The WILD history of Garbage Pail Kids!

[@JunkWaxHero]

Did you have any GPK? Do you still?

[@ME-qq3gr]

I had a bunch of them incuding some in this video. I rember them being called 'Garbage Gang Kids' in Australia. They were stickers which I think I stuck on things I probably no longer have but I still have the backs with the joke licences, etc in a box somewhere.

[@JunkWaxHero]

@@ME-qq3gr I love hearing the different names American products were called in other countries

[@johnm1008]

Myself and my 3 siblings had some. We went to Catholic school and most of our family was pretty conservative and when our one uncle saw them he offered to buy them all off of us if we promised to not buy any more. I feel like I remember him giving my older brother and I $20 each and my younger brother and sister $10 each. At the time I remember thinking I was rich and while I was already buying baseball cards that $20 definitely went towards more baseball cards, so Topps ended up getting the money anyway.

[@JunkWaxHero]

@@johnm1008 haha that’s great

[@rafeer896]

I have some that I purchased on eBay and such. I wish I had that big stack my dad threw away, around the same time he grounded my sister and threw away her ozzy cassette tapes lol. I had the stinkor figure too.

[@smugtown585]

My son and I just started to collect these. I (34) am obsessed with these cards!!

[@rafeer896]

me and my dad talked about this months ago. When these came out I coaxed him into buying me a ton of packs of these things, I was 6-7 yrs old and I loved them. but when he saw them and saw what was on them, he got mad and threw them away. and that was the end of it. What he didn't know is that I later retrieved them from the trash. they didn't make it much longer though. I ruined them and stuck the stickers on things and they got destroyed with the rest of my stuff from back then. I remember having several of the Adam bomb ones, I liked it because it featured the mushroom cloud which I thought looked cool.

[@jasonbourne9392]

GPK’s are still hugely popular, and tons of kids are still buying them.

[@neo7759]

@@jasonbourne9392 I used to collect in the 80s and want to get back into it. Where is the best place to find them now?

[@HoonAgain]

This was so good! Been waiting for this vid a while. Thanks for putting it all together for us. I remember GPK cards being THE THING to have and trade at my 1985 YMCA summer camp in Olympia WA. Hard core nostalgia from those first early series. All the kids got the joke back then and nobody took it serious. That was the point! Parents didn’t get it and we did. My original GPK cards disappeared a long time ago. But all the amazing memories are still there. Bought a mostly series 1-3 collection on eBay years ago. Happy to have them. I’m still looking for that Adam Bomb. Hope you continue to showcase and share more informative content just like this GPK vid. Maybe even bring on a guest to discuss the vintage ones. Looking forward to seeing your Adam Bomb grade response vid.

[@JunkWaxHero]

Thanks!

[@karlaronquillo1873]

What a fascinating video! I was searching vids about this topic and came across this one, and I’m glad I did. Great video and I’ll be sure to check out more :)!

[@JunkWaxHero]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@krisorgan]

I was born in 79 so was very young but, the garbage pail kids was the first cool thing I remember growing up. The problem was, as soon as they were cool they bloody vanished. I remember really enjoying the movie too. The sticker I remember most was the one where he’s shaving, but he’s not shaving his beard, he was literally shaving his face off. That always stuck with me, can’t remember his name though. Names I remember were, armpit britt, Johnny one note and Ali gater. My memories are very hazy.

[@jaymilligan9628]

I remember in 1986, a friend and I saw the animated "Transformers The Movie" in a theater and went back to his dad's truck, but he wasn't there so we walked over to the mall attached to the cinema and bought Garbage Pail Kids from a Woolworth's shop. A few hours later my friend's dad was come into the mall looking for us and was furious. It turns out he was asleep in the truck, we just didn't see him. But we had GPK cards so it was worth getting in trouble.

[@johnbaumgardner8325]

These were my first hustle, I had a pencil box full of them, I used to carry them everywhere selling, trading and buying the different serieses. Love this trip down memory lane.

[@Kronicdice23]

Me and my buddy Mike and Rami used to take the bus all the way downtown almost every Saturday, to check Woolworths to see if they got new boxes of garbage pail Kids that we would scoop up for $18 a box. Then on the way home we stopped at the comic book store to pick up our comics. Life doesn’t get any better.

