Excuse the audio on the on camera segments! My memory card for my field recorder hecked-up right as I was finishing the video and I lost the good audio! I’ll fix it by next video
This show is now owned by ALLSPARK Studios a HASBRO company after it was aquired during the acquisition of Saban's Power Rangers bundled with that property was the other Ameritoku series managed by SCG POWER RANGERS, LLC and the former 4kids assets managed under the holding company SCG CHARACTERS, LLC who manages the animation assets Saban Brands bought and reaquireed.
I remember Cubix... I remember the "Robots for everyone" subtitle and Cubix's ability to reshape himself into different things. I know for a fact I enjoyed it as a kid but yeah I don't know if even nostalgia could save a rewatch... If there is one thing I kind of want for nostalgia's sake... It might be an unpopular opinion but I kind of want to see it get rebooted with today's CG technology. Although it's not in the slightest bit unique, I've always had a softspot for those types of kids shows where it's this special place where "humans and [insert marketable mascot being] coexist to make the place prosper..." I don't really know. I enjoy the concept of this sort of stuff so it's just something I'd be curious to see make this miraculous come-back and it's somehow better than ever or something.
Same. Remember when I probably was 4 getting the toy back in the day. It's such a little speaked about show I actually searched it up to be I wasn't doubting my memory 😂
I loved that show too! Always thought the pink haired-girl was cute and the XANA monsters were awesome!...if quite basic at times (one of them was literally a cube with the XANA logo for an eye and small crawly feet on it's underside to scoot around). It was also probably the first video game-related piece of visual media that wasn't garbage, most likely owing to not having an IP to adapt and just using video game like concepts whilst in the virtual world.
Came here to say this! I was thinking of maybe rewatching the show but not sure whther it would be enjoyable 15 years later. Please do Code Lyoko Billiam!
If you want to watch the show it has an official English and French voiced episodes on TH-cam. th-cam.com/channels/n9zTBZVl6lu72s-6fXttZg.html There is also one for "Totally spies!" too. th-cam.com/users/TotallySpiesChannel Also a show I remember watching and liking is "Oban star racers" and "W.I.T.C.H." they are both good.
Cubix's legacy is in its successor. Dahl Lee, who created Cubix, also created Tobot, one of South Korea's most successful and long-running media properties. The franchise hasn't been given much of a push in the western world, partially because Lee felt 4Kids took advantage of them. In 2011, Young Toys, the manufacturer of the Tobot toyline, put out a special magnetic Cubix figure. It's probably the best the show ever got.
@@GlobalsoftPirka Yes, but the dub was produced for overseas markets. You can find it on TH-cam and Amazon Prime. It was never given a proper push with toys or anything like that in North America.
I did see Tobot on Nickelodeon here in the Philippines, and the English dub was done in the aforementioned country Apparently in between Season 2 of Tobot, Young Toys and Dahl Lee decided to switch dubbing over to Ocean Productions in Vancouver. I'm assuming it's because the voice acting was average in the Philippines, so they got better western talent because it felt better to them.
The only reason I remember Cubix, is because of the Rainbow Mascot Robot. BUT, Jackie Chan Adventures was an awesome celebrity based Cartoon. Jackie Chan is a national treasure. 🍸
I did watch Cubix and I've a couple of fun things to say about it. 1. The toys are just okay. Cubix himself is neat, but he doesn't transform in as many ways as the show and is lackluster. Also you aren't missing a thing by not having the cards. Never had the BK toys though. I do have a birthday cake topper still sealed though. A true keeper. 2. I still name my router Cubix. 3. The first episode has a song in it near the end. I believe the lyrics are "You can never have too much love for your friends and family. Don't ever give up your dreams. You can never have too much of it. You can never have." It comes out of nowhere and is amazing. I cannot find ANY info on this song and have looked on several occasions as I randomly sing it in the car with friends. This video was great. Thanks for talking about Cubix.
This was the series I KNOW I SAW.... And I DID own a toy of Cubix! ....But I remember NNNOTHING except a few really specific scenes without any context :'D
Favorite Part was "This is Cubix, my bestest friend in the world!" The fat kid, Dumb chick, Annoying dweeb: **Stands there behind The main character staring off into space. As if there pretending they didn't heard that.**
It's English dub is particularly weird. It's not that the dub is bad, but all of the voice actors are based in France. In fact, they often do work for Ubisoft (ex. Rayman) and Quantic Dream.
Whenever I'm reading dialogue of a friendly robot in a game or something, I can still hear the voice acting for Cubix working as the voice for the character I'm reading.
As a proud owner of the Cubix Gamecube game, I vividly remember Cubix. The game is kind of a pokemon/rock paper scissors style game, where you fight robots and then gain access to them afterwords. The traffic light was the best. Also adoration was an element. As for shows, B-Daman (I think that's how it is spelled) was a show that I watched every episode of and yet remember literally none of it.
I remember watching this series,the one episode which i loved the most was when the villain K had a backstory,where it showed he had loved for robots including him having a robo friend and that friend(whose a robot) got revived and received emotions told how nice K was. He was killed i think in the same episode and K gave up on fighting just morne for his dead robo fan... Really amazing episode.
I only have vague memories of seeing advertisements for the show. I did have a few of those BK toys though, and I rented the Gamecube game a couple times.
Cubix, for me, was this mysterious show that I was vaguely interested in as a kid, but I only ever managed to stumble upon one short scene of it (at least that I remember), and the basic essence of the show has, for some reason, always been imprinted in my brain as something I wanted to enjoy but was never able to... Throughout the years I've thought back on it, but because it was so long ago and so brief, I never even knew what it was until now... So, thank you 😊 I'll never know why I was so intrigued by it as a kid tho...
I remember at some point in the series, WB had a design the robot contest, with the winner's appearing in the show. I remember the winner's robot looked like Thunder Ball from Yugioh.
This was one of my all time favorite show as a elementary kid. This show didn’t do as big in America like Pokémon, Digimon, Yi-Gi-Yo & whatever else. Those shows came back years laters or still going kinda strong. I wish this show would comeback for a reboot for sure.
