Got mine today - had a good time playing around with them. Think I'll take one cube to work and leave the other on my desk at home. Very solid woot.

Cubes, like those little burrs that get stuck on your shoelaces while walking through a grassy area, are not as much fun to play with as actual bucky-balls.
I know that's not funny. Nothing I've written has been funny since I decided that all of my written communication would follow the format of a Groupon write-up.
It is true though...the cubes are not as much fun as the balls. They always seem to gravitate back to a straight line or a bundle of straight lines when you're just mushing them around for stress relief. Not as satisfying.

Shipped Sep 30 from TX, est delivery Oct 12 to MA...... FedEx SmartPost is a freakin joke. I get faster packages from Hong Kong! How much of the $5 do they actually spend on shipping? 50 cent of it?

bucckevin wrote:Shipped Sep 30 from TX, est delivery Oct 12 to MA...... FedEx SmartPost is a freakin joke. I get faster packages from Hong Kong! How much of the $5 do they actually spend on shipping? 50 cent of it?

I fully agree, this is only my second Woot and the first one went about the same. This was a good deal, but I'll be much more cautious about ordering anything on Woot again. They should at least provide a better shipping option.

My cubes were showing to be in Rockwall (the city that I live in) on the 4th. Now the tracking is saying that they are in Abilene which is 200 miles away. I hope that's not right. =/

I received mine yesterday and had an issue.... I emailed Woot but haven't heard back yet Hopefully soon!

this looks like something that must have been destroyed with Terminator at the steel mill.

For my first woot, I have to say these were a huge disappointment. The cubes are soooo much smaller than I had expected or hoped for!

hugehead83 wrote:What are the dimensions of a Bucky Cube? Quarter Inch??

Uh, no. I just got mine yesterday and kind of P-Oed that they're Tiny. The set of 5x5x5 in a cube measures just slightly over 3/4" on a side.

All of the individual pictures lead you to think they're larger than that. There's nothing to show the scale. Only if you go out to Youtube and watch the video do you see how small they really are.

One of my buckycubes is, like, 2/3 of a buckycube. It's still coated all the way around, but one dimension is too short.

Meh. It's annoying, but I feel like it's too minor a defect to be worth trying to return them over. With all the noise people have made about the manufacturer's QA and consistency issues, you'd think that something like that wouldn't get through.

It's interesting to see how much variance there is in the shape of these, too. The dimensions are all pretty close, but the roundness of the corners isn't very consistent. It might be the thickness of the coating, because the rounder cubes seem to be shinier than the sharper ones.

I think the manufacturing process varies over time, as I've observed that individual sets tend to have similar attributes. It holds true here- the sets I got from Woot in this sale are mostly rounded and shiny, while the ones I had already (from the manufacturer) are sharper and have a flatter finish.

Is there a reason that it takes so freaking LONG just to ship something as simple as BuckyCubes? Yeah, they make it look like they shipped it 3 days after I bought it, but when it doesn't arrive at the FedEx Spartpost location in Dallas (Woot local area) until 6 days after the "Shipment information sent to FedEx" was posted as the "We at Woot have shipped it notification" then there is a problem. I get this EVERY time I order something and I have never ordered anything that is of a grand scale that requires some kind of special shipping.

COM'ON WOOT....GET YOUR CRAP TOGETHER AND SHIP THINGS WITHIN THE TIME YOU SAY YOU WILL!

Okay, I've now spent the weekend playing with both the Buckycubes as well as the larger 1/4" cubes I purchased on eBay from seller "joba51".

First, to answer Niric's question, the metallic coating seems to be identical. I have no idea how thick the coating is, but from a purely aesthetic "beauty is only skin deep" approach, they look the same. I expect them both to hold up equally as well over time. Besides, if I understand it right, it's the colored paint on the colored Buckyballs (like red, gold, etc) is what flakes off, not the actual metallic coating under that paint (which these don't have that colored paint, it's just the metallic coating).

Now for some quick pro's and con's for each.

Buckycubes

Pro's:
- Because they're smaller/weaker, they're easier to manipulate and pull apart
- If you bought 3 woots (6 sets), that's a lot of cubes for a low price

Con's:
- They are smaller/weaker. Personal preference, but I am more impressed by the stronger big ones
- As mentioned above, the consistency and quality is a little more mediocre than I would have liked. 2 or so cubes came with chipped edges, and at least 1 is malformed (wider than the rest, so a rectangular prism rather than a cube)

eBay/Joba51 1/4" cubes

Pro's:
- Bigger/stronger may be a personal taste thing, but they are almost twice as big, twice as strong, twice as impressive. Easier for me to stack them as they're easier to see and hold.
- Better consistency and quality, as NONE were chipped, and ALL were consistent and uniform cubes!

