1. ELIGIBILITY: THE RINGPOP RAISE YOUR HAND CONTEST ("CONTEST") IS OFFERED ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES AND IS OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, WHO ARE 6 TO 17 YEARS OLD AT TIME OF ENTRY. Employees, officers and directors (and their immediate families [parents, children, spouses and siblings] regardless of where they live and members of their same households [whether related or not]) of The Topps Company, Inc. ("Sponsor"), its respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies; retailers and distributors of Topps products; and entities engaged in the development, distribution, implementation or administration of the Contest are not eligible. Void in Maryland, Vermont, North Dakota, Puerto Rico and where prohibited by law. By participating contestants and contestant's parent/legal guardian agree to these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor and/or BR Zoom, the independent judging organization, which are final and binding in all respects.

2. Promotional Period. Contest begins June 1, 2003 at 12:01 a.m. ET and ends October 1, 2003 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

3. To Enter: There are 2 ways to enter, by mail or on-line.

a. To enter by mail obtain an Official Entry form at participating stores, while supplies last. An Official entry form can also be obtained by accessing the web site www.RingPop.com and clicking on the icon, banner or text link to the Contest Page, and then following the directions to download and print an Official Entry form. The Official Entry form must be neatly completed by hand. Then have a photograph taken of one or both of your hands wearing one or more RingPop® CONTESTANTS MAY RECEIVE ASSISTANCE FROM PARENTS/LEGAL GUARDIANS. The photograph must show only your hand(s) (wearing RingPop®) and any props you wish to use, but cannot contain any trademarks of any company other than Sponsor, and cannot show any recognizable feature of any person. The photographs may be in black and white or in color, may be prints not smaller than 3x5 nor larger than 8x11, but no slides, or negatives will be accepted. On the back of the photograph neatly hand print the same information required on the Official Entry form. The photograph may also be in digital format and submitted on a floppy disk or CD as a gif. or jpg., no larger than 15K . Label the floppy disk or CD with the information required on the Official Entry form. Mail the completed Entry Form and photograph, disk or CD in a first class, postage paid envelope for receipt by October 1, 2003 to: Ring Pop Raise Your Hand Contest P.O. Box 77932 Baton Rouge, LA 70879-7932 If you are sending a disk or CD it is recommended that it be mailed in a well padded envelope. b. To enter on-line, access the web site www.RingPop.com and click on the icon, banner or text links which will take you to the Contest registration page. In the field that asks for email address insert your email address. (Children under 13 must have parental permission to enter the contest.) Then follow the directions on the page to upload your entry photograph. The requirements for the photograph are the same as stated above for the mail-in entries . Entries submitted on-line must be received and recorded by Sponsor's computer by 11:59 p.m.. ET on October 1, 2003. Sponsor's computer is the official time keeping device for the Contest. c. All entries (the Official Entry form/on-line registration form and photograph) must be truthful, original, created solely by the submitting contestant (with assistance from parents/legal guardian), unpublished, may not have been submitted in any other competition, and cannot infringe upon any rights of any third party including but not limited to copyright, trademark, patents and/or rights of privacy or publicity. Further, contestant must have the right to submit the photograph and license its use. Any entry, which in the sole opinion of Sponsor is deemed to be inappropriate for publication is ineligible. All Contest materials and entries submitted become the property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. Photographs must be the same as originally taken and cannot have been manipulated using any computer program or other altering or enhancing method. d. Limit one entry per person. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, separated, damaged, unintelligible, illegible, stolen, returned, postage due or undelivered mail, entries, or email; or for lost, interrupted or unavailable satellite, network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, or other connections, availability or accessibility, or miscommunications, or failed computer, telephone, satellite or cable transmissions, lines, or technical failure, or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions, or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or other errors of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic or network or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry or other information or the failure to capture any such information. Once an entry is submitted it cannot be changed, altered or modified.

4. Judging: All entries will be judged by a panel from employees of Sponsor and/or Sponsor's advertising and promotion agencies. Photographs will be judged 90 points on each of the following criteria: creativity (30 points) , number of RingPops (30 points), and use of props (30 points). The contestant whose photograph achieves the highest point total will be declared the Grand Prize winner. First Prizes will be awarded to the top 50 contestants whose photographs achieve the highest point totals in each of the three judging criteria. In case of a tie for the Grand Prize, the tied photographs will be re-judged on the basis of creativity. Winners will be selected on or about October 15, 2003 and notified on or about November 1, 2003. Winners who entered by mail-in will be notified by regular mail. Winners who entered on-line will be notified by email. The notification will contain instructions advising of the steps that must be followed to claim and secure the prize. All winners/winning entries are subject to verification.