Cubix was super weird but a gem from the good ol’days of 4kids or whatever it was on. Did you ever watch Huntik? One of my faves, you can find it on netflix
It could be worse, Butt Ugly Martians premiered around the same time, also anyone else remember The Incredible Crash Test Dummies special? That's the first one I remember
I always knew this show was real!!!! I’ve tried looking up robot cartoons and I never found this. Idk why but this show held a special place in my heart. Thanks for making this video!
Same, I've had a vague recollection of this show ever since I was a kid, and I could never remember the name, I honestly started to think it was a fever dream until I saw this video.
I remember putting in my old VHS tapes for the 2003 TMNT cartoon and seeing promos for it and Dragon Ball GT, I think. It creeped me the fuck out with the character models
I've always remembered cubix (Although never by the actual name of the show, just the image of the robot), for some reason, everyone around me forgot... I remember solex, and also a overwhelming feeling of sadness in that one episode where cubix (The character) says the line "I don't have any solex left" and shuts down or something along that tune, he got better tho. It was always something that stayed on the back of my head for as long as I can tell, also, I can recall picking up some white stones as a kid and saying, "Yea, this is solex" because it kinda looked see-through but that's all. Thinking of it... it's amazing that I've hold on to those simple show related feelings for longer than 15 years just in the search for this video. Thank you Billiam, for giving closure to that memory.
Bobobo was a show I was convinced was a fever dream that never actually existed. Its a trip. I also really loved Deltora Quest, another show that I seem to remember existing. That one I have a great deal more passion for, having bought the all the books along with rewatching the show recently (though sadly it doesn’t go into the later book series)
It was so good. Putting the blandness of the characters aside (which c'mon, they're kids), everything is so charming about the show. The way the world is slowly revealed to you, how there's a bunch of mysteries that unfold as the journey goes on, and even the layered story telling through a bunch of seemingly random plots at first. Everything unfolds at this steady pace, you want to see what the world has to offer, figure out what exactly the bad guys want, see how the kids develop and interact in general (going from distrusting Connor, to genuinely accepting him as one of them). And when you get to that finale 👌 everything comes together beautifully. Such an epic ending with a huge payoff. It breaks my heart how the second season was handled. You can tell that it was made by different staff as the magic just wasn't there. There were a few cool ideas thrown around, but you could tell they were scrambling to make anything happen, which made the season feel pretty disconnected (when not involved with the new villain)
@@marksmithwas12 hi 🥺 I really loved reading your comment. I feel like the only person alive who absolutely loved this show sometimes. So it was amazing to read someone actually write something nice about it. I feel the same way! 💛
So for this show, I have a vague memory of a evil robot that was like Cubix (the robot not the show) and would try to absorb his spark and the evil robot turned against it's creator.
@@wanderlustwarrior I think Kilobot had basically the Megaman ability of copying robot abilities :p Like it originally was this just demonic looking robot until it copied the cube thing from cubix. It kinda was like robot vampire iirc
@@kerricaine I always felt like Medabots was more fun and realistic then even Pokemon. I was always a collector, So I could totally understand using different medabots and combining parts. Plus I was into models, and so the idea of. Building the boys was cool. Plus none of the "making my pet fight" guilt of Pokemon. Medabots were steel and designed to blow each other up. If one did get damaged, parts were around. They never really did the part switching out thing on the show.
@@TommyHellsing yeah, it's like they saw all the backlash to pokemon and went "ehh maybe make it less...that". and do remember the part swapping was a factor in the show, usually for some specific scenario like, i think there was one where they had to learn to use octopi legs to swim and it messed up medabee because he's usually bipedal or something like that. i defeinitely forgot how bad the dubbing was though xD
@@kerricaine I remember that one. The parts were also important because Bot battles involved betting a part on the outcome if I remember right. Kind of a level up system. The reason they needed to learn to use octo legs was because Metabee's legs were lost in a previous battle.
A lot is flooding back actually. I remember them having these cool looking coins that served as their brain/CPU. The winner was decided by who could do enough damage to eject the opponents coin first.
Me before watching this video: I'm deep in the youtube hole and I have NO idea what Cubix is but whatever. Looks interesting. And vaguely familiar? Me after watching this video: Oh my gosh... I not only watched this, I DEFINITELY had this for my gameboy color. What???
I actually watched the whole thing, and thus remembered most of the plot. I've both watched the show, and a few VHS tapes. Honestly can't remember if we home-recorded the series or not, i can just remember mixing up the tapes so i know i had more than one, wasn't just the movie. But man, Cubix was the real shit back then. I loved this to pieces.
If you don't remember much about something you liked as a kid, it probably isn't worth remembering. Kid brains are smarter than we give them credit for.
@@barrybend7189 I recall in kindergarten/early elementary we had this "Lego" like toy, they were ALL cubes of different colors that you could attach to eachother and form shapes, I always made Cubix's bike form with it lol.
Seeing the thumbnail sparked a metric tonne of nostalgia. Spent the entire video remembering various moments i spent playing with the Cubix toy itself.
I recently got thinking about this show again, absolutely loved it as a kid, so awesome to see a recap! Glad others remember it still! But man what a shame there's no info out there on it! I remember the end of the series being INCREDIBLY HYPE back then but.... man yeah I can barely remember any of it.
Real-life is complicated enough that people can find solid things that support their ideas even if those things are few and far between. For example, if someone hates a certain group of people they will look at the bad actors of that group and use their actions to find reason to hold on to that hatred
It's almost as if bigotry is deeply woven into outdated systems and culture, to the point that even if you know about it you can't shake it because it's all you know, and isn't just disliking someone for being different.
Huh, so that was the show with the small robots that isn't Metabots is called. As a kid I'd get upset when Metabots would come on because it didn't have "the cool white, red, and blue robot" in it.That's all I remember from that show with a few short scenes with no context. You just helped me solve a life-long quandary; now I can finally sleep easy knowing that show actually existed.
