Vroomer
Cabbage Patch Kid
Waiting for a shutdown to end
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Post by Vroomer on Oct 9, 2013 12:28:07 GMT -5
January 1986-1987 REALLY into them. Started with OS3.
1988-1991 Into them casually. Picked up a first printing of OS2, some OS1 singles.
1992 - Not into them at all. Topps Finest and Stadium Club in the sports card world, the rising prices really got me out of them. Went to focus on GI Joes and Valiant Comics
Big long hiatus
October 2013 - I found Chrome...
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Post by groovemachine on Oct 26, 2013 1:50:18 GMT -5
In a word: baseball I have a ton of cards from series 3-6, but I've only got 13 cards from series 7...two packs I bought and the others I acquired in trade from my younger brother. The last card in my album is Screwball Lew (291b):  I really got into collecting baseball cards in 1987 and remember getting a full box of 1987 Topps cards for Christmas in December of 1986. Well, I have enough 1987 Topps now to sink a battleship! That set was all the rage for that whole summer and it was tough to pick up GPKs when baseball card packs were also sitting on the shelf competing for my 25 cents. I lived in Minneapolis at the time and the Minnesota Twins went on to win the World Series that year. I continued to lust after the GPK packs when I'd see them on display, but always picked baseball cards from then on out. The image of Heartless Hal on all the OS8 packaging is seered into my memory and I really wanted that card, but didn't want to throw quarters at it never knowing how many it would take to find that card in a pack! |
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Post by Nolan JP on Oct 26, 2013 4:10:33 GMT -5
In the UK they were really hard to get hold of. I came across series 2 first, when I was in London. Then I started at a new school and everybody had series 3. They wanted my series 2 and I wanted their os3. Then after that series 4,5 and 6 came out in the space of about 6 weeks so completing one series was damned near impossible. I started picking up cheap toys, then before you know it as quick as they appeared, they disappeared off UK shelves. We used to own a pub so picking up full boxes from the wholesalers was a perk for me. £3.50 per box of stickers and I think about the same for garbage gang toys. When Garbage Gang stickers hit the shops I was disinterested by that time and was more into Tamiya R/C and my Super Famicom. I got back into them when whilst sorting thru my junk at my parents house, I found an unstickered Matt Rat and Bloodshot Scott in a box of lego and as I sifted thru the box I found loads of cheap toys. This must've been around 1996 or so. I came across some gum too which was...nice! They ended up back in storage until around 2003 when I found unopened boxes listed on ebay. I always wanted the US cards as they were bigger so I picked up an OS2 sealed box absolutely mint condition for $88, cracked it and started making sets. Never looked back  |
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Starin' Darren
Cabbage Patch Kid
Everyone should have received trades by now, if not let me know! Thank you all!
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Post by Starin' Darren on Oct 28, 2013 8:39:19 GMT -5
It was right around the late 80's for me, We moved to Germany, in 88 (still collected the german 1st series then and sold boxes upon boxes to Roxanne Toser)..Had all my GPK's in photo albums (we didn't have the fancy schmancy collectors binders then). Was the same way with he-man and transformers (all their gear and weapons were in small plastic bags)
89 hit, Cure's disintegration and DM's Violator came out..Germany's dark new wave scene blew up. Along with my music interests. The wall fell and people went ape-s**t, tons of easterners flooded west Germany. Gothic chicks were smokin' hot..and their numbers doubled. Powell Peralta brand took over my interests and cash. Started skateboarding my ass off. Started chasing girls more at 14. Mom bugged the s**t out me to finish scouts to get eagle.
Moved back to the states, 16 hit... and well you know what happens then. Early 90's, shoegaze and britpop was all the rage, Metal guys started getting scarier and heavier in Fl and the Scandinavian countries. Seattle took over most of the US, House and the Acid music scene (cheers to those that mention the raves) starts getting bigger..early college started, Dad wouldn't pay for my BS unless I went on my mormon mission and went to BYU. Told my dad to go F himself, and joined the military. I caught the Everquest online fever for years...
