def’n:
VACATION — North America. To take an
extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home
[staycation] or in traveling. def’n: HOLIDAY —
British. To spend a time away from home in a specified place.
def’n:
GO — To move from one place to another; to travel.
To leave; depart. def’n: GO ON — to leave
for.

In general, due to sticker/card-stock shortage (which
mainly affected later online releases) and shipping issues during the Covid pandemic,
retail sets were pushed back, having had no releases since Febuary 2021. Considering
Topps was under a contractual agreement with Wal*Mart to include their exclusive
‘Mega Box’ within the Book Worms release by the shipping-date timeline, Topps
was forced to skip (or push back) the previously announced “GPK Goes/Go On
Vacation” and “Original Series 4 Chrome” retail/hobby sets. Product
hit Walmart and Target store shelves early the week of the release and the online
Topps Shop posted the hobby box on February 22, 2023, to both the U.S. and UK
websites, and posted the retail tin to the U.S. shop and the Collector’s tin to
the UK shop. The Topps online sales tend to have limited stock in order not to
compete with retailers, but considering the recent sorry state of printing, numbers
appear to be higher and did not sell out quite as fast, only the U.S. hobby box
posting sold out in less than an hour.

NOTE:
DISPLAY BOX MOCK-UP WRAPPER; NO CHARACTER

LAYOUT DESIGN : JESSICA KANZER
(ASSISTANT BRAND MANAGER) +
OLGA VEGA (PACKAGING MANAGER)
WRAPPER
ARTWORK : NO ONE —
MAIN + SIDES BOX ARTWORK : BRENT ENGSTROM + GROSS &
MCWILLIAMS
HOBBY TIN ARTWORK : JOE MCWILLIAMS
— RETAIL TIN ARTWORK : ENGSTROM, SIMKO, GROSS

The GPK series included all-new artwork and contributions by artists Brent
Engstrom, Joe Simko, David Gross, Smokin’ Joe McWilliams, Tom Bunk, 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 artists John Pound, James Warhola, Mae Jeon, and next-gen
artist Layron DeJarnette. This delayed released set would ‘bring back’ Jessica
Kanzer as art director whom left Topps in January 2021. The set would introduce
a circular ‘cookie’ tin for the Collector’s Edition hobby “box”, have
retail tins again, and continue reverse card backs with artwork, puzzles, Tom
Bunk’s giant puzzle, and checklists. For the first production, each pack contained
eight sticker cards, except “packs with a special insert may contain only
5 cards”, with a suggested retail price of $2.49, or $3.99 if collector edition
packs were sold seperately.

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

1,737 Total Items = 200 Base Card Stickers + 200 Green Booger Parallel (R+H
Display) + 200 Spit Blue Parallel (R+H Display) + 200 Route 66 Asphalt Grey Parallel
(R Value Pack) + 0 Purple Jelly Parallel (R Value Pack); NOT
PRODUCED + 200 Phlegm Yellow Parallel (R Value Box) + 200 Fools Gold Parallel
(R+H) + 200 Bruised Black Parallel (HC) + 200 Red Blood Parallel (HC) + 20 Don’t
Make Me Pull This Car Over (R+H) + 10 Famous Landmarks (R+H Display) + 0 Bumper
Stickers (R Vaue Box); CHANGED TO TRAVEL STICKERS
+ 10 Travel Poster Stickers (R Value Box); ADDED
+ 9 Short Print Cards (R+H) + 1 Cookie Tin (HC Box) + 4 Luggage/Suitcase Tins
(R) + 50 State Quarter Relic Cards (HC) + 10 Wacky Packages Pack Your Bags (HC)
+ 12 Luggage Tags (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 Vehicle Sketch (HC) + 1 four-regular Loaded Puzzle
Sketch (R Value Box) + 4 Artist Autographs (4 dif’t artists / 100 cards ea.) +
1 Printing Plate

