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I have some of the new meilong 5x5s and they are much better than the old ones however I wouldn't get too excited since I think what they have basically done is just discontinued the previous one and left the new one under the same name and brand, my wholesalers have no seperate line for the new one, it's as if the old one never existed in that respect. Hearing about it being good when magnetized may finally force me to try and magnetize cubes again, I have never really done much of that.
disclaimer: the neutrino magnetic cubes on speedcubing.org are not magnetized by me but by people with far more experience magnetizing cubes than me.
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I was talking to MoYu-store about it and they've confirmed that the current MeiLong 5 is the newer design, so I ordered it. Michael Halzcuk on Instagram also mentioned it was different. It's supposed to be much better than the original MeiLong 5, but it's just called MeiLong 5, it doesn't have a new name.
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lol no thats from 2012
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Oh ok, for some reason it is in their new arrivals section
Can someone please tell Gan to stop milking the same base model they have been using since 2015? It’s frustrating to see them farm the market with a largely uninovated cube with only small perks and bumps copied from other companies year after year. All of their cubes look ~85-90 percent identical since the original 356; that is not innovation.
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fun at the joy
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100% true
My only GAN cube is an SM and because there isn't really any innovation for performance, which is literally the only thing that matters, I don't have to try any other heavily overpriced terrible GAN cubes.
NevEr_QeyX
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Half of those things are irrelevant.
Nmile7300
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Gan literally hasn't changed their basic piece design in like 5 years.
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Pyr
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gan doesn't make cubes they make money
cuber314159
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Swap out pieces between gan 356X, XS, M Xv2 even 354 V2 and what you get is still a good speedcube, I have tried it before. I completely agree they need to improve their design too instead of just slight plastic changes and accessories.
fun at the joy
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Any company could've released an extremely light cube so this isn't really anything to invent
True but their spring change system wasn't good until Moyu came around with the spring compression system (much better system) and GAN copied that in the XS.
True but their magnet change system wasn't good until Moyu came around with a much better system and GAN copied that in the XS.
I don't have a cube with matte finish but literally who cares.
Matte finish existed before GAN came.
this is literally NOT true at all.
The first 2 are especially ridiculous. (think of Moyu and the Zhanchi which has like 4 different sizes)
Maybe you have heard this before but PLEASE THINK BEFORE POSTING/ SAYING SOMETHING
They aren't expensive because of irrelevant (and non-existent) innovations but because there are people who are willing to buy 17$ for a nonmagnetic cube in 2020 for no reason. Anyone who buys the RS is either stupid, a fanboy/fangirl (like tingman and you seem to be one of them too), a collector who has to much money to spend on not-needed "budget" cubes or wants to magnetize it to get a magnetic GAN cube for cheap(er).
GAN had to come up with better customization (which is actually not really needed) because otherwise there is no reason to release a new cube that has had a nearly same design for 3-4 years.
Coming to the other cubes they released: The GAN mega is certainly a viable competitor on the market but NOT the galaxy killer, nobody really uses the 251 (but it seems to be good) and the 249, 249V2 and 460 are absolute jokes lol.
ROEVOSS
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someone please explain why gan is still relevant
Cubingcubecuber
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The Yupo V2 M and Yusu V2 M are miles better, and much cheaper, the Gans are NOT cheap
Nmile7300
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I guess 56 dollars for a 4x4 is cheap now.
Nmile7300
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And then you say that @fun at the joy is somehow wrong for using his personal experience in his argument.
Cubingcubecuber
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Lol, I’ve gotten a Gan 354 for $10, I guess nobody wants mediocre Gan cubes
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Honestly I would not pay 19 dollars for the 460. The outers are fine but everything else is worse then BUDGET cubes like the YLM, Yusu, or Meilong. I know a lot of people that mained the meilong and only 1 that mained the 460 but that was because that was the only 4x4 they had. When people prefer a cube that is 8 times cheaper then maybe gan is doing something wrong
ROEVOSS
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>cheap price
bruh i cannot describe in words my hate for gan
bruh i cannot describe in words my hate for gan
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