So there you have it. I honestly didn't know that GPK's were being made past series 15, or that even several sets were made in the 2000's. It was not until I saw the magnet sets in Walley World that brought me back.
"I spent a lot of money on birds, booze, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered"
-George Best
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Starin' Darren
Cabbage Patch Kid
Everyone should have received trades by now, if not let me know! Thank you all!
Posts: 58
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Post by Starin' Darren on Oct 28, 2013 8:42:05 GMT -5
In 1988: 1) Girls 2) Sports cards 3) Nintendo 4) Skateboarding Pretty much, minus the sports cards. And by the way.. ROB the robot was a useless pile of Sh!t. -It's great to hear everyone's stories! Keep em' comin'! Great thread topic. |
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Post by Casper on Oct 28, 2013 9:30:55 GMT -5
Love the stories take me back there
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Post by verybarrybad on Oct 28, 2013 16:41:14 GMT -5
I got a Commodore 64 for Christmas, and that put an end to all my other hobby's. Thats it. I would have to go to bed at 10 pm, wait till
my parents went to bed, and then sneak back behind the damn thing...
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Post by JAY .U.K on Feb 19, 2014 17:46:00 GMT -5
My Mother! my mum is a OCD freak and back in the day she made my life hell with it, I had the cleanest boys room i had ever seen to this day. every day she would say tidy your room, tidy your cupboards and one day she helped, it was around 1992 so I was 12 and by this time I had a decent size collection series 1 to 10 nearly all complete and all 18 poster set along with a bucket load of cheap toys. I put all the KEEP bags to one side and all the THROW bags in the hall way job done. A few days later I got hold of some more cards (OS11)and went to put them in my collection box IT WAS GONE i asked if she or my dad had seen my box she said it must have got mixed up by mistake and thrown away. I am telling you it was NO mistake and I have never forgiven her for It. Well that sure got me out of collecting & GPK was forgot about well that was till 2003 when ANS was born and it all came back to me I had to replace all she lost  |
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Post by JAY .U.K on Feb 19, 2014 17:46:22 GMT -5
My Mother! my mum is a OCD freak and back in the day she made my life hell with it, I had the cleanest boys room i had ever seen to this day. every day she would say tidy your room, tidy your cupboards and one day she helped, it was around 1992 so I was 12 and by this time I had a decent size collection series 1 to 10 nearly all complete and all 18 poster set along with a bucket load of cheap toys. I put all the KEEP bags to one side and all the THROW bags in the hall way job done. A few days later I got hold of some more cards (OS11)and went to put them in my collection box IT WAS GONE i asked if she or my dad had seen my box she said it must have got mixed up by mistake and thrown away. I am telling you it was NO mistake and I have never forgiven her for It. Well that sure got me out of collecting & GPK was forgot about well that was till 2003 when ANS was born and it all came back to me I had to replace all she lost |
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Post by dieselny on Feb 19, 2014 18:28:16 GMT -5
Well I was in 5th grade in1985 and I think that's when it first started but started getting real crazy in 1986 in 6th grade that they banned them from school and they even wrote about it in the local paper about the ban and how kids were addicted to it. I used to go to the Hallmark store and pick them up all the time ...used to love when a new series came out. I used to also pick up cases and stuff from card shows it was great.
Then they just stopped making them and I got older. I had no idea they started making them again in 2003 until last year. I got back into collecting last year after someone on Facebook posted things from the 80s and I saw a gpk card.
I then went into my attic to look at my 25+ year old cards that have been in a box forever. I got the itch again and started collecting again.