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PRODUCT
RELEASE SHEETS
e-SHEETS
+ PROMOTIONAL PICS : HOBBY PAGES 1-4 + 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 (not listed; Retail + Hobby Display exclusive),
Spit Blue [#’d to 99; Hobby Display exclusive] — 1:15, Route 66 Asphalt
Grey [#’d to 66] — 1:72, and Fool’s Gold [#’d to 50] — 1:95 • SKETCH
cards: regular Standard — 1:441 • PRINTING PLATE card [4 per subject;
#’d 1-of-1] — 1:5,326 • ARTIST AUTOGRAPH card [75 per subject] —
1:279 • AUTOGRAPH card [?] — 1:1,179 • Don’t Make Me Pull This
Car Over — 1:3 • Famous Landmarks — 1:3 (not listed; Display exclusive)
• Base Card Short Print — 1:1,056

BOX
— PKG010969 — UPC 8-87521-10350-8 — $49.99 SRP
NOTE: FAMOUS
LANDMARKS SUBSET CARDS
CASE — PKG010970 — FGC004487 H/4489 R —
UPC 8-87521-10351-5 — 8 BOX / 24 PACK COUNT
PACK — PKG010968 —
UPC 8-87521-10349-2 — REGULAR
WRAPPER

PREVIEWS
DESCRIPTION – 02/01/2023

TOPPS 2021 GARBAGE PAIL KIDS SERIES 2 T/C BOX –
APR218149
Stink
up your GPK collection with 2021 Garbage Pail Kids: GPK Goes on Vacation, featuring
some of the grossest, snottiest, crazy gags from around the globe! Featuring 200
All-new Travel-Themed Base Sticker Cards including 100a & 100b name characters.
Look for: All-New Artwork & Gags, Sketch Cards, GPK Luggage Tags, State Quarter
Relic Cards, Artist Autographs, and of course the Collectible Hobby Tin! 7 cards
per regular pack, 24 packs per box. 9 cards per collectible pack, 24 packs per
box. In Shops: Feb 22, 2023. SRP: $2.49

TOPPS U.S. SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION:
Topps
blast email sent on 02/22/2023 [approx 2pm ET]: New! GPK: Kids Go on Vacation
SOLD
OUT <1HR AFTER EMAIL SENT
2023 Garbage Pail Kids: Kids Go on Vacation –
Hobby Box – $50.00
*Required to be logged into your account to purchase
Ships
in 5-10 business days – Customer/household limit: 8
Description: Stink
up your GPK collection with 2023 Garbage Pail Kids: Kids Go on Vacation, featuring
some of the grossest, snottiest, crazy gags from around the globe! Look for all-new
artwork & gags, sketch cards, and artist autographs! 24 packs/8 stickers per
pack.
Specs/More Information: SKU FGC004487,
Property Garbage Pail Kids, Year 2023.

TOPPS
UK SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION:
Topps
blast email sent on 02/22/2023 [approx 2pm ET]: New! GPK: Kids Go on Vacation
SOLD
OUT <30HRS AFTER EMAIL SENT
Topps UK – 2023 Garbage Pail Kids: Kids Go on
Vacation – Hobby Box – £60.00
Description: Stink up your GPK
collection with 2023 Garbage Pail Kids: Kids Go on Vacation, featuring some of
the grossest, snottiest, crazy gags from around the globe! Look for all-new artwork
& gags, sketch cards, and artist autographs! 24 packs/8 stickers per pack.
All sales are final. Art subject to change. Not responsible for typographical/printer
errors. Please allow 3-5 business days for UK delivery (+14 for international
orders, order from outside the UK may be subject to import tax).
More Information:
SKU FGC004487-UK-DB, Year 2023, Property Garbage
Pail Kids, Product Type Hobby Box.

