Garbage Pail Kids

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Pete

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How many of you during the 80s collected Garbage Pail Kids cards? I remember sitting in class and trading cards with my classmates. They were great and real popular.

From wiki Garbage Pail Kids is a series of sticker trading cards produced by the Topps Company, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, which were popular at the time.

Each sticker card features a Garbage Pail Kid character having some comical abnormality, deformity, and/or suffering a terrible painful fate/death with a humorous word play character name such as Adam Bomb or Blasted Billy. Two versions of each card were produced, with variations featuring the same artwork but a different character name, denoted by an "a" or "b" letter after the card number. The sticker fronts are die-cut so that just the character with its nameplate and the GPKlogo can be peeled from the backing. Many of the card backs feature puzzle pieces that form giant murals, while other flip-side subjects vary greatly among the various series, from humorous licenses and awards to comic strips and, in more recent releases, humorous Facebook profiles.

Here is a site that has all the original series of the Garbage Pail Kids.

Garbage Pail Kids Original Series 1 | GEEPEEKAY

The Garbage Pail Kids Sticker Gallery for Original Series 1 features hi res images of every sticker in the series!
geepeekay.com geepeekay.com
 
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Oh god I used to collect these too hehehe. Garbage Pail Kids are a collectors item. People pay fortunes for them.
 
80sDiva said:
Oh god I used to collect these too hehehe. Garbage Pail Kids are a collectors item. People pay fortunes for them.
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Yes you are correct.
 
Lmao I had so many of the GPKids. My favorite one was Slobby Robbie. IMG_0094.jpeg
 
I remember these when I was in junior high. My favorite one was the boy with the fat head and small eyes, mouth and nose lol.
 
LindaGal said:
I remember these when I was in junior high. My favorite one was the boy with the fat head and small eyes, mouth and nose lol.
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Are you talking about Cheeky Charles? Lol

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