Sent from my SM-N900V using proboards
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Post by GoreHound on Feb 21, 2016 0:26:36 GMT -5
well recently i started buying them again after having not seen them for years then i wasted a good deal of cash trying to get cool stuff then i found out about pack searching and sent topps a lot of angry messages then stopped.
if i keep seeing trash boxes i will buy retail again forever. i even sent topps a message about it saying they are giving their money away to this company in charge of making the trash boxes.
i also hate all the dumb gimmicky s**t like color borders and the direction they take the cards in now. they used to make cards for kids to laugh at and gross you out with, now they make cards for nostalgia sake...it's depressing.
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Post by GPKsetbuilder on Mar 15, 2017 16:25:16 GMT -5
Baseball Cards took me out in 1987, and then brought me back in 2017.
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Post by javikalle on Apr 29, 2018 8:52:44 GMT -5
I was only 6 when I started collecting LPB
In Spain they only released two editions so stop collecting it
LPB was a collection that marked me a lot since at that time my parents separated and I had to move to another city
That's why this collection brings me so many memories and every chrome brings me a nice memory
In the late 80's in Spain there was no internet or it was very difficult to find articles from abroad and more being a child
I did not even know that the beginnings of LPB came from the United States
The person in charge of bringing Garbage Pail Kids to Spain was Mr. J. Merchante from Madrid, whom I had the opportunity to meet years later.
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Post by gpkware on May 9, 2018 12:55:29 GMT -5
I can remember hearing about the 16th series a kid in Cincinnati , but really got out of collecting when I couldn't find them . The local card shop was hit by a Tornado and the other card shop was known to be shady af. So like everyone else when the ANS came out and I found EBay it was on. Now that I have a small museum set up in my house , I collect off and on when it suits me. lol it's a great talking point when people see all the displays n such , the non US releases and toys . As a bit of a everything collector the GPK experience can be fun exciting and exhausting . Don't think I'll ever quit collecting Gpk , just not really into all the new merch and crazy sub sets or rainbows .
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Post by Fuzz on May 9, 2018 14:20:51 GMT -5
What originally got me out of GPK collecting? That would have to be the rising difficulty of finding them. The only source I had back in the early 90s was an older gentleman at a local flea market. The internet, eBay, etc. really wasn't a thing yet, so I didn't have any other sources really.
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Post by patsplat666 on Aug 11, 2020 20:10:47 GMT -5
I remember blowing my entire allowance on many packs of 10th and 15th series (many to a kid probably wasn't that many) and never completing the sets, but getting very close. The disappointment of getting endless doubles and then getting older got me out of it... plus, they stopped printing them. So yeah, that was the end for me. Then eBay came around, and fortunately I purchased a lot of unopened boxes for about a hundred bucks... got 11 full boxes and one partial box. 4th through 6th series only though... in hindsight, I really wish I would've splurged and picked up some 1st series boxes! Think they were going for 500 bucks at the time?
But yeah, now I'm back into collecting and of course the prices have skyrocketed. Who knew I'd still love these things as a 41 year old that I collected as an 8 year old?
Also, no big desire to collect the new sets for 2 reasons: 1. Not a fan of manufactured rarity, and 2. they just don't have the same quality artwork and themes of the original series. The old cards remind me so much of childhood, I would carry them with me on trips and trade with my cousins and friends out of state. They were always there.
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Post by Dxtc0187 on Aug 15, 2020 21:29:24 GMT -5
Everyone by me stopped carrying them i was 9 and they disappeared the last set i ever saw was series seven and poof they disappeared. It was horrible i wish that on no one ever again. Let me revise this answer since I left again... Fuggin Topps ruined it. Some shitty people ruined it here. Now time for public service announcement: f**k T**** and his bulls**t hundred scam! I can’t fuggin believe that there are people who by the fake as bonus card and think it’s real and pay good money for it! f**k T******** too and all his bulls**t! Hey Wait this is going to take waaaaaaayyyyhhyyy toooooooo long! I got an idea new thread... |
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Post by 666j777 (mowordie777john) on Aug 20, 2020 20:08:43 GMT -5
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Really cool box. I wish they had the Nasty Nick box too though