I literally forgot about this show for a decade and a half. Now this video pops up in my recommendations and I get all nostalgic. Loved this show to the moon. Thank you!
Please cover Code Lyoko! That show was just awesome and one of the best shows of my childhood. I got so into it. Always pretended to go to the Lyoko Tower and jump off like Aelita.
@@yutarokida Well it's a pretty typical Time Bokan series, with the exception of that it has the prehistoric characters in it. It's hard to come back to as an adult, but check out the one episode Abridged Series of it on TH-cam! It's damn funny. :D
This is one of those nostalgia trips where you see it and have the vaguest thought in your head of “heh. I think I remember this existing at some point”
I remember Cubix because that stuff was on at like 7AM or something, so it was always on first thing when I got up when I was waiting for *real* shows I actually wanted to watch to start.
true....pokemon jackie chan adventures mucha lucha were all shows I waited for then on fox you had power rangers digimon and ultimate muscle and on abc recess....meanwhile my ass watched this stupid show in the meantime and these channels aired all these great shows at the same time so I had to choose one every week and I couldn't stick to one so I missed out on episodes
I would at least say the robots themselves still look fine. Landscapes are also neat. Like any show from that era, it's the human models that look really uncanny.
Freakazoid, xiolan showdown, Mucha lucha, Metabots, Zach bell, code lyoko, road rovers, lunatics unleashed, Batman beyond, G Gundam, I could go on forever lol
Look, i just remember the name and that because I just watched your tech deck dudes video and i got flashbacks when you tried to ollie the cubix dvd..... I cant even remember when i watched it!
Yep, fun fact Bacch and Gluuko became the mascots of a shopping mall in Japan after the show ended. And years after they are still used in promotional material. They are more famous than the show itself in Japan.
You can say that about most of the shows on the Sat morning line up. You had the heavy hitters that everyone tuned in for like Pokemon and Yugioh, then you had the stuff they threw out there that eh, you might as well watch while you're waiting for your favorites to come on. Occasionally one of those shows thrown out there might become a heavy hitter but a lot of times the shows were just lost in the rotation.
This was your first CG show? Guess I lucked out cuz my first was Beast Wars. Also I'm pretty sure that Cubix game was my first Kart Racer, I guess in that instance I didn't luck out
Just want to say love you videos Billy. I look forward to when they come out every week because it always hits some weird nostalgia spot I didnt know I had, and that no other creator or piece of art has been able to hit. Its like we grew up in the same friend group or something. Anyway I hope you still enjoy what you do and can't wait for the next episode!
Remember liking that show so much cause it reminded me of MegaMan and transformers, two of my favorite things hahaha, plus in my country one guy had Goku's voice and that was just so good
There was some sort of competition I remember being held for this show where the audience was asked to make a robot and they would pick one to be featured in the show. I remember when it finally came to the episode where they revealed the robot who won the design contest it was only on screen for a couple seconds if that. I've always wondered who won and how let down they must have felt.
I for sure remember loving cubix as a kid. I remember the toys from BK and I also had the Gameboy game, but I have no recollection of the shows story in any way. What a time to be alive
Memory is a fickle thing: I clicked on this video remembering that not only did I love this show and that i had a really awesome Cubix toy (and I mean like a REAL one from Toys R Us and everything), but watching it reminded me that I ALSO had an equally awesome Dondon toy, which I wrote my name on and everything. That's something I haven't thought about in almost twenty years, like AT ALL.
I remember I used to be friends with an artist in DA who happens to be a Cubix fan. It was the my first exposure to the show. (That artist ended up being a complete JERK, but that's not the point) I watch this video just to see what is the show. I think I didn't missed much. I like Cubix's design, though. (The character)
RPGs of franchises by Nintendo, BioWare (including Mass Effect and excluding Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood) and Square Enix (examples: Pokémon after Generation 1, Final Fantasy and Mario before the 2010s) are amazing, but there are definitely much less popular ones like the Cubix video game which indeed came across as the guilty pleasure RPG of many of us. Like Sonic Battle (which also got a Sonic X adaptation, hooray... :' -( ).
I have this game, it was tough for my brother and I as kids, but it basically introduced me and helped me understand strategy and preparation as a 6-7 year old. Years later, we beat it with no complications. I remember the game's story being a little dark, though.
I remember really liking it, but that's about it. I remember 4kids did some sort of art contest. I drew something up and sent it in 😅 I didn't win. I don't even remember what I could have won ( I think it was having your drawing made into a character. Idk)
This was definitely your typical toy commercial show as no thought was put into the story or 2 dimensional characters. What was Dr. K's real motivation for being evil and why was there an alien working with him?
Great video, as always. Also, I know I'm late, but I do remember watching CUBIX on and off. All I remember, aside from Cubix himself, was that there was one episode where the nerdy kid was in a robot that was making him evil, all based around the fact that the owner of an amusement park called him a "tiny toddler."
I only watched the second season. It gets better as we learn Dr.K's past and the rise of the vampire robot, Kilobot. I also remember the dinosaur robot Tyranix and thought he was the coolest.
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Imagine being a cute little robot in the Cubix universe and then having your soul ripped out of your body by a crazy person.
You're right that WOULD be sick
Excuse the audio on the on camera segments! My memory card for my field recorder hecked-up right as I was finishing the video and I lost the good audio! I’ll fix it by next video
Billiam do you still plan on doing a hero factory video
Billiam digimon game videos?
It's fine, you still do more work than people will give credit for.
Understandable, thank you for the clarification.
This show is now owned by ALLSPARK Studios a HASBRO company after it was aquired during the acquisition of Saban's Power Rangers bundled with that property was the other Ameritoku series managed by SCG POWER RANGERS, LLC and the former 4kids assets managed under the holding company SCG CHARACTERS, LLC who manages the animation assets Saban Brands bought and reaquireed.
I remember Cubix... I remember the "Robots for everyone" subtitle and Cubix's ability to reshape himself into different things. I know for a fact I enjoyed it as a kid but yeah I don't know if even nostalgia could save a rewatch...
