oh why oh why
The well runneth dry :P :-\ :o
I have 5 gags approved for this set and I painted one of them.
Maybe Dave can pitch the idea of "Wacky Packages Goes to the Movies Old School" and work up some vintage movie poster parodies. Heck, the cover of Gums (15th) pretty much already captures that.
I'd start with "The French Fries Connection" and "The Six-Urps" (Seven-Ups), two of my personal faves.
I think this set is pushing the definition of "packages." It probably should've been called Wacky Movie Posters, but Topps wanted to capitalize on the name recognition of Wacky Packages.
No Star Wars in this series?
This one was actually a fun one to paint. Much better than the 50th. Having real products mixed with movie characters worked out well. Think a set of Planet of the Grapes and Gums style gags.
Finishing up my last ones on Wednesday. I'll have 22 in the set. Wrote an additional 8.
Planet of the Grapes was a parody of a Topps package product. Gums I'm not too fond of, but at least it was a physical product; a book. These movie posters look nothing like Wacky Packages.
I don't think you read what I wrote. I did 22 paintings and every one of them is a standard Wacky Package using a real product but also using a movie character in it. Like Aqua Fresh, Wonder Bread, stuff like that. I think most of the set is like this but there are also movie posters like the ones shown already. Apparently they didn't have enough of the product ones ready when they made up the ad sheet.
I'm not a fan of this idea whatever form it takes. I do respect you and your talent and not impinging on the artwork. It is the vision for this series I can't say I agree with.
Here's an idea. Topps wants movie posters? Make a return of the Wacky Posters with movie posters as the theme. :great:
Can't do anything Disney which includes Star Wars, Marvel, ABC TV, AMC and ESPN.
I will give the set a chance after the disaster computer generated junk I saw in the 50th set.
I will give the set a chance after the disaster computer generated junk I saw in the 50th set. The mere mention of PAINTING gives me hope that there will be hopefully some great gags and execution.
So happy to be on this set! I have 9 gags/paintings, with 2 shown on the sell sheet, Mad Mutt and Wonduh Woman.
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That Transfatties is FUNNY !! very nice...great work love the other gags in there too... :-[ :-[ :-[
. . . for the love of God, please stop with the colored borders!
... seems to indicate a one month slip to the set, from March to April
Yah, the colored borders don't do anything for me. Topps has a lot of cool parallel sets in their other products. At the very least, they could do x-fractors like in the past. Clear plastic cards would be cool. My favorite wacky/GPK inserts are magnets though, as you can slap them on the fridge or filing cabinet in the office.
I really enjoy kiss-cut magnets. The only border variation that has appealed to me was the completely black "canvas" background.
Tied Detergent Wacky .... move the card and magic..... Actual Tied Detergent productJust don't eat it.
Lenticulars!!!
I have proposed this in this past:
Tied Detergent Wacky .... move the card and magic..... Actual Tied Detergent product
Richard
I'm still hoping for a mini-set with "scratch and sniff" on there.
Could be good smells (chocolate, pine scented air freshener, lemon)
and bad as well (rotten eggs, garlic, dirt).
Years and years ago there was a Simpson set that had a few cards
like this, I think it would be awesome!
I'm wondering when the scratch and sniff Ovary Show Lost Wacky will be released. Would sell for thousands!!!
With so many Ovary Show stickers being sold as of late; I am sure Norm is pissed. He did that painting as a goof for his editor. He never intended for us to see it.It has gotten crazy with all the colored panties versions, gold, diamond variants etc. That is why I made my sarcastic scratch N sniff comment, watch it just may happen.
Now its all over Ebay in multiple formats. That's too bad. Prior to this latest "Lost Wacky" push; I had probably viewed that title 7 times in my life. Now I feel like I see it a every day when searching Ebay for "Lost Wackies". Most of the time it is uncensored; which puts a bad light on our hobby.
I'm still hoping for a mini-set with "scratch and sniff" on there.
Could be good smells (chocolate, pine scented air freshener, lemon)
and bad as well (rotten eggs, garlic, dirt).
Years and years ago there was a Simpson set that had a few cards
like this, I think it would be awesome!
