From diamond@jrdv04.enet.dec-j.co.jp Wed May 1 21:50:39 1996 Return-Path: Received: from jnet-gw-1.dec-j.co.jp by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA24426; Wed, 1 May 96 21:50:39 EDT Received: by jnet-gw-1.dec-j.co.jp (8.6.12+win/JNET-GW-951211.1); id KAA12155; Thu, 2 May 1996 10:53:17 +0900 Message-Id: <9605020151.AA08313@jrdmax.jrd.dec.com> Received: from jrdv04.enet.dec.com by jrdmax.jrd.dec.com (5.65/JULT-4.3) id AA08313; Thu, 2 May 96 10:51:33 +0900 Received: from jrdv04.enet.dec.com; by jrdmax.enet.dec.com; Thu, 2 May 96 10:51:37 +0900 Date: Thu, 2 May 96 10:51:37 +0900 From: Norman Diamond 02-May-1996 1049 To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Apparently-To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Where to get the Rubik's Revenge Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-2022-JP David Litwin writes: >"The Official Thermodynamics Fan Club of the UK." writes: >> p.s. I'm sure this is a common question, but I have many 3x3x3, and one >> 5x5x5, can I still get a 4x4x4 anywhere? would anyone consider selling one >> to me? > The last time I bought one was in 1993 in Tokyo (at Tokyu Hands >department store). I'll be visiting again soon and will check to see if >they still have any. This is the only place I've been able to find them, Seibu and Hakuhinkan used to have them too. But the distributor took them off the market last year and they are no longer available. (This is 4x4x4.) > The 5x5x5 is more widely available, try: >Peter Beck >pbeck@pica.army.mil > or >Dr. Christoph Bandelow >An der Wabeck 37 >58456 Witten >Germany Indeed Dr. Bandelow is the designer and source of much of this stuff. Ask for his catalog, which is in English. The best puzzle store now in Tokyo is Moebius, between Ichigaya and Kudanshita subway stations. They have one 5x5x5 in stock at the moment, though it traversed through Taiwan on its way here. They also just got in a bunch of stuff from Jean-Claude Constantin (but unfortunately no more transformations of Rubik-style shapes). -- Norman Diamond diamond@jrdv04.enet.dec-j.co.jp [Speaking for Norman Diamond not for Digital.]