose Parallel (HC) + 220 Phlegm Parallel
(R+H) + 220 Jelly Parallel (R value fat pack) + 220 Fool’s Gold Parallel (R+H)
+ 20 Classic ’90s Cards (R+H display boxes) + 20 Classic ’90s Patches (HC) + 20
Wacky Pails (R value fat pack) + 10 Nineties Wax Pack Cards (HC) + 8 Bathroom
Buddies bonus (Target value box) + 1 Standard Sketch (R+H) + 1 two-panel Panoramic
Sketch (R value fat pack) + 1 three-panel Triptych Sketch (HC) + 1 Garbage Can
Shaped Sketch (H+HC) + 1 four-regular Loaded Puzzle Sketch (R value box) + 1 Artist
Autograph [9 dif’t artists] + 1 Printing Plate + 2 Promo Cards

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PRODUCT
RELEASE SHEETS
e-SHEETS + PROMOTIONAL
PICS : HOBBY PAGES 1-4 + RETAIL PAGES 1-4

‘CLICK’ PIC TO VIEW ALL PAGES

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HOBBY
PRODUCTION RUN

HOBBY
+ RETAIL DISPLAY BOX ODDS
BASE
PARALLELS splatter borders: green Puke — 1:1 (R + H) and Fool’s Gold [50
per subject] — 1:87 • PRINTING PLATE card [4 per subject] — 1:1,402
• ARTIST AUTOGRAPH card [25 per subject] — 1:190 • CLASSIC ’90s
cards — 1:3

DISPLAY
BOX — PKG007944 — UPC 8-87521-07734-2 — 24 PACK; NO ‘H’ ON BOX;
$48.00 SRP
CASE — PKG007945 — FGC003265+3267 — UPC 8-87521-07735-9
— 8 BOX / 24 PACK CT
FOIL PACK — PKG007943 — UPC 8-87521-07733-5
— NO ‘H’ ON WRAPPER; $1.99 SRP

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HOBBY
COLLECTOR PREMIUM BOX ODDS
BASE PARALLELS
splatter borders: blue Spit [99 per subject, HC exclusive] —
1:5, Fool’s Gold [50 per subject] — 1:87,
black Bruised (HC exclusive)
— 1:1, red Bloody Nose [75 per subject, HC exclusive] — 1:6 •
PRINTING PLATE card 1:559
SKETCH cards: Shaped (HC exclusive) —
1:160, Triptych [replaces Duel Artist Panoramic](HC exclusive) — 1:480
• ARTIST AUTOGRAPH card [25 per subject] — 1:89 • CLASSIC ’90s
PATCH cards [99 per subject][HC exclusive) — 1:50 • ‘9Os
WAX PACK cards [1 per box](HC exclusive) — 1:24

BOX
— PKG007948 — UPC 8-87521-07737-3 — ’24 PACK’ + ‘H’ ON BOX
NOTE:
’90s WAX PACK + CLASSIC ’90s PATCH INSERTS
BOX ART INLAY — PKG007947

CASE — PKG007949 — FGC003266 — UPC 8-87521-07738-0 — 8 BOX
/ 24 PACK COUNT
FOIL PACK— PKG007946 — UPC 8-87521-07736-6 —
‘COLLECTOR EDITION’ ON WRAPPER

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RETAIL
PRODUCTION RUN

RETAIL
BOX ODDS
BASE PARALLELS splatter
borders: green Puke — 1:1 (R + H), yellow Phlegm — 1:8 (R + H; Target
gravity feed cancelled), Fool’s Gold [50 per subject]:
R, H + HC — 1:87 + value fat pack — 1:76 • PRINTING PLATE (4 per
subject): value blaster box — 1:1,208 + retail display — 1:1,221 + value
fat pack — 1:402 • SKETCH cards: Standard (R + H): value blaster box
— 1:256 + display box & value fat pack — 1:279, Panoramic (value
fat pack exclusive) — 1:656, Loaded (value blaster box exclusive)
— 1:114 • ARTIST AUTHOGRAPH card [25 per subject]: display box &
value blaster box — 1:190 + value fat pack — 1:64 • BATHROOM BUDDIES
cards — 3:1 (Target value box exclusive) • CLASSIC ’90s cards
— 1:3 • WACKY PAILS cards — 2:1 (value fat pack exclusive)

VALUE
PACK — PKG007954 — UPC 8-87521-07742-7 — $4.99 SRP
NOTE: CLASSIC
RADIOACTIVE CHASE CARDS
CASE BOX — PKG007956
— FGC003269 — UPC 8-87521-07743-4 — 1/108 COUNT

BLASTER
BOX — PKG007958 — UPC 8-87521-07745-8 — ‘5 PACK’; $9.99 SRP; TARGET
NOTE:
3 BATHROOM BUDDIES STICKERS
CASE — PKG007959 — FGC003270 —
UPC 8-87521-07746-5 — 16/5+1 PACK (3 STICKERS) CT
FOIL PACK — PKG007957
— UPC 8-87521-07744-1

BLASTER
BOX — PKG007960 — UPC 8-87521-07747-2 — ‘5 PACK’; NO $9.99 SRP;
TARGET
NOTE: 3 BATHROOM BUDDIES STICKERS
CASE — PKG007959 — FGC003271
— UPC 8-87521-07748-9 — 16/5+1 PACK (3 STICKERS) CT
FOIL PACK —
PKG007957 — UPC 8-87521-07744-1

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’90s Cartoons & Comics subset cards 10a Extreme- LEE & 10b Nineties Com-MICK,
painted by artist JungHwa Im, takes its Source Material
from Rob Liefeld’s Badrock character from the Youngblood comic book series.

