3:56 ahem, 57mm mini shengshou 5x5

Bonus facts about the Rubik's 2x2 and 4x4 to add on to stuff you mentioned about bad performance: They were known to break really easily. Their 2x2s had these four little pegs on the tips of the core spindle pieces which prevented the puzzle from twisting apart. Well, with how stiff they always were, those pegs wore down quite fast and eventually broke off completely. If you broke opposite ones (on the other side of the core, not on the same piece), the cube would just twist apart if not perfectly aligned. Trying to super glue something so small was difficult and often just didn't hold. But it didn't much matter because even when it did hold, other pegs were soon to break due to the wear. If you lost one of those broke pieces, which was really easy, you'd have to find a substitute like melting a nail in there or gluing a piece of a toothpick in. They specifically mention you shouldn't speed cube their 4x4s then and recommended you only turned when the layers were perfectly aligned, but it didn't matter because they too were really stiff which caused tension on the center piece stalks and eventually failure. When a center piece would break, it was virtually impossible to glue it on strongly enough because of said tension re-snapping it. They redesigned it somewhere along the way, but it had the same issue. It took them many years to finally redesign both of them into something more durable, which are now being sold in stores today as their tiled models. But they aren't the nicest things to turn. Like, even if you were just the average consumer looking to get a cube, I'd still recommend getting something else because chances are the one you'll get will be too stiff to be fun to solve even casually.

You know I always wanted to see some sort of a twisty puzzle timeline, which would showcase how the NxN cubes evolved over the years. You think something like that would be possible to construct?

2:02 Goosebump alert!

As someone who started when eastsheen were the best, this is a nice throwback (and people seem to not see the similarities between the eastsheen puzzles and many of today's mechanisms)

Eastsheen may be outdated, but their mini 2x2 is still a staple in the modding community

Hey! Don't mention Tony Fisher, he might get you a copyright strike.

The blockiness is over 9000!

thanks for making these extremely well edited master pieces. :) Always a pleasure if I see them in the sub box.

Being a Taiwanese cuber. Those are my first cubes(even now I'm still using that 2x2 lol). Your video really bring up my childhood memories. Thanks for the good work!!

Great video! Thank oyu for the history~

Another great video

Omg i love your videos!!

You should make a video about the speedcubing eras. You should make them on your own.

Wow,very nice video. You inspired me

Do a video on types of plastics also thanks for this for old school cubers

Great content :)

Your vids are awesome

Great video as always. Where did you find the scans of the Eastsheen patents though? It'd be neat to take a look at them

Another great video. Thanx for not wasting my 6 minutes while watching this video

Good Job ! I don't even know about this company and its story so Good Job and keep it Up !

East Sheen 4x4 was my third cube ever. Love and hate that classic purple color. Great video historian. At the moment the 4x4 and 5x5 is available at the cubicle for faster USA shipping. The 4x4 was my favorite puzzle at the time (early 2000s) and also was a popular Super Cube sticker mod contender.

My old Eastsheen puzzles sit on the shelf like old treasured relics of the past. I won't part with them. After all, they were once the best 4x4 and 5x5 I had. Although HKnowstore has some available, I'm not certain they are still being produced. Like the video states, nobody really uses them anymore. If you want a really good 4x4 or 5x5, there are quite a lot available that are much better.

I love these

I need to get that eastsheen set

I’ve been looking for this for a long time Thanks Can you do a video of Lan Lan

5:54 Honestly, that image looks like a 4D cube to me for some reason.

I loved and miss my eastsheen so bad

I like these history vids

dude I legit had the eastsheen 2x2 as one of my first guides, I remember that solution guide that came with it, I might maybe have it in a box filled with pieces still barely haha

*happy dance* a new Cubing Historian video! These are awesome and keep getting better! Mind telling us how much TIME it took to make this episode, approximately?

"Thanks to Tony Fisher..." - Cubing Historian 2018

There are TONS of eastsheens at some book stores

I like Westsheen better

***Now available at your nearest National Bookstore.***

My first ever 4x4 was an Eastsheen clone I found in a pawnshop. They were selling them brand new in little plastic display domes. It was extremely cheap, and had the exact same orange side color replacement. For all I know, it _was_ an Eastsheen, but it wasn’t branded as one. It just said “Magic Cube 4” or something similar.

I miss my old Eastsheen 5x5. Was a fun cube for the time. Made a weird sound at the beginning, but they kinda all did.

thank you

My first 2x2 was keychain by EastSheen.

