🎄 Tune in as we mysteriously float back to 1983 on an unseasonably warm Christmas adventure through Mexico on a Saturday morning cartoon that lasted a shorter amount of time than the fad it tried to cash in on.  

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Gerry Davila (Totally Rad Christmas, @RadChristmas).  

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1. The History of Rubik’s Cube.  

2. The theme song by pre-Ricky Martin Menudo. 

3. Ángela Moya, the voice of the kids’ mother, played a small but grim part in Gleaming the Cube.  

4. An ode to the family station wagon.  

5. An archived, early-Internet Rubik fan site.  

6. Rubik has more powers than Superman.  

7. Las Posadas.  

8. Date a TV show by adding a CB radio.  

9. Rubik ending up in an eagle’s nest reminded me of The Polar Express.  

10. Reynoldo’s speed cubing skills compared to the real-life Rubik’s Cube world records in 1983 and today.  

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Cap’n O.G. Readmore, 1985.  
Cap’n Crunch Cereal: Crunch vs. Taste, 1985.  
An Alpha Bits Cereal commercial that’s clearly still trying to ride the Pac-Man wave, but I’m not complaining, 1985.  

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“Rubik, the Amazing Cube” and “Rubik’s First Christmas” © 1983 Ruby-Spears Enterprises, Inc.  

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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
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