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Garbage Pail Kids is a sticker trading card series created by the Topps trading card compny. It has an online fanbase and is also the subject of an upcoming documentary being crowdfunded on Kickstarter^[1].

History

The card company Topps had had great success for several decades with their Wacky Packages product parody series, and in the 1980s, Topps wanted a new non-sports series. Wacky Packages artist John Pound had created a painting for the 1985 series of a "Garbage Pail Kids" doll, and Topps asked him to create a new series based on it^[2].

Reception

When the card series was released first in the 1980s, many schools "banned" them, for example, Claremont School^[7] in New York, and schools in Orange County^[8].

On the flip side, in more recent years, media outlets such as Juxtapoz^[9] and Topless Robot^[10] have given the series positive word.

Gallery 1988 GPK-inspired Art Exhibition

In 2011, Gallery 1988 held an exhibit of artworks based off or inspired by the original 1980s series. The exhibit was met with praise from many sites, such as MTV Geek News and UpRoxx.

2013 Documentary Kickstarter

In November of 2013 a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign was begun for a GPK documentary.^[6] The project has been covered by media outlets and sites such as USA Today^[11], UrbanVinylDaily^[12] and Den of Geek^[13]. As of December 11 2013, the KickStarter has raised $13,606 of the $75,000 goal, with 25 days left to go at the time.^[6]

The Cards

GarbagePailKids is a tradings card series made by TheTopps BubbleGumCompany. The reason it came it to place when Topps wanted a new Non-Sports card card series, And when one of the workers at Topps was flipping through some un-released WackeyPackages he saw the OriginalCard whitch was a parody of the famous CabbagePatchKids dolls. The 1st series was first released in 1985,Then re-released in 2010, and the newest re-release was in 2013. The series was a big success! But after series 8 was released something very bad happen to Topps, Mattel (The current owner of the doll brand) sued Topps for using the likeness of the doll in cards and making money of them. So they released series 9, And that was the series with the Cabbage Patch look. The original run ended with series 15.
Then in 2007 they had the ANS (All New Series) release come out, Almost all of the fans of the original series hated it, Lets just ignore this and skip to BNS.
BNS (Brand New Series) was released in 2012 to reboot the original series, It was a HUGE success for many reasons like, Nostalgia, VideoGame references, Pop-culture, And other great goodies. Because the great success it had two more series spawned from it. But the 2 newest series are really cool, They got 2014 Series 1 and Bukimi-Kun (which is just a Japanese version of 2014Series1 ).
2014 Series 1 is really cool and could have just been called BNS Series 4, but what are you going to do [Work In Progress]

The Show

The GarbagePailKids-Cartoon was a Canadian-American cartoon series produced in 1987,Based on the popular GarbagePailKids TradingCards, produced and directed by Bob Hathcock and co-written and developed by Flint Dille. Due to controversial themes, it never aired in the United States. However, it did air in most countries in Europe.You can buy the DvD with all 13 episodes on the DvD Here from Amazon.
Or watch the whole series free on YouTube Here

The Movie

The GarbagePailKids-Movie was made in 1987, two years after the original card release. This movie was made to cash in on the huge success of the cards, It was Directed, Produced, And Written by Rod Amateau, And Co-Written by Melinda Palmer.
It's budget was $1,000,00, And got $1,576,615 at the box office. You can watch the trailer Here

Totally Looks Like

Totally Looks Like, Has a Whole collection of a GPK and what it Parody's. So here are some!

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