*

HOBBY
COLLECTOR PREMIUM CONTENT ODDS
BASE PARALLELS borders: Blood Red [HC
exclusive; #’d to 75] — 1:12, Route 66 Asphalt Grey [#’d to 66] —
1:45, Fool’s Gold [#’d to 50] — 1:57, Bruised Black [HC exclusive]
— 1:24 • PRINTING PLATE card [#’d 1-of-1] — 1:1,697 • SKETCH
cards: Shaped [HC exclusive; 2 versions] — 1:196, Triptych [HC exclusive]
— 1:1,159 • ARTIST AUTOGRAPH card [75 per subject] — 1:90 •
Wacky Packages Pack Your Bags card [HC exclusive] — 1:24 •
State Quarter Relic Card [HC exclusive; #’d to 99] — 1:36 • Luggage
Tag [HC exclusive] — 1:24 •
Base Card Short Print — 1:652

TIN
— PKG010973 — UPC 8-87521-10353-9 — $? SRP
NOTE: WACKY PACKAGES
PACK YOUR BAGS SUBSET CARDS
CASE — PKG010977 — FGC004488 —
UPC 8-87521-10354-6 — 8 BOX / 24 PACK COUNT
PACK — PKG010971 —
UPC 8-87521-10358-4 —
‘COLLECTOR EDITION‘ & ‘H‘ ON PACKAGING
NOTE:
‘PACKS WITH A SPECIAL INSERT MAY CONTAIN ONLY 5 CARDS – EXCLUSIVE PREMIUM CONTENT’

PREVIEWS
DESCRIPTION – 02/01/2023
TOPPS
2021 GARBAGE PAIL KIDS SER 2 COLL T/C BOX – APR218148
Stink up your GPK
collection with 2021 Garbage Pail Kids: GPK Goes on Vacation, featuring some of
the grossest, snottiest, crazy gags from around the globe! Featuring 200 All-new
Travel-Themed Base Sticker Cards including 100a & 100b name characters. Look
for: All-New Artwork & Gags, Sketch Cards, GPK Luggage Tags, State Quarter
Relic Cards, Artist Autographs, and of course the Collectible Hobby Tin! In Shops:
Feb 22, 2023. SRP: $3.99

TOPPS
UK SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION:
Topps
blast email sent on 02/22/2023 [approx 2pm ET]: New! GPK: Kids Go on Vacation
SOLD
OUT <12HRS AFTER EMAIL SENT
Topps UK – 2023 Garbage Pail Kids: Kids Go on
Vacation – Collector’s Edition – £94.99
Description: Stink
up your GPK collection with 2023 Garbage Pail Kids: Kids Go on Vacation, featuring
some of the grossest, snottiest, crazy gags from around the globe! Look for all-new
artwork & gags, sketch cards, and artist autographs! Exclusive Luggage Tag
Inside! 24 packs/8 stickers per pack. All sales are final. Art subject to change.
Not responsible for typographical/printer errors. Please allow 3-5 business days
for UK delivery (+14 for international orders, order from outside the UK may be
subject to import tax).
More Information:
SKU FGC004488-UK-DB, Year 2023, Property Garbage Pail Kids, Product Type Hobby
Box.

*

RETAIL
VALUE FAT PACK
NOT
PRODUCED / NOT LISTED ON E-SHEETS

*

BLASTER
TIN ODDS
BASE
PARALLELS borders: Phlegm Yellow (Value Box exclusive) — 1:5, Route
66 Asphalt Grey [#’d to 66] — 1:250, Fool’s Gold [#’d to 50] — 1:336
• PRINTING PLATE card 1:5,502 • SKETCH cards: regular Standard —
1:508, Panoramic [Value Box exclusive] — 1:20,036, Loaded [Value Box
exclusive; 4-piece Standard puzzle; listed on tin] — 1:4,404 •
ARTIST AUTOGRAPH card [75 per subject] — 1:292 • Travel Poster Stickers
— 1:4; 3 per box • Don’t Make Me Pull This Car Over — 1:3 •
Base Card Short Print — 1:3,670

TINS
— PKG010982— UPC 8-87521-10358-4 — TARGET / $19.99
TINS —
PKG010988 — UPC 8-87521-10360-7 — WAL*MART / $19.98
NOTE: TRAVEL
POSTER STICKER CARDS
CASE — PKG010986 — FGC004491 T /4492 W —
UPC 8-87521-10359-1/10361-4 — ? BOX / ? PACK COUNT
PACK — PKG010980
— UPC 8-87521-10357-7 — REGULAR WRAPPER

TOPPS
U.S. SHOP ONLINE INFORMATION:
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2023
Garbage Pail Kids: Kids Go on Vacation – Tin SE – $20.00
*Required
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Ships in 5-10 business days –
Customer/household limit: 10
Description: Stink up your GPK collection with
2023 Garbage Pail Kids: Kids Go on Vacation, featuring some of the grossest, snottiest,
crazy gags from around the globe! Look for all-new artwork & gags, sketch
cards, and artist autographs! 80 sticker cards per box.
Specs/More Information:
SKU FGC004492, Property Garbage Pail Kids, Year 2023.

