Customer Reviews

The Wacky Packages Gallery

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The contents of this book are fantastic. As a kid growing up in the '70s, I spent every last quarter collecting the old Wacky Packages stickers. It's great to have all the old and new series collected in one book. My only problem is that the binding on this book is horrible. After perusing the book just a handful of times, pages are starting to fall out. Having forked over $30 for a paperback book, I expected something that would last longer.

I absolutely love Wacky Packages. I absolutely loathe this book. Why is it so difficult to put the cards on a simple white background at actual size? I'm not interested in the author's stab at graphic design (which is horrible and distracting). I want to look at Wacky Packages. I want simple Helvetica text. I want a clean non-cluttered background. I want my money back.

While the book is very informative and the images of the products themselves are excellent, the graphic design and typograhy are absolutely horrible and amateurish. Hideous, gaudy, psychedelic backgrounds on the pages completely detract from the images of the Wacky Packages. The typeography is awful with small type running across the full width if the page, into the center binding, with no columns to make for easier reading. They seem to use about 50 different fonts. The pages are crammed and cluttered. It's a shame. I plan on returning mine before it has a chance to fall apart. A much cleaner layout would really help this book.

Back in the mid-70's, when I was around thirteen and in junior high, a buddy and I were avid collectors of the Wacky Stickers. I remember the time when the local convenience stores were all sold out of them, and we rode our bikes twelve miles to one way out in the country just because we had heard a rumor that it had some new ones. They had a few, and then we had to ride all the way back - and then got in trouble when our parents found out what we had done. It was worth it to show up at school the next week with stickers nobody else had.

Reading this book and looking at all the stickers brought back all those memories. Good times...

My husband and kids (Wacky Package collectors) love this book! They don't seem to care about the busy pages or poor construction that plague other reviewers. All that matters is they enjoy it!

I had no problem at all with the layout of the book. I found it very thorough and enjoyable. If you have any interest at all in Wacky Packages then you would like this book.

This book is a joy! If you were a 70s child, you'll remember the joy of going to the drugstore, buying a wacky-pack, and waiting to laugh at product parodies as Grave Train Dog Food, Clammy Soap, Chock Full of Nuts and Bolts (The Heavily Coffee), Your kids or neices or nephews may find this stuff corny and wonder what you were laughing about over 30 years ago, but, hey, this is truly 70s stuff that they wouldn't understand. Get this book and enjoy the memories.

Prompt service. Perfect product.