If there is one thing I kind of want for nostalgia's sake... It might be an unpopular opinion but I kind of want to see it get rebooted with today's CG technology. Although it's not in the slightest bit unique, I've always had a softspot for those types of kids shows where it's this special place where "humans and [insert marketable mascot being] coexist to make the place prosper..." I don't really know. I enjoy the concept of this sort of stuff so it's just something I'd be curious to see make this miraculous come-back and it's somehow better than ever or something.
Cubix: All in 1.
A possible name for a reboot.
Same. Remember when I probably was 4 getting the toy back in the day. It's such a little speaked about show I actually searched it up to be I wasn't doubting my memory 😂
So you also liked sonic X.
@@monsieurnaggert3134 Mind if I steal that?
You’re not in the minority, I wouldn’t mind a reboot tho I’m probably biased because I hyperfixated on him XD
I remember once Cartoon Network had a competition for Cubix to design a bot when I was about 5 years old and I got some runner up prize for it
Tamagotchi Egg photo of the prize?
That’s really cool!
thats very cool
@@PigBoy99 i think the actual toy thats what he got
I entered that same competition and got a participation certificate! I was 14.
I'd actually like to see a reboot of Cubix. The CG hasn't aged to well and could look pretty good with today's CG
Ok, so maybe the humans didn't age well, but i think the robots did.
I think the concept may hold up better now than it did when it was done.
The CGI would look worse nowadays. Kids show CGI today is made to be a cheap as possible, so it looks worse than some of the earlier stuff.
eri Ladybug and chat noir cgi is good though
crcoghill and eri Yeah, absolutely!
"And then there's a girl." I love the fact that you don't even HAVE to say anything after that, we knew she is pure cardboard.
She looks like Conner in drag :P
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@@jiggerblayne
Get ready for incest fan theories...if people remembered the show.
*HellRay* yah I’m just gonna pretend that doesn’t happen
LOL "Forgotten by everyone"
Everyone I know in Europe my age has nostalgia for that show.
It was the transformers of Europe, until transformers actually came here.
@@WipZedKay I think Armada (the one from my childhood, along with Energon) aired around the same time, 2003-2004.
Ikr 😭 i felt That Nostalgia
@@WipZedKay I remember watching this in Portugal!
europe is not a real place you liar
I remember enjoying a show called “code-lyoko” alot. It was weird, i remember it mixed cg animation and normal animation.
Lucax12 5 that show was sooo dope
I loved that show too! Always thought the pink haired-girl was cute and the XANA monsters were awesome!...if quite basic at times (one of them was literally a cube with the XANA logo for an eye and small crawly feet on it's underside to scoot around). It was also probably the first video game-related piece of visual media that wasn't garbage, most likely owing to not having an IP to adapt and just using video game like concepts whilst in the virtual world.
That show was the bomb
Came here to say this! I was thinking of maybe rewatching the show but not sure whther it would be enjoyable 15 years later. Please do Code Lyoko Billiam!
If you want to watch the show it has an official English and French voiced episodes on TH-cam. th-cam.com/channels/n9zTBZVl6lu72s-6fXttZg.html
There is also one for "Totally spies!" too. th-cam.com/users/TotallySpiesChannel
Also a show I remember watching and liking is "Oban star racers" and "W.I.T.C.H." they are both good.
The dad keeping his hatred against robots no matter how much it’s proven wrong to him is one of the most realistic portrayal of racism I have seen.
Da way
Yeah, let's be honest here... A lot of people with bigoted views and mentalities, end up being the stubborn jackasses of society.
"yeah i guess this one is okay, but have you *ever* seen a lathe that didn't want to eat people? i don't think so"
robots are lame
@@Agora42069 Compared to real life where we stick google eyes on a toaster and feel more attached to it instantly.
Cubix's legacy is in its successor. Dahl Lee, who created Cubix, also created Tobot, one of South Korea's most successful and long-running media properties. The franchise hasn't been given much of a push in the western world, partially because Lee felt 4Kids took advantage of them.
In 2011, Young Toys, the manufacturer of the Tobot toyline, put out a special magnetic Cubix figure. It's probably the best the show ever got.
I Miss Bionix I just looked it up. Apparently it DID get some amount of an English dub produced in Canada by Ocean Productions of all people!
its you I Miss Bionix i never expected you to see here and hello
@@GlobalsoftPirka Yes, but the dub was produced for overseas markets. You can find it on TH-cam and Amazon Prime. It was never given a proper push with toys or anything like that in North America.
Tobot is crazy awesome
I did see Tobot on Nickelodeon here in the Philippines, and the English dub was done in the aforementioned country Apparently in between Season 2 of Tobot, Young Toys and Dahl Lee decided to switch dubbing over to Ocean Productions in Vancouver. I'm assuming it's because the voice acting was average in the Philippines, so they got better western talent because it felt better to them.
The only reason I remember Cubix, is because of the Rainbow Mascot Robot.
BUT, Jackie Chan Adventures was an awesome celebrity based Cartoon. Jackie Chan is a national treasure. 🍸
I'd love to have the Talismans...
But why not a Jackie Chan tulpa instead?
Can he be a national treasure if he's a Chinese citizen tho
Paige Arnold you just reminded me of something I didn’t know I remembered. Lol
@@Y-two-K Fine, international treasure then
I love how Burger King was involved in some way with almost all the Saturday morning cartoons lmfao
u remember that one sketing show? i think from nickelodeon?
@@Star-pl1xs rocket power?
I did watch Cubix and I've a couple of fun things to say about it.
1. The toys are just okay. Cubix himself is neat, but he doesn't transform in as many ways as the show and is lackluster. Also you aren't missing a thing by not having the cards. Never had the BK toys though. I do have a birthday cake topper still sealed though. A true keeper.
