Credits for the Wacky Packages web page
Credits for the Wacky Packages web page
Many people helped in the building of this site, literally dozens have provided information or labor in one way or another. The following list is just a short list of those who made contributions (in alphabetical order). If I left anybody off, I apologize, and if you email me I will rectify.
All HTML, all PHP scripts and 99% of the images were tooled by myself Gregory R. Grant. I wrote the forum code from scratch. This is a fan enthusiast project not a business and we're committed to remaining spam free. So, if you appreciate it and want to help, please consider making a donation. It will be tremendously appreciated and will help keep this site going. The plan is to fund it with an endowment that will allow it to live forever, because I'm not going to live forever. But hopefully I live long enough to raise the funds to make it happen.
- Jeffrey Abish: The ultimate resource for rare items both Vintage and ANS. Jeff has spent untold hours scanning for us and providing general information.
- Jeff Allender for generously sharing his amazing and well organized info.
- Jeffrey Amateau: General source of information
- Paul Argyropolous: scans, real product info, lots of info gleened from his books (the Wacky Packages Handbooks and Gallery). Also provided many of the animations.
- Steve Bailey: A tremendous resource for rare items who shares with us generously.
- Pete Boulay: General feedback and (hundreds of) real product scans, also accumulated information and scans of original art.
- Loren Bratzler: real product info, the wacky memory game, general feedback, motivation
- Scott Broberg: content, feedback, scans. Scott is another with a huge wealth of information in his head, which has been mined regularly
- Rich Burley: general information, animations, shirt pics, feedback.
- Martin: real product info
- David Caudle: proofreading, general information and lots of feedback.
- Mike Choman: Champion proofreader!
- Mike Crist: general feedback, scans (art and otherwise), general info.
- Bob Conway: old-timer, wealth of information, provided general information
- Kirk Daniels: scans of unusual items
- Mike Dantzer: t-shirt pictures
- Duane Dimock: scans (particularly of midget rice, and some Guernsey documentation), also provided general information and feedback. Also provided one of the animations.
- Gerry Doire: for help making graphics and slick fonts.
- Shawn Fitzgerald: provided items for scanning, general information.
- John Frick: for sending media appearance of wackys, and general discussion.
- Greg Friend: for pictures of 2005 items.
- Paul Furth: supplied general information, a meticulous collector of data as a child, supplied picture of the 2004 Wal Mart bonus box shipping case.
- Ed Glicken: A deep thinker about wackys, responsible for several very important observations. Gives feedback regularly.
- Terry Gomes: wealth of information on OPC, provided scans, feedback, and information.
- Michael Grant: for volunteering as system administrator and sacrificing an untold number of hours administering all the technical issues relating to this site and the machine that hosts it, and keeping it running smoothly with very little downtime - this site would never have been possible without Mike's enormous efforts.
- John Grisham: real product info
- Dave Gross: the king of the oddball item, provided many scans and much information.
- Darryl Heine: typo reports and general feedback.
- Anders Herrmann: provided items for scanning, particularly the long perf Ads. Also general feedback.
- Francis Khoury: excellent typo reports, general information, research - has a talent for noticing subtleties.
- Bill Kinnaird: 1979 test series info, scans, and other general info and feedback.
- Jay Lynch: Jay is one of the original artists of wackys, and the only one still very much active in keeping up with the hobby. He is an infinite wealth of information, he remembers many details even from the 60's history. His mind has been mined regularly, and as well he has written several essays for this page, and helped to network to other individuals involved in wacky production. His contribution is enormous.
- John Mann: helped massively with complete list of real product actual names, much info also gleened from his web page (that's "gleened" and not "stolen").
- John Mellard: General info and feedback.
- Kathy Montone: provided items for scanning, including OPC uncut sheet and other oddball items
- Tom Moore: Lots of general feedback, holiday greetings images, motivation.
- Bob Morris: General information, checklist typos.
- Mark Parisi: Checklist typos, media appearance, general info.
- Nora Preece: scans of real products, info on legal issues surrounding wackys, and general feedback.
- Jeff Rader: feedback, crust t-shirt pic, typos, media appearances, general information
- Eric Roberts: scans of art, and lost wacky Winsome
- Dave Schmidt: Lots of feedback, typo reports, and one of the most active rational minds in the hobby, we have learned much from his writings and observations. Also provided items for scanning.
- Mark Shoemaker: media reference.
- Matt Stock: general info, scans, feedback
- Tom Theisen: items for the bibliography
- Roxanne Toser: general info, SF article, various other favors.
- Jeff Weiss: many thanks go to Jeff for scanning all the stickers. Jeff also has an extreme wealth of information about the hobby in his head, of which we have mined regularly.
- Fred Wheaton: T-shirt picture, and great information on the 1992 Lost wackys.
- George Wright: general info, scans of checklist sheets
- Patric Zimmerman: excellent typo reports, general information, lots of very high level research, a serious Wacky Pack intellectual.
- Matt, the guy who generously donated the URL www.wackypacks.com.