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Title: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: koduck on September 09, 2022, 05:39:44 AM
This many days until the 2022 NY Comic Con! As many of you already know, when it comes to shows, I'm pretty much a recluse, so doing two shows in one week is kind of unheard of.  If any of you can make it to either NY (Oct. 8th) or the Philly show (weekend of the 15th), definitely drop by the Topps table and say HI! Would be fun to talk shop, art or even just to argue about which Rays is the original pizza place!

(https://i.postimg.cc/2bmj589z/2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/2bmj589z)
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: JasonLiebig on September 14, 2022, 06:28:50 AM
Hope to see you there!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: slamjim on September 14, 2022, 07:09:52 PM
I'll be at the Topps booth at NYC Comic Con as well. Looking like I will cover the Sunday Oct the 9th shift. See you there!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: koduck on October 06, 2022, 08:34:35 AM
NYCC has begun! Here's an update with the latest info on my Saturday appearance...
(https://i.postimg.cc/zVF1Mmkw/CC-promo-NC.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/zVF1Mmkw)
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: Dr.M on October 06, 2022, 09:40:44 AM
Hey Neil!

Do you know if there will be any exclusive Wacky Packages there?
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: jleonard1967 on October 06, 2022, 09:45:16 AM
bring some of those cards to the philly show  ;)
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: koduck on October 06, 2022, 09:57:14 AM
Hey Neil!

Do you know if there will be any exclusive Wacky Packages there?

I've got a funny feeling there might be!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: koduck on October 06, 2022, 09:57:51 AM
bring some of those cards to the philly show  ;)

Wish I could but I think they're for show attendees only.
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: Dr.M on October 06, 2022, 11:31:44 AM
I've got a funny feeling there might be!

Well if you happen to find yourself in possession of a few extras of those cards….. 8)
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: zerostreet on October 06, 2022, 11:49:41 AM
Speaking of NYCC
https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html (https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html)
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: RawGoo on October 06, 2022, 11:56:26 AM
Wish I could but I think they're for show attendees only.

How about "wish I could be an attendee"?
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: crackedjerk on October 06, 2022, 12:07:31 PM
Speaking of NYCC
https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html (https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html)

Thanks for the heads up!  Just bought a set.  Never heard of David Brody before, and a five card set is quite unusual, but glad it was only $10.
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: koduck on October 06, 2022, 01:00:09 PM
David Brody was a program director for Z100 in NYC who approached Topps about doing his own Wacky Packages set. He wrote the titles and I painted them along with the coupon backs. I think David will be at the show on Saturday doing a podcast so if you're in the area, listen in. You might get an earful of wacky lore!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: Dr.M on October 06, 2022, 01:45:04 PM
Speaking of NYCC
https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html (https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html)

Thanks for the heads up on this set!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: Swiski on October 06, 2022, 03:44:15 PM
Speaking of NYCC
https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html (https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html)

This is definitely a strange one-off! No chase cards, no frills. Just a simple base set of 5?
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: RawGoo on October 06, 2022, 03:51:10 PM
This is definitely a strange one-off! No chase cards, no frills. Just a simple base set of 5?

Refreshing!!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: drono on October 06, 2022, 09:11:21 PM
Refreshing!!

Hear, hear!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: crackedjerk on October 07, 2022, 06:58:07 AM
David Brody was a program director for Z100 in NYC who approached Topps about doing his own Wacky Packages set. He wrote the titles and I painted them along with the coupon backs. I think David will be at the show on Saturday doing a podcast so if you're in the area, listen in. You might get an earful of wacky lore!

