RELEASE PERIOD — JANUARY 2020

School’s
back in session! The “Late to School” 2020 Series 1 (aka “2020S1”
project, for short) GPK set announcement was released by the Topps Company, Inc.
the week of September 9, 2019, with hobby electronic sell sheets breaking down
the source material with mock-up promotional images, and retail electronic sheets
hitting the dark web a few days later. The assignment for concepts was sent out
to the artists at the beginning of June 2019, with a due date of August 2019 for
final artwork. The educative set was scheduled to be released on Wednesday, January
15, 2020 and stated “2020 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 features an all-new
them: “Late to School.” This year’s release will showcase new shaped
sketch cards, new pennant cards, the return of card back checklists, and new packaging!”,
but was tardy and the official street date release was January 24, 2020. However,
Meijer retail stores had merchandise out earlier than this and the Topps Shop
posted items online on January 22, 2020.

def’n:
LATE — To arrive after the expected, set, or
usual time.
def’n: SCHOOL — An institution,
or teaching center for educating children.

The
GPK series includes all-new artwork and contributions by artists Brent Engstrom,
Joe Simko, David Gross, Smokin’ Joe McWilliams, Jessica Kanzer (brand manager,
art director), David Waldeck (graphic design editor, product development), and
Olga Vega (designer, entertainment packaging manager); along with original series
artwork by veteran artist John Pound. The release would introduce new value box
and Collector hobby box packaging, and reintroduce reverse card backs with artwork,
puzzles, and checklists again. 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 box with exclusive premium content packs that contain eight
stickers per pack or may contain seven stickers per pack with a special insert.

WRAPPER
ARTWORK : JOE SIMKO — BOX ARTWORK : SIMKO + GROSS
SIDE ARTWORK : SIMKO
+ GROSS — LAYOUT DESIGN : JESSICA KANZER

200
BASE CARDS : 100 A+B CARD SETS — BASE CARDS + CHASE INSERT SUBSET CARDS

1,676 Total Items = 200 Base Card Stickers + 200 Green Booger Parallel (R+H Display)
+ 200 Purple Jelly Parallel (R Fat Pack) + 200 Yellow Phlegm Parallel (R Value
Box) + 200 Gold Parallel (R+H) + 200 Black Bruised Parallel (HC) + 200 Red Bloody
Nose Parallel (HC) + 200 Blue Spit Parallel (HC)
+ 20 School Faculty Lounge (R Fat Pack) + 10 School Mascots (R+H Display) + 10
Class Superlatives (R Value Box) + 10 Wacky Package Supplies (HC) + 10 School
Penant Patches (HC) + 4 Lunchboxes (HC) + 1 Standard
Sketch (R+H Display) + 1 two-panel Panoramic Sketch (HC) + 1 three-panel Triptych
Sketch (R Value Box) + 2 Trash Can or Apple Shaped Sketch (HC) + 1 four-regular
Loaded Puzzle Sketch (R Value Box) + 4 Artist Autographs (4 dif’t artists / 200
cards) + 1 Printing Plate + 1 Promo Card(s).

HOBBY
& RETAIL PRODUCTION RUNS
MAIN BOX
+ WRAPPER ARTWORK : JOHN POUND
ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS : BRENT ENGSTROM, ETC.
DISPLAY BOX : 2 VARIATIONS + 2 BONUS BOXES
WRAPPERS
: 3 VARIATIONS + VALUE

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PRODUCT
RELEASE SHEETS
e-SHEETS + PROMOTIONAL
PICS : HOBBY PAGES 1-3 + RETAIL PAGES 1-3

‘CLICK’
PIC TO VIEW ALL PAGES

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HOBBY
PRODUCTION RUN

HOBBY
+ RETAIL DISPLAY BOX ODDS
BASE
PARALLELS borders: Green Booger — 1:1 and Fool’s Gold [50 per subject] —
1:134 • SKETCH cards: regular Standard — 1:371 • PRINTING PLATE
card [4 per subject] — 1:2,318 • ARTIST AUTOGRAPH card [35 per subject]
— 1:260 • School Mascots cards — 1:3.