2. I still name my router Cubix.
3. The first episode has a song in it near the end. I believe the lyrics are "You can never have too much love for your friends and family. Don't ever give up your dreams. You can never have too much of it. You can never have." It comes out of nowhere and is amazing. I cannot find ANY info on this song and have looked on several occasions as I randomly sing it in the car with friends.
This video was great. Thanks for talking about Cubix.
This was the series I KNOW I SAW....
And I DID own a toy of Cubix!
....But I remember NNNOTHING except a few really specific scenes without any context :'D
I remember some vampire robot that turned against the villain and just took over everything.
This show looks like pre-rendered cutscenes for some obscure yet fun ps1 game
Well it had its own ps1 game 😏
The game was way better than the show lol
Favorite Part was
"This is Cubix, my bestest friend in the world!"
The fat kid, Dumb chick, Annoying dweeb: **Stands there behind The main character staring off into space. As if there pretending they didn't heard that.**
Has he done Code Lyoko yet? A code lyoko fits right into this channel
I am also waiting Billiam.
It's English dub is particularly weird. It's not that the dub is bad, but all of the voice actors are based in France. In fact, they often do work for Ubisoft (ex. Rayman) and Quantic Dream.
I always wounder what sort of g-force/ gatchaman script rewrite these kind of shows get.
Ew if u liked that show you have no asthetic taste
I used to watch that on Kabillion and was weirded out by it being half 2D and half 3D.
Whenever I'm reading dialogue of a friendly robot in a game or something, I can still hear the voice acting for Cubix working as the voice for the character I'm reading.
Awesome!
5:03 the bad guy's outfit looks like something Sora would wear in Kingdom Hearts...
Thats a more stable theory than actual Kingdom Hearts lore.
@@HeilRay what theory? he just pointing out that the docs outfit looks like sora's, which kinda does especially with that x on his shirt
Jack of All Vamps
The bad guy in Cubix being Sora. That’s a more believable theory than some of the stuff that went on in the KH series.
Plus Disney owns fox so I guess the theory is true
I remember watching cubix but then i got into medabots instead. I liked medabee and ikki a lot more
Medabots was the shit, fingers crossed one of the games get localized for western audiences on the Switch.
cubix vs metabee is a cross over I never realized I needed until right now..get on that wb
Philip Beni there’s a Medabots reboot being launched in Japan!
NANI!?
I forgot medabots even existed for years until I read this comment
This show was a nostalgic trip. Love the videos on 2000s culture
As a proud owner of the Cubix Gamecube game, I vividly remember Cubix. The game is kind of a pokemon/rock paper scissors style game, where you fight robots and then gain access to them afterwords. The traffic light was the best. Also adoration was an element.
As for shows, B-Daman (I think that's how it is spelled) was a show that I watched every episode of and yet remember literally none of it.
Marble firing fun
The lawnmower fucked
Yea the game was awesome and nostalgic. Not sure why he didn't talk about it, I think he thought the racers was the only game lol.
I remember watching this series,the one episode which i loved the most was when the villain K had a backstory,where it showed he had loved for robots including him having a robo friend and that friend(whose a robot) got revived and received emotions told how nice K was. He was killed i think in the same episode and K gave up on fighting just morne for his dead robo fan... Really amazing episode.
OooOhH CUBIX! I love this show!
Er... at least I remember loving it.
I do too, but i was young and 3d had novelty at that point in time
I only have vague memories of seeing advertisements for the show.
I did have a few of those BK toys though, and I rented the Gamecube game a couple times.
Cubix, for me, was this mysterious show that I was vaguely interested in as a kid, but I only ever managed to stumble upon one short scene of it (at least that I remember), and the basic essence of the show has, for some reason, always been imprinted in my brain as something I wanted to enjoy but was never able to... Throughout the years I've thought back on it, but because it was so long ago and so brief, I never even knew what it was until now... So, thank you 😊 I'll never know why I was so intrigued by it as a kid tho...
Lol, this is literally exactly how this show was for me. Crazy we're all out here living the same lives.
I remember at some point in the series, WB had a design the robot contest, with the winner's appearing in the show. I remember the winner's robot looked like Thunder Ball from Yugioh.
Hi hi puffy ami yumi is one of those shows I remember watching and liking but I hardly remember
I loved hi hi puffy amy yumi and whatever happen to robot jones.
Crestofhonor 23 glad I’m not going insane and that was a real show, I convinced myself that it was just a figment of my imagination at this point
i remembered ut when i was ike 11 from jetix and i vagueley remembered crushing on the girls at the end.
This was one of my all time favorite show as a elementary kid. This show didn’t do as big in America like Pokémon, Digimon, Yi-Gi-Yo & whatever else. Those shows came back years laters or still going kinda strong. I wish this show would comeback for a reboot for sure.
Cubix was super weird but a gem from the good ol’days of 4kids or whatever it was on.
Did you ever watch Huntik? One of my faves, you can find it on netflix
Its like SMT the animation for the cool kid 😎
It was on kids wb
Wait, you said Cubix was the first CGI show you watched?
Did you not get to watch Beast Wars? You poor soul.
Bruh. You're obviously a person of culture
I used to think Beast Wars was something i dreamt up until recently
Yeah no kidding. I feel sorry for the kid. Its like missing the moon landing and having to settle with the Challenger disaster.
It could be worse, Butt Ugly Martians premiered around the same time, also anyone else remember The Incredible Crash Test Dummies special? That's the first one I remember
Beasties and ReBoot were the shit back then.
I always knew this show was real!!!! I’ve tried looking up robot cartoons and I never found this. Idk why but this show held a special place in my heart. Thanks for making this video!
Hey! Don't agree with him. He's a skeptic schmuck. I watched it growing up and trust me it is awesome.
@@Axxelbar nostalgia got the best of you…
Same, I've had a vague recollection of this show ever since I was a kid, and I could never remember the name, I honestly started to think it was a fever dream until I saw this video.
Cubix.. honestly all I remember is the theme song... VAGUELY.
As for other shows.. list is too long xD
I remember putting in my old VHS tapes for the 2003 TMNT cartoon and seeing promos for it and Dragon Ball GT, I think. It creeped me the fuck out with the character models
Dudes that theme song was a banger!
