Buzz Break: 2022 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Book Worms

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The box: 2022 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Book Worms (hobby)
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Packs per box: 24
Cards per pack: 8
Cards in this box: 192
Base set completion: 
158 of 200 (79 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Insert cards: 34 (all in gallery below with some base)
Authors Of Their Own Misfortune (8) – See gallery
Booger Green parallels (24) – See gallery
Moby Dick Grey parallels (1) – Awful Arthur (/199)
Sleep Drool Blue parallels (1) – Researching Ralph (/99)

Autographs/Memorabilia: None

What's Buzz-worthy: This box included plenty of nods to books and literature that are known in that realm or have made it to the big screen -- as well as people and entities of note who have been in books or are known for them. This one isn't as flashy to me as, say, the decades sets that can take on celebs and other more-obvious pop culture icons but I think it worked out better than I had expected when opening. This box beat the odds on the two parallels -- the Grey card is one in 183 packs and then the Blue is one in 57. (The odds are oddly opposite of the serial-numbering volumes so I suspect there's overlap with other formats here and one of those appears in one or both of those.) The other possible finds here include scratch-and-sniff cards, sketch cards and artist autographs at reasonable odds while printing plates are tough at one in 16,834 packs. The Misfortunes inserts blend right in with the base so I don't think those work that well -- they should have just been folded into the main set with some there type of slightly different inclusion helping add more variety. There's nothing really deficient here -- I just like other concepts from recent years more than this one. All in all, this one still has nods that are cooler than, say, back to school, but I like others more. This one did surprise me more than I had expected. Some of the nods here? Sesame Street, Calvin & Hobbes, Shawshank Redemption, Fabio, Biff Tannen from Back To The Future, Levar Burton and Reading Rainbow, Tom Sawyer, The Neverending Story, iRobot, Frankenstein, The Cat In The Hat, Winnie The Pooh and more ... see how many you know in the gallery.

Product Grade: B
Box Grade: A (two parallels here are rarer than one per box)
Fun Grade: B (feels like these boxes need something more to add to variety ... Misfortunes blend right in with base)

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