Kawaii Cubes

Kawaii Cubes brought Garbage Pail Kids into a small blind-bag line of figures, with each release built around the GPK Pozers.

The figures turned up from Kawaii Cubes, a company already working with other pop culture licenses, and the GPK run was part of that broader toy business. These figures showed up on Target shelves with no real advance notice, after the packaging had already been stamped Series 1.

The GPK Pozers came in blind bags packed one figure and one magnetic base at a time, with a five-figure Series 1 to collect. The bags sat in a gravity-feed box of 36, and the front panel showed Tee-Vee STEVIE, while the box art pushed Adam Bomb and the promise of 1000+ poses. The back of the bag included a picture checklist of the five figures available to collect. The packaging was still simple enough that you could often tell who was inside by feel.