Any idea when this series is being released? I'd like to give the checklist and real names to Mitch for the Spreadsheet.I have heard the 14th and the 21st. Not sure which is correct. I just got the Fed Ex notice that my returns have been sent so it is soon!!!!
I have heard the 14th and the 21st. Not sure which is correct. I just got the Fed Ex notice that my returns have been sent so it is soon!!!!Okay, I'll be waiting for it.
Too soon to raid the sealed Excell Marketing cases at Target stores?
14th is the release date. They used my Halloween gag on the pack!!
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Hey, that’s cool for you! Nice.Looks like it. I haven't seen them all. Clint at GPK and Wacky Warehouse is opening them now, he just posted sets on ebay.
So Wacky Packages logo is now on the card front, like a GPK?
Awesome! How did you confirm the date?Clint got his today, should be in some Targets Wednesday. He's already got sets listed on ebay.
Hey, that’s cool for you! Nice.
So Wacky Packages logo is now on the card front, like a GPK?
I think that is just a parallel.Looks like the standard black border base card
Is it correct that a complete set of base cards + Bonus Cards would be the 90 card set plus the 20 card small screen and 20 card classic film card sets? 130 cards.There are also 20 concession stand chase cards.
Are there any other sets of cards to acquire not counting alternate borders and patch cards?
My concepts painted by Jungwa Im.
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Chad,
Do you know how many titles got the Im treatment?
Looks like all the bonus cards minus any reprinted stuff and so far a bunch of movie posters.of the 60 chase cards, looks like the 10 new ones in there are hers.
Some more I did for the set:
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Chad,I haven't seen them all yet. I have 2 more that I'm guessing she painted.
Do you know how many titles got the Im treatment?
There are also 20 concession stand chase cards.+10 Horror Movie Chase cards
Seems like 150, if you don't count the oversize cards (10?)
Looks like all the bonus cards minus any reprinted stuff and so far a bunch of movie posters. I'm going to say roughly 1/4 of the full set (base and bonus) it looks like.
So you are saying all the new art painted by anyone other than Ms Im went into the 90 card base set?Master List is updated now with all the bonus card information.
Master List is updated now with all the bonus card information.Does it make sense that these also need to be added to my bonus/promo card list?
Master List is updated now with all the bonus card information.Dexters Lab Accident is a new title... one of mine.
Bonus cards are all reprints, lost titles and new Im art - though I'm uncertain about Dexter's Lab Accident.
Is that new, or is it a 'lost' title? Anyone?
Great work everyone! Of my 9 pieces, this is the only package gag I have in the set.
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That is absolutely fantastic!
Great work everyone! Of my 9 pieces, this is the only package gag I have in the set.
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Does it make sense that these also need to be added to my bonus/promo card list?Meant to say 'chase card' subsets. These don't have "B" names, so I'd say they don't belong on the bonus/promo list.
Dexters Lab Accident is a new title... one of mine.excellent!
Smokin' Joe
Here's a few of mine
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Looks like the base set is all black cards which I think looks great. The thin black borders just don't work as you lose the 3D look to the packaging. Will take all black any time over that. It's totally new for WP but I'm good with it.yep. it all seems to be looking exactly the same as the 50th, with regards to full-bleed borders and the base and parallel colors.
To the artists, I think it really comes through that you guys had fun with these. I really like the gags and most of the artwork is exceptional (cough, except for a certain set of flat, 2-D looking pieces, cough). Nicely done everyone!
Here's two more:
Ava-Tarts and Hunger-Man Dystopian Dinner
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These all look great, although who did Propeye, Hotel Pennsylvania 3, Bar-b-q and Yucker's marmalade?
Bar-b-q is probably a satire of the Barbie movie.
Pauly
These all look great, although who did Propeye, Hotel Pennsylvania 3, Bar-b-q and Yucker's marmalade?
Bar-b-q is probably a satire of the Barbie movie.
Pauly
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Propeye is my Gag but I haven't seen the final art yet. Probably by Jungwa? Can you post it?
I have been finding the same combination at the Targets that have them in stock (some don't have them out yet) -
Each one has a Display Box and 4 Bonus Boxes.
No value packs or gravity feeds out yet in my area.