Yeah, I haven't seen the show in ages and yet, for some weird reason, I can remember that theme song -perfectly-.
I've always remembered cubix (Although never by the actual name of the show, just the image of the robot), for some reason, everyone around me forgot... I remember solex, and also a overwhelming feeling of sadness in that one episode where cubix (The character) says the line "I don't have any solex left" and shuts down or something along that tune, he got better tho. It was always something that stayed on the back of my head for as long as I can tell, also, I can recall picking up some white stones as a kid and saying, "Yea, this is solex" because it kinda looked see-through but that's all. Thinking of it... it's amazing that I've hold on to those simple show related feelings for longer than 15 years just in the search for this video. Thank you Billiam, for giving closure to that memory.
I never watched cubix and didn’t even know it had a show I just remember playing a cubix game on GameCube
07317/2019: ...CUBE!
Bobobo was a show I was convinced was a fever dream that never actually existed. Its a trip.
I also really loved Deltora Quest, another show that I seem to remember existing. That one I have a great deal more passion for, having bought the all the books along with rewatching the show recently (though sadly it doesn’t go into the later book series)
This was my shit back in the day. I teared up when I found a full episode of it.
Same my childhood
@@ErenYeager-rj8ck Eren Yeager watched Cubix?!
people uploaded the entirety of s1
It was so good. Putting the blandness of the characters aside (which c'mon, they're kids), everything is so charming about the show. The way the world is slowly revealed to you, how there's a bunch of mysteries that unfold as the journey goes on, and even the layered story telling through a bunch of seemingly random plots at first.
Everything unfolds at this steady pace, you want to see what the world has to offer, figure out what exactly the bad guys want, see how the kids develop and interact in general (going from distrusting Connor, to genuinely accepting him as one of them). And when you get to that finale 👌 everything comes together beautifully. Such an epic ending with a huge payoff.
It breaks my heart how the second season was handled. You can tell that it was made by different staff as the magic just wasn't there. There were a few cool ideas thrown around, but you could tell they were scrambling to make anything happen, which made the season feel pretty disconnected (when not involved with the new villain)
@@marksmithwas12 hi 🥺 I really loved reading your comment. I feel like the only person alive who absolutely loved this show sometimes. So it was amazing to read someone actually write something nice about it. I feel the same way! 💛
So for this show, I have a vague memory of a evil robot that was like Cubix (the robot not the show) and would try to absorb his spark and the evil robot turned against it's creator.
That was season two. The evil cubix clone was called Kilobot.
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Thats just Sonic Adventure 2
Spark? They implemented that concept from Beast Wars?
@@wanderlustwarrior I think Kilobot had basically the Megaman ability of copying robot abilities :p Like it originally was this just demonic looking robot until it copied the cube thing from cubix. It kinda was like robot vampire iirc
I always preferred Medabots, but I remember thinking it was interesting how both came out around the same time.
yeah, i remember medabots was my absolute favourite show at the time, and then being really dissapointed that cubix was...way less entertaining...
@@kerricaine I always felt like Medabots was more fun and realistic then even Pokemon. I was always a collector, So I could totally understand using different medabots and combining parts. Plus I was into models, and so the idea of. Building the boys was cool. Plus none of the "making my pet fight" guilt of Pokemon. Medabots were steel and designed to blow each other up. If one did get damaged, parts were around. They never really did the part switching out thing on the show.
@@TommyHellsing yeah, it's like they saw all the backlash to pokemon and went "ehh maybe make it less...that". and do remember the part swapping was a factor in the show, usually for some specific scenario like, i think there was one where they had to learn to use octopi legs to swim and it messed up medabee because he's usually bipedal or something like that. i defeinitely forgot how bad the dubbing was though xD
@@kerricaine I remember that one. The parts were also important because Bot battles involved betting a part on the outcome if I remember right. Kind of a level up system. The reason they needed to learn to use octo legs was because Metabee's legs were lost in a previous battle.
A lot is flooding back actually. I remember them having these cool looking coins that served as their brain/CPU. The winner was decided by who could do enough damage to eject the opponents coin first.
Me before watching this video: I'm deep in the youtube hole and I have NO idea what Cubix is but whatever. Looks interesting. And vaguely familiar?
Me after watching this video: Oh my gosh... I not only watched this, I DEFINITELY had this for my gameboy color. What???
I kind of remember fighting foodons it was really weird. I remember liking it but have a hard time with alot of it
Same
South Koreans loved this one. I even had Cubix Action figure.
Im pretty sure i had one as well but had no idea where it was from
I actually watched the whole thing, and thus remembered most of the plot. I've both watched the show, and a few VHS tapes. Honestly can't remember if we home-recorded the series or not, i can just remember mixing up the tapes so i know i had more than one, wasn't just the movie.
But man, Cubix was the real shit back then. I loved this to pieces.
I had a ton of medals from Jackie Chan's adventures, used to be a magazine over here in the uk. they were actually really well made
If you don't remember much about something you liked as a kid, it probably isn't worth remembering. Kid brains are smarter than we give them credit for.
also if you did enjoy a show and watch it a lot as a kid it maybe worth remembering......
Hey I remembered Cubix. But yeah I never got a Cubix toy. I did get a Captain Gundam Figure from SD Gundam Force though.
@@barrybend7189 I recall in kindergarten/early elementary we had this "Lego" like toy, they were ALL cubes of different colors that you could attach to eachother and form shapes, I always made Cubix's bike form with it lol.
This show was obviously ass as hell just the robot was cool
But power rangers took all the room
Seeing the thumbnail sparked a metric tonne of nostalgia. Spent the entire video remembering various moments i spent playing with the Cubix toy itself.
There's barely any R34 of it either, it's so forgotten!
...n-not that I'd look it up myself just because.
i’m surprised there’s any rule 34 of it. i just randomly remembered this show a couple days ago for no reason.