Thanks to eastsheen for giving us a new better mech for the 2x2 and 4x4 that has evolved over time to give us what we have today from Moyu, Gans, Qiyi, YuXin, and Yj.

You are making me feel old

Yes! A new cubing Historian Video!

You mentioned Tony after all that happened? Dude, your are the bravest person

Yay new video

Fun fact: I bought a Eastsheen 4x4 from ebay three years ago (after getting the Rubik's 4x4 which was horrible) and did not notice the brand until watching this video. The stickers are in terrible condition and I wanted to throw it away. But now I have the feeling, that I own a part of history and throwing it away is not an option anymore (even if the turning is and was never good). In general, it is interesting to see a channel diving deeply into the history of cubing and I appreciate it.

Yay you're alive

Before Eastsheen there were simple DIYs that you had to put together. Then there started the type A type B type C etc.

i have a very old eastsheen 3x3, it bandages loads its not good turning but kinda for its kinda level but the stickers are still the same

The shengshou mini 5x5 is 57mm

Hey man, been rewatching some episodes and I have to ask. Are you using linux? because the x and maximize buttons look like ubuntu.

I remember deciding between a lanlan 2x2, and an eastsheen 2x2 lol

Is my eastsheen 2x2 an antique?

i think i have a 2x2 of it because its too similar to the video becausd instead of orange its kinda like a purplish red or pink? also the sticker is peeling off

I liked the video before the ad ended

You should make a vid on cubesmith

first speedcubes were these from ebay seller huskyomega or something like that

The Eastsheens were awesome for the time. I was just cleaning dug up some old NIB Eastsheens from 2008 and found about 11 sets of new Cubesmith stickers. www.reddit.com/r/Cubers/comments/cpjy3o/wow_who_remembers_eastsheen_and_cubesmith/?

Oh no you showed Tony Fisher's profile picture which was part of his supper big 3x3 and now he's going to have a fit.

I actually just ordered a Dayan Octahedron a day or two ago lol

I have an eastsheen 5x5

same with Wuque and Wushuang with 4x4 and 5x5

5:52 WOAH! Is that a 2x2x2x2?

Is there an eastsheen 3x3

i actually the same 4x4 for about $12 but mine cant turn that well

Do a video on mefferts! I know of them as the most "ethical" store but I wonder if that view was biased. I also see they have lots of inventory issues

My older brother had a 4x4 and gave it to me. I didn’t like it and it fell apart so I decided to throw it out. I’m now so mad to realize it was a eastsheen 4x4. I was a beginner at the time and had no idea what it was.

I like how they used mauve instead of orange

Hello！I'm a cuber from China. your videos are so nice！may i take them to a website in our country？I will translate them and put subtitles on them！And list your name ,links under the videos.I hope that you can allow me do that .

Why no 3x3?

I have an eastsheen 2x2

The Cube invention by Erno Rubik wasn't to bad, this is why it was sold World Wide a second after Erno solves his Cube.

maru is also based in taiwan :)

Now get ready for... WEST SHEEN!!!

eastsheen has a yt channel now...

Just gonna put this down myself im gonna assemble my old eastsheen 4x4 later 5:17

I found eastsheen cubes in my local toystore

Why didn't east sheen make a 3x3?

1:51 *when your name gets mentioned but you aren’t that person.

5:52 *_ＹＥＥＴ_*

My first 4x4 and 5x5 were Rubik's brand. Lost them when they slipped out of my bag that was open for some reason on a bus after an out of town Cross Country meet. Was upset at the time, but not so much anymore because they turned like absolute ass. Have since replaced them with a Shengshou 5x5 mini and some modern 4x4.

"Yuksin"

Oh yass

What is eastsheen

Wow

NO MOYU BUT DAYAN AND HEHSU?

What about the 3x3

Most 5x5s are the same size as a 4x4

I put vegetable oil in my rubiks 2x2 and it u8 in one flick

The moyu before dayan.

-Lana Lana Lanaaaaaaa -What -Speculation zone

I’ve never heard of east sheen I only use robins

Ya

What the fuck a new video?!

Side note: "Yuxin" is still pronounced "you sheen".

I thought eastsheen made 3x3 because I own one

ghosthand

IT'S NOT YUX-SIN, IT'S YOU-SHIN.

Hi

I remember my first eastsheen 4x4.. God it sucks by today's standards.

This is basically just an eastsheen cubes review lmao