[@Nicegirljenn]

Yess! I loved them but never owned them. My older cousins did as I was only in kindergarten by ‘88. But they left a lasting impression on me all these years and brings back fun memories of the times, my childhood, and the fascination of looking and laughing at all of the different cards. So much so, I may buy some just to keep to share for fun

[@JunkWaxHero]

Have fun!

[@shakascloset1700]

I remember back in 1989 a huge unopened box seller that at the time i was buying 1989 topps boxes for $11.95 each. He also had unopened garbage Pail Kids for $2.00 a box and less per box if you bought a case. I bought dozens of them wish i bought more

[@JunkWaxHero]

Wow!

[@thegarbagepailkid]

I might have a few! Been watching you for awhile now and awesome to see you talk GPK!! The community is small but still alive and well.

[@JunkWaxHero]

Thanks for watching! Can you recommend one of your videos to me and my viewers?

[@trentonmcanally]

@@JunkWaxHero No particular video, but on my lives we nerd out and just talk about them. Keep up the great work!

[@alexdanke133]

I picked up the new ones to rip with my kids. Fun rips.

[@brownsugashawty]

Hey Mike my boyfriend randomly brought this up to me & your video was informative & funny. He’s an 80’s baby & im a 90’s so didn’t catch this wave. I do agree with your statement about nostalgia being in the 80’s & 90’s; I would like to add that being a kid in the 00’s there is a shared nostalgia for children at the time. But I think that nostalgia does end around a certain time because kids of today are all watching different things mainly influencers. Great video!

[@JunkWaxHero]

Thanks Danielle! My youngest is a 2000s kid (born in 2004) and nostalgia for that age is like iCarly and Dino Dan. It got wild in the teens though and kids need the internet to find people who share their same interests.

[@russellj.s.257]

I remember in the 80's puke and fart jokes were hugely popular to us kids,I remember the GPK cards getting confiscated in school along with handheld electronic games by Tiger.

[@brianflincher]

Me and my brothers had thousands of GPK's in the 80's when I was a kid then we sold them all off around 2007 on Ebay, so around the time of the pandemic (2020) I was looking around and told my brothers do you realize of all those GPK's we had we don't even have 1 card now, it didn't seem right, like almost a crime we didn't own any anymore.... I knew I had to get them back, so since 2020 I've been on Ebay buying lot after lot of them and a few of the new ones too....plus this time around I actually own about half of the 1st series which we never had back in the day..

[@darrelld7152]

I was in Germany in the usaf in 85 so I missed all these and wasn’t into cards during late 80’s but I did really love wacky packages in 70’s and early 80’s. Was also a big mad magazine fan. Good show. Love the channel.

[@JunkWaxHero]

Thank you!

[@johnsmanycollections4662]

Great history lesson, Mike. Topps did Wacky Plaks in the late 50s which I believe was their first foray into "humor" cards.

[@JunkWaxHero]

I’d never heard of these! Thanks, Harlan!

[@josel.martinez8649]

I was a late 80s and early 90s kid. Those GPK cards were banned from school. (FL)😂 Certainly brought back some good childhood memories 😊.

[@ACollectorsDream]

Got a bunch of them and made a video about them a few weeks ago. Thanks for your informative videos. Great picture of you as a kid, with hair!

[@JunkWaxHero]

I commented on your video! Thanks as always, Orlando.

[@brentdesroches7580]

Great video Mike! Learned a lot as I never really dived into this topic before. I had the He-Man figure as well! His name was Stinkor and we had lots of fun with him as kids!!

[@JunkWaxHero]

Yes! So dumb but so fun

[@MaciSalmons-p5j]

I used to collect them when I was a kid, I was such a fan of those

[@Johndeplume.]

Appreciate this video, Mike. I'm not American, so have never heard of these cards - but been seeing a fair bit on them the last few months! Thanks for shedding light onto the history of this set. 👍 Hope you, and all viewers from the US, have a reflective Memorial Day with family/friends, remembering the sacrifices made by your veterans and ex-servicemen over the years, to make your country what it is to-day. 🔴⚪🔵

[@JunkWaxHero]

Thank you!