Thanks for that backstory, Neil!  Sadly, there's no way I'll be able to attend, but if there is a podcast that he does that can be posted here, please do that.  I always enjoy some good Wacky lore :)
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: koduck on October 07, 2022, 01:02:43 PM
Yep, I'll check on Saturday morning and see if I can get a link for the podcast. Stay tuned...
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: Fanatical_and_Sickly on October 08, 2022, 10:45:58 AM
a whole lot of card signing by Neil and David going on today

(https://i.postimg.cc/fLKNWT3T/NYCC-NC-DBs.jpg)
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: Dr.M on October 08, 2022, 12:21:24 PM
Would be great to meet these 2!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: drono on October 08, 2022, 12:59:48 PM
Where can we get that t-shirt?
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: Swiski on October 08, 2022, 01:19:23 PM
Are there Wacky promo cards there or NYCC exclusives?
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: Fanatical_and_Sickly on October 08, 2022, 02:49:41 PM
Are there Wacky promo cards there or NYCC exclusives?
Yes. There’s two. Both are just visible in the bottom of that picture

See the Master List for more
http://www.wackypackagesforum.com/index.php?topic=6672.0 (http://www.wackypackagesforum.com/index.php?topic=6672.0)



Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: JailOJohn on October 08, 2022, 08:37:04 PM
Dumb question here…when they have those unique promo cards, is there a limit on how many you can grab? Asking for a friend
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: koduck on October 09, 2022, 10:36:04 AM
In this case, the cards were limited to 1 set (Meh + Couch Chockula) per ticket.
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: David Brody on October 09, 2022, 11:26:24 AM
Thanks for the heads up on this set!

Actually I was an Executive Producer and Comedy Writer for the Nationally syndicated Elvis Duran and The Morning Show based out of Z100 NY for 24 years and a song parody writer and spoof commercial writer for the company's Comedy division. Lifelong Wacky Packages fan. (Never a program director though)

I hope you like my first stickers! Neil did an incredible job of bringing my ideas to life!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: Dr.M on October 09, 2022, 11:58:36 AM
Welcome to the forum, David! We’re all looking forward to your new Wacky set! Hope it’s the first of many!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: David Brody on October 09, 2022, 01:18:14 PM
Thank you very much. They are available now for the next few days and yes I am hoping to have more in the future! I wrote four more while I was working at the Topps booth at Comic-Con!

https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: koduck on October 09, 2022, 01:21:45 PM
Thank you very much. They are available now for the next few days and yes I am hoping to have more in the future! I wrote four more while I was working at the Topps booth at Comic-Con!

https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html

Welcome to the forum David! Great to meet in person at the Con! You actually made signing endless amounts of cards an enjoyable experience, LOL!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: JasonLiebig on October 09, 2022, 03:34:04 PM
David Brody was a program director for Z100 in NYC who approached Topps about doing his own Wacky Packages set. He wrote the titles and I painted them along with the coupon backs. I think David will be at the show on Saturday doing a podcast so if you're in the area, listen in. You might get an earful of wacky lore!

Very cool.  Just ordered. 

Sorry I missed you guys this weekend.  I was at the show all day Thursday and Friday and then a Marvel alumni get together late Friday night.  It wiped me out, so no Saturday/Sunday for me.  But I did visit the Topps booth both days I was there, saw the GPK fortune teller which was cool.  Don't think they'd put out the Wacky promo yet, but that's how it goes sometimes.  :-)  Great to see Topps giving Wackys a little bit of love for the Con. 
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: David Brody on October 09, 2022, 06:24:20 PM
Very cool.  Just ordered. 

Great meeting you as well! Thanks again for everything. I hope today was fun for you
Sorry I missed you guys this weekend.  I was at the show all day Thursday and Friday and then a Marvel alumni get together late Friday night.  It wiped me out, so no Saturday/Sunday for me.  But I did visit the Topps booth both days I was there, saw the GPK fortune teller which was cool.  Don't think they'd put out the Wacky promo yet, but that's how it goes sometimes.  :-)  Great to see Topps giving Wackys a little bit of love for the Con.
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: DrDeal on October 10, 2022, 04:37:58 AM
Where can we get that t-shirt?

I second that inquiry. Cool shirt I have never seen and would quickly purchase if I could.