*

SECONDARY
MARKET PRODUCT
A NON-TOPPS
RELEASE

BLISTER
PACK : UPC 7-28192-54583-2 — $2.99 SRP; TWO PACK; BIG LOTS, ETC.
NOTE:
CONTAINS 1 ‘VACATION’ PACK + 1 ‘CHROME 4’ PACK.
“The
collectible products in this package have been purchased directly from the manufacturer
or purchased from the secondary market and repackaged for retail sales by MJ Holding
Company , LLC. MJ Holding Company, LLC is not affiliated with the individual manufacturers
or trading card companies contained within this product. All related trademarks
and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. © 2023 MJ Holding Company,
LLC, Bridgeview, IL”
NOTE: The Fairfiled Company, out of Des Moines, IA
previously purchased & repackaged Topps product.

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At some point during production, the Set Name ‘(GPK)
Goes on Vacation’ was changed to ‘(GPK) Go on Vacation’, where ‘Goes’ is the third-person
present of the word ‘Go’. Although not cost effective, it would have been great
to see the limited boxes sold on the Topps UK online store re-titled as ‘Go on
Holiday’, the British term for ‘Vacation’.

—
The Checklist backs are all dated 2021, the year
it was printed, but the set was not released until 2023. The
regular Trademark Line ‘® &
© 2021 THE TOPPS COMPANY, INC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED‘
can also be located on 13(x2) twin cards placed between the nameplate and the
border of the card within the release, that also contains the base card identifyer
number ‘WWW.TOPPS.COM CODE# CMP048538‘, for cards 29, 30,
38, 39, 42, 55, 56, 65, 68, 69, 76, 78, and 91.

—
Although the Short Prints subset cards are numbered
SP-1 through SP-9 on card, the white blank backs are labeled as ‘BASE
STICKERS SHORT PRINTS PUZZLE A‘ through ‘PUZZLE I‘,
using the alphabet; was there supposed to be a 9-card puzzle on the backside,
perhaps?

—
Much like the set
as a whole, each of the four main artist contributors, Simko, Engstrom, Gross
& McWilliams, all roughly complete 25% of the finished artwork each, this
includes the four Collector Tins.
The three retail ‘suitcase’ or luggage tins & characters were completed by
Simko (the ‘green’ Messy TESSIE tin), Engstrom (the ‘purple’ JAY Decay tin), and
Gross (the ‘yellow’/gold JOE Blow tin), which collectively gives off a nice Mardi
Gras colour scheme. The ‘Go on Vacation’ logo was added to the mock-up artwork
at a later stage and the state & country stickers were slightly rearranged.
The circular, hobby cookie-esque tin was completed by artist McWilliams.

—
The set contains All-New Artwork by GPK artists Brent
Engstrom, Joe Simko, David Gross, Smokin’ Joe McWilliams, and the infamous Tom
Bunk; but the set also contains historical artwork by artists John Pound, James
Warhola, Mae Jeon, and next-gen artist Layron DeJarnette, used for the sketch
cards & various chase material.

