Buzz Break: 2023 Garbage Pail Kids Intergoolactic Mayhem

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The box: 2023 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Intergoolactic Mayhem (collector's box)
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Keep reading for a full breakdown and gallery of what was in this one.

Packs per box: 25 (24 standard, one 3D box-topper)
Cards per pack: 8 in standard, one in 3D
Cards in this box: 193
Base set completion: 
147 of 200 (74 percent)
Duplicates: 0

Insert cards: 45 (all in gallery below with a selection of the best base)
3D Morph Card (1) – Chromed Sean (box-topper pack)
Kosmic Krashers (1) – Zoned-out Zoomer
Wacky Packages Planetary Provisions (1) – Mr. Kling
Space Farce (7) – See gallery
Time Warp (9) – See gallery
Black Hole Black parallel (24) – Notables include Perturbed Picard, Quentin Leap, Eddy Enterprise, Leaky Luna, Wiped Will, Rippin' Ripley, Ghost Buster, Disgorged George, Morphin' Maureen, Landon Lost ... see all in gallery.
Moon Rock Grey parallel (1) – Wrecked Rico (/199)
Supernova Red parallel (1) – Repli-Kent (/75)

Autographs/Memorabilia: 1
Time Warp artist autograph parallel (1) – David Gross (/50)

What's Buzz-worthy: I'm an absolute sucker for GPK sets where we get pop culture nods -- basically cards of  celebs or iconic characters -- inside the theme and this one, well, it delivers that quite well, arguably beyond this one's intergalactic label. That Total Recall homage up top is easily one of the best examples of this in all of GPK history if you ask me, but this set is loaded with 'em and that's what got me to bite here ... Mad Max, "Kim Cardassian," The Fifth Element, Ghostbusters, Starship Troopers, Galaxy Quest, Predator, Back To The Future, E.T., Men In Black ... there's a ton of nods in here. Oh, and there's Bill & Ted, Barbarella, The Matrix, Mars Attacks! and sooooooo many others. (I did wonder to myself ... "Where's Sheldon Cooper?") Why did I grab a box? Well, I already picked off some singles and they're in graders' hands -- that's how much I like some of these -- and I wanted more and to be able to pull some pairs of A-B stickers and potentially grade more. The only challenge here? The stock is, almost as always, on the skinny side and that means some rough edges at times and some in-pack damage ... that's about my only bummer here. This box was a strong one with two numbered parallels (one found in every other box) while the huge pull I had here was an artist auto paralleling one of the insert sets -- a card I almost missed opening these packs -- that's found about one in six cases ... that's a win. Check the gallery and see how many sci-fi TV and movie nods you spot ... I'll say more when I rip more and I'm pretty sure I will be.

Product Grade: A- (stock remains super-thin = to a lot of in-pack damage ... but I like the pop culture nods)
Box Grade: A+ (insert auto is one in 973 packs -- one in six cases)
Fun Grade: B+ (some damaged cards were a bummer in an otherwise strong box)

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