Sky Castle Sticki Rolls Sticki Station, Wearable Shareable

Plenty of jewelry pieces
This kit comes with 2 necklace cords, 6 bracelet cords, an extra (long) piece of cordage without a clasp, four different colors of round beads, and 32 “sticki” rolls, which are clear sparkly cylindrical beads in four colors that are each wrapped in a strip of stickers. Each roll is themed; many of the rolls are “mystery” rolls, where the name and first sticker are covered up by a sticker covered in question marks, so that it’s a surprise which roll you get. The idea is to wear the stickers on the bracelets/necklaces and share/trade them with friends. The stickers are reusable, and the beads are pretty.

In order to string the beads on the cord, you pull one of the ends of the clasp off using a slit down the side of the clasp. When the beads are strung, line the knotted end of the cord up with the slit and yank the string back into place. The end of the elastic cord will probably not stand up to much of this, so it behooves you to plan out your jewelry before you assemble it. You can tell which color the rolls’ beads are by looking at them end-on. I might try putting fray-check on the ends of the cords to make them more durable.

I got this having already gotten the Sticki Book and two other sets. In my opinion, the book really is essential because it allows you to keep the stickers organized and stored, and the very first thing anyone is going to want to do is pull every last sticker off of every roll to see them all. I guess you could roll them back up; they can stick to and come off of each other with no issues.

That said, between this set and the other three, there were A LOT of repeats. In the collectors’ booklet, it seems that some of the rolls can only be acquired as mystery rolls. Of the repeats I’ve gotten, I only had one between the other three sets and it was a mystery roll, which you might expect to be random and thus more prone to repeats. Between this set and those other three, there were TEN repeats, and only three of them were mystery rolls. That was a real disappointment. I wish that Sky Castle had made it so that the non-mystery rolls contained in each set were different. That would be good for them because it would encourage people to buy all of them (to complete their collection) and good for the consumer because it would cut down on repeats. 7 *intentional* repeats is egregious, imho.

Also, one of the non-mystery rolls in this set was the only one in the entire pool of rolls that I DIDN’T want to get – it’s poop-themed and, in my opinion, very gross. But then, kids like gross stuff and probably appreciate toilet puns in a way that I never will.

All of the sticker rolls (even the poop one) are drawn in a cute style. A lot of them have silly puns. Some of the puns are kind of dumb, and one of them didn’t actually make sense (probably a translation error). Some of the others made me laugh out loud. I’d love to get all of the rolls possible, but that’s an unattainable goal… especially with TEN REPEATS in this set – fully a third of the rolls were repeats. Ugh.

But otherwise this is a lot of fun, and kids are sure to love it.