def’n:
FOOD FIGHT
— An impulsive and instantaneous act of people throwing food at one
another.
def’n: FOOD
— Any nutritious (or garbage) substance absorbed by the body to maintain
life and growth.

Food
Fight! The 2021S1 GPK set announcement was released by the Topps Company, Inc.
the week of August 20, 2020, with hobby electronic sell sheets breaking down the
source material with mock-up promotional images, and retail electronic sheets
hitting the dark web a day later on August 21, 2020. The lunchroom food fight
set was scheduled to be released on January 20, 2021 and stated “The gross,
moldy fun is back with 2021 Garbage Pail Kids: Food Fight! Funny to the rotten
apple core, this year’s release features all-new art, card backs, packaging, and
more!”, but instead was pushed back to Wednesday, February 24, 2021…
one month later. Product began to hit Walmart and Target store shelves early the
week of the release and the Topps Shop posted items online on February 24th (both
U.S. and UK sites) and sold out of product within an hour; they tend to have limited
stock as not to compete with retailers.
The long-running subsets, that broke up the set, has been replaced by a mega base
set; although the release feels like at one time sebsets were planned, especially
with the included OS tribute characters. As with the previous release, there are
some issues with character placement on card.

NOTE: DISPLAY BOX MOCK-UP WRAPPER

LAYOUT DESIGN : JESSICA KANZER
+ OLGA VEGA — WRAPPER ARTWORK : JOE SIMKO
BOX ARTWORK : JOE SIMKO —
SIDE ARTWORK : BRENT ENGSTROM + JOE SIMKO

The GPK series included all-new artwork and contributions by artists Brent
Engstrom, Joe Simko, David Gross, Smokin’ Joe McWilliams, Jessica Kanzer (brand
manager, art director), UNK (graphic design editor, product development), and
Olga Vega (designer, entertainment packaging manager); along with original series
artwork by veteran artist John Pound. This would be the last set credit for Jessica
Kanzer, she left Topps in January 2021. The set would introduce new value box
and Collector hobby box packaging, and continue reverse card backs with artwork,
puzzles, and checklists. For the first print run, each foil or plastic pack contains
eight sticker cards, with a suggested retail price of $1.99, except value boxes
that have “packs with a special insert may contain only 6 cards”. Hobby
Collector boxes that have packs with exclusive premium content may contain only
two-five cards per pack.

Per
artist JOE Simko via social media on August 21, 2021, “I advocated the theme
of FOOD to Topps for the next GPK set. Originally I called it GPK -“Bite
Me!” but it got changed to GPK – “Food Fight”. Still, I am so glad
we are doing this theme as there will be a subset of 12 cards dedicated just to
cereal mascots! … Over 100 GPK concepts all focused on the theme of food. Between
the 4 artists working on the set, there are so many different food “gags”
going on that are truly funny, gross, and original pieces of art. Food themes
and food toys do well with kids, which this set is aimed more towards. GPK will
once again be on the pre-teen radar since this set will also be published after
this fall’s wide release of the R.L. Stine GPK middle school book. Looking forward
to this Food Fight GPK set. Plus there will be cool mini tin refrigerators that
the cards will be packed in.”

Although
the next few releases would be pushed back and slightly re-arranged due to the
pandemic, later in the year, artist BRENT Engstrom would paint a Christmas card
for Topps’ outside counsel, Barrister Law, which was pandemic-related, with the
character having two heads and called ‘BARRY Stir’. Artist TOM Bunk would complete
canvas sketches for the Topps manager, Lance Kirkdland. None of these images have
been made public.

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

1,695 Total Items = 200 Base Card Stickers + 200 Green Booger Parallel (R+H
Display) + 200 Blue Spit-in-Your-Food Parallel (R+H Display) + 200 Purple Jelly
Parallel (R Fat Pack) + 200 Yellow Mustard Parallel (R Value Box) + 200 Fools
Gold Parallel (R+H) + 200 Black Pepper Parallel (HC) + 200 Saucy Red Parallel
(HC) + 20 Cereal Aisle (R Fat Pack) + 10 You Are What You Eat (R+H Display) +
4 Tin Refrigerators (R Value Box) + 16 Celebrity Chef (R Value Box) + 1 Tin Refrigerators
(HC Box) + 12 Magnet Cards (HC) + 10 Wacky Packages GPK Food (HC) + 10 Wacky Packages
Relic Patches (HC) + 1 Standard Sketch (R+H Display + Value Pack) + 1 two-paneled
Panoramic Sketch (R Value Box) + 1 three-panel Triptych Sketch (HC) + 1 Shaped
Trash Can Sketch (HC) + 1 Shaped Rotten Egg Sketch (HC) + 1 four-regular Loaded
Puzzle Sketch (R Value Box) + 4 Artist Autographs (4 dif’t artists / 100 cards
ea.) + 1 WAX Redemption Card + 1 Printing Plate

