From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mon Apr 5 22:59:11 1999 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id WAA19027 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 22:59:10 -0400 (EDT) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Reply-To: From: "John Burkhardt" To: "Cube-Lovers (E-mail)" Subject: Different versions of the Ideal cube Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:23:22 -0400 Message-Id: <000e01be7f5f$19623600$3cca8018@octopod.ne.mediaone.net> Recently I've acquired a couple of older cubes from ebay. One was sold as "the original rubik's cube" by Ideal. When I opened it up I noticed that the quality was not the same as my original cube that I bought in 1980 or so. The stickers were not as bright for one thing. On my "original" cube the orange stickers are almost fluorescent, whereas on this version the color is dull, and its not a faded version of the original color. Its clearly a different shade of orange. The yellow and green colors are not as bright. And then there is the center white sticker. On some older Ideal cubes there is a logo on it, on this one I just got the logo was a separate decal. On my 1980's cube there is no logo at all. Next we come to differences in the actual pieces. On some Ideal cubes the cubies are solid, well, probably hollow in the center, but there is no openining. But on others there is an opening. Does anyone know anything about the history of the Ideal cube? Were there different runs of production? Did they start "cutting corners" to lower cost? Is there any way to tell from the packaging, which cube is the version that has the nice bright colors? Sorry if this has been discussed in the past, I'm relatively new to this list... [ Moderator: The archives have quite a bit about various types of cubes. Are you sure the open-corner cubes were from Ideal? I thought those were the pirated knockoffs. ] -JRB