Rubik, the Amazing Cube: Rubik’s First Christmas

🎄 Tune in as we mysteriously float back to 1983 with Gerry Davila from Totally Rad Christmas on an unseasonably warm Christmas adventure through Mexico with our cool grandma and a talking Rubik’s Cube with more powers than Superman. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: The History of Rubik’s Cube . The theme song by pre-Ricky Martin Menudo. Ángela Moya , the voice of the kids’ mother, played a small but grim part in “Gleaming the Cube.” An ode to the family station wagon. An archived, early-Internet Rubik fan site . Las Posadas . Date a TV show by adding a CB radio . Rubik ending up in an eagle’s nest reminded me of “ The Polar Express .” Reynoldo’s speed cubing skills compared to the real-life Rubik’s Cube world records in 1983 and today . **** 📼 Commercials: Cap’n O.G. Readmore (1985) Cap’n Crunch Cereal: Crunch vs. Taste (1985) An Alpha Bits Cereal commercial that’s clearly still trying to ride the Pac-Man wave, but I’m not complaining (1985) **** “Rubik, the Amazing Cube” and “Rubik’s First Christmas” © 1983 Ruby-Spears Enterprises, Inc. Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house .