'visibly concerned'
Thanks for the heads up
I recently got thinking about this show again, absolutely loved it as a kid, so awesome to see a recap! Glad others remember it still!
But man what a shame there's no info out there on it! I remember the end of the series being INCREDIBLY HYPE back then but.... man yeah I can barely remember any of it.
"Despite his bigotry being wrong, and PROVEN wrong every episode, he still holds on to it."
JUST LIKE REAL LIFE BIGOTRY! :D
Well, damn, I guess this is realistic writing from a kids show.
@@Da_Baron Only thing is missing would be Connor's dad telling Cubix he was "one of the good ones"
Real-life is complicated enough that people can find solid things that support their ideas even if those things are few and far between. For example, if someone hates a certain group of people they will look at the bad actors of that group and use their actions to find reason to hold on to that hatred
YEAH!
This show of Denouncing the Fascist Left and the Fascist Right before it was cool!
It's almost as if bigotry is deeply woven into outdated systems and culture, to the point that even if you know about it you can't shake it because it's all you know, and isn't just disliking someone for being different.
There was also an open-world-esque Action RPG type game I remember playing on either PS1 or PS2, spent plenty of time playing that as a kid
Ps2 and also the gamecube, I played gamecube version
I always get SD Gundam Force confused with Cubix all the time
Dude that show was weird! It was totally different than the old gundam and I was upset
@@jurgeysamuel Upset? It holds up on its own merits just fine... Sure the rendered 3D was a bit janky but it's a good show.
I don't know I think I was just in the wrong mindset for it, because they were chibi if memory serves, and I was used to the cool gundam
Huh, so that was the show with the small robots that isn't Metabots is called. As a kid I'd get upset when Metabots would come on because it didn't have "the cool white, red, and blue robot" in it.That's all I remember from that show with a few short scenes with no context. You just helped me solve a life-long quandary; now I can finally sleep easy knowing that show actually existed.
@@jurgeysamuel hey SD Gundam Force was what got me into Gundam. I still have my Captain Gundam action figure.
I literally forgot about this show for a decade and a half. Now this video pops up in my recommendations and I get all nostalgic.
Loved this show to the moon. Thank you!
Please cover Code Lyoko! That show was just awesome and one of the best shows of my childhood. I got so into it. Always pretended to go to the Lyoko Tower and jump off like Aelita.
If you liked it, check out the youtube channel it has
I'm 27 and vaguely remember this show. Really only remember where Connor managed to fix Cubix.
Also Billiam do you remember Flint the time detective?
Dude! I loved Flint!!! And I'm so scared to watch it because Im afraid that sucks so badly, like corrector Yui
@@yutarokida Well it's a pretty typical Time Bokan series, with the exception of that it has the prehistoric characters in it. It's hard to come back to as an adult, but check out the one episode Abridged Series of it on TH-cam! It's damn funny. :D
This is one of those nostalgia trips where you see it and have the vaguest thought in your head of “heh. I think I remember this existing at some point”
This was a masterpiece, when I saw Cubix, I knew I'd never find another robot as great as him ever again
All I can remember about Cubix is the titular robot himself. Iconic. I couldn't have told you anything else about it
I just remembered the robot murder
I remember loving cubix and watching it a lot but yet I can't remember any of the content
All I remember about this show is that my mom and I would sing
"I’ve got to fight!
All day and night!
Cubix~!"
This is was one show that you managed to pull out of the deepest recesses of my childhood, holy crap I used to love this show
Cubix aired on Vortexx the Saturday morning cartoon block that replaced 4kids after it when bankrupt in 2012
I remember Cubix because that stuff was on at like 7AM or something, so it was always on first thing when I got up when I was waiting for *real* shows I actually wanted to watch to start.
Same.
true....pokemon jackie chan adventures mucha lucha were all shows I waited for then on fox you had power rangers digimon and ultimate muscle and on abc recess....meanwhile my ass watched this stupid show in the meantime and these channels aired all these great shows at the same time so I had to choose one every week and I couldn't stick to one so I missed out on episodes
I did something similar, watching Rescue Heroes while I was waiting for Sonic X on Vortexx.
I think the CGI aged fairly well, at least not horribly compared ot some CGI series from that era.
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I would at least say the robots themselves still look fine. Landscapes are also neat.
Like any show from that era, it's the human models that look really uncanny.
Was the same company who animated ion kid?
I remember loving this show as a kid, I didn't remember that it was a CG show until this video though. Thanks for another shot of nostalgia.
Literally all I remember from this show was Cubix, that evil dark robot thing, and DonDon the bird thing.
Cubix was awesome but the toy always fell apart.
Shit literally would not stay together out of the box.
Freakazoid, xiolan showdown, Mucha lucha, Metabots, Zach bell, code lyoko, road rovers, lunatics unleashed, Batman beyond, G Gundam, I could go on forever lol
I recently rewatched Xiaolin showdown and the canadian spin off/continuation. Really holds up even to this day. Wonderful show.
@@heinousdickanus6040 THERE WAS A SPINOFF?
WHAT OTHER KNOWLEDGE ARE YOU WITHHOLDING
Oh god that Inspector Gadget toys gives me Galidor vibes
That show was weird, and the lego toys too
I thought that Galidor was just some weird dream I had when I was sick as hell for a few days when I was 12!!!!
I played the GBA game of that
I watched Cubix on the fight for the fox box, and rented the gamecube game at Hollywood Video.
Yeah, the ps1 or gba doesn't compare, not that the gamecube game was excellent but it was better than those
Look, i just remember the name and that because I just watched your tech deck dudes video and i got flashbacks when you tried to ollie the cubix dvd..... I cant even remember when i watched it!
I remember this show and enjoying it. I think I was more interested in the toys.
Anybody remember MonColle Knights?
Yep, fun fact Bacch and Gluuko became the mascots of a shopping mall in Japan after the show ended. And years after they are still used in promotional material. They are more famous than the show itself in Japan.