Has anyone found the Value Packs anywhere?I seem to always get stocked late around here, but it seems like the value packs have always taken another week or two after the display/bonus/gravity feeds show up.
I have been finding the same combination at the Targets that have them in stock (some don't have them out yet) -
Each one has a Display Box and 4 Bonus Boxes.
No value packs or gravity feeds out yet in my area.
Propeye is my Gag but I haven't seen the final art yet. Probably by Jungwa? Can you post it?both JungHwa
both JungHwa
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BTW, they totally screwed up my Freddy Grahams card. I sent them in a scan without the top left corner finished up. Immediately sent them the correct one and told them to discard the first scan and...they used the first scan. Ugh. So the top left corner gag is left unfinished.upper right is unfinished as well.
Damn it!
upper right is unfinished as well.
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This is why I love when David shows us his original art scans. So many details are lost on press, aside from Topps error here. The traditional black border looks soooooooo much nicer. I think the all black background actually creates more problems for the pre-press department, where they have to make adjustments to the other process inks to compensate. The brown border on Freddy Grahams has a nice crisp dark chocolate color on the original art, but on the final printed sticker, it appears more of a muted milk chocolate color. Thank you David for sharing your art and concept sketches with us!
Thanks! Agree on the borders and man, they really can't let stuff like this happen.
We can't do any Disney products so that includes Marvel as well.
Just curious... do you know when the Disney C&D was implemented?
The Bar-B-Q one is my gag, based on a Barbie movie that was due out soon.
Hey Baked Bears! If it should be box of tissues, that would be my error, but I did search just that as I wrote the gag and seemed to find more references to "box of tissue" so I went with that.
Zerostreet,
Like I mentioned, I could be mistaken in regard to this. My comment wasn't implying that you were in error, though, but rather Topps - who has a proven history of printing typos, etc., and who has just committed one of their more spectacular blunders (which is why my comments were grouped together in the same post.)
By the way, love "Monions" and showed it to my students who also appreciated it, as well.
BB
noticed this variant while sorting cards, One grey and one blue.cool, I'll have to look for that if I ever get my cards. Haven't even received a shipping notice yet from Blowout.
cool, I'll have to look for that if I ever get my cards. Haven't even received a shipping notice yet from Blowout.
Previous releases they were on top of things.
Topps has the Collector's boxes on their site as of this post!?!?yep, they went up Wednesday. But don't tell them they're not officially released yet. :-\
The Bar-B-Q one is my gag, based on a Barbie movie that was due out soon. the Frosty one was a surprise that was intended for the On Demand holiday set and I didn't even know that this was excepted until mid February. I have no idea of the movie correlation but I'm not a movie fanatic in general I confess.
lots of great stuff in this set and it's killing me that I'm away and thinking there's a big box of product waiting for me 1500 miles away or so ;). I'm still trying to figure out these subsets though.
I think Smokin' Joe topped his own level of weirdness with this last one! One of the most surreal Wackys yet!
Man, some of these are way out there!I agree on this one. The Botched Baby Wacky is crazy-and I mean crazy as in insane. It looks like an Ugly Stickers reject that didn't know when to say "when"-or when to say "Stop!". I mean it-if looks could kill, then just a glance at that thing and you'd be dead (by the way, I mean all this in a good way).
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I think Smokin' Joe topped his own level of weirdness with this last one! One of the most surreal Wackys yet!
I am out of touch with current movies, and don't even get some of these, including Botched Baby.
Just curious... do you know when the Disney C&D was implemented? I remember some sketch cards portraying the AJERX character as various Marvel heroes for one of the ANS sets, I believe. I will have to check at home tonight. Either they were issued before the C&D or they snuck in under the radar. They may have even been issued prior to the Disney acquisition of Marvel.
Man, some of these are way out there!
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I think Smokin' Joe topped his own level of weirdness with this last one! One of the most surreal Wackys yet!
no luck finding any Wacky movies today, but I found these.
Don't feel bad, RawGoo. I'm in the same boat. (For some reason, I was always under the impression that life got easier as you got older and you had more time for movies and other fun stuff. Yeah, right.) I've had to look up some of these titles to better appreciate the humor, and remember, some titles - like "Jurassic Squirrel" (which I didn't get at all for a while) - are based on movies yet to be released.