TOPPS
SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION
2020 Garbage
Pail Kids Series 1: “Late to School” – Hobby Box [20 GPK S1 School Hobby]
SRP: $48.00
U.S. Description: Look for EXCLUSIVE GPK Mascot Sticker Cards!
• 24 packs per box • 8 stickers per pack
Specs: SKU FGC003642, UK
SKU D106410 , Product Type Hobby Box, Property Garbage Pail Kids, Year 2020.

UK Shop Description: 2020 GARBAGE PAIL KIDS SERIES 1 FEATURES AN ALL-NEW
THEME: “LATE TO SCHOOL.”
Each pack contains seven (7) 2020 Garbage
Pail Kids Series 1 base stickers + one (1) Booger Green Parallel.
Twenty-four
(24) packs per box.

DISPLAY
BOX —PKG008843 — UPC 8-87521-08562-0 — 24 PACK; $48.00 SRP
NOTE:
SCHOOL MASCOT CARDS
CASE — PKG008844 — FGC003642 + 3644 — UPC
8-87521-08563-7 — 8 BOX / 24 PACK CT
FOIL PACK — PKG008842 —
UPC 8-87521-08561-3 — NO ‘H’ ON WRAPPER; $1.99 SRP

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HOBBY
COLLECTOR PREMIUM BOX ODDS
BASE PARALLELS
borders: Black Bruised [HC exclusive] — 1:1, Blue Spit [99 per subject,
exclusive] — 1:8, Red Bloody Nose [75 per subject, HC exclusive]
— 1:10, Fool’s Gold [50 per subject] — 1:134 • ERROR:
TRIPTYCH SKETCH CARDS FOUND IN RETAIL VALUE
BOX • PRINTING PLATE card 1:531 • SKETCH cards: Shaped (Trash
Can or Apple, HC exclusive) — 1:122, Panoramic (HC exclusive)
— 1:723 • ARTIST AUTOGRAPH card [35 per subject] — 1:61 •
School Pennant Patch [HC exclusive) — 1:74 • Wacky Package
Supplies [HC exclusive] — 1:24 • Lunch Box [1 per box, 4 colors](HC
exclusive) — 1:1.

TOPPS
SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION
2020 Garbage
Pail Kids Series 1: “Late to School” – Collector’s Edition [20 GPK S1
School Coll Pk] SRP: $96.00
Description: Comes in 1 of 4 Collectible lunch
boxes! 1 Hit per Box! Hits include: Auto’s, Pennant card, Sketch Cards, Printing
plates • 24 packs per box • 7 base stickers + 1 Bruised parallel •
Specs: SKU FGC003643, Product Type Hobby Box, Property Garbage Pail Kids, Year
2020.

COLLECTOR BOX — PKG008847 — UPC 8-87521-08565-1
— ‘COLLECTOR’ & ‘H’
NOTE: SCHOOL PENNANT PATCH + WACKY SUPPLIES
METAL
CASE LUNCH BOXES — PKG008846 (4 COLOURS)
CASE — PKG008848 —
FGC003643 — UPC 8-87521-08566-8 — 8 BOX / 24 PACK COUNT
CASE BREAKDOWN:
1 ORANGE (SUPER RARE), 2 PURPLE, 2 GREEN, 3 BLUE (SUPER COMMON)
FOIL PACK
— PKG008845 — UPC 8-87521-08564-4 — ‘COLLECTOR EDITION’ & ‘H’
ON WRAPPER

