*

I don’t recall
the exact measure in feet the shelving unit was at Toys ‘R ‘Us, or maybe it appeared
larger through my wonderlust eyes as a kid, but the store had you snake your way
through the novelty items before getting to the main toy aisles. Within this plethora
of party-favor and back-to-school items sat the impressive section of Imperial
products for the Garbage Pail Kids licensed brand; one whole section washed in
the royal blue of the Imperial packaging. It was epic. And, although I’d like
to believe the packaging color was based off of the OS2 popularity, the Imperial
‘royal’ blue color was evident in a lot of their 80’s packaging and product.

“The
GPK section at Toys ‘R’ Us was like an ocean of 2nd Series royal blue.“
—GPKWorld

**

1986
RETAILER SELL SHEET CATALOG : FRONT COVER

“23
BIG, BIG DOLLAR – PRODUCING ITEMS” —Imperial Toy Corporation.

They were right, they reigned over the last half of 1986. All items MADE in TAIWAN.

On
May 12th, 1986 the Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. and the Imperial Toy Corporation entered
into a license agreement contract, that would expire on December 31st, 1987, which
granted the Imperial company exclusive rights to manufacture, sell and/or distribute
in the U.S. and Canada any goods bearing the Topps’ trademark “Garbage Pail
Kids”; Topps had the right to grant license rights for use in any territories.
Per license, Imperial agreed to a nonrefundable annual advance payment of $25,000
and a 10% royalty payment based off of gross wholesale sales, with a minimum annual
royalty payment guarantee set at $75,000. This agreement was going-down at precisely
the same time that the OS4 GPK cards were being released in May and while the
infringment suit brought by Original Appalachian Artworks (OAA), on March 5th,
1986, against the Topps Chewing Gum company was still pending in the U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Due to the pending litigation, Topps
added a clause to the license agreement that if OAA should prevail the prepaid
royalties shall be refunded and the license shall cease.

1986
RETAILER SELL SHEET CATALOG : INSIDE COVER #1

On
August 29th, 1986 Topps was found to be intentionally violating OAA’s rights,
but the required bond was not posted straight away. Topps eventually settled the
case out of court on February 2nd, 1987 by entering a stipulation that granted
Topps unqualified use of the ‘Garbage Pail Kids’ name through September 1st, 1987
in the U.S. This is the reason the OS10 GPK cards released in September of that
same year had a new banner logo and a new character model; the OS8 and OS9 sets
were already ready for production or near completion after the case was settled
during the OS7 release in February of 1987. Topps could also use the ‘Garbage
Pail Kids’ name through February 1988 abroud; all international GPK releases going
forward were to be titled with the ‘The Garbage Gang’ word mark (caveat, within
the statute of limitations of the settlement); the trademark was filed on April
10, 1987, registration #1468265, and the registration date occurred on December
8, 1987. However, since the bond was never posted and Imperial’s product was made
overseas, the U.S. Customs Service began to deny entry of Imperial’s GPK goods
into the U.S. beginning September of 1986, only four to five months into the contract.
Not only was Imperial robbed of enjoying the total benefits of the licensing agreement
with Topps, several of its customers that were concerned with the court case and
customs seizures cancelled their orders and as a result, Imperial was forced to
sell GPK product it had already imported at ‘clearance’ prices.

1986
RETAILER SELL SHEET CATALOG : INSIDE COVER #2

Without
Topps’ cooperation, Imperial allegedly spent upwards of $3,500 on attorneys fees
fighting the Customs Service to free the seized goods regardless of their rights
of the use of Topps’ registered trademark. Due to these seizures in October of
1986 no royalty payment was paid to Topps by Imperial; the unpaid royalty check
total as of November 1986 was around $270 thousand; Topps did receive their $25,000
annual royalty advance payment. Depending on how fast product was placed on the
shelves by Imperial after the May 1986 contract and the October customs seizures,
Imperial had made upwards of $2.5 million dollars off of GPK-related merchandise
in a four to five month period during the heyday of Garbage Pail Kids. Topps terminated
the contract with Imperial as of November 18th, 1986, a whole year shy of the
contract expiration. As of September 1986, it is recorded that Imperial sold $2.9
million dollars worth of GPK licensed product and another $310 thousand the following
three months through December 1986. It is a question as to whether Topps misrepresented
its ownership of the GPK trademark and copyright. OAA and Topps were not the only
two companies to go go court.