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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 RUNS

HOBBY
+ RETAIL DISPLAY BOX ODDS
BASE PARALLELS borders: Green Booger
— 1:2 (actually 1:1), Blue Spit-in-Your-Food [99 per subject, exclusive]
— 1:36, and Fool’s Gold [35 per subject] — 1:358 • SKETCH cards:
regular Standard — 1:410
PRINTING PLATE card [4 per subject] — 1:13,049
• ARTIST AUTOGRAPH card [35 per subject] — 1:646 • You Are What
You Eat cards — 1:3 • WAX Food Fight redemption card — 1:24

DISPLAY
BOX — PKG010177 — UPC 8-87521-09702-9 — $50.00 SRP
NOTE: YOU
ARE WHAT YOU EAT CARDS
CASE — PKG010178 — FGC004091 H + FGC004093
R — UPC 8-87521-09703-6— 8 BOX / 24 PACK CT
FOIL PACK — PKG010176
— UPC 8-87521-09701-2 — NO ‘H’ ON WRAPPER; $1.99 SRP

TOPPS
U.S. SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION:

2021 Topps® Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 – Hobby Box
$50 — 2021 GPK
Hobby Display Box — NOTE: Sold out in under 60 minutes.
Description:
The gross, moldy fun is back with 2021 Garbage Pail Kids: Food Fight! Funny to
the rotten apple core, this year’s release features all-new art, card backs,
packaging, and more!
Specs, Product/More Information: Ships in 3-5 Business
Days, SKU: FGC004091, Type: Hobby Box, Property: Garbage Pail Kids, Year: 2021

TOPPS
UK SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION:
2021
Topps® Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 – Hobby Box – UK
£40.00 —
Premium Stickers. — NOTE: Sold out in under 30 minutes.
Please
allow 3-5 business days for UK delivery. (+28 for international orders. Iternational
import taxes may apply). More Information, SKU: FGC004091-UK, Year: 2021, Property:
Garbage Pail Kids, Product Type: Stickers

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HOBBY
COLLECTOR TIN

HOBBY
COLLECTOR PREMIUM TIN ODDS
BASE PARALLELS borders: Black Pepper [HC]
— 1:2 (actually 1:1), Saucy Red [75 per subject, HC] — 1:30, Fool’s
Gold [35 per subject] — 1:358 • PRINTING PLATE card 1:796 • SKETCH
cards: Shaped [Trash Can or Rotten Egg, HC] — 1:182, Triptych [HC] —
1:1,201 • ARTIST AUTOGRAPH card [35 per subject] — 1:40 • Wacky
Packages Patch card [199 per subject, HC] — 1:112 • GPK Wacky
Packages [HC] — 1:24 • Refrigerator Magnet card — 1:24 • WAX
Food Fight redemption card — 1:24

TIN
— PKG010181 — UPC 8-87521-09705-0 — NOTE: WACKY PACKAGES + MINI
MAGNETS
CASE — PKG010183 — FGC004092 — UPC 8-87521-09706-7
— 8 BOX / 24 PACK COUNT
FOIL PACK — PKG010179 — UPC 8-87521-09704-3
— ‘COLLECTOR
EDITION‘ & ‘H‘ ON WRAPPER
NOTE:
‘PACKS WITH A SPECIAL INSERT MAY CONTAIN ONLY 5 CARDS – EXCLUSIVE PREMIUM CONTENT’

BONUS PACK — PKG010195 — ‘COLLECTOR
EDITION‘,’H‘, + ‘2 BONUS MAGNETS INSIDE‘
ON WRAPPER

TOPPS SHOP
ONLINE INFORMATION:
No Collector Tin
Posted to the U.S. or UK Topps.com Websites

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RETAIL
PRODUCTION RUNS

FAT
PACK RETAIL ODDS
BASE PARALLELS
: Purple Jelly [Fat Pack] — 1:2 (actually 1:1), Fool’s Gold [35 per subject]
— 1:120 • PRINTING PLATE [4 per subject] — 1:4,399 • SKETCH
cards: Standard — 1:137 • ARTIST AUTHOGRAPH card [35 per subject] —
1:215 • Cereal Aisle Cards — 2:1 (Fat Pack exclusive) •
WAX Food Fight redemption
card — 1:4

VALUE
PACK — PKG010184 — UPC 8-87521-09707-4 — $4.99 SRP
NOTE: CEREAL
AISLE + JELLY PURPLE PARALLEL CARDS
CASE BOX — PKG010185 — FGC004094
— UPC 8-87521-09708-1 — 1/108 COUNT

FYE
Product Details: 2021 Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 base stickers, 2 Booger Green
parallels, 1 Exclusive Purple Base card, and 2 inserts per pack on average.

