Garbage Pail Kids (Australia)

Garbage Pail Kids made it to Australia as a planned local release in 2020, but the set never actually reached stores. It was intended as a physical box release for Australia, with Banter Toys set to distribute it, and the cards were meant to be an Australian licensed product rather than a simple import. The project used the Garbage Pail Kids name on the mock-ups, not the older Garbage Gang label.

The set included Australian references, including the Australian Outback, Caramello Koala, Bananas in Pyjamas, Vegemite, Bondi Beach, hot weather, and the 2018 cricket ball-tampering incident.

Those earlier releases were printed in New Zealand by the Regina Co. and sold through New Zealand and Australia, with cards that peeled from the edges and came three to a pack with gum, but the Australian 2020 project was something else entirely. It was a separate, unreleased attempt to give Australia its own GPK set. The cards exist mainly as planned local characters.