1986
RETAILER SELL SHEET CATALOG : BACK COVER



On May 19th, 1988, Topps filed a suit against Imperial for the alleged breach
of a license and trademark agreement; the OS13 GPK set would be released in June
of that same year. Judgment was granted in favor of Topps with all counterclaims
denied and dismissed. Had no complications arisen due to the case with OAA, collecters
may have seen ‘oceans of OS2 royal blue’ through December of 1987, the same time
the OS11 GPK set would have been released and possibly OS3 and OS4 GPK characters,
instead of just OS1 and OS2 characters that were released … or even for a longer
period of time, had ties remained civil and the license agreement between Topps
and Imperial been renewed. However, collectors were robbed and only saw Imperial
items through the OS6 GPK release and any remaining Imperial GPK product that
sold in stores until it disappeared. However, when all was said and done, those
months that Imperial sold GPK product in stores had a very impacting and lasting
impression on collectors. Information obtained through the Leagle.com website.

CATALOG IMAGES GRATEFULLY PROVIDED BY TRAVELLIN’
TRAVIS TIERNO
THIS PAGE IS DEDICATED TO THE RETIRED GARBAGE
PAIL KIDS ARCHIVE WEBSITE, WHOM PLANTED THE ONLINE SEED

—
This color scheme may have been presented to Imperial
by the Topps company who used the same layout for their previously released OS2
wrapper in 1985 that also changed ADAM Bomb’s blue suit to a red one; rendered
artwork by Tom Bunk. The red suit remains for the OS3 through OS5 wrapper releases
by the Topps company. The Imperial packaging also uses the yellow ‘star explosion’
found on the Topps wrapper, but with far less ‘head splatter’, and the red ‘registered
trademark’ symbol ® found on the OS3 GPK card header
and OS2 wrapper.

POP-UP
: PEG HOOK BACK — 12 CHARACTERS X2

The
Imperial ‘Pop-Up’ toys, besides Topps’ ‘Cheap Toys’ at the time, were really the
only collectable toy characters for the Garbage Pail Kids line. There were rumors
back in the day that Topps was going to make GPK dolls, cloth-like, muchlike CPK,
but, there was also a local rumor that there was a OS2 Soft Boiled SAM puzzle.
Imperial placed these sculptured and molded characters into garbage pails and
the character would pop-up once the button was pushed, raising the lid and toy.
Just like their card counterparts, Imperial smartly stuck an ‘a’ and ‘b’ name
onto each character to double the characters and collectability possibilities;
twelve OS1 GPK characters and twelve OS2 GPK characters. This shouldn’t be confused
with the ‘Assortment A and B’ as far as packaging goes; twelve molds were created
for each ‘assortment’ which was doubled once the twin name was applied; the retailer
had two different assortment of characters to choose from to order to possibly
double sales, which equaled 48 characters in total (24 molds). Only the ‘b’-names
were pictured on the backside of the peg hook packaging (No. 7263 and No. 7264)
which contained images for all 24 models and both assortment of characters. The
counter display box packaging (No. 7278 and No.7279) appears to be extremely difficult
or nearly impossible to track down; the display box states ‘Pop-Ups’ rather than
the singular ‘Pop-Up’.

FRENCH-CANADIAN SINGLE
POP-UP SAMPLES : FRONT, BACK, SIDE, TOP AND BOTTOM:


‘SAUTEUR’
DIRECT TRANSLATION; ADJ. TO JUMP OR HOP … BASICALLY TO ‘POP UP’.



