2013 Garbage Pail Kids Brand New Series 2

Last week I showed off a pack of the 2015 Topps Garbage Pail Kids 30th Anniversary and mentioned that I had a few more packs.  For those of you waiting, the time has come.  The cards aren't something I'm into, so there's not much for me to say about them.  Some of them make me chuckle, though. 

2013 Garbage Pail Kids Brand New Series 2 Pack

Odds from back of the pack

I love chocolate Easter bunnies.  This was my favorite card in the pack. 

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2004-05 Topps Basketball

We're just barely a week into the two month grind of the NBA Playoffs. Here's a pack of basketball cards from way back in last decade, where they actually let Topps get involved.

3 - Stephon Marbury - Starbury starts things off.

91 - Shane Battier - The backs of the cards are solidly designed, and feature a second, small player photo.

111 - Baron Davis - I don't like Baron Davis, I don't like UCLA and I don't like the New Orleans franchise anymore after they destroyed my Blazers team in the playoffs this past week.

35 - Tayshaun Prince - I just love this photo. That's all I have to say.

67 - Mike Miller - Both the New Orleans move (from Charlotte) and the Grizzlies move (from Vancouver) were still relatively fresh when these cards came out.

15 - Carmelo Anthony - One of only three active players in this pack (spoiler alert: the other two are rookies.)

83 - Vin Baker - I feel like Baker was from a completely different generation from the rest of the players in the pack.

135 - Malik Rose - Rose was a role player, but has a couple of rings with the Spurs.

107 - Vlade Divac - Speaking of another generation. Vlade is an exec now. Nice throwback look here, though. It comes complete with headband.

63 - Marcus Camby - I almost want to start a Marcus Camby PC just for the photography on his cards alone -- especially for his facial expressions.

225 - Devin Harris - We now enter the rookie portion of the pack with Harris, who comes off the bench for the Denver Nuggets these days. Is Harris a hat collector, or is he just confused about which team he's supposed to play for?

240 - Jameer Nelson - It's-a me, Jameer! At age 35, Nelson spent most of this season with dreaded New Orleans before winding up on Detroit's bench to finish the season.

1979 Topps Burger King Yankees

Back when Topps was making cool oddball/food tie-ins, in 1979 they teamed up with Burger King to create a 22-card set of Yankees. The title card, featuring logos and other set-related info, served as the set checklist and was included with every cello pack of three player cards.

The fronts of the cards matched the 1979 style of the regular issue set. In fact, Topps used the same image from the standard set, so if you looked at the card, you wouldn't even realize it was an oddball item.

The backs were also taken from the 1979 standard set. The only difference is that the card number wouldn't match the standard issue set numbers. This would clue would-be collectors into the fact that something was different about these.

Perhaps Topps might have helped collectors a little more had they included something about Burger King on the back. ah well, at least we got to pull a future HOFer from this pack!

2017-18 Donruss Optic NBA

The latest NBA set to release is Donruss Optic- a chromed up version of Donruss. Think of it like the Panini version of Topps Chrome. While the set is available in several packaging variations, today I'm going to take a look at one of the packs from the blaster I got.

Each contains 4 cards.

First out was Rockets rookie Zhou Qi. He's from China and is one of the taller players in the NBA. Like most players from China, Zhou is his last name, or more properly, surname. It's what's on the back of his jersey. He's got a lot of potential but right now remains somewhat raw.

#151

Following him out of the pack is the Wizards' Markieff Morris, one half of an identical twins pair. His brother Marcus plays for the Celtics. They even have matching tattoos!

#146

Each pack gives you one non-base card, either a parallel or an insert, and it's always the third card in. In this pack, it's an insert, Hall Kings, which is horizontal.

Hall Kings #2

Elgin Baylor is one of the most underrated superstars in NBA history. Unfortunately for him most of his career predates the time when every game was taped and highlights were shown all the time. He pretty much invented the highflying game that Dr. J. and Michael Jordan and others have made so successful. One good thing I will say about Panini is that when they include a vintage player in  a set, they usually include the period correct logo. This card is no exception. You can see the back by clicking HERE.

The final card in the pack was rising Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic.

#37

As is usual with all Chrome style cards, they look much nicer in hand. The borders on the base cards are white with tiny chrome diamonds, while the rookies are blue and gray themed, two totally different designs in the same set.

Here's one of the backs, from a card out of a different pack.

The veteran player cards are team color coded, which I like. The rookies are all gray and blue. Most of the veterans have photos from this season. About 3/4ths of the rookies have images from the Rookie Photo shoot, while the rest are cutout action photos from this season. This and Prestige are the only sets issued this season to have photos from this season.

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2015 Topps Garbage Pail Kids 30th Anniversary

I don't often stop at any of the dollar stores, but a few months ago I needed something small and the store is much closer than the Walmart.  I've seen blog posts of collectors buying cards in dollar stores, so I made sure to look around.  I didn't see any and got in line to check out.  There they were!  

I didn't end up buying any sports cards, but grabbed a few different Garbage Pail Kids packs.  They are the only ones I've ever had.  As a kid, my mama wouldn't get them for me and told me how much more my baseball cards would be worth in time.  Oops.  

Over the next few days I'll post some different packs.  I don't know much about them, so I can't comment much.  I am sure some readers will enjoy seeing them despite my ignorance.  Today, you get the 2015 Topps Garbage Pail Kids 30th Anniversary cards.  

I had no idea that there were parallels and inserts.  You learn something new daily!

This was my favorite card in the pack.  Back to the Future is one of my favorite movies ever.

Not one of my favorite movies, but at least I get this one.  I can't say that for all of the ones in the pack.

Per the pack, these green border cards are 1:2 packs.

Famous Movie Scenes cards are 1:4 packs. 

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