Per
the Topps checklist, fifty-eight artists contributed to the Sketch cards for the
2023S1 release — listed alphabetically by surname (and/or w/ ‘handle’): David
Acevedo, Simone Arena, Andrew Artz, Robert Ball, Bobby Blakey, John Brewer, Emily
(Emma) Burges, Neil Camera, Nik ‘GPKNik!!’ Castaneda, Pat.rick (Anutpong) Chaimuang,
Slippa Chervascus, Daniel Contois, Jasmine Contois, Sebastian ‘Sobot’ Cortez,
Jeffrey Cox, Jason Crosby, David Dabila, Vincent ‘Chenduz’ D’Ippolito, Adam Dobrzeniecki,
Gregory ‘Greg13’ Fages, Joey ‘Yoga Demon’ Fitchett, Robert ‘el smetcho’ Garcia,
Patrick Giles, Kelly Greider, K. GRiMM, Joe Grotesque, Jason Heil, Lowell Isaac
Hildebrandt, Robert Jimenez, David ‘Gacey’ Jones, Karl Jones, Rickey Kipfer, Mike
McHugh, Rory McQueen, Chris Meeks, Lily Mercado, Rich Molinelli, Victor Moreno,
Nik Muggli, Erik Muller, B.arry Nygma, Jay ‘Toofless’ O’Leary, Justin ‘JBoom/Justino’
Olson, Mark Parisi, Darrin Pepe, Todd Rayner, Cathy Razim, Chad Scheres, B.rent
Scotchmer , Bekki Jane Sharp, Brandhen Snyder, Mike Stephens, Floydman Sumner,
Greg’ory Tilson, RJ Tomascik, Ryan ‘Magnus
Von Robotsson‘ Morrison,
Gavin Williams, and Clinton ‘C-DUB’ Yeager.

stimukill_designs
(Jeff Cox) [Feb 24, 2023] — I guess if everyone else is sharing theirs, I’ll
share mine, too… A few days ago, Topps
finally released Garbage Pail Kids Vacations which had been on hold for a year
and a half. At the time, I followed suit of a friend and mentor, Barry Nygma,
and drew series 4 characters to coincide with the release of Chrome 4. That obviously
didn’t happen, but regardless I hope you enjoy what I created, because I
sure did have a blast making them all. The trash cans are gold leafed and marbled
with—what I believe to be—the three most popular/favorite GPK characters
and three worst/least favorite. Good luck and go find them all.

—
Artist Brent Engstrom added the sunburn effects to cards 92a Sun BERNIE and 92b
TANNER Lines, where the character is also pictured as the main artwork for the
display box, after a perfect CPK-like kid was painted. The concept artwork description
stated, “Sunburned kid with sunglasses and snot tan lines”. Pictured
below is the submitted B&W conceptual art and a final artwork stage during
production prior to the sunburn effects were administered to the painting.

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The other Topps Employee short prints subset freelance
artist is Tom Bunk, for the SP-8 TOM Junk card, which
contains a plethora of wacky bits and bobs that Tom tends to work into his artwork
pieces, especially is MAD work, painted by artist Brent Engstrom. Although not
initially seen within the original concept piece, Brent worked in the name ‘TOM’
on the airship with the same ‘MAD’ magazine font and color.

PER
SOCIAL MEDIA:
Em Kless on May 20, 2021:
“Today is my birthday, so there’s no beter day to share that they’re turning
me into a Garbage Pail Kid! In GPK Series 2, collectors can look for Topps employee
short prints. (Did the artists nail it or what?) Can’t wait for teh product drop
later this year!” and May 29, 2021: “Ladies and gentlemen, introducing
EMCEE EM, the newest Garbage Pail Kid! Collectors can look for Topps employee
shortprints in our GPK Series 2 set dropping later this year. (A
huge thanks to legendary GPK artist Joe Simko for sending the original artwork!)“
Ryan
Lee on May 29, 2021: “Exciting times, been the AD for Garbage Pail
Kids for the past few years and will be immortalized on a GPK card for the next
release. The masterful Joe Simko included everything in my character; got Mars
Attacks flying saucers, the Bavaria, and snuck our Ultimate Klasse hoody in there.
Super grateful for the pencil sketch, original painting and certificate of authenticity.”
Jeremy
Fullerton on July 16, 2021: “Look how excited I am to be in the new
GPK set. I was always bummed as a kid at the lack of “Jeremy”s
in prior Garbage Pail Kids sets. Thankfully all that will change very soon. Thanks
to Topps, Scrawny Ronny, and especially David Gross for making this happen.“