PICTURES PROVIDED BY AND COURTESY OF BEN HARTER

—
The Retailer Catalog and the back of the ‘peg hook’ packaging shows the Pop-Up
character baseplate as being white with no sticker nameplate but the actual product
baseplate is red with a yellow nameplate.

All
Imperial products were released mid-year in 1986 following the agreement license
contract between the Topps Chewing Gum Co. and the Imperial Toy Corporation and
manufactured in Taiwan. The complete album package contained the ‘Sticker Album’
and the UPC product sleeve that both slid into a resealable cellophane bag. The
album measures roughly 9×10 inches and the product sleeve roughly 5×6 inches.

As
with most sticker albums released in the 1980’s, the slick glossy pages were intended
for the application and re-application of sticker adhesives placed in the album
for collecting. The inside cover of the ‘Sticker Album’ had a place to record
whose property the album belonged to and a brief synopsis of the individual collector.
The inside cover is a matte finish intended for writing purposes only and there
is a warning not to apply any stickers to that page; the remaining pages are high-gloss.
The inside cover contains five OS1 characters not found on the back cover, except
for ADAM Bomb. The album also contains a 6-pocket plastic sheet that could hold
the collector’s duplicate cards for trading purposes. The first glossy page contains
the OS1 character ADAM Bomb, naturally. The pages measure roughly 8.5 inches.

The
second and third glossy pages contain the OS1 characters RAY Decay and JENNY Genius—with
‘E = mc squared’ written on the page, respectively. The fourth and fifth pages
contain the OS1 character JASON Basin and the OS2 character MARTY Mouthful, respectively.

The sixth and seventh glossy pages contain the OS1
character Nasty NICK—with stars on the page, and the OS2 character Muggin’
MEGAN, respectively. The eight through twelfth pages contain the OS2 character
JANET Planet, the OS1 character Haggy MAGGIE, the OS2 character Pourin’ LAUREN—with
sparkles on the page, the OS2 character Live MIKE and the OS1 character Bad BRAD—with
English and Math on the page, respectively.

The
inside back page and the back cover both contain a plethora of OS1 and OS2 characters;
the inside back page that pictures twenty different GPK images mainly contains
OS1 and OS2 characters not pictured on the backside or the front inside cover.
The back cover pictures seventy GPK images with three duplicate charecters —
without much planning; see the ‘Bits & BOBs’ section. The back cover measures
roughly 9×10 inches.

—
The bottom thirty-six GPK images of the OS2 characters pictured on the back cover
of the album is a snapshot of the OS2 uncut sheet; the section is outlined below
— B-name characters used for this example. These images were most likely
sent to the Imperial Toy Corporation by the Topps company to use as imagery for
the ‘Sticker Album’ release; these images are wrapped around many of their display
box releases. Only ‘stock photo’ images for the A-name cards are portrayed within
and on the album; and although it appears that both PATTY Putty and Leaky LINDSAY
were erroneously pictured twice, that is how the characters appear on the uncut
sheet and was the image sent by Topps.

—
As with most of the Imperial Garbage Pail Kids licensed
products, a Canadian ‘Sticker Album’ with French-Canadian writing was released
alongside its U.S. counterpart.

—
The album can take a punch, it’s nicely padded for its own protection.

SAMPLE
SHEETS : TWELVE CHARACTER-SHAPED PUFFY STICKERS PER SHEET

Imperial
released six different sticker sheets for the ‘Stick-On’ puffy stickers; three
sheets of thirty-six various OS1 characters and three sheets of thirty-six various
OS2 characters. It’s too bad all of the characters couldn’t have been represented
for this release somehow, even with a partial fourth sheet for each series set
and ‘GPK’ acronym stickers filling the remaining spots.