Where?!Fred meyer, think they are also called Kroger in other parts of the country.
no luck finding any Wacky movies today, but I found these.How much?
How much?5 bucks for 4 packs, one chrome pack in each. found some cool refractors i didn't have, and tattoos and magnets.
and can't believe they are *still* trying to unload ANS2 after all these years
The last new movie I got to see was Star Wars Rogue 1.... I have a subtitle for that one, but don't want to be a spoiler.
I may have you beat. I think mine was "Guardians of the Galaxy" - the first one. (Thank goodness for DVDs! Or maybe they're the reason I don't go out to the movies as often? That, or the fact that when I take people out to the movies as a treat, I'm instantly out at least $50.)
And come on, spoil us!
On a similar note, is this set the first time WP parodied "products" before they even existed?
We used to have a spoiler feature, but I believe it was lost with the last "upgrade." Oh well, it's been out for over a year, so hopefully this won't spoil anything for anybody.
I think of the movie as "Star Wars Rogue 1: Everyone Dies, even the Droid."
I'm the worst person at the movies I think the last one I went to was "Earthquake" and the theaters had a special feature where the seats shook a little? I hated that hehe I'm just very fidgety the seats bother my back a lot and I'll drive you nuts talking too much before I fall asleep after 30 minutes
Or maybe it was ""Grease" where I saw about 1/8th of the movie before the theatre lost power and it never came back on after about an hour of waiting and they sent us all home
There is some great art in this series! I think these two are my favorite titles so far, truly Wacky. Way to go Joe!Both Joe's. (Simko for Peter Rabid and Smokin' for Botched Baby)
I'm the worst person at the movies I think the last one I went to was "Earthquake" and the theaters had a special feature where the seats shook a little? I hated that hehe I'm just very fidgety the seats bother my back a lot and I'll drive you nuts talking too much before I fall asleep after 30 minutesYou think those two are bad? When my mom and dad were dating back in the 1950s, they were watching The Fly (first version) at the local drive-in. They fell asleep during the movie and were awakened long after everyone had gone home and the movie was over. After realizing what time it was, Dad drove quickly out-but he forgot that he still had the drive-in speaker still attached to the car door! Three guesses as to what happened after that and the first two don't count. Many, many years later Mom went to see Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at a theater (a regular one) and she quietly fell asleep at the part where Harry, in the train station, goes through the brick wall in the muggle world and ends up in the wizarding world's train station. She hasn't seen the movie since.
Or maybe it was ""Grease" where I saw about 1/8th of the movie before the theatre lost power and it never came back on after about an hour of waiting and they sent us all home
Great art, but not knowing the movies, the gags are lost on me :sad:other than the "2049" oz., the PowerBlade is really a play on the old 1982 Blade Runner, as the character looks like Deckard from the original film and not the new one.
the gags are lost on meWrong thread. :)
Great art, but not knowing the movies, the gags are lost on me :sad:Even when I recognize the movie tie-in, to me this subset of titles has a disconnect similar to the MLB Wackys. However, unlike the latter, at least the "movie products" marry with the broader theme of the set and make a little more sense when viewed strictly within the overall context of the set.
After the soft roll out of the bonus boxes last week (a week before the scheduled release date of today - 3/21), I expected to see gravity feeds and bonus packs out today but after visiting 2 Targets, I saw nothing new. One Target had the same booster box out with some packs available but nothing else, the other Target didn't have anything out at all.
In addition, nothing from Topps promoting the "New" release.
What gives???
After the soft roll out of the bonus boxes last week (a week before the scheduled release date of today - 3/21), I expected to see gravity feeds and bonus packs out today but after visiting 2 Targets, I saw nothing new. One Target had the same booster box out with some packs available but nothing else, the other Target didn't have anything out at all.
In addition, nothing from Topps promoting the "New" release.
What gives???
Yeah...hype for these are starting to fizzle out already. Now we wont have anything new to talk about here for a long time.tell that to the folks listing red border base cards for $500 on eBay. (actually, that should go into the Are These People Nuts??? thread... )
More print variants.
