Garbage Pail Kids: Not only in the US, but world wide...

Garbage Pail Kids trading cards are famous all around the globe. The American designer genius who came up with those motives is worshiped and beloved, for his creations are an outstanding acid humor version of the traditional girls’ dolls the Cabbage Patch kids.

Inspired in the American version many countries have developed their own GPK series. Among the most famous ones are the Argentine version, which not only combines funny and wicked images but also words games with the first and last name. All the same the Argentinean designers have added some new motives and series.

The Spanish brand was inspired in the American GPK: Basuritas –local translation for the garbage ones. The first series was released in the early 80s. During those days there were many re-releases. The early 90s welcomed us to a new and weird GPK Argentinean version: Basuritas & Monsters (I believe there are some variations of this model, no?) which featured the early models altered and with new and interesting inputs.

The evolution of these trading –collectibles has been impressive from every perspective, though there were some variations and alterations, once the designers returned to the original pattern the latest Basuritas 2 re release and the less known, but equally interesting Basuritas 3 released early in 2004 had impacted considerably in all fans and collectors.

For the admiration and interest raised by all these fabulous characters, the Buenos Aires Museum’s latest input to the collectibles world has been terrific. Scale handcrafted sculptures of each and every one of the Basuritas characters are the obvious and necessary step in the world of GPK collectibles. Their quality and uniqueness, for each sculpture is specially crafted and there are no castings or serial models, its an artwork based on an other piece of art which is the trading card design.

The world of GPK is growing increasingly. It couldn’t be either way when the subject of matter is so interesting and stimulating for the eyes and the intellect!

The Buenos Aires Toy Musuem,Argentina
Garbage Pail Kids from Argentina