[@danpina2125]

I collected these back in the 80’s as well for a short while. And to think , a Adam Bomb is worth more today than most baseball rookies from the 80’s 🤦‍♂️

[@JunkWaxHero]

Yup… more scarce because most people marked them up, took the sticker off, or threw them away. Crazy

[@DrillerKiller213]

Great vid!! A walk down memory lane for sure!! I totally agree with you about our generation being the last nostalgic generation. We're also the last generation to play in the park, use or imaginations to play, etc...darned technology...lol

[@JunkWaxHero]

My kids definitely played in the park and in the woods a lot.

[@DrillerKiller213]

@@JunkWaxHero Great!!! I forced mine to do the same! Lol

[@djmixin1]

My funny story is in 1986 I was about five years old and I didn’t have any money so older kids will give me some brand new GPK cards and jumbo stickers but I was always afraid of the produce section at the grocery store because I thought the cabbage or lettuce were those cabbage patch kids waiting to be born lol I remember I can barely see up there looking at them.

[@JunkWaxHero]

lol

[@tashachristy09]

I was fascinated with them! Im so upset now that i peeled ones with specific names off and gave them to my freinds on my birthday party invites one year. I just flipped through the 2 binders i still have

[@shakascloset1700]

I remember hearing about them in 1985 unfortunately it wasn't until series 3 I finally had got some packs. Been a collector off and on since then. Stopping in 2016. Sold most of my collection. I had a binder with every card and variation series 3-15. I only had the mini's of series 1 and 2. Those are hard to come by. I was an avid flea marketer from 2003-2016 and i bought thousands of them but only a couple raty series 1&2.

[@JunkWaxHero]

Very cool!

[@TheSwedishHockeyCardCollector]

Awesome video! 😃👍 I remember when the local candy store in my hometown in Sweden started selling Garbage Pail Kids in the 80s. The kids loved buying and collecting them. I also remember the total moral panic that spread through the local community and the anger that was directed at the owner of the candy store for importing these horrible collectibles from the US.

[@JunkWaxHero]

Fascinating!

[@TheSwedishHockeyCardCollector]

@@JunkWaxHero I thought it was fun to collect garbage pail kids when I was a kid in the 80s. Less fun that the local candy shop, after pressure from the local community, stopped importing them. With no place to buy them, collecting Garbage pail kids died out where I lived.

[@ASMRPeople]

I had series 1 - 15 complete sets. I sold them all in about 2005 for a few hundred. I really had a lot of nice stuff back them, but I was dealing cards as a side hustle at that time to get a down payment on a house. Who knew cards would 10x in value 15 years later.

[@JunkWaxHero]

Yeah but you got a house!

[@ysidropachecoiii47]

I remember back in the days riding my bike to a store that sold them ....2 places that use ti sell them one was called Rufeners and Woolworths.....they would sellout on 1st and 2nd Series...those i cud never get ....not until the 3rd Series when i found some packs to buy.....me and my friend would swap cards if we had doubles....those were tge good ol' days 😮😮😮😮😮

[@beer3014889]

I found and rescued bout 70 of them out of someone's recycle bin. It pays to be a recycle guy

[@johnm1008]

They even made Chrome Sapphire Garbage Pail Kids a couple years ago

[@LighttheWick]

I've been going through boxes of cards from my parents' attic for the past couple months. I haven't found an Adam Bomb or Nasty Nick, yet. Apparently, I bought a bunch of Series 2 and 3, but none of the Series 1. I purchased a couple boxes of newer GPK and they are still pretty good. I really enjoy the political ones, especially from the 2016 election.

[@user-pl4ky4fk5f]

I was 8 when they came out. I was already collecting baseball cards so I started collecting garbage pail kids as well. I had all of them. Wish I didn’t use them as stickers and lose them all. I’m buying the originals now when I can

[@183GTA]

I did not collect GPK. Looking back, I wish I had. I do like the Alex Pardee and the Keith Shore GPK releases. I thought about picking them up because they are of baseball players.

