Rubik's Cube 2.0 Released

[BillyRain]

 

[Cheese11]

Agreed and not like the walmart cubes where its like 1 out of 50 that are good finger trickable right out of the box.

None of wal-marts cubes are finger trickable out of the box...

Only like 1 - 100 are good after lube and breaking in.

 

[Zeotor]

The 3x3 is now available at HKNowStore here.

The 2x2 is there too, here. It has also been here on the official Rubik's website for a while.

 

[TP]

The 3x3 is now available at HKNowStore here.

Damn, that´s expensive. 24$ for a cube that´s probably not much good. Still, would be fun to try one just to see how it compares to the first version and other cubes.

 

[crappycuber]

Rubik Cube 2.0

It's been out for awhile now is there any reviews

 

[Brest]

[youtubehd]QR8SCg10oLA[/youtubehd]

 

[MarcelP]

I am tempted to buy this cube. I just want to see some more video's. Anyone else on the forum has this cube?

 

[Clarkeeyyy]

It looks so fast D:

 

[MarcelP]

Bump, anyone has the cube? If not.. if no one in a speedforum has this cube I highly doubt it will sell billions of cubes as the Rubiks 1.0 did LOL

 

[kasochi]

I don't have this cube, but I have had a opportunity to touch one.　IMO, it's not good cube for speedcubing(, but good as a puzzle).
Not smooth, difficult to disassemble, fixed color-scheme(western), decent corner cutting.

 

[mark49152]

I seriously doubt that they care at all about speed cubers. They will want to get it in all the big toy stores and ship millions of units, not mess around with a niche market of a few thousand.

 

[MarcelP]

Yeah, and after the Kaoshi post I do not feel the need to buy this cube Too expensive for just a so so cube.

 

[Spaxxy]

So they're using a ball core now? Also, I guess this is the end of the "I just peel the stickers off" comments by non cubers.

 

[BillyRain]

So they're using a ball core now? Also, I guess this is the end of the "I just peel the stickers off" comments by non cubers.

Hmm.. I think people are still going to say that for decades to come yet

 

[Tim Major]

Hmm.. I think people are still going to say that for decades to come yet

Most noncubers don't say "I just peel the stickers off" they say "I once peeled the stickers off". New storebought Rubik's cubes doesn't make people aged 5-100 forget their first attempt. Also I feel like a huge amount of people don't have storeboughts as their first cube.

 

[kcl]

Inb4 next generation "I used to pry the tiles out.."

 

[rj]

I saw a vid of a guy getting some fast solves on this.

 

[Lchu613]

That's cool. I saw a vid of someone getting fast times on a cube lubed with honey.

 

[MaikeruKonare]

It's not a speedcube. I've been chatting with a Rubik's social director, he said it isn't. In this video you can see it turns smoother but is still hard to turn. [video=youtube_share;xLus4DkXeGg]http://youtu.be/xLus4DkXeGg[/video]

 

[Coolster01]

I'm 90% sure I should be keeping this secret, but who cares:

Spoiler

Rubik's interviewed me at World Championships. They let me try this cube (Rubik's 2.0), and it was pretty crappy, but better than the original. Corner cutting still kinda suffered. But here is the juicy stuff:

Spoiler

After the interview, a Rubik's representative lady had another cube for me to try and she recorded a solve of me using it. It was a Rubik's speedcube. I turned it, and oh my god. It was actually really good. It felt somewhat like a Fangshi without the sandy feeling. It was fast and insanely stable. I knew it wouldn't pop for its life. I think it also had tiles (or did I confuse it with the other one?) and it definitely had adjustable screws. iirc the corner cutting was fairly good (1 piece or 45 degrees). My solve was 12, which sucked, but it was also the second day of worlds right after multi BLD and I was not so great that day. I got a 13.99 average that day, so I guess that was good for Saturday. But here's what you guys won't believe:

Spoiler

The cube was unlubed and untensioned, totally out of the box. That's right. It was faster than my 55mm zhanchi, and this thing was completely out of the box. Now just imagine how amazing a lubed cube would be.