May The Cubes Be With You

So I've been turned on to Cubees (the extra E is for EXCITEMENT!). They are 3-dimensional paper toys that you assemble yourself. Simply download a template of your favourite character, print it out, cut the objects out, and assemble. No glue needed, the parts are held together with tabs and slots. What fun!


The sheer variety of characters on here is awesome, both easily recognizable as well as obscure, and the selection is right up my alley. They have all sorts of cartoon characters, and real people as well, even the President-Elect, Mr. Obama.


I had to download and try one of these right away, and I chose McGuirk from Home Movies, cos he rocks. I didn't use card stock as they recommended (because I was out), but it works pretty well with just regular copier paper as well. This was a "two-scissor" difficulty level, and I'm not sure how much more difficult the three- or four-scissor levels are. The arms in particular were pretty hard to put together because they are kind of small. If you have sausage fingers, then you should prbably not make the attempt at... cubee-ing?... yeah.

Here's my finished Coach McGuirk.




I had the idea that these would make awesome Christmas ornaments.... I'm gonna suggest it to the girlfriend and see what she says. It could be a cubee Christmas for all of us :)

Check out Cubeecraft now, and get your cube-on!

(Gee, could I make any more cube jokes? Probably...)