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RETAIL
PRODUCTION RUN

RETAIL
ODDS : DISPLAY, VALUE + FAT
BASE
PARALLELS borders: Green Booger [Display] — 1:1, Yellow Phlegm [Value] —
1:5, Fool’s Gold
[50 per subject, Display and Value] — 1:134 + [Fat
Pack] — 1:45, Purple Jelly [Fat Pack] — 1:1 •
ERROR: VALUE BOX WRAPPER READS YELLOW PHLEGM ODDS AS 1:10 • PRINTING
PLATE [4 per subject, Display] — 1:2,318 + [Value] — 1:2,295 + [Fat
Pack] — 1:758 • SKETCH cards: Standard [Display + Value] — 1:371
+ [Fat Pack] — 1:124, Triptych [Value] — 1:723, Loaded [Value] —
1:229 • ERROR: PANORAMIC SKETCH CARDS FOUND IN HOBBY
COLLECTOR BOX • ARTIST AUTHOGRAPH card [35 per subject, Display] —
260, [Value] — 1:259 + [Fat Pack] — 1:87 • Class Superlatives —
3:1 (Value Box exclusive) • Faculty Lounge Cards — 2:1 (Fat
Pack exclusive) • ERROR: ALSO FOUND IN RETAIL
VALUE BOX • GPK School Mascots
— 1:3 (Display Box exlusive).

VALUE
FAT PACK — PKG008849 — UPC 8-87521-08570-5 — $4.99 SRP
NOTE:
FACULTY LOUNGE CARDS; PURPLE JELLY PARALLEL EXCLUSIVE
CASE BOX — PKG008850
— FGC003646 — UPC 8-87521-08571-2 — 1/108 COUNT

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TOPPS
SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION
2020 Garbage
Pail Kids Series 1: “Late to School” – Value Box [20 GPK S1 School VB]
SRP: $9.99
Description: 3 Class Superlative Stickers, 5 Packs per box + 1
Bonus • 7 stickers per pack • 1 Booger Green parallel
Specs: SKU
FGC003648, Product Type Hobby Box, Property Garbage Pail Kids, Year 2020

WAL*MART.COM
BONUS CARD EXCLUSIVE
2020 Topps Garbage
Pail Kids Value Box- Late the School | Special Cubby Colby Promo Card
included
| Walmart Exclusive | Over 40 cards Walmart # 577783443 — $9.98 ($9.77 Rollback)

BLASTER VALUE BOX — PKG008852 — UPC 8-87521-08573-6
— ‘5 PACK’; $9.99 SRP; TARGET, ONLINE
NOTE: THREE CLASS SUPERLATIVES CARDS

CASE — PKG008853 — FGC003647 — UPC 8-87521-08574-3
— 40/5+1
COUNT
FOIL PACK — PKG008851 — UPC 8-87521-08572-9

BLASTER VALUEBOX — PKG008854 —
UPC 8-87521-08575-0 — ‘5 PACK’; NO PRICE; WAL*MART
NOTE: THREE CLASS SUPERLATIVES
CARDS
CASE — PKG008853 — FGC003648 — UPC 8-87521-08576-7 —
40/5+1 COUNT
FOIL PACK — PKG008851 — UPC 8-87521-08572-9

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Two GIANT, 5×7 base
card sets were sold on the Topps Shop online store as exclusive material starting
on January 22, 2020, and was directly related to the 2020S1 GPK Late to School
retail release during that same week. The white-border base set of 100 cards sold
for $199.99 and was numbered to 49 sets printed. There was also a limited edition
gold-border parallel base set of 100 cards that sold for $399.99 and was numbered
to 10 sets; the oversized Gold card sets sold out the first day and the oversized
regular sets sold out by the first weekend.

TOPPS
SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION
2020 Garbage Pail Kids
Series 1 Oversized Complete Base Set (100 Cards) – # to 49 – Price: $199.99

Description: Limited Edition Posters Featuring Artwork from 2020 Garbage Pail
Kids Series 1 sticker cards
Specs: SKU – ARTGPK-16C2S-20GPK1-SET01, Product
Information – Numbered to 49,
Includes 100 5″x7″ Oversized Cards,
Property – Garbage Pail Kids, Year – 2020

