Retsy Series 1 · Card 0200 · 80-TOY
Some assembly required. Lots, actually.
A plastic space shuttle model kit with sixty-four tiny parts, a tube of cement and slide-on decals.
The story · 1981
Building it took one rainy weekend and a lot of patience. The pieces snapped off a gray plastic tree, the glue strings got everywhere, and at least one wing ended up crooked. Dads promised to help and then took over completely. It sat on the dresser for years like a dusty trophy.
Every finished model was missing the same tiny antenna, which was almost certainly inside the vacuum cleaner.
Six finishes
Sticky Thumbs Shuttle comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
80-TOY
Sticky Thumbs Shuttle is one of 32 cards in the 80s Toys & Games set. Here are the other 31.