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VALUE
BOX RETAIL ODDS
BASE PARALLELS : Green Booger — 1:2 (actually
1:1), Yellow Mustard — 1:10, and Fool’s Gold [35 per subject] — 1:358
• PRINTING PLATE [4 per subject] — 1:13,196 • SKETCH cards: Standard
— 1:410, Panoramic — 1:9,897, Loaded — 1: Not listed • ARTIST
AUTHOGRAPH card [35 per subject] — 1:646 • Celebrity Chefs card —
3:1 (Value Box exclusive) • WAX Food Fight redemption card — 1:10

BLASTER
VALUE TIN — PKG010266
— UPC 8-87521-09710-4 — ’10 PACK’; $19.99 SRP;
TARGET
NOTE: THREE CELEBRITY CHEFS CARD STICKERS
NOTE: TARGET
WITH WHITE SQUARE SECURITY STICKER AND WAL*MART WITH A WHITE RECTANGLE STRIP

STICKER: “LOOK FOR EXCLUSIVE LOADED PUZZLE SKETCH CARDS! … 83 STICKER CARDS
PER BOX”
CASE — PKG010189 — FGC004095 — UPC 8-87521-09711-1
— 40/5+1 COUNT;
FOIL PACK — PKG010186 — UPC 8-87521-09709-8

TIN
— PKG010267 — UPC 8-87521-87521-09712-8 — ’10 PACK’; $19.99 SRP;
WAL*MART, ONLINE
NOTE:
THREE CELEBRITY CHEFS CARD STICKERS
NOTE:
TARGET WITH WHITE SQUARE SECURITY STICKER AND WAL*MART WITH A WHITE RECTANGLE
STRIP
STICKER: “LOOK FOR EXCLUSIVE LOADED PUZZLE SKETCH CARDS!
… 83 STICKER CARDS PER BOX”
CASE — PKG010189 — FGC004096
— UPC 8-87521-09713-5 — 40/5+1 COUNT
FOIL PACK — PKG010186
— UPC 8-87521-09709-8

WAL*MART.COM
ONLINE:
No Value Box posted to Wal*Mart.com during release week
Online
noted: $19.98 — This item is only sold at a Walmart store
During the second
week, a $24.97 posting stated Exclusive mustard yellow base parallel.
Styles
May Vary. Tin comes in multiple colors. Purchase of multiple units does not guarantee
all or different colors. Assembled Product Dimensions (L x W x H) 2.82 x 3.75
x 5.12 Inches

TOPPS SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION:

2021 Topps® Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 – Value Box
$20 2021 GPK Value Box
Tin SE — NOTE: Sold out in under 60 minutes.
Description:
The gross, moldy fun is back with 2021 Garbage Pail Kids: Food Fight! Funny to
the rotten apple core, this year’s release features all-new art, card backs,
packaging, and more! You will receive 1 random collectible box! Order 2+ and you
will receive 2 different colors! Specs, More Information: Ships in 3-5 Business
Days, SKU: FGC004096, Type: Value Box, Property: Garbage Pail Kids, Year: 2021
2021
Topps Garbage Pail Kids Series 1 Food Fight Value Box set of all 4 tins
Product
Information: Each Value Box Refrigerator Tin contains ten (10) 2021 Garbage Pail
Kids Series 1 packs + three (3) Exclusive Celebrity Chefs stickers in a bonus
pack. Each pack contains seven (7) base cards + one (1) Booger Green parallel.

GARBAGE PAIL KIDS —
FOOD FIGHT!
FEB 24, 2021 : RETAIL
PHYSICAL / DIGITAL —
FEB 25-28, 2021 : DIGITAL

Per
Topps announcement and Topps Digicast Host, Marc Seal, stated “On Feb. 24,
2021, Topps is releasing physical packs in Walmart and Target. On Feb 25, 2021,
the digital version will be released on the Wax blockchain; there are 11 original
pieces and a number of exclusive digital variants. Physical card collectors may
also receive an exclusive redemption code card in the physical packs that will
award exclusive digital collectibles on the Wax blockchain. Further Digital packs
for the exclusive ‘b’ character names can be purchased directly on Wax
during Topps Digital’s Wintercon 2021 beginning on February 25.” GPK
fans can check out the cards and redeem at https://on.wax.io/gpk-topps-food-fight.