I always hated Cubix, but I watched it while I waited for Yugioh
This guy gets it
Samme
Same for me
You can say that about most of the shows on the Sat morning line up. You had the heavy hitters that everyone tuned in for like Pokemon and Yugioh, then you had the stuff they threw out there that eh, you might as well watch while you're waiting for your favorites to come on. Occasionally one of those shows thrown out there might become a heavy hitter but a lot of times the shows were just lost in the rotation.
I'm still salty they canned Cardcaptors...
I sure hope there will be a live-action movie adaptation of Cubix: Robots For Everyone.
This was your first CG show? Guess I lucked out cuz my first was Beast Wars.
Also I'm pretty sure that Cubix game was my first Kart Racer, I guess in that instance I didn't luck out
Magi nation, spider riders and Mona the vampire were cool cartoons that seem like nobody watched
Oh man. I remember those first two. Vaguely. Pretty sure Magi Nation was a loose adaptation of a GB RPG.
mayborneflower damn i never knew, well as i kid i really enjoyed it. i’d like to think i would now but it might just be nostalgia
Tai Chi Chasers was a pretty neat one. I never found out how the first season got resolved. Pity.
i dont know what mona is but i know the others... and i like them
I thought those were just weird dreams I had as a child
this was my child hood show right here havent watched this show in over 10 years
Just want to say love you videos Billy. I look forward to when they come out every week because it always hits some weird nostalgia spot I didnt know I had, and that no other creator or piece of art has been able to hit. Its like we grew up in the same friend group or something. Anyway I hope you still enjoy what you do and can't wait for the next episode!
The Iron Kid.
That'd be right up your alley I think.
it is actually The Eon Kid
@@Lonk000 In its original country, it's The Iron Kid.
Remember liking that show so much cause it reminded me of MegaMan and transformers, two of my favorite things hahaha, plus in my country one guy had Goku's voice and that was just so good
Ah, my childhood. Loved watching this back in the day. I think one day I’ll cosplay as Cubix.
There was some sort of competition I remember being held for this show where the audience was asked to make a robot and they would pick one to be featured in the show. I remember when it finally came to the episode where they revealed the robot who won the design contest it was only on screen for a couple seconds if that. I've always wondered who won and how let down they must have felt.
Billiam talk about Di gata defenders I haven't heard about that show in a long time.
I for sure remember loving cubix as a kid. I remember the toys from BK and I also had the Gameboy game, but I have no recollection of the shows story in any way. What a time to be alive
Complete Cubix needs to come out on Blu-Ray or DVD NOW!
Let's get SHOUT! factory on the phone to release it.
Ugh, how I bitched and moaned to my parents for the Burger King toys back in the early 2000's.
At 8 years old in Korea, Uncle asked me what kind of toy I wanted. Asked for a Bionicle and got a Cubix instead. Hated the rest of my vacation XD
Does anyone remember Storm Hawks or League of Super Evils?
Yes!
Vaguely but yes.
Thanks for reminding me of League of Super Evils one of the best shows :D
I also came to think of Galactic Football and Hero 108
Yes
Your channel is digging up memories I didn’t even know I had
Memory is a fickle thing: I clicked on this video remembering that not only did I love this show and that i had a really awesome Cubix toy (and I mean like a REAL one from Toys R Us and everything), but watching it reminded me that I ALSO had an equally awesome Dondon toy, which I wrote my name on and everything. That's something I haven't thought about in almost twenty years, like AT ALL.
I rather have a Jackie Chan Adventure review, that show was amazing
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I had thought that Billiam already made this episode, but then I just realized that Cubix was on another thumbnail
I gotta say though, that PS1 Cubix game has some great music.
Can you review loonatics I remember that they gave taz, bugs bunny gave then super powers
r/ihadastroke
I've been trying to remember the name of this show for years!!!!! THANK YOU
I remember I used to be friends with an artist in DA who happens to be a Cubix fan. It was the my first exposure to the show. (That artist ended up being a complete JERK, but that's not the point)
I watch this video just to see what is the show. I think I didn't missed much.
I like Cubix's design, though. (The character)
The Gamecube game, Cubix Showdown, is actually pretty decent
A lite RPG thats a bit of a guitly pleasure of mine, my favorite part was its music
And some puzzle platformer mixed in.
RPGs of franchises by Nintendo, BioWare (including Mass Effect and excluding Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood) and Square Enix (examples: Pokémon after Generation 1, Final Fantasy and Mario before the 2010s) are amazing, but there are definitely much less popular ones like the Cubix video game which indeed came across as the guilty pleasure RPG of many of us. Like Sonic Battle (which also got a Sonic X adaptation, hooray... :' -( ).
I have this game, it was tough for my brother and I as kids, but it basically introduced me and helped me understand strategy and preparation as a 6-7 year old. Years later, we beat it with no complications. I remember the game's story being a little dark, though.
I remember really liking it, but that's about it. I remember 4kids did some sort of art contest. I drew something up and sent it in 😅 I didn't win. I don't even remember what I could have won ( I think it was having your drawing made into a character. Idk)
Yea they ended up modeling the winner into the show but only briefly. Hardly any dialogue. Very lackluster 1st prize.
This also reminds me of the show fighting foodons I used to watch on 4kids that was a wild show
Coconut Fred fruit salad island , mucha lucha, sholin showdown, Johnny test
Mucha lucha and shaolin showdown were the shit when i was a kid. Those shows kicked ass.
This was definitely your typical toy commercial show as no thought was put into the story or 2 dimensional characters. What was Dr. K's real motivation for being evil and why was there an alien working with him?
Great video, as always.
Also, I know I'm late, but I do remember watching CUBIX on and off. All I remember, aside from Cubix himself, was that there was one episode where the nerdy kid was in a robot that was making him evil, all based around the fact that the owner of an amusement park called him a "tiny toddler."
I only watched the second season. It gets better as we learn Dr.K's past and the rise of the vampire robot, Kilobot. I also remember the dinosaur robot Tyranix and thought he was the coolest.
Can you do a ep on a show called the zeta project?? It’s a robot that dc created during the WB Saturday morning cartoons.