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

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

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!

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

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!

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!

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