40 Years Ago today, a Hungarian sculptor and architect named Erno Rubik invented the Rubik Cube, a puzzle cube where you have to match all the colored squares on each side. As a tribute to this frustrating puzzle cube I'd like to present the short lived 80s cartoon, Rubik the Amazing Cube.

In 1983, the animation house Ruby-Spears licensed the rights to use the Rubik Cube as a cartoon; the plot is about a magical Rubik Cube that when solved can turn into Yoda if he were trapped in a cube and sounded like a chipmunk with a cold. He used to belong to an evil magician but ends up in the hands of three Hispanic kids, which was bizarre to see during that time period as rarely were there any American cartoons with a cast of ethnic minorities making up the main cast and bare in mind that this was 17 years before Dora the Explorer popularized Hispanic cartoons proper.
Anyway once the evil magician is dispatched, Rubik helps the kids with their own problems throughout the series, whether it be kid problems or traditional adventures and mysteries, hey this was a Ruby-Spears creation alongside another show Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos which is somewhere on my long list of world entries. Anything they create is going to be pretty generic and borrowed from Hanna Barbara.
Rubik Cube wasn't alone during it's run as it was broadcast alongside the Pac-Man cartoon. This was during a time when early Computer Games were being raided for cartoons which led to the creation of the Saturday Supercade along with other early video game cartoons.
Now with lots to cover on this one lets put it to a vote for my next Cartoon Vault entry.
Your choices are.
Pacman
Saturday Supercade
Dragons Lair
Mega Man
Captain N the Game Master
If there are no comments I shall do something else.
Until then have fun reading.