- 125 super-powerful, rare earth magnets - in cubes!
- Mini carrying case included.
- For adults only. These are so super strong, they should be kept away from children.
- Dimensions: 4mm cubed
- From the manufacturer of Buckyballs, The world's best selling desktoy
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| Main Language(s): | English unknown |
| Model Number: | Bc125 |
| Number of Game Players: | 1 |
| Number of Puzzle Pieces: | 125 |
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Product Description
Buckycubes, 125 Pieces. The same magnetic fun as the original Buckyballs now cubed! If you thought the original Buckyballs were addictive, you should try Buckycubes. The Buckycubes are also made of powerful, rare Earth magnets. Impressively strong, they hold together in nearly endless positions. Even though each cube that makes up Buckycubes is small, the possibilities are huge. Let the stress ball gather dust. At your desk, its better than a stress ball. Mash, shape, repeat. And repeat and repeat. Youll unwind and de-stress while making countless creations. Use Buckycubes to build towers, construct mini castles, make geometric designs, or anything you can think of, creating more possibilities than virtually any other desk toy. Their magnetism is so hard to put down. If youre not addicted yet, you soon will be and your coworkers around you. Go ahead, put the Cube in cubicle. Buckycubes instantly make your desk a more fun place to be. Entire cube is: cubed. Order more than one for even more possibilities. Shape. Mash. Repeat. And repeat, and repeat.
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80 of 82 people found the following review helpful
Exercise in frustration.
13 Oct 2011
I bought two sets of these for about $15 each on another site based on my experience with the bucky balls. These are nothing like them except for the fact that they are tiny magnetic pieces of metal. Being that they are cubes, their poles do not automatically line up when in a strip, so you are stuck with the occasional repelling midsection in a doubles row. They jump all over the place and on top of all that one of my cubes is more of a cuboid, which inevitably screws everything up. I hate these things and want to find the guy who invented them so that I can hide them in his soup.
I wouldn't suggest you spend the money on these little bastards. You'd be better off smashing your face with a hammer.
I wouldn't suggest you spend the money on these little bastards. You'd be better off smashing your face with a hammer.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Just stick with the spheres
16 Oct 2011
I bought a set of these recently after having a set of Buckyballs for a while. Quite frankly, the whole concept just doesn't work nearly as well in cubes as it does in spheres. The pieces never seem to align the way you want them to, and other than the 5x5 cube they come in, there just doesn't seem to be any sort of symmetry to anything you try to make with them.
If I could suggest one improvement to the product that might make it a bit more useable, it would be to have some sort of marking indicating the magnetic poles so it doesn't take three tries to figure out how the things are supposed to go together.
If I could suggest one improvement to the product that might make it a bit more useable, it would be to have some sort of marking indicating the magnetic poles so it doesn't take three tries to figure out how the things are supposed to go together.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Not Well Rounded But Useful -- Teachers Take Note
9 Nov 2011
As a chemist, to whom "buckyball" refers to an non-magnetic allotrope of carbon, more correctly known as buckminster fullerene, the cute little neodymium (element Nd, more chemistry) supermagnets called Buckyballs took some getting used to. The cubic Buckycubes come only 125 to a set (rather than 216 for the Buckyballs), and, as others have said, they perform fewer tricks than their spherical brethren.
However, if you are a teacher with a porcelain-on-steel whiteboard or other metallic surfaces in your room, or a mother with a refrigerator, Buckycubes can be used to post student work instead of magnetic tacks. One of the Buckycubes will hold many sheets of paper easily. My office walls are steel under the paint and so I can hang paintings and the like by using superglue to attach multiple Buckycubes to the back in sufficient numbers to hold the weight.
Neodymium is a rare earth element, and the Chinese have cornered the market on the metal. Neodymium magnets are used in quality earphones and other electronic devices and in those three-bladed wind generators that dot the horizon. Prices have been rising, and the Chinese now want to limit their use to Chinese industry, making the whole device there, not just the magnets. So it will be interesting to see what happens with the supply of these Buckythings.
I will note that one of my Buckycubes arrived defective -- it was barely magnetic, though it looked the same as the others. A call to Buckyball Central resulted in the shipment of ten replacements, which was certainly generous.
However, if you are a teacher with a porcelain-on-steel whiteboard or other metallic surfaces in your room, or a mother with a refrigerator, Buckycubes can be used to post student work instead of magnetic tacks. One of the Buckycubes will hold many sheets of paper easily. My office walls are steel under the paint and so I can hang paintings and the like by using superglue to attach multiple Buckycubes to the back in sufficient numbers to hold the weight.
Neodymium is a rare earth element, and the Chinese have cornered the market on the metal. Neodymium magnets are used in quality earphones and other electronic devices and in those three-bladed wind generators that dot the horizon. Prices have been rising, and the Chinese now want to limit their use to Chinese industry, making the whole device there, not just the magnets. So it will be interesting to see what happens with the supply of these Buckythings.
I will note that one of my Buckycubes arrived defective -- it was barely magnetic, though it looked the same as the others. A call to Buckyball Central resulted in the shipment of ten replacements, which was certainly generous.
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