2020
Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 Oversized Complete Base Set (100 Cards) Gold Ed. –
# to 10 – Price: $399.99
Description: Limited Edition Posters Featuring Artwork
from 2020 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 sticker cards
Specs: SKU – ARTGPK-16C2S-20GPK1-GOLD-SET01,
Product Information – Numbered to 10,
Includes 100 5″x7″ Oversized
Cards, Property – Garbage Pail Kids, Year – 2020

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There were two Poster
versions sold on the Topps Shop online store as exclusive material starting on
January 22, 2020, and was directly related to the 2020S1 GPK Late to School retail
release that same week; cardstock material. The white-border poster sold for $24.99
each and was numbered to 99 posters printed; 100 characters to choose from. There
was also a limited edition gold-border poster that sold for $99.99 each and was
one-of-a-kind; 100 posters total, one for each character from the base card set.

TOPPS
SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION
2020 GPK Series 1 Base
Poster # to 99 – Price $24.99
Description: Limited Edition Posters Featuring
Artwork from 2020 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 sticker cards
Specs: SKU – ARTGPK-POS-20GPK1-[MISC]-S,
Product Information – Numbered to 99 10″x14″ Poster,
Property –
Garbage Pail Kids, Year – 2020

2020 GPK Series
1 Base Poster Gold Ed. # to 1 – $99.99
Description: Limited Edition Posters
Featuring Artwork from 2020 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 sticker cards
Specs:
SKU – ARTGPK-POS-20GPK1-[MISC]- GOLD-S, Product Information – Numbered to 99 10″x14″
Poster,
Property – Garbage Pail Kids, Year – 2020

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The bookworm character, and spittle-shower victim,
of cards 93a BEA Quiet & 93b NOAH Talking is surrounded by several Shout-Outs
& Tributes both pictured and labeled on the book spines of the artwork.
Artist Brent Engstrom placed the old teacher character from the 1973 Wacky Packages
card ‘GADZOOKA‘, painted by artist Norm Saunders, into the
artwork as the head librarian that can be seen ‘raining down’ on the GPKid for
not being silent in the library.

FOOTNOTE:
The bookcase contains a plethora of important names associated with Topps parody
products of yesteryears and of today and shout-outs to family and friends, including,
from top-to-bottom, left-to-right. ROW 1: ‘TRAVIS’
(Engstrom’s older brother), Norm ‘SAUNDERS’ of Wacky fame, ‘BRANDON’ (Engstrom’s
twin brother), Adam F. ‘GOLDBERG’ (moved to the ‘bottom’ row on card due to GPK
header) of ‘The GOLDBERGS’. ROW 2: Jay ‘LYNCH’, Art
‘SPIEGELMAN’ (added, ‘ACE’ moved compared to original artwork), Smokin’ Joe ‘MCWILLIAMS’,
Tomas ‘BUNK’, Joe ‘SIMKO’, David ‘GROSS’, John ‘POUND’, Brent ‘ENGSTROM’, Layron
‘DEJARNETTE’. ROW 3: Mark ‘NEWGARDEN’ (added), Jeff
‘ZAPATA’, ‘ACE’ (Brent’s wife; ‘FOX J’ removed compared to original artwork).
ROW 4: barren Aaron ‘BOOTON’ of GPKWorld, Fred ‘WHEATON’
(added), Adam F. ‘GOLDBERG’, sketch artist Dustin ‘GRAHAM’, James ‘HOUX’ of GPK
Customs, and Neil ‘CAMERA’ (added).

	LYNCH
TRAVIS	SPIEGELMAN …..(A.C.E.)		BOOTON
	MCWILLIAMS	NEWGARDEN	WHEATON
SAUNDERS		ZAPATA	GOLDBERG
BRANDON	BUNK	A.C.E. ……….(FOX J)	GRAHAM
	SIMKO		HOUX
	GROSS		CAMERA
	POUND
	ENGSTROM
GOLDBERG	DEJARNETTE

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An exclusive Promo Card could
be obtained via Wal*Mart-dot-com around the official release date as an online
only incentive. Althought Wal*Mart carried the Value boxes within their stores,
the special promo card could only be ordered as a ‘WALMART.COM EXCLUSIVE’ as stated
on the backside of the Late to School bonus card. Wal*Mart had stopped carrying
GPK for the last few Yearly releases, so this special card may have been incentive
for Wal*Mart to get back on board with the GPK brand. The artwork was pianted
by artist JOE Simko and the card comes sealed in a see-through cellophane wrapper.
Stated ‘Out of Stock’ by the end of January with a ‘Get In-Stock Alert’ notification.

