My mom Kept mine in a shoe box in the attic for 20 some years w other toys after I got married w kids she brought out the box of toys for my kids to play w Little behold they’re in there about 200 in mint condition She said she kept my toys so my kids can play w them the cards I took them before my kids can
old_school_4ever I left home at 16 (in 1988) and took my belongings to a friend of the families house. I recently found out that, 32 years later, that friend still has *one box* of my possessions, and it’s filled with my GPK!! He was going to mail them to me, but I didn’t want to chance them getting damaged, lost, or stolen in transit. Instead, I asked him just to send me a few of them; and I received 7 of them in the mail today. Of course, now that I have a few of them, I want to see the rest of them even more!
1986, I was going on 13. Born in 73. I loved my GPK card collection. Still have it with all my other fun 80s stuff. Good times!!! I still remember kids in the last year of elementary school having their cards taken from them, and never getting them back. That stopped me completely from taking mine to class. There was no way I was losing my collection.
34 years later and I'm still collecting them, the appeal has always been the amazing artwork, that's what has kept them popular even in the year 2020... I actually laid down $1,000 on ebay for a nice 1st series set and never blinked because the set to me is worth that and more.....
I stopped collecting them about 10 years ago when the prices began to get out of hand. I decided yesterday I'm going to start selling off my collection.
I’m a late 90s baby, so this was years before my time. I just heard about these today. WOW the 80s were innocent. If something like this was a big enough problem to make the news back in the 80s, it must have been a simpler time to be alive. Today’s children truly have it the worst with how degenerate our society is today, but I have to say, I wish I’d known a time that was this simple and envy you if you do.
This made me really happy! As a female gpk fanatic, I love to see little girls buying the cards too. This was as punk as a 7- 10 year old could be at the time LOL
Ah...this was great. For all of the faults still around in the 1980s, they were a magical time, and it appears they will have been the best time of my life. So happy I was born an 80s kid, I feel like there was really little as great as them outside of perhaps the 50s kids. Sadly, any GPK items I had were lost when our family lost everything except some clothes and a few photo albums. It has been so long since I've seen the stuff form my childhood at this point that I'll never remember all of it, no matter how much I try to piece back together what we had. That said, at least I can work to collect perhaps some of the things I care about and can recall. I'm super excited about the new NES cartridge that's being made about GPK, coming out sometime early next year (hopefully).
I would of murder his ass and take over like Me as Principal: Damn That Card Look Sick Son Show to Your Friend Hahahahaa (Light My Cigarette and Just Hanging Out)
I was hooked on these cards. It was fun as a kid. It was funny to me. It was just a card. I loved collecting baseball cards a little more because they were worth a lot more money but i wish i still had all my cards just to remember my childhood of the 80s and show them to my kids one day. Haha
I was born in 1975 . in 1988 i started collecting GPK and i still have my garbage pail kids from 1988, And right now it's 2024, and I'm still collecting the garbage pail kids after all those years
I was 9 years old in 1986 and loved GPK. I still have a stack with a rubber band wrapped around it. Would still trade some of my doubles for your milk money :)
Well, you see this was the eighties. It might have been before you were born. Back in that time, adults were far more modest than a lot of adults today. In the childhoods of the people who were adults during the eighties, they obviously never would have been subjected to repulsively nasty illustrated cards like the Garbage Pail Kids. The first time I ever bought a pack of five was when I was nine years old in 1988. My mother was so disgusted by those cards that she nearly wrote a letter of complaint to the Topps company. For my sake, she didn't and I started collecting them. By today's standards, if they brought those cards back into stores and started selling them to kids, I highly doubt their parents would care one bit! Things change as time goes by. ~Dutch
@@YouCantHoldOnTooLong I grew up in the 2000s and early 2010s so that's why lol. Except, parents especially moms from the 2000s were triggered by Bratz dolls and claiming that those dolls are too slutty and inappropriate looking for little girls to play with (fashion doll line) and I researched about that last year. That's about it.
Man the memories. I remember, I was about 10 years old when this aired, and saw it on CBS. Today first series Garbage Pail Kids graded at a mint 10 can run you in the thousands of dollars.
i never had a big collection growing up in the 80s but recently decided to recollect these. you can still get full sets of the original series on ebay in excellent/near mint condition. also reasonably priced depending on which series. series 4 and 5 are going for $40 each. and once these sets are gone they're gone for good this time. series 1 and 2 are sold out
Wish i was there 🙄 don't know anything before 1994. Not a bad thing, 90s and early 2000s were awesome but, hell I'd have loved to been born way earlier to experience all the really cool stuff
It"s tortures me to see all these kids with their greasy hands just chucking them around. Those very cards are worth thousands today. I still have my collection but I don't have many 1st or 2nd series.
1:34 This is why, when you grow up and become dads and moms, you have to remember what its like being a kid, they don't see things adults do, they don't know, many things go over their heads, but you better believe mother will be clutching her pearls anyway, as if it didn't go over your head, making a mountain out of a molehill.
At least Pokemon TCG (both WOTC and TPC International variations) is literally popular in school districts TCG - Trading Card Game WOTC - Wizards of the Coast (Hasbro) TPC - The Pokemon Company (Nintendo)
I am drooling right now i havent seen that in more than thirty years in Argentina we had them in the early 90's, did You have the just balls with the faces?🤤😭
The one kid complaining she can’t play with the cards during recess so what to do? Go friggin play! Lol. I loved my garbage pail collection and still have them from the 80’s, but I never knew or heard of a way to “play” with them. I just collected them and if I had doubles I’d trade for cards I didn’t have.
You know in a way the GPK cards teached kids some history as many cards parodied presidents, celebrities, sports figures, historical moments that while portrayed in a disgusting manner made us kids pay attention even if we weren't learning at school.
