Karen Black 2009-11-05T20:35:43-05:00
oops, sorry, re-read the description and saw that the cubes are 3/4' square... even better, IMO.

Karen Black 2009-11-05T20:34:07-05:00
I like the idea. I have a 3-year-old daughter who has always loved playing with small objects, building, stacking and lining things up. And she LOVES magnets. She does not quite have the fine motor skills necessary to play with legos as she would like, and she could do more interesting things with these (from her perspective)... as for the size, I think 1" cubes are perfect... we have many items we purchased from school supply stores, etc. that are this size and even smaller. I think brighter colors would appeal to the younger age group, and I love the idea of being able to purchase additional blocks in different color schemes. I hope it takes off. I like it.

Michael Cavada 2009-10-21T15:27:07-04:00
I'm not sure if anyone remembers "SUMO". It was a 7-piece set of block shapes that could be assembled into a perfect 3x3x3 cube. It also came with a book of nearly 100 shapes that were not all proven possible. It was very mind challenging. I spent months trying to solve the pictured shapes. Well, I found my old SUMO puzzle and book and brought it to school (high school) a few years back and I sadly can't remember a single student able to assemble it into the simple cube without angrily giving up. It's a shame that we've lost track of these spacial, tactile problem solving mind games. What a different world we've created with video games!

Samuel 2009-10-18T17:05:14-04:00
I don't want to be too hard on this, but I think Cordie should be back on the main page instead of one of the other three. PowerCurl has already reached its sales limit and does not need to be touted in order to bring in money; the Kickster has been stuck in limbo for long enough that it seems to have only a small chance of reaching its presales goal and Q Brix really does not seem like it will ever hit the threshold. Cordie, and a couple of other products, have a much better chance of reaching sales point if they were more prominently advertised on the main page.

clint barnette 2009-10-15T18:22:51-04:00
i am not impressed with this idea... being a kid that grew up playing with LEGO sets that you could actually make to resemble something, the only thing Q Brix could resemble is a 64 pixel screen. It is very good to tap into a child's creativity but not a good idea to plunge into a market that's saturated with LEGO (who, by the way, currently has some of the largest increases in sales in the toy industry) and other aftermarket products. These blocks also resemble LEGO's DUPLO line and the DUPLO line is less expensive. For the price there are many other options available, and I don't see how this is logical....

Michael Cavada 2009-10-15T11:02:41-04:00
Yes!!! Unless it's one of those new multiple polarity magnets... N,S,E,W,NE,NW,SE,SW. And each moves to its needed location.

r schober 2009-10-15T09:15:25-04:00
From the blog: "One neodymium magnet per block? Then the free-standing creation as depicted in the rendering is physically impossible." I'm pretty sure there would have to be 6 magnets per block, one attached to each inside surface. Polarity would still be an issue. This would be more of a puzzle than a building set because you'd have to figure out which blocks (or sides of blocks) would be attracted to each other and which would repel. It could take hours just to put the toy away in the case it came in.

matthew smith 2009-10-15T00:07:12-04:00
im getting presales! im stoked!

Michael Cavada 2009-10-14T23:07:07-04:00
Somehow my magnet idea was still somewhat used. I didn't realize that industrial design weighed in more on package design.

Lars Jensen 2009-10-14T21:07:26-04:00
Do the cubes self-align? If not, how do you get the guy's left arm to stay up in the second picture?

Lars Jensen 2009-10-14T21:05:08-04:00
- I would be tempted to pre-order if the most numerous color was not so dreary. My next Quirky submission: replacement cubes for your Qbrix set! - Shouldn't the case say "Qbrix" instead of "quirky"?

Rees Maxwell 2009-10-14T19:38:19-04:00
I'm really glad to see this product make it to the presale stage! It's got potential to be really fun. However, I'm still wondering how the blocks will really attach to each other. What is the mechanism? Will we really be able to attach any surface of one brick to any surface of any other brick? I had hoped the cubes would have different colors on each side, so as to allow for many more combinations. Seemed like that would help differentiate this product from many other brick-type products. Oh well. Also, could just be me, but those colors make for a fugly combination. What color palate did you grab them from? Are these the final colors?

Ari Salomon 2009-10-14T18:25:09-04:00
your description says 12” x 10” x 12” but the image does not seems to be a big cube - is it really more like 12” x 10” x 2”??? also, how many bricks are included? seems like an important part of the description that is omitted. in regards to polarity: what about a free floating magnet in the hollow center of the brick?

seonhye yang 2009-10-08T10:11:02-04:00
cooooool~^^

Jennifer Wingard 2009-09-27T22:28:48-04:00
Who sees the results of the surveys?

Fred Ende 2009-09-24T18:42:30-04:00 | 1 Replies
Howdy all. Has anyone received influence for their Q-Brix survey yet?

Jerome Morley Larson Sr 2009-09-21T11:32:13-04:00
there is a toy of magnetic rods - perhaps some way of integrating the two - I also like the idea of alphabet and number faces that I posted before - have these posts been deleted? if not where are they?

Ryan Quarles 2009-09-20T22:00:29-04:00
I am very interested to see what this becomes!

David Shaw 2009-09-15T10:58:02-04:00
Oops. I see that the naming is complete and I posted this on the wrong area anyway. My bad. Excuse the noob.

David Shaw 2009-09-15T10:47:52-04:00
Sounds interesting. There is something compelling about magnetism. You might want to reconsider the name Arki-Pixel as there is a line of wooden building blocks called "Archiblocks" I think. Might have a trademark issue as it stands.