Rubsign Opinions

[ConvoyGTR]

Rubsign are cool and nostalgic, but personally I would stick with the tampo symbols they come with or leave it bare because I think putting any kind of sticker on your toys is tacky looking unless it's part of the design like G1 toys.

[Badgertron]

Originally Posted by Vain

A Black square on a hood isn't very subtle either :P

Except that faction stickers tend to carry on into the fiction, while the rubsigns don't.

[justprime]

I liked the rub signs and think they should still be using them, what I would like to see again is the mini spys and decoys the litle rubber figures that actully looked like the charater and could be used with the playsets,these were cool wish big H would bring these back with updated versions to match the new charaters.

[Shockwave 75]

I think if they could make the rubsign seamlessly part of the alt/mode, and then have an actual faction symbol for the robot mode, that would be cool.

Didn't the Car Robots Spychangers have hidden rub symbols? I seem to remember seeing a pic of someone rubbing the roof of Ox (RID Ironhide) and revealing a Bot symbol.
If they could do that, I'd be all for rub symbols.

[UltraMarknus]

I thought rubsigns were awesome as a kid. I loved working them even knowing full well whether it was an Autobot or Decepticon. Its pure nostalgia in my case as I remember them vividly...so I say rubsign away!

[Dagger]

I like the rubsigns. It just fels more transformersy to me when they are there, although I would like them to have the actual faction symbols as well.

I guess for me its because when I was a kid, Transformers nosedived in popularity (at least with the kids at my school) once they were abandonned (mind you the product did seem alot more KO quality) so I kind of look at the end of rubsigns as the end of the glory days of the band at that time.

So I guess its just for nostalgias sake, but still.. I like em.

[wheeljaxx]

i pull off all the rub signs on mine. i hate them. The only figures they make sense for are the mini spies, which is what they were originally intended for. They just kind of fell into hasbros way of saying they were "authentic"

they make no sense on a transformer who already has faction symbols. I.E. Blaster - HUGE autobot symbol on his chest.....tiny little rub sign on his crotch.. go figure.lol


i always peeled mine off and stuck them on other things. I'm also one of the few who misses sticker sheets and rubber tires.