WAL*MART
ONLINE TITLE: 2020 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Value Box-
Late the School | Special Cubby Colby Promo Card included | Walmart Exclusive
| Over 40 cards. Description: 2020 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Value Box. Each
box contains five (5) 2020 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 packs + three (3) Class
Superlative Stickers. Each pack contains seven (7) base cards + one (1) Booger
Green Parallel. Exclusive Cubby Cobbler promo card comes with purchase of every
box.2020 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Value Box. Note: ‘Cobbler’?

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The set includes several nods and GPK
Homages to several characters of yesteryears. There are a handful of cards
within the set that sport the ADAM Bomb character or name reference and the GPK
acronym. Cards 11a DEE I.Y. & 11b Decorated DESIREE, for example, showcase
a curved-header ADAM Bomb, memo, and Abrams GPK book. The contra-bandit character
for cards 62a Illegal ELI & 62b Contraband CORY contain eleven historical
GPK charactars (and one generic), including: OS1 cards 8a ADAM Bomb, 1a Nasty
NICK, 5a Dead TED, 19a Corroded CARL, 10a Tee-Vee STEVIE, 26a Slobby ROBBIE, 38a
Slimy SAM, and 37a GuilloTINA, OS3 cards 104b Barren AARON and 90a Stoned SEAN,
and the OS7 card 282b Bent BRENT; Engstrom’s forename and owned original artwork.

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The Garbage Pail Kids acronym, GPK, can be found
on the box sides of the packaging and on the back of wrapper packs. Topps has
gone with a green header for this release instead of the usual red header. The
abbreviation became popular around the 30th Anniversay release in July 2015 when
Topps used the acronym for the first time. Topps filed the trademark for the ‘word
mark’ GPK on August 10, 2015, and the acronym became registered in September 2015
(Reg. No. 5703540, Serial No. 86720004).

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The notebook, pencil Sketch
Character of Cards 88a Loose LEIF & 88b Sketchy SKIPPY, created by
artist JOE Simko, can be found on the chalkboard, as a chalk sketch character,
within the fourth Jam Roll Studios video series titled ‘Late to School’ which
references the 2020 Series 1 release, and a tie-in ‘Video Series’ L2S Sticker
Set #1 (Funko character) card set was available online for 30 days.

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Artist BRENT Engstrom took inspiration from the
T-Shirt Factory set of Iron-Ons released by Topps
in 1988 with artwork by GPK veteran TOM Bunk. The same set also contains two Gross
Bears characters from the Big Bad Buttons release in 1985; later released as bonus
cards for the Yearly sets within value boxes. The character for cards 98a TED
of the Class & 98b Scholar LEE and iron-on #13 ‘HEAD of the Class’ have a
decapitated head with graduation cap sitting on a school desk; both images have
a broke No.2 pencil, white-and-grey eraser, spider, tied tassel, bandaids/plasters,
droopy eye-lids, bucktooth/teeth, tongue sticking out, blond hair with dark roots,
snot drip, and a stain on top of the cap.

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The very popular GPK Lunch
Boxes, designed by artist JOE Simko, contain a vibrant yellow and thick,
black-lined side paneling that paid direct tribute to the similar colored and
designed reverse card borders (and characters) for the 1986 GIANT Series GPK set,
created by artist Howard Cruse; this border art was used for a Creepy Co. GPK
lanyard, in 2019. The lunch box side paneling was designed to have a ‘FRONT’ (top)
and ‘RIGHT’ side that wrapped around and repeated th design for the ‘BACK’ (bottom)
and ‘LEFT’ side; but the mock up images make it appear to be repeating several
times on each side. The artwork can also be found within the fourth Jam Roll Studios
‘GPK mis-Adventures’ video series titled ‘Late to School’ which references the
2020 Series 1 release.

