All-New Series 6

When Topps rolled out All-New Series 6 in January 2007, the company gave collectors something they had not seen since the original series in the nineteen-eighties: a wrapped stick of sugar-free bubble gum tucked inside every foil pack. Sold at a suggested retail price of ninety-nine cents, standard boxes held thirty-six packs with five glossy stickers apiece, offering roughly two full base sets if collation went smoothly. For buyers hunting outside traditional hobby shops, Topps also distributed blister boxes carrying twenty two-pack blisters with a bonus sticker, alongside retail bonus boxes containing eleven six-sticker packs and an exclusive bonus card. Hobby boxes included their own perk in the form of a ten-and-a-half by seventeen-inch box-topper poster.

John Pound handled thirty-four paintings, while Tom Bunk contributed a dozen, joined by contemporary mainstays Luis Diaz, Brent Engstrom, John Cebollero, Layron DeJarnette, and Fred Wheaton. Among the roster are characters like Orange JULIUS, Peeled NEAL, Showerin' HOWARD, Canned CARL, and CARTER Farter.

Chase cards accounted for twenty-seven stickers overall, with twelve die-cut Action Punch-Outs seeded one in every three packs and nine magnets falling one in six packs, both lines taking over the insert duties previously handled by alphabet stickers. Five bonus cards filled out the extras across the retail formats, with three allocated to blister packaging and two reserved for retail bonus boxes.

Unlike earlier sets, the standard backs were printed upside down, though they compensated for the oddity by introducing Scott Gross and Jay Lynch's Mix and Match panels that let fans piece together split character combinations. The set had also surfaced months before its winter debut, when Topps handed out an Alien ALAN promotional card at the July 2006 San Diego Comic Convention, an extraterrestrial concept that later arrived in the base checklist under the names LEONARD Nimrod and Trekkie TREVOR.