Nice.
They're not the cheap papery type that comes with the cubes you buy from Toys'R Us(or however you do the spacings). They're vinyl, and the ones I got were textured. So they're not completely smooth, and they've got this cool glittery metallic effect to them.
... Which basically meant that I had to use them immediately. But in order to do that, I had to peel off all the old stickers(though the job was practically half done already) and clean off the old glue. The glue proved to be a real annoyance, since it didn't come off together with the stickers, and so I had to rub it off manually. Oh, man, the innuendo in that phrase is-
Well basically, here's what you get after you remove all the stickers from your cube.
And it's pretty darn cool. You know how it's fun to mess with your cube, just to feel the speed at which you can turn it, but it comes with the "drawback" of you having a mixed up cube? Well, with a nice black blank cube, you can turn it at top speed all you want, and it'll always be solved!
Also it looks wicked awesome. I'm considering taking the stickers off my other cube just so that I can have a black one for display.
Next, (obviously) I would need to put on my new stickers. It was going well, although a few of them are slightly out of alignment due to my excitement. Which means that I cannot be a surgeon. Anyway, I got to the last face- Yellow, and my nose tickled. I dropped the sticker I was about to place and sneezed.
After which I could not find the sticker! I was actually panicking right there. I searched everywhere in a one metre radius of the place I was sitting. And it took me a good ten minutes or so to find it.
Turns out that I somehow got it under my CPU(which is on my desk), and I discovered a bunch of broken pencils that I hid under there a few weeks ago. They were broken because I was feeling particularly violent and I needed to exert some energy to calm down.
So I finished it up, and behold!
Yeah, you can't really see the nice glittery effect from the photo, but you can see how un-papery and solid the stickers are!
The feel is different from the original stickers, so it's going to take a while to get used to. On the bright side however, it feels totally new. Like a brand new cube, but with nicely seasoned layers.
After this... I had a match of C&C3 with Shaun. Which I won. Ha.
You should have built more AA batteries.
-Joe