We remember Wacky Packages and had owned a few of the 1985 series. A funny concept that had been reintroduced at least 6 times with new products…
I f*cking hated this card and was teased by other kids that had gotten it…
The GPK craze was insane enough that a movie starring Mackenzie Astin (Sean Astin’s brother) came out and was picketed by parents for its grossness…
These cards were on clearance at a local Big Lots in 1992 for I believe $5 a box, bought several to see if I could complete the set (I didn’t). They tried making war a collectible trading card…
MattyV has a small collection of Stranger Things items that I like, I don’t expect to keep them for years and sell them for a fortune like that episode of Amazing Stories. Here’s an article about some worthless collectibles…
Disney is reissuing the very first Star Wars figures in retro packaging for us Gen-Xers to gobble up and hoard…
He also collects odd sodas that get released, including 2 bottles of Crystal Pepsi from the 2017 reissue. Here’s an employee training video from 1992 when it was originally released….
“Bankrupted by Beanies” is short documentary about a man who collected them in order to get rich but when the bubble burst,https://youtu.be/PgDsyj5eLmo he was left with stuffed animals worth basically nothing….
Junkiosity 