~STANDARD PACK ($0) AVAILABLE : RETAIL REDEMPTION CARDS LOCATION : ONE PER RETAIL BOX SET ARTWORK — NIK CASTANEDA SERIES: FOOD FIGHT! SELLER : gpk.topps MINTED DATE: FEB 24, 2021 PRINT RUN: 10,000 PACKS CONTAINS: 3 DIGITAL CARDS (NO GUM) • “A-Name” Base Cards — 59.83% • “A-Name” Prism— 26.58% • “A-Name” Sketch — 11.67% • “A-Name” Artist Signature — 1.83% • “A-Name” Golden Card — 0.08% NOTE: B-NAME CARDS RELEASED AT WINTERCON EVENT. NOTE: NOT ALL BOXES HAVE CONTAINED A REDEMPTION CARD

COMING
TO WALMART & TARGET: WAX DIGITAL TRADING CARDS FROM TOPPS!
Garbage
Pail Kids Food Fight hits Target & Walmart shelves February 24th. Each box
set includes a redemption code card to unlock exclusive WAX GPK Blockchain collectibles!
Bringing Together the World of Digital and Physical Collectibles! Topps digital
continues to revolutionize the collector experience with every release they do
on the WAX Blockchain. In the 2021 Garbage Pail Kids: Food Fight series edition
packs, Topps has included code cards that can be redeemed for exclusive GPK WAX
Blockchain collectibles. Enjoy both physical and digital versions of your favorite
characters!

~DAY 1, 2, 3, 4 PACKS ($9.99) AVAILABLE : WINTER CON 2021 SET ARTWORK — NIK CASTANEDA SERIES: FOOD FIGHT! SELLER : gpk.topps MINTED DATE: FEB 25-28, 2021 PRINT RUN: 10,000 PACKS CONTAINS: 3 DIGITAL CARDS (NO GUM) • “B-Name” Base Cards — 59.83% • “B-Name” Prism— 26.58% • “B-Name” Sketch — 11.67% • “B-Name” Artist Signature — 1.83% • “B-Name” Golden Card — 0.08% NOTE: A-NAME CARDS RELEASED WITH RETAIL NOTE: 2,450 PACKS SOLD EACH DAY & 50 PACK GIVEAWAYS

Per
Topps Digital on social media: “Want in on Garbage Pail Kids Food Fight?
You’re in luck as we’ll be launching a 4-day limited release event on
WAX starting tomorrow! During our #WinterCon21 event, we’ll announce how
you can collect the 11 ‘B-name’ characters and their variants!” Additional
WAX digital releases can be found within the “GPK Licenses” pages.

EXTREMELY
RARE EVENT: VERSION 1.4.156 — FEB 24, 2021

Are
you hungry for more Garbage? Of course you are! And what could be more fitting
than to join the GPK Food Fight!!! In celebration of the release of the Food Fight
series of GPK cards at retail, we’re adding two Food Fight characters to the Garbage
Pail Kids Game: Butchered Butch and Lemon Nadine! That’s not all, because we’re
also adding a brand-new, intoxicating twist of a character: Pink Lemon Nadine!
Ideal for connoisseurs of artificial colors and flavors.

There’s even a brand new
character type: Hungry! Who’s the genius that thought that one up? All three
new characters are Hungry, plus Junkfood John, Ritchie Retch, and Large Marge.
So get ready to bring your hungriest team to our very first month-long event,
the GPK Buffet! — Oh, and if you’re extra impatient to get lined up for the
smashing buffet, Events now unlock at level 18. — See app store version history
for more details.

GPK
CANDY BARS — JULY 2021

The
Topps and FYE companies continued collaboration was first announced on April 30th,
within the Topps May 2021 GPK newsletter, simply stating: ‘GPK
CANDY BARS‘, ‘ALL NEW FLAVORS!‘, and ‘COMING
SOON‘. The image showcased two characters from the 2021S1 Food Fight! release,
‘DRIPPY SKIPPY BAR‘, milke choclate with peanut butter filling,
and ‘COTTON KANDY BAR‘, cotton candy flavored white confection.
Artwork by artist JOE Simko for both characters.

The
Topps company took to social media on June 21, 2021 to accounce the GPK candy
bars stating: “Get your tastebuds ready… a new line of GPK candy bars are
coming to FYE stores in July! Which one are you tasting first – Cotton Kandy or
Drippy Skippy? ” The characters are taken from Food Fight! cards 23a Drippy
SKIPPY (and 23b Ridiculous REESE) and 45a Cotton KANDY (and 45b Sugar SHEENA).