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Artist Brent Engstrom found it easier to paint the
entire Garbage Pail Kid first, then ‘carve out’ and paint the Carved
Skin for the ’90s Fads subset character for cards 9a Tribal TAD & 9b
MATT Tats.

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Artist Brent Engstrom revised the concept for the
’90s Fashion ‘Faux Pas‘ subset character for cards
1a Fanny JACK & 1b ANNIE Pack, changing the male character with cut-off denin
shorts & a cropped shirt to a femle with a neon track suit. Originally submitted
as a ‘Fad’ entry.

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’90s Fashion subset cards 10a Extreme- LEE &
10b Nineties Com-MICK, Traced & Painted by artist
JungHwa Im, takes its original source pose, sans gum, from GPK OS3 cards 84a JOE
Blow & 84b ROD Wad painted by artist John Pound.

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’90s Films subset cards 18a WHIT’s In The Box? &
18b Se7en DEVIN, Traced & Painted by artist JungHwa
Im, takes its original source material from GPK OS11 cards 459a VomiTED &
459b Juicy JULES (same nomenclature used on card 14a) painted by artist James
Warhola.

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’90s Films subset cards 20a Fight BUB & 20b
Tussling TYLER, Traced
& Painted by artist JungHwa Im, takes its original source material
from GPK OS2 cards 49a Double HEATHER & 49b Schizo FRAN (aka 49b FRAN
FRAN) painted by artist John Pound.

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’90s Music & Celebrities subset cards 4a Blind
MELANIE & 4b No RAINE, painted by artist Joe Simko, takes its original Source
Material from GPK OS6 cards 227a BEA Sting & 227b Screaming MIMI painted
by artist John Pound.

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’90s Toys subset original source material for GPK
cards 4a ZVEE Bot & 4b Void BOYD, painted by artist JungHwa Im, used Z-Bots
Burger King Promotional Toys ‘Jawbreaker’ and/eating
‘Buzzsaw’ & the Creepy Crawlers Oven Box Artwork
for cards 6a Creepy CARL & 6b Crawlin’ CAL.

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’90s TV subset original Source
Material of OS2 cards 53a Jolted JOEL & 53b Live MIKE, painted by artist
John Pound, uses the same environment treatment for GPK cards 20a Energized EDISON
& 20b BONNIE Bunny painted by artist Brent Engstrom to great effect.

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Topps presented a TV subset Promo
Card set for the March 1st-3rd ToyCon weekend, acknowledging the GCC for
the first time in 2019 to promote their own brand; the card was sponsored by the
ToyCon and sponsored and printed by GPK and Wacky Warehouse; who has printed all
of the GCC promo cards to date.

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’90s Wax Pack Parodies subset cards #5 Trash
Can Trolls contains original series rendered wrapper artwork by artist
Tom Bunk of the infamous ADAM Bomb character used for the OS1 thru OS5 wrapper
images; the GPK has been placed on a replication of the TCT wrapper and dressed
in his rarer red suit.

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The ‘Bathroom Buddies’ exclusive blaster box set
contains original Series 2 unpublished artwork by artist John Pound (& DEN
Beauvais) who completed three images for the previously unreleased set that was
shelved in the ’90s. This will most likely be the last Bathroom
Buddies installment for the Yearly sets.

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Notes of interest for the GPK
Logo & nameplate: the Classic ’90s subset uses a Green
GPK logo & a green nameplate … the Classic ’90s Patches use a green GPK
logo & green nameplate (additional note: half of the images were taken from
an exclusive Comic Con set—see ‘Checklist’ for details) … and the sketch
cards adopt a new neon green GPK logo banner.

NOTE:
FIRST NEON GREEN GPK LOGO

Fifty-six
artists contributed to the Sketch cards for the 2019S1 set — listed alphabetically
by forename: Anthony Skubis, Barry Nygma, Bobby Blakey, Brent Scotchmer, Cathy
Razim, Chad Scheres, Chris Meeks, Clinton Yeager, Dan Burn Webster, Dan Contois,
Daniel Goodroad, Darrin Pepe, David Acevedo, David Dabila, David Gacey, Dennis
Gortakowski, Emma Burges, Gavin Williams, Greg Tilson, Jasmine Contois, Jason
Crosby, Jason Heil, Jay O’Leary, Joe Grotesque, Joey Fitchett, John Brewer, John
Monserrat, K. GRiMM, Kelly Greider, Lily Mercado, Lowell Isaac, Matt Steffens,
Michael Barnard, Mike McHugh, Mike Stephens, Neil Camera, Patrick Chaimuang, Patrick
Giles, Paul Mangione, Quinton Baker, Rich Molinelli, Rickey Kipfer, Robert ‘el
smetcho’ Garcia, Robert Jimenez, Robert Sumner, Rory McQueen, Ryan Moffett, Ryan
Morrison, Sebastian Cortez, Shawn Cruz, Simone Arena, Smokin’ Joe McWilliams,
Steve Potter, Todd Rayner, Victor Moreno and Vincent D’Ippolito.