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New Article: Garbage Pail Kids “Tacky Snappers!”

The Garbage Pail Kids return to X-Entertainment with a review of Imperial's GPK Tacky Snappers. What were they? I dunno...some kinda slime wands with character-shaped handles. I think. The article features a hands-on look at the beasts, plus a bonus section that rewrites an old blog entry about GPK's assortment of "Cheap Toys & Crummy Candy." I've been dying to open this stupid Tacky Snapper for like a year now. Now that I have, I'm not sure what to do with myself. Maybe I'll take up stained glass. When you're finished with that, feel free to go back and read my review of the unprecedented pile of torment known as Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie.

Posted by Matt on 03/18/2004. E-mail me!

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Chestnuts roasted by Billy T @ 03/18/2004 10:05 AM

Cool, a bombardment of new articles! Hopefully the next GI Joe installment is coming tomorrow. Those rock my socks off!

Chestnuts roasted by rizz @ 03/18/2004 10:32 AM

Glad I never bothered with these things. I was into Thundercats, Voltron, And of course He-man.

Chestnuts roasted by Rowan Steele @ 03/18/2004 10:32 AM

Nasty Nick never got any love from the GPK conglomerate business machine. For that I am sad, who else remembers what GPK cards thier name was on?

Chestnuts roasted by Toxikfoxx @ 03/18/2004 10:41 AM

Mad snapps.

Chestnuts roasted by Snappy McSnapper @ 03/18/2004 11:07 AM

They still sell these Garbage pail keychains at the dollar store in my neighbourhood, I wonder if I should pick some of them up?

Chestnuts roasted by Ryan @ 03/18/2004 11:32 AM

Did anyone else see the pic on the front page and think it was some disgusting fellatio cartoon at first? Please don’t tell me I’m the only one.

Chestnuts roasted by Aberration @ 03/18/2004 11:38 AM

Yaay, I have some of those cards… but they belonged to my sister actually.

Chestnuts roasted by Recoil (h4x.us/contradb - Contra database) @ 03/18/2004 12:03 PM

I remember these things. I still get splakked upside the head by one from a vending machine when one of my nephews feels the urge. I miss my old can of Slime. Review the Sime Monster board game sometime.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/18/2004 12:12 PM

I wasn’t allowed to get Garbage Pail Kids cards when I was a kid. My mom said they were disgusting.
Fortunately My cousin had boxes full of GPK cards so I got to partake in the forbidden fruit that was Garbage Pail Kids.

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 03/18/2004 12:19 PM

Also I should add that this is he first time I ever heard Of GPK Tacky Snappers. Never seen one before. Not even my Garbage Pail Kids Obsessed cousin had one.

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 03/18/2004 12:23 PM

i want to make a submarine out of them

Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 03/18/2004 1:04 PM

I dunno. The people who market GPK are sick, sick bastards.

Chestnuts roasted by Icymatt @ 03/18/2004 1:25 PM

I too was not allowed to have GPK. My mom thought they were a horrible thing for a growing girl to partake of. I recall secretly buying some at a yard sale that my grandma took me too, and hiding them. My mom eventually found them and threw them out….sigh.

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 03/18/2004 1:31 PM

If I knew english better I would quit my job and make my own web site to be like matt.

Chestnuts roasted by fdjfghjf @ 03/18/2004 2:24 PM

my mother used to tell my sister and i that we were going to get "cabbage patch kids" but to my dismay she meant garbage pail kids. We’d walk down the the corner pantry and buy a pack. I’d chew the gum in digust, thinking i had been ripped off. good times.

Chestnuts roasted by James Smith @ 03/18/2004 2:44 PM

I never got into the whole Garbage Pail Kid thing. There wasn’t one with my name, as far as I know, so maybe that’s why I didn’t really get into them.

Chestnuts roasted by Aubrey @ 03/18/2004 3:05 PM

That’s what you think, kid.

Chestnuts roasted by Awful Aubrey @ 03/18/2004 3:06 PM

Matt’s decorating the place with decals, it looks like.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash on a puffy sticker @ 03/18/2004 3:12 PM

um, we go to walmart some boring weekends, buy these things out of the 50cent machine, and go around whacking the shit out of everything with them… when we are finished, we launch them on a wall, as high up as we can, so they stick there, NEVER to come down. We call this "wanger-floppering" becuase we aren’t very good at coming up with names.

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 03/18/2004 3:39 PM

The most disgusting one has to be Corroded Carl. He looks all happy to be covered with open sores.
Seeing those little Garbage Pail Kids running around in a real time movie is f-ing scary. Thanks for the nightmares, Matt.
Does anyone else remember a Phil Collins music video (forget the name of the song) where there were puppets of world leaders and famous people. That used to scare the bejesus outta me when I was younger. I get the same creepy vibe off of these GBKs.

Chestnuts roasted by Never Eat Shredded Wheat @ 03/18/2004 4:07 PM

never had any gpk stuff not that i would remember exactly knowing my mom she wouldnt have baought them anyway:(

Chestnuts roasted by Mr.Fun @ 03/18/2004 4:11 PM

"Land of Confusion" by Genesis starring the Spitting Image puppets. They looked like George Woodbridge or political cartoons come to life. Creeped a lot of people out, I understand.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/18/2004 4:15 PM

Thanks KK,
I’ll be happy never to see that video again. I was only 4 or 5 when it came out, but I still remember it vividly. Damn you, Phil Collins.

Chestnuts roasted by Never Eat Shredded Wheat @ 03/18/2004 4:27 PM

I loved that video its one of my faves.

And I too was banned from GPK as a kid, although recently I discovered that they not only had one but two different kids with my name (Ball N Shane and Chained Shane) I made some T-shirts out of them.

Chestnuts roasted by Spiffy McKracken @ 03/18/2004 4:29 PM

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