—
Although only the 49b FRAN FRAN character name for the OS2 is usually printed
after Topps was sent a cease and desist letter on the nomenclature, even amongst
some of the Imperial toy products, the 49b Schizo FRAN name gets a rare printing
on one of the OS2 sheets.

STICK-ON
NAME TAGS SAMPLE

Imperial released
four differnet sticker sheets for the ‘Stick-On Name Tags’ puffy stickers; four
sheets of 41 character names from the OS1 set with ‘a’ and ‘b’ names and 37 character
names from the OS2 set with ‘a’ and ‘b’ names, sequential for the most part. It’s
too bad all of the OS2 names couldn’t have been represented for this release.

SAMPLE
SHEETS : SQUARE PICTURE FRAME + STRAIGHT GPK LOGO PUFFY STICKERS

Imperial
released twelve differnet sticker sheets for the ‘Stick-On Pictures’ puffy stickers;
six sheets of 36 various OS1 characters, one sheet with one OS1 character and
five OS2 characters, and five sheets of 33 various OS3 characters. It’s too bad
all of the characters couldn’t have been represented for this release somehow.

BOP
BAG BOX FRONT (LEFT IMAGE) AND THE BOP BAG BOX BACK (RIGHT IMAGE)

The Imperial Toy company ‘hit’ it big with these
four foot inflatable ‘Bop Bag’ characters. Who didn’t like to smack around an
inflatable Weeble Wobbles-like punching bag back in the day? It’s great seeing
two GPK characters from either the OS1 or OS2 GPK sets on each of six different
bop bags, for a total of twelve characers. There’s a GPK character located on
top of the ‘Garbage Pail’ trash can and another character standing in front of
the trash bin. If the character wasn’t standing, but sitting, Imperial stuck a
trash can lid in there to prop them up a bit, like a GPK highchair.

—
Imperial Toy’s red-suited ADAM Bomb mascot is used for this particular release.

—
A red sticker dot—see picture above—was placed on the consumer box and
stuck under the ‘Bop Bag’ that indicated what characters the customer or collector
was purchasing; if ADAM Bomb and New Wave DAVE were enclosed, a red sticker was
placed next to the character on the front of the box. The red-dot has been found
with a thick white line around the outer edge and sometimes placed on the side
of the character unstead of underneath.

—
The ADAM Bomb Bob Bag can be found with a red bottom instead of blue; unknown
if red bottoms have been found for the other characters.

TACKY
SNAPPER EXAMPLE : RED SUIT ADAM BOMB

The
Tacky Snappers were always one of my favorites as a kid, well, any tacky-snapper
toy for that matter, that could be purchased from various vending machines. The
Imperial Tacky Snapper came in only six different characters, however, the tacky-snapper
itself can come in a variety of different colors. The set also comes with twelve
different ‘Tacky Targets’ used for target-practice by snapping and attaching with
the sticky snatcher. The tacky-snappers include a sickly sticky pile of vomit,
a sticky nuclear mushroom cloud, a sticky forked tongue, a sticky stretched eyeball,
a sticky pile of snot and a sticky knotted tongue.

The Tacky Snappers also were packages with Tacky
Targets for hours of fun. Eight characters from the OS1 set and four characters
from the OS2 set. The images are rough ‘die-cuts’ of the characters from their
stickers, but the nameplates have been covered over with a new black or white
nameplate and either white or black type, respectively. These are pretty great,
they remind me of those board game pieces you set up using little plastic stands.

—
Unlike most of Imperial’s generic backsides, the Tacky Snappers not only gets
a checklist of sorts with a nicely designed image portraying the tacky-snappers,
but also a tutorial on use. Bullet point #3 feels like a ‘stretch’, a what-else-can-you-do-with-these
addition.

—
The character images are rough ‘die-cuts’ from their original sticker source,
except MARTY Mouthful’s green background which has been changed to black and ADAM
Bomb’s blue background stems from the Imperial mascot image.