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After the soft roll out of the bonus boxes last week . . .
I found one display box and 2 blasters at Target yesterday. Looks like there will be no jumbo packs or gravity feeds this time.
Just opened 2 Collector boxes, 2 display boxes, and 2 blaster boxes.... 106 total packs.... and not a single sketch. No sketch redemption card, nothing except one lonely autograph card from Neil Camera.
These boxes SUCKED :-\
No sketch redemption card, nothing except one lonely autograph card from Neil Camera.
Just opened 2 Collector boxes, 2 display boxes, and 2 blaster boxes.... 106 total packs.... and not a single sketch. No sketch redemption card, nothing except one lonely autograph card from Neil Camera.
These boxes SUCKED :-\
I agree. I opened 3 collectors boxes, 4 display boxes and 4 blaster boxes and no sketch.
Sorry to hear about the box failure, but who knows? Maybe that autograph card will end up being a priceless collectible someday ;)
*finally* found some packs and bonus boxes at one of 5 Target's I drove to in the area.
What's the deal with the poor distribution of this series?
Still no gravity feeds or value packs either. Maybe they don't exist this time around?
I have to concur with the idea put out by mikecho - does Topps even care about Wackys anymore?
Not only has there been a lack of product in stores, but there has not been a single mention in any of the daily emails Topps sends out to their mailing list.
Can someone on these boards in the know comment on this? With this lack of attention, is another set even possible?
.... there has not been a single mention in any of the daily emails Topps sends out to their mailing list.
Havent seen any of my autos show up yet. Wonder if they were lost?
Decided to shoot for a full house on Smellboy after I pulled a red patch in packs.
At this point, 5 border colors, autograph, 3 border color patches, sepia and 3 backs - black lud, red lud and blank.
Just pulled a Gold from a bonus box. My one and only. And one used for the box art too.
Kind of exciting.
Would have been cool if I pulled a Smellboy....
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this is what i just pulled.....they do exist..... :o :o :o :oWHOO!!!!!!
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box from the dollar tree 4 packs.I need to find one of those!
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There was about 20 backs in this one, but i dont need anymore base cards so i bought one pack and took the box. The cashier thought I was crazy . Thought it was weird that I wanted the box.
Patrick, pardon me reposting this, I just wanted to see the image...no problem. I went back to my earlier post and manually changed it to 'cc' to make it visible.
no problem. I went back to my earlier post and manually changed it to 'cc' to make it visible.
do you have something that automatically updates the address, or did you alter it manually as well?
Manually. It’s a shame there’s no way to automatically update all the existing links. On top of the photobucket disaster all the cool old threads nearly everywhere are unreadable now.
So much we had as history and reference is just gone.I am far from a "forum SME", but I would think that an administrator would have the ability to do some kind of global change on the text/html in a thread...or maybe even forum wide.
The minute Eisner came on board
I am far from a "forum SME", but I would think that an administrator would have the ability to do some kind of global change on the text/html in a thread...or maybe even forum wide.
I had that thought as well, and will ask Brad.
It's a little confusing, because if you look, for example, at the WP Unopened Pack Reference thread, most of the images still show. The links back then refer to the domain postimage.org. Ultimately, it was changed to postimg.org, and that is the domain that no longer works. So I believe replacing postimg.org with postimg.cc would be effective.
Unfortunately, it seems there is no way to do a global search and replace. :sad:Wow, I've always thought this forum software was pretty good, but I guess it's missing some basic tools...at least, IMO.
If people see their posts are missing important pics, they can manually edit them.
Wow, I've always thought this forum software was pretty good, but I guess it's missing some basic tools...at least, IMO.
By using phpMyAdmin you can do a global search and replace. You open the smf database, choose the smf_messages table, click on the search tab and pick search and replace on the body column. It will then give you a preview of all of the changes that will be made so you can verify before you click replace. Just make sure to backup the database first.
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I used phpMyAdmin. It is usually an option in your hosting control panel for SQL databases.
Maybe you have an earlier version than what I have. I have 4.7.7. Click on the house icon under phpMyAdmin on the left column and it will show your version on left.