5. Prizes: 1 Grand Prize: A 3 night 4 day trip for four to Hollywood, CA, including round trip coach airfare (from major commercial airport in US nearest winner's residence), hotel accommodations (2 standard rooms double occupancy), and $1000 cash awarded in the form of a check, and a 2 night 3 day trip for two to Canada (or Sponsor selected location for shoot) for filming of a Ring Pop TV Commercial, including round trip coach airfare (from major commercial airport nearest the winner's residence), hotel and $10,000 cash awarded in the form of a check. While on location, the winner will participate in a shoot for his/her hand(s) to appear in a RingPop television commercial and still photographic shoot for his/her hand(s) to appear in advertising, trade, and promotional material for Ring Pop. Whether or not winner's hand(s) actually appear in a television commercial or advertising, trade and promotional materials will be solely determined by Sponsor. Approximate Retail Value (ARV) $17,620. Trip must be taken on dates selected by Sponsor. Expenses not specifically stated in these Official Rules are solely the responsibility of each winner. Travel and accommodations are subject to change, availability and certain restrictions may apply. Winner and guests must travel on the same itinerary. Winner must travel with his/her parent/legal guardian. If any winner cannot take the trip as stated, prize will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner (first prize winner with the highest score). Actual value depends on city, date and time of departure; and any difference between the stated value and the actual value will not be awarded. 150 First Prizes will be awarded; 50 winners will be chosen from the 50 highest scores within each criteria. First Prize: A Sony DCRTRV 140 Digital 8 Handycam Camcorder and VideoWave 5 Power Edition editing software ARV $705. In addition, the first 1000 qualified photo entrants will receive a free Ring Pop T-Shirt (ARV $20). Prize cannot be assigned, transferred, redeemed for cash, or substituted, except by Sponsor who may substitute a prize with a prize of equal or greater value if a prize becomes unavailable. Taxes on prize are solely winner's responsibility. All affidavits, releases and undertakings set forth in these Official Rules must be executed and undertaken by the parent/legal guardian of the prize winning minor, both on behalf of himself/herself and the minor. Prize may be awarded in the name of, or to, minor winner's parent/legal guardian. Notwithstanding that the Grand Prize may be awarded in the name of, or to, winning minor's parent/legal guardian the minor must appear, and his/her hand(s) used, in the television commercial and still photographic shoots.

6. General Conditions: Contestants (and contestants' parent/legal guardian) agree, (a) Sponsor and its respective parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies and advertising and promotion agencies, and their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents will have no liability whatsoever for, and are released and shall be held harmless by contestants (and contestants parent/legal guardian) against, any liability, for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind, to persons, including death, or property, resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of a prize or participation in this Contest or in any Contest related activity, and (b) winners (and winners' parent/legal guardian), by acceptance of prize, except where legally prohibited, grants permission (and agrees to confirm such agreement in writing) for Sponsor and those acting pursuant to Sponsor's authority to print, publish, broadcast and use his/her name, photograph, voice and/or likeness, prize information and entry photograph (and grants to Sponsor a non-exclusive right and license to use said photograph in whole or in part, alone or in combination with other works, and that it may be changed, altered, edited or modified, used in distorted, illusory or composite form, or in any other manner as solely determined by Sponsor) for advertising, trade and promotional purposes at any time or times without further compensation in all media now known or hereafter discovered or devised world wide and on the Internet and/or World Wide Web without notice or review or approval. Winners will be required to complete, sign and return an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release, and a publicity release, where lawful. If affidavits/releases are not returned within fourteen (14) days of date on notification, or winner is found to be ineligible or not in compliance with these official rules, or prize/prize notification is returned as undeliverable, prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner selected. Grand Prize winner's guests must complete, sign and return a liability release and where lawful a publicity release prior to issuance of travel documents; and if a guest is a minor that guest's parent/legal guardian must execute the releases on his/her behalf and on behalf of the minor, and must travel with the minor. Intellectual Property. By submitting an entry, contestant (and contestant's parent/legal guardian) represents and warrants that (a) the photograph submitted is the original work of the entrant (with the assistance of the parent/legal guardian) and that entrant is the owner of all right, title and interest in and to the photograph; (b) no third party has any interest via license, assignment or otherwise in the photograph or any part thereof; (c) the photograph, in whole or in part, does not infringe the rights of any other party or entity; and (d) contestant, if a winner, (and contestant's parent/legal guardian) has the unconditional and unrestricted right to grant to Sponsor the non-exclusive right and license to use the photograph as set forth above.

7. Liability Limitations: Sponsor is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the contest, and assumes no responsibility for any error, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation, or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction, or unauthorized use to this website. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the Contest or website, as solely determined by the Sponsor, will be disqualified, and Sponsor reserves the right to terminate such contestant's eligibility. Entries generated by a robotic, programmed, script, macro or other automated means will be disqualified. Sponsors are not responsible for injury or damage to contestants' or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating in this Contest or downloading materials from or use of the web site. Should any portion of the Contest be, in Sponsor's sole opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play, or submission of entries, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to suspend or terminate the Internet portion of the Contest, and select the winners from Internet entries received prior to action taken and regular mail-in entries or as otherwise deemed fair and appropriate by Sponsor. In the event of a dispute regarding entries received from multiple users having the same e-mail account, the authorized subscriber of the e-mail account at the time of entry used to enter will be deemed to be the contestant and must comply with these Official Rules. The authorized account subscriber is deemed to be the natural person who is assigned the e-mail address by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses.

8. WINNERS LIST. For the names of winners, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to

P.O. Box 77924 Baton Rouge, LA 70879-7924

to be received by October 1, 2003. The names of winners may also be posted at www.RingPop.com .

9. Sponsored by: The Topps Company, Inc., One Whitehall Street, New York, NY 10004.