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Rubik's Cube
Ideal Toy, 1985, Toy
Rubik's Cube
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Item no
20768
Title
Rubik's Cube
Description
A toy puzzle known as Rubik's Cube. Each side of the cube features nine squares with coloured stickers, blue, red, orange, white, green and yellow.
Artist / maker
Ideal Toy
Date
1985
Size
5.6 x 5.6 x 5.6 cm
Type
Toy
Location
Museum of Childhood
Accession number
MC115.2001
Toy of the year in 1980 and 1981, the Rubik's Cube frustrated young and old alike, with an estimated 160 million being sold between 1980 and 1982.
The cube was invented by a Hungarian architect called Erno Rubik in 1974. The motivation behind the design of the cube stemmed from Erno Rubik's interest in structural designs. The design itself consists of twenty-six individual little cubes that make up the cube as a whole.
The object of the puzzle is to move each square until each of the cube's sides are one colour only. The puzzle had previously been made by Pentangle and sold in the UK as 'Magic Cube' but Ideal re-named it Rubik's Cube. Many cheaper versions were made as ideal could not satisfy the great demand. However by 1982 the craze had run its course.
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1980s - Five Decades of Toys (1950-2000)
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