—
Not many ‘sideways’ characters on card get made into products like MARTY Mouthful.
Good for you MARTY McFly, now go tacky snap a housefly!

HI-BOUNCE
BALL CARD BACK EXAMPLE

The Imperial
company, as with the ‘Pop-Ups’, offered the ‘Hi-Bounce Balls’ in two different
assortments for retailers to purchase and double their sales with customers. A
large ball-size of 49mm was offered in 12 different styles with a double-sided
picture insert inside showcasing two different GPK characters, one on each side
of the ‘unbelievably bouncy’ ball. A small ball-size of 38mm was offered as well
with 24 additional GPK characters, 12 different styles from the large ball-size,
and is listed further below within the Imperial Toys checklist. The ‘Hi-Bounce
Ball’ packaging has the RUSSELL Muscle and Brainy JANIE characters showcased on
the card front.

—
A ‘Hi-Bounce Ball’ package from Canada is pictured below; the product written
in English and in French-Canadian.

—
Only the blue GPK logo header is used for this release.

—
Unlike the small ‘Hi-Bounce Balls’ packaging that has a blank back and the UPC
code on the card front, the large ‘Hi-Bounce Ball’ packaging has a complete colored
card back with an image of all of the GPK characters.

HI-BOUNCE
BALLS CARD FRONT EXAMPLE

The Imperial
company, as with the ‘Pop-Ups’ offered the ‘Hi-Bounce Balls’ in two different
assortments for retailers to purchase and double their sales with customers. A
small ball-size of 38mm was offered in 12 different styles with a double-sided
picture insert inside showcasing two different GPK characters, one on each side
of the ‘unbelievably bouncy’ ball. A large ball-size of 49mm was offered as well
with 24 additional GPK characters, 12 different styles from the small ball-size,
and is listed further below in the Imperial Toys checklist. The ‘Hi-Bounce Balls’
packaging has the Messy TESSIE and Potty SCOTTY characters showcased on the front
card. The product could be ordered by retailers to fit on peg hooks within the
aisle of the store or as a counter display container in front of the store.

—
The name for the OS1 character Wrinkly RANDY is erroneously labeled as ‘RANDY
Wrinkly’ on the picture card, pictured above.

—
The small ball-sizes have the character names on the picture card, whereas the
large ball-sizes do not.

—
Only the blue GPK logo header is used for this release.

PENCIL BILLBOARD CARD FRONT EXAMPLE + CANADIAN CARD FRONT;
IMAGE VIA LUIS THOMPSON

The Imperial
company offered retailers two ways to purchase the ‘Pencil Billboards’; either
in a bucket container, that looked like a see-through trash can for a counter
display, or as carded product used on aisle peg hooks. These glorified pencil
toppers looked very much like those character stamp pads that were so popular
in the 80’s. I’m pretty sure the character whipping around as a student took notes
did the trick of identifying them as being a bonified GPK collecter. Wave that
GPK geek flag, or billboard! There are 24 different GPK characters to collect;
because of repeat characters on card, a collector would most likely still have
to collect more than 8 ‘Pencil Billboards’ on card to complete an unopened set.
The French Canadian packaging contains the description ‘DECORATEUR
A CRAYONS‘, along with ‘PENCIL BILLBOARDS‘ whih misleadingly
translates to ‘pencil decorator’ and has nothing to do with crayons.

—
There two name errors within the ‘Pencil Billboard’ release; both OS1 characers
Cranky FRANKIE and Sicky VICKY are both labeled with the name ‘Cranky FRANKIE’,pictured.
The names for the OS1 characters RAY Decay and Heavin’ STEVEN are labeled incorrectly
and have their names swapped.

—
All nameplates for this release are white with blue type/text.

—
Only the red GPK logo header is used for this release.

—
The catalog only shows red mock-up billboards.