Andrew
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: Fanatical_and_Sickly on October 10, 2022, 06:37:23 AM
Where can we get that t-shirt?
look close and just under the image it says © 2022 The Topps Company.
Makes me wonder if it's is a sneak preview of a new card?
hmm, and Halloween is just right around the corner too  >:D
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: crackedjerk on October 10, 2022, 08:02:15 AM
In this case, the cards were limited to 1 set (Meh + Couch Chockula) per ticket.

Count Chockula is in the new David Brody set, correct?  And I believe Meh was released before, but I'm not placing it.  If those two statements are correct, then the Wacky promo cards are not titles unique to the New York show.  Since I don't have the promo cards (and won't pay what I expect the going rates will be for them on ebay), I'm guess I'm not too bummed out I missed them.
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: roughwriter on October 10, 2022, 08:45:42 AM
Hey! I just realized that the shirt Neil is wearing is my "Hacky Packages" gag I submitted for this October's set! Wow! I need that shirt!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: David Brody on October 10, 2022, 09:06:59 PM
COUCH CHOCULA is part of my new set available for 2 more days. No Wacky Comic Con exclusive except I was signing cards with special backs with my name. Not stickers.
There was a GPK set there
https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html

Neil made his own shirt from a new design
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: lucidjc on October 11, 2022, 04:22:14 AM
COUCH CHOCULA is part of my new set available for 2 more days. No Wacky Comic Con exclusive.
There was a GPK set there
https://www.topps.com/2022-topps-wacky-packages-x-david-brody-of-z100.html

Neil made his own shirt from a new design


Thanks Dave! Good to know. By the way, sets are ordered!  stuff look good, thanks for keeping the spirit alive.


Jim
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: David Brody on October 11, 2022, 11:12:42 AM
Thanks! And my pleasure. I guess technically there was a Comic-Con exclusive as I was signing Couch Chocola cards not stickers
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: koduck on October 11, 2022, 11:28:54 AM
To clarify, the Couch Chockula and MEH cards that were handed out at the Comic Con were exclusives. As Dave mentioned, they're cards and each one was signed at the show. The easiest way to tell the difference are the backs, which are completely different from the regular versions.
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: crackedjerk on October 11, 2022, 11:51:24 AM
To clarify, the Couch Chockula and MEH cards that were handed out at the Comic Con were exclusives. As Dave mentioned, they're cards and each one was signed at the show. The easiest way to tell the difference are the backs, which are completely different from the regular versions.

Thanks for that clarification, Neil.  While I it would be very cool to have each of those, especially if it meant meeting you guys and getting them autographed, I'm glad that there are at least other ways to get those images/titles without paying an arm and a leg on ebay.
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: RawGoo on October 11, 2022, 02:44:31 PM
Thanks for that clarification, Neil.  While I it would be very cool to have each of those, especially if it meant meeting you guys and getting them autographed, I'm glad that there are at least other ways to get those images/titles without paying an arm and a leg on ebay.

I agree!!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: Fanatical_and_Sickly on November 11, 2022, 09:49:15 AM
Just received my Friday notice for shipping of the Brody set.
Overnight, and to be delivered Monday
Back to their old games
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: RawGoo on November 11, 2022, 10:12:14 AM
Just received my Friday notice for shipping of the Brody set.
Overnight, and to be delivered Monday
Back to their old games

Same here, except that I went with Smartpost.  That probably means a detour to California..........
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: BattleCaps on November 11, 2022, 03:07:11 PM
Same here, except that I went with Smartpost.  That probably means a detour to California..........

LOL   

You must have gotten the upgrade for delivery via Pony Express.

My dumb-smartpost usually takes 10-14 days.



Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: David Brody on November 11, 2022, 03:21:57 PM
LOL   

You must have gotten the upgrade for delivery via Pony Express.

My dumb-smartpost usually takes 10-14 days.

Thank you!
Title: Re: NY Comic Con anyone?!
Post by: David Brody on November 11, 2022, 03:22:27 PM
Same here, except that I went with Smartpost.  That probably means a detour to California..........

Thank you!