Available in China within the last week or so, including Aliexpress.

SCS put it up for pre-order a day or two ago.

But now….it is officially for sale on Gan’s website.

Frosted only. UV to come.

https://youtu.be/8__SyGUXjHE?si=IOZKQzkZdKh7R3mq

Preorders are now available at SpeedCubeShop.com

I have a quick question about GAN's releases around actual release day. Is it normal for them to run out of stock and preorders be pushed back?

I misplaced my super old GAN356? and wanted to try out whatever their newest cube was, so I ordered a normal 14 Maglev off Amazon. I wasn't crazy about it, and I saw they're releasing the Pro version. Though I had no issues with popping, I figured I might as well try out the newer one since it was within the return period.

GAN's site said restock on April 9th, which got pushed back to the 11th, and I saw some available this weekend, but I had already preordered from the Cubicle. Now GAN's site is out of stock again, and I see the preorder estimated dates are pushed back on all sites.

Is this normal for GAN brand new releases (I've only ever owned super old GAN on sale before), or is there some potential issue with their Pro stock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIxNULdll0

The price of the Qiyi Smart Cube will be approx. 21 dollars !!!

Hi everyone! I've gotten a lot of PMs about where to see patents from manufacturers, including the ones no one talks about, from promising to do a post on this topic someday.

Well, here it is.

First you need to go to patentguru.com and register there. Registration is needed to be able to open more patents, without it you will have about 10 available). Then you just use search, and if you don't know Chinese, you can just use a Chinese word like "magic cube" etc, like 魔方 . Then you sort by publication date (this is important because the publication date can be 5 months or more different from the upload date). Be careful when you check patents. New patents often have the same information in the name of the inventor and the assignee. In this case, it is worth waiting a bit, soon the information on the site will be updated. It's useless to save inventors and assignees to bookmarks, they are constantly being recorded with different names and the chance of it matching the one you saved is very low. As soon as you find something interesting, you can open the patent and translate the pdf file to get more information.

I asking you NOT POST ALL NEW PATENTS on reddit! Only the MOST interesting or popular ones.

I hope you will not have any more questions like "where to look for a patent". Good luck!

No photos or any confirmation from YJ, but
someone who lives in Hong Kong posted on the SpeedSolving.com forums that he just had dinner with Andy Mok, who also lives in HK, and got to try out the MGC Elite 5x5 prototype that YJ sent to Andy.

Just had dinner with Andy Mok and tried the YJ MGC Elite 5x5 prototype YJ has sent to him. I think it is way better than the original YJ MGC 5x5, its super smooth and it has adjustable magnets.

https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/upcoming-puzzles.68830/page-394#post-1590988

Working on a vid on the Gan 14 pro, and the more I'm reading the more I'm wondering what Gan does with the original Gan 14 moulds now...

In releasing the pro they have all but admitted that the original has a major fault (or at least one major enough to address with a complete redesign), so I feel like they should be discontinuing the first version with the old moulds, right? Otherwise it undermines the appeal of the pro, the existence of which itself undermines the original 14 lol. What a mess.

I also wonder why they didn't just release this as a Gan 15, as by their own release schedule that would only really be a few months away. (Gan 14 was August 2023, and they've released a new flagship cube every year since 2020)

Anyway I find it super wacky that they're releasing an "update" to a flagship cube with new brand moulds midway through the production run/release schedule.

I hereby predict the next moyu release will be an RS3M v5 20 magnet ball core 😂

They’ve done it so far with: Super weilong at release

Then retroactively with: Wrm v9 Huameng ys3m (sub brand sure but still counts!)

Surely the RS3M v5 is next? 🤔