Rubiks 360 News

Buy Rubik’s 360 Online for Christmas – Stock Comparison Update

Updated 11/12/09: Best deal is Amazon…at £14.99 + Free P+P

Hamleys also seem to have stock on their website - £18.00 + £4.99 post and packing

Play are currently out of stock – but we will inform you as soon as they get stock again at £14.99 + free P+P

Find Amazon resellers and marketplace offers at All Rubiks 360 listings at Amazon

Toys R Us £14.99 + £4.95 post and packing – Out of stock

Rubik’s 360 in stock comparison – buy now before Christmas – UPDATED 14th November

Play now have stock as well…so check their site out – they are the cheapest option online: UPDATED £13.99 £12.99 plus free delivery

Amazon.co.uk dont have stock themselves, but a number of their re-sellers do, find them all here: All Rubiks 360 listings at Amazon

Hamleys also seem to have stock on their website - £18.00 + £4.99 post and packing

Toys R Us £14.99 + £4.95 post and packing

Top toys for Christmas 2009 – Rubiks 360 makes the list!

Well not quite! The new Rubik’s cube, the Rubik’s 360 we all know and love did not make the official Dream Dozen Toys List from the Toy Retailers’ Association which you can find here, but it did sneak into the list which made it one of the top games to look out for this Christmas, which of course, please us over here at http://rubiks360cube.co.uk/ HQ!

There was loads of press about the Rubiks 360 as a top game to look out for at Christmas, here are just a few of the articles:
Money Wise: http://www.moneywise.co.uk/news-views/2009/10/29/top-christmas-toys-under-50

The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/oct/28/consumer-affairs-toys

We’ve just received our Rubik’s 360 which we’re very excited about! Watch this space for photos galore!

Breandan Vallance From Scotland Wins Rubik’s World Speedcubing Championship 2009

Four hundred finger-twisting competitors, from 32 countries, took part in the bi-annual Rubik’s World Speedcubing Championship, held in Dusseldorf, Germany at the weekend.

17-year-old student Breandan Vallance defeated all-comers in the traditional 3×3x3 Cube competition – with an average solving time of 10.74 seconds. Breandan, from Beith, Ayrshire, heads home with 5,000 Euros and a trophy. Total prize money for the Championship was 20,000 Euros.

In second and third place respectively were Erik Akkersdijk from the Netherlands (11.52 seconds) and Tomasz Zolnowski from Poland (11.64 seconds). The next three Finalists were Harris Chan (USA – 11.78 seconds), Rowe Hessler (USA – 11.97 seconds) and Milan Baticz (Hungary – 12.07 seconds).

The fastest ’single solve’ recorded at this year’s Championship was by Piti Pichedpan (Thailand) with a time of 8.84 seconds.

The 2007 3×3x3 World Champion, Yu Nakajima from Japan, won the event – held in Budapest, home of the Cube’s Inventor, Professor Erno Rubik – with a time of 12.46 seconds.

This was the largest gathering of the ‘Grandmasters’ of Rubik’s Speedcubing ever. As well as demonstrating their brilliance in conventional Speedcubing using their hands, contestants also entered events to solve The Cube one-handed, with their feet, and blindfolded. Winner of the latter event was Guillain Potron from France, in 1:05 minutes.

Contestants were also able to enter the first ever world-class competition featuring the new, spherical Rubik’s 360 puzzle, which has dazzled the worldwide market since it first went on sale during July 2009. Martin Sylvestri from Switzerland completed it in 38.66 seconds.

For full results visit http://www.speedcubing.com

“This year’s Championship has been a fabulous occasion – and enormous fun for the many hundreds of spectators who attended, too” says David Hedley Jones, Senior Vice President – Rubik Brand. “It proves that, in the iconic Rubik’s puzzle, we have a phenomenal brand that has fantastic, never-ending potential!

Over almost thirty years, the fiendishly difficult puzzle invented by Professor Erno Rubik has achieved iconic status as the world’s biggest-selling toy ever, with around 350 million copies sold to date. And with over 43 quintillion configurations (exactly 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 degrees of difficulty, in fact) and only one solution, solving it at all is a feat in itself!

From http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=268463

Rubik’s 360 Play.com stock available September 4th

Play.com have adjusted their availability date on their website as 4th September 2009 – but you can still pre-order it now! I have! £14.99 with free delivery

Rubik’s 360 in the news

Today, the Sunday Mail ran an article about the …”most fun, addictive and infuriating toy you will get your hands on this Christmas.”

Their reporter managed to get his hands on one and confirmed that “It [Rubik's 360] is more addictive than Tetris, more infuriating than the Crystal Maze and as bonkers as a bag of howling monkeys.
If my instant addiction is anything to go by, Rubik has finally hit another winner.”

We’ll keep you abreast of all the Rubik’s 360 news as we approach Christmas. Will the Rubik’s 360 be the most sought after gift for Christmas this year? The talk is it that it will be the top toy for Christmas 2009 – watch this space!

Rubik’s 360 avaliable Now!

The Rubik’s 360 is available online in the following shops now! Updated 23rd August 2009

Hamleys
Amazon
Play.com more stock 28/8/09
Toys R Us
Argos
Smyths

Check out the full list of stockists here
Let us know here at Rubiks360cube.co.uk if you manage to get your hands on one and tell us how you get on with it!

Rubik’s 360 You Tube Channel

Check out the official Rubik’s 360 You Tube Channel:
Here’s the video for Rubik’s 360 Twisted Thinking:

Rubik’s 360 Launch at Hamley’s

The Rubik’s 360 launch at Hamleys received loads of coverage before and afterwards. Here are a few of the articles that I have come across – some I have liked and some I haven’t! Hamleys don’t currently have any stock of the Rubik’s 360, but check back here in the coming weeks, and we’ll let you know when some arrives!

Article from Flipside from The Institution of Engineering and Technology with YouTube video of Erno Rubik’s interview with Time Magazine

Hamley’s Official Launch page with promotional video

More to come