Con's:
- Bigger/stronger, so they are harder to pull apart than the smaller/weaker Buckycubes.
- joba51 sells on eBay, which some may despise. Other places like Amazon and specialty stores have 1/4" cubes, but I can't speak for them, only joba51's.

Overall, I give my tip of the hat to Joba51's cubes. Mostly this is because they're bigger/stronger, and more uniform (better quality). Plus, I've been meaning to avoid the Bucky brand name, as I feel they're overpriced for what you get. Your mileage may vary.

Hope this helps!

I was also disappointed by this purchase. I suppose I was expecting them to be larger in person. They're so tiny, they're tough to manipulate (I don't think I have big ole' sausage fingers) but compared to these things... Giant!

I can see why the balls are more popular... The cubes tend to have difficulty orienting polls properly, making them frustrating to get into shapes where multiple faces require a proper magnetic orientation. With the balls, it would seem getting that orientation is physically easier because they don't 'lock' into a face-face mechanical position.

Glad I bought them on woot, I would have been disappointed paying any more than I did for 4 sets.

hunter306 wrote:Glad I bought them on woot, I would have been disappointed paying any more than I did for 4 sets.

Yeah, I hear that. Even though I knew way ahead of time how small these would be (and they're exactly as I had expected), I'm still not fully in love with them. I bought 6 sets (3 woots), so I'm not sure what I'll do. I may just end up selling them on eBay to get my $80 back.

I have still not gotten mine in the mail.
The FedEx tracking site shows it has been out for delivery since 10/4 - last Tuesday.

Anyone else still waiting on their order?

Ridiculously tiny, the entire cube is about 3/4". Disappointed here...

Also waiting for my Buckyballs to arrive. Read up on what Fedex Smartpost is in the mean time. It's a cost efficient method to ship products that utilize a variety of methods including the USPS. Not one thing was mentioned about the speed of delivery. Bet shipping only costs 50 cents or even less. My Buckycubes should be arriving tomorrow because Fedex gave them to USPS to deliver. I am disappointed that it takes 3 weeks to deliver a product from Dallas, TX to Kansas City, Kansas.

Woot's shipping sucks so much that I will not buy from them again unless they have such a mindblowing deal.

Very fustrating!!!

I'm stil waiting. Apparently they should be here today, but who knows, the tracking site surely doesn't. It was in WI, and I'm in OH, but the next place it shipped to was PA, which if you know grade school geography, is passed Ohio. And the it's been saying that it's been sitting in PA for like 5 days.

Woot's shipping is truly god awful and I don't think I'll be buying from them again. I really don't know where that 5 bucks went. If I pay $5 on Amazon I get my stuff in like 2 days.

These shipped on Sept 30th....still have not got mine yet....this blows

I will echo what several wooters are saying on here about the cubes not being as fun as the balls. After owning two sets of balls for quite sometime I was excited to see to cubes come up on a two for deal, but after playing with them I've determined they just arent as fun. My $.02.

This was my first woot. I still have not received them, even though I live in Austin, TX, 4 hours from Dallas. FedEx site says they should have been here yesterday, but phone guy gave a long-winded *shrug*

I was initially excited about my first woot, but now will be super hesitant to order again.

Just got mine today. WOO! PUMPKINS!...They're so frickin' TINY!!! What a disappointment and rip-off...

nrsheikh wrote:These shipped on Sept 30th....still have not got mine yet....this blows

Yeah, FedEx kinda sucks. They take FORVER. UPS, otoh, just plain ROCKS!!!

finally got it after 2+ weeks. they're fun to play with but i think they should include more cubes. i think the size of the individual cube magnets are fine but the whole set should be as big as the green case they included. that would be the perfect size imo. why they gave us less than the actual case, i dont know.

216-piece magnet would be perfect.

Anyone else still waiting? It's been a freakin' fortnight. FedEx shows it as "In Transit" for a week now.

When I order camera parts from Germany, they get here faster...

This is a joke. I live in New Hampshire. It left the facility in Mass on 10/7.. Yet to update.. It is a 2 hour drive yet in 7 days still isnt here??? What the hell are they doing with it?

Anyone else seeing inconsistency in the sizes of the individual pieces? I have some that are shorter than the rest and have unfinished edges on those short sides...

It's the 18th of October and I am still waiting. I think I am done with Woot....

SalsaShark42 wrote:Anyone else seeing inconsistency in the sizes of the individual pieces? I have some that are shorter than the rest and have unfinished edges on those short sides...

Yeah, definitely. Some of mine are almost "oblong" in shape, others have chipped edges. Not the best QC in the magnet formation...

Not nearly as fun as BuckyBalls. My favorite shape with the cubes is a skyscraper, and that's about it.