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Although the cards are still without die-cut stickers
and the ‘PEEL HERE’ arrow still points upwards to the corner of the card, quite
a few missing and nostalgic GPK Elements have finally
returned starting with this 2020 Series 1 set. The release looses the long running
‘subsets’ reign and brings back a much larger set with numbering placed back on
the card fronts; however, a strange shading has been placed behind the black numbers
whereas white numbers may have been the wiser choice. Character puzzles and puzzle
preview cards also make a return, in nice 9-card size as well as card backs in
the form of ‘REPORT CARDS’, using characters from the set.

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When artist BRENT Engstrom first submitted a concept
for the School Mascot subset, Topps asked for a parody
of ‘Barnard’ College titled ‘Barnyard’, so he created a ROB Slob-themed costume,
paying tribute to the OS2 character. Topps passed on this particular college mascot
parody and instead asked for a ‘Yale’ University parody, where Engstrom came up
with the ‘Fail’ trash can mascot that was eventually published within the set.

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The Wacky School Supplies
card for #10 Garbage Jail Kids was completed by artist DAVID Gross. The artwork
is a parody of the 2020S1 wrapper mascot by JOE Simko with the character for cards
76a Sharp PENNY and 76b Sharpen CHARLENE. The concept is based off of a rough
description of what the wrapper intended to look like, which is why it looks slightly
different. The three torn up cards within the artwork are the characters for cards
56a Say Cheese LUIS and 56b Picture Day JAY by BRENT Engstrom, cards 46a RHETTA
White & Blue and 46b Old GLORIA by JOE McWilliams, and cards 14a DOUG Ate
My Homework and 14b AVA Alibi by DAVID Gross.

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For the Late to School 100 Base
Card set, each artist painted 25 concepts each. This is the first true
base set, containing no subsets with repetitive numbering, since the 30th Anniversary
release in 2015 for the 2015S2 set. The nomenclature was cross-referenced with
each other to minimize the repeat of any forenames, or at least to cut down on
repeats.

The 2020S1 ‘Late to School’ release is the twentieth
Garbage Pail Kids set to contain sketch cards numbering 1/1, one-of-a-kind, found
within hobby boxes or retail boxes. Standard sketch cards (display + value
box exclusive ), shaped garbage can and bitten apple sketch cards (hobby
collector exclusive), panoramic sketch cards (retail value box), ‘folded’
triptych sketch cards (hobby collector exclusive), and Loaded sketch cards
(four standard sketch cards; value box exclusive).
ERROR:
TRIPTYCH SKETCH CARDS FOUND IN RETAIL VALUE BOX
ERROR:
PANORAMIC SKETCH CARDS FOUND IN HOBBY COLLECTOR BOX

Forty-one
artists contributed to the Sketch cards for the 2020S1 release — listed alphabetically
by surname: David Acevedo, Simone Arena, Quinton Baker, Bobby Blakey, John Brewer,
Emily Burges, Neil Camera, Nik Castaneda, Patrick Chaimuang, Jasmine Contois,
Sebastian Cortez, David Dabila, Vincent D’Ippolito, Joe Grotesque, Joey Flitchett,
Robert ‘el smetcho’ Garcia, K. GRiMM, Daniel Goodroad, Dennis Gortakowski, Kelly
Greider, Lowell Isaac Hildebrandt, Robert Jimenez, David ‘Gacey’ Jones, Rickey
Kipfer, Mike McHugh, Rory McQueen, Lily Mercado, Rich Molinelli, John Monserrat,
Victor Moreno, Magnus VonRobotsson, Jay O’Leary, Darrin Pepe, Cathy Razim, Chad
Scheres, Brent Scotchmer, Anthony Skubis, Mike Stephens, Greg Tilson, Gavin Williams,
and Clinton Yeager.