[@nyjarobinson7534]

I remember these,I also collected Madd Ballz

[@TotallySearch]

So in basic terms, they were the skibidi toilet of 1980s kids lmao

[@shakascloset1700]

I sold the majority of my collection but still have 20,000 or more vintage and up to 2016

[@commentingcollector]

I grew up with wacky packs, The GPK cards were a little after my time- therefore, I appreciate the history lesson!

[@JunkWaxHero]

Thanks Rob!

[@KeyKiller74]

I grow up collecting GPK in the 80's wish I toke better care for them had the complete series from 1-10 sadly sold them all for cheap 12 years ago. I still rip some of the new series but the collecting fever long gone for me. 😮‍💨

[@haroldcarlson5686]

I still have OG series 1-7

[@JunkWaxHero]

Wow! Very cool

[@joedill4311]

I just told my mom that she RUUUUUUUUINED my ability to buy a nice house now, from thinking everything, non-wholesome was satanic! 😂😂😂 I Missed a lot of good stuff, in lieu of 1986 and 1987 topps Baseball! 😔😂

[@bradrutherford1000]

Great video! Thanks!!

[@askapadwe]

This was great! I absolutely LOVED the movie when I was a kid. LOL

[@JunkWaxHero]

lol nice

[@jakestoe]

I always thought they were funny back in the day but only had a few packs worth.. I did however buy a "Jumipin Jordan" for $3.00 last year at a antique show. Was surprised how much it actually sells for. I'm gonna eventually get it graded...

[@JamesBond-bo5bd]

Hey Mike.i was too old when they came out,but i went to the creator of cabbage dolls house in Georgia.also the doll hospital.ah memories!!!! Thanks again Mike.

[@JunkWaxHero]

Very cool!

[@jsun7972]

GPK was my shit back in the day. It was fun because i thought the Cabbage Patch Kids were ugly and the craze over them was so silly. Those cards were cool in 2nd Grade. But by the time 3rd Grade came around, i didn't care much. I had a ton of them and my mom threw them away with my old original Transformers when i moved out. I'd love to get a complete series 1 and 2 just for nostalgia to put with some of my old video games. But the price they want for them is stupid. Not paying $1K for some 80's trading cards! LOL. Not that serious!

[@curtisleeyork1978]

I was such a bad kid. My bus driver would make me sit right behind her. She made a deal with me. Behave and she would give me 4 packs of gpk on fridays. They were 25cents. I was a different kid after that. I was the best on the bus lol

[@JunkWaxHero]

What a deal!

[@russellj.s.257]

Loved that movie

[@clr9480]

Yes! Had them loved them! Wish I saved them. I remember them being banned in schools because kids were fighting over them and stealing them from each other . I tried buying the new ones but it’s jus not the same 🤷🏻‍♂️ . Have u seen the baseball player garbage pail kids there makeing now? They look kind of cool

[@JunkWaxHero]

I haven’t seen those!

[@clr9480]

Yea they make them useing todays mlb stars like Julio Rodriguez , bobby witt and others ….I’ve seen lucky Peter rip them on utube

[@ricknunesjr]

I remember going to 7eleven everyday after school and anywhere else they might have been sold to bye as many packs I had the money for,and that was in 1985 I was in 6 grade but I had th call you back complete set of the first addition and I would go to school and sell them for cash until I had enough money to by my salamander a bigger tank to lice in but the memories of those times in the 80s awsome.

[@JunkWaxHero]

Great memories!

[@nicolenew1708]

THANK YOU, SUPER EDUCATIONAL A LIFE LEARNING LESSON, SUPER COOL, THANKS ❤❤❤😊😊

[@ChannelWackadoo]

I 💚 GPK!

[@lordjonmagnus]

I still collect there great cards.

[@ayy1tsh4rps]

The dolls are scaring me......😢

[@mikewilliams1993]

I still have all mine and need to sell them anyone know the best way to do that I have first and second series

[@JunkyJeffGarbagePailKid]

I'm worth my weight in mold!

[@waxpackjunkie3829]

Sweet

[@godisgreat8462]

Cool 🎉🎉

[@fernando-mychildhoodcollec5671]

My parents did not approve of these cards. I will do the same as father.