PENCIL CASE SAMPLE

Although
the ‘Pencil Case’ school supplies were sold separately by the Imperial Toy company,
they can also be located within the ‘School Set’ release as well with the exact
same characters. There are six different pencil cases that could be purchased
with four different GPK characters on each case with two found on the ‘front’
and two found on the ‘back’, with both sides having copyright information; no
real ‘front’.

—
The Imperial ADAM Bomb mascot in the red suit is used for this release and the
FRAN FRAN character name is used, although the Schizo FRAN nomenclature can surprisingly
be found on the ‘Stick On’ puffy stickers product.

—
The ‘Pencil Case’ can be found with either a silver OR white zipper; sometimes
the zipper can be located or installed in the reverse direction.

SUNGLASSES SAMPLE

There
are twelve distinct GPK character sunglasses that could be collected and fashionably
worn by budding collectors and fashionistas; however, they come in a variety of
attractive colors, three character-combo styles per color, including: yellow,
blue, green and orange. Each pair comes with two different GPK characters for
a total of 24 characters if all 12 sunglasses were purchased. Parents could let
out a sigh of relief since the sunglasses came ‘with saftey tested shatter
proof lenses‘, definitely parent-approved.

—
The nomenclature for the OS1 character Chilly MILLIE is misspelled incorrectly
as ‘Chilly MILLE’ on the ‘Sunglasses’.

—
The copyright line ‘© 1985 ™ TOPP’S, INC.‘ can
be located in either very small print, possibly a first print run, as seen in
the image above, or found with large print, as seen in the image below, possibly
a second print run to make the copyright more visible. There also appears to be
an unnecessary apostrophe with a possessive ‘S’ within the copyright line. Image
and information supplied by Imperial collector extraordinaire, Luis Thompson.

—
The hip plastic sunglasses have an interesting arch support for further ‘support’
that proudly sports the GPK collector’s ‘team’ name; the curved Garbage Pail Kids
logo slightly struggles from over-curvature to the point the letters are slighly
displaced, especially the last letter ‘s’.

ZIPPER PULL SAMPLE

There
are a whopping 24 ‘Zipper Pull’ items to collect and to attach to various zippers
and to even use as a keychain as advertised; “IT’S A KEY
CHAIN TOO!“, this may have added to some confusion for collectors
since they do look a lot like the ‘Keychains’ that Imperial also released with
the exact same images. The added ‘zipper’ art on this packaging make it extra
special; even the red-suited ADAM Bomb mascot is sitting upon it. There are various
characters from the OS1 and OS2 sets to collect for a total of 48 images since
the front and back of the ‘Zipper Pull’ has a different character.

—
This is the exact same product for the ‘Key Chains’, Product No. 7285, but with
a clasp instead of a key ring.

—
The regular blue-suited ADAM Bomb image is used for this release, not the red-suited
Imperial mascot.

BUBBLE FUN SET SAMPLE

Besides
their ‘Sunglasses’ product, another extreme novelty item by Imperial Toy are their
bubble sets, in which they are famous for, nothing relieves stress more after
a long day of GPK sorting and collecting than a bottle of bubbles. Much of this
product was made for quite a few of their own product and other licenses, so it’s
pretty easy to slap on a new picture and a brand name. There are 12 different
characters to collect for the ‘Bubble Fun Set’ which comes with the bubble dish,
an Imperial bubble wand and a small bottle of ‘bubble liquid’ that is maybe a
‘cute’ size as opposed to a ‘fun’ size, but the label does promise ‘miracle bubbles’,
so there’s that.

—
The bubble trays, much-like the plastic ‘Sunglasses’ come in a variety of different
colors, increasing the potential for collecting, exponentially.

