2025 Media Menace

2025 Media Menace was Topps’s year-end online Garbage Pail Kids set, another one of those releases that turns the previous twelve months into card jokes. It was an online release from Topps, with cards sold directly through the Topps website.

Topps sold the cards only through its own site, and the release could be bought as singles or in bundles of 5, 10, or the full 20-card set. The single-card price was $8.99, while the larger lots were priced at $34.99, $59.99, and $99.99. Each buying window stayed open for 48 hours, longer than the year before, and the set rolled out over five days from December 8 to December 12, with two new characters each day.

The base set is 20 cards, with sticker numbers 1 through 10 shown in the release details, and Topps described the concept as two new characters a day for five days, each one spoofing a memorable moment from the year. Collectors also had the familiar chase pieces to look for, namely Short Print B Names and Foil Parallels, listed at 1:25. The gallery also flags individual print runs for the cards, and the first card is shown with a run of 3191.