Trading cards

These were notorious for their violent illustrations, including impalements on bayonets and crushings under gun wheels, parapets of dead and bloodied wounded, they were collectable bubblegum cards of the mid-late 1960s by Topps. Rather more extreme than the Monkees trading ...

Dragons Lair was, for those who never went into an amusement arcade, an arcade game which was a cartoon. It was created by Don Bluth after he walked out of Disney. It featured Dirk the Daring who was trying to ...

You used to get the well-illustrated Funny Monster cards in a flat bubble gum packet. They had pictures of, say, a huge ugly monster smoking a cigarette, with the caption "I told you smoking would stunt your growth".I can't remember ...

The Garbage Gang were a 90's follow on to the Garbage Pail Kids of the 80's. There were two series: '91 and '92, which used artwork from the USA Garbage Pail Kids series 10-12. ...

Gross and offensive trading cards for kids that became a big hit in the mid 80's. The cards depicted children that looked like Cabbage Patch Kids and had amusingly rhyming names such as Fartin' Martin and Adam Bomb. The pictures ...

Please help me... I and my siblings appear to be the only people who can remember buying Mega Stickers from our local newsagent. They were sold in packs of six or so and were utterly random cartoon drawings of anything ...

Does anybody remember the following cards, they all came wrapped with a stick of yellow gum? From the series called Kung Fu starring Micheal Carradine there was a collection that had photos from the series on the front and on ...

These were cards depicting scenes from the TV show The Monkees, with all your favourite actors in them. The best part was that the packs had banana-flavoured gum in them, which meant they were often referred to as 'bubblegum cards'. ...

Back in the 80's many Aussie kids were addicted to the popular soap opera Neighbours. Due to the shows popularity & an obvious market, Neighbours Trading/Collector cards were sold. The shows first few seasons were immortalized with character and scene ...

Panini Football Cards all had the different players of the big footy teams as well as their badges. The football cards themselves were meant to go in a yearly book. I remember it being massive in playground swaps in the ...

Pogs were round pieces of card, just slightly bigger than a two pound coin, with pictures on one side. Pogs were actually part of a game but were commonly used as playground currency in the same way as trading cards ...

Shocking Laffs Trading Cards were an obligatory request every time my father took me to the local newsagents in the mid-70s. Priced reasonably cheaply, each packet came with 4 or 5 cards, and a stick of hard pink bubblegum, the ...

Tazos were small round plastic discs you could collect, feeding off the popularity of Pogs. They often had Looney Toons and Pokemon pictures on them and were also available in Walkers crisps. ...

Top trumps first came on the scene in the 1970's and were originally made by a company called Dubreq who were later bought by Waddingtons in 1982. The original Top Trumps were supplied in the now familiar red plastic boxes ...

Trash Can Trolls were trading cards made by Topps Ireland and released throughout the UK in 1992. They were a parody card set inspired by the Lucky Troll fad of the same time period. The card set was produced as ...