SCHOOL SET SAMPLE

Although
the ‘Pencil Case’ school supplies were sold separately by the Imperial Toy company,
item no. 7274, they can also be located within the ‘School Set’ release as well,
with the exact same characters; it is surprising they are not placed together
within the line up. There are six different pencil cases that could be purchased
with four different GPK characters on each case with two found on the ‘front’
and two found on the ‘back’ with both sides having copyright information; no true
front o back. The ‘School Set’ also contains a ruller, a protractor, a pencil
sharpener, an eraser and the pencil case. These were sold right in time leading
up to the back-to-school rush in the Fall of 1986.

—
The ‘Pencil Case’ can be found with a silver OR white zipper; sometimes the zipper
can be located or installed in the reverse direction.

Imperial product
numbers 7263 through 7285 are all accounted for, numerically speaking, except
for number 7282, but it was most likely a CANCELLED
product. Per catalog sell sheet, all 23 items are accounted for, this would’ve
been the 24th product. Item number 7283 is assigned to the ‘Fashion Rings’ and
item number 7284 is assigned to the ‘Jewelry Set(s)’, with two ‘Fashion Rings’
& a pendant Necklace, so item number 7282 may have been a CANCELLED
product intended for solo necklaces; but this is pure speculation, of course.
Early product testing for females may have been down.

FASHION RINGS DISPLAY BOX

To
cater to the female GPK fanbase, or to fanboys who happened to flash some ‘bling’,
the Imperial Toy company released ‘Fashion Rings’ and potentially added more clientele
to their cash-base. Even though the ‘party’ favor jewelry was not high-fashion
it did add character to one’s naked hand, or, a GPK character to be precise. A
collector could spend hours picking out a ring of their liking (but not at Jared’s)
from 24 different GPK characters; as with these later Imperial Toy releases, the
OS1 characters were focused on more than the OS2 characters. This is one of two
Imperial Toy items for GPK not found on card or peg hook purposes but sold in
a bucket container or a display box only.

23 OUT OF 24 FASHION RINGS : ‘HOT SCOTT /
LUKE WARM’ NOT PICTURED

—
The nomenclature for GPK character Brett SWEAT is labelled incorrectly as ‘Sweat
BRETT’, pictured above.

—
The ring picture design is the same set-up as the images used for the back of
the ‘Hi-Bounce Ball’ (large size) packaging and the picture inserts along with
the same image design used in the small handle of the ‘Bubble Fun Set’.

—
Only the blue GPK logo header is used for this release.

JEWELRY SET SAMPLES

To
further cater to the female GPK fanbase, or to fanboys who happened to flash some
‘bling’, the Imperial Toy company released the ‘Jewelry Set’ with the previously
mentioned ‘Fashion Rings’ that included one oval-shaped pendant on a cheap necklace
chain and two aforementioned rings. Even though the ‘party’ favor jewelry was
not high fashion it did add character to one’s naked neck or naked hand, a GPK
character to be precise. A collector could spend hours picking out a necklace
and rings of their liking (but not from Jared’s) from 24 different GPK characters;
as with these later Imperial Toy releases, the OS1 characters were focused on
more than the OS2 characters. Since the necklace pendant is the focal point of
the ‘Jewelry Set’, I have a hunch there are 24 different necklaces to collect
and the rings are completely at random.

—
The necklace and ring picture design is the same set-up as the images used for
the back of the ‘Hi-Bounce Ball’ (large size) packaging and picture insert along
with the same image design used in the small handle of the ‘Bubble Fun Set’.

—
Only the blue GPK logo header is used for this release.

KEY
CHAIN SAMPLES : SOME IN ORIGINAL BAGS

There
are a whopping 24 ‘Key Chains’ to collect and to attach your house-key to, so
make sure your parents make a ton of copies. This is one of the only other Imperial
Toy items that is not found on a blue card, but sold in a container as a ‘loose’
product only. There are various characters from the OS1 and OS2 sets to collect
for a total of 48 images since the front and back of the ‘Key Chains’ have a different
character.

3. The regular blue-suited ADAM
Bomb image is used for this release, not the red-suited Imperial mascot.