| ♥ | This article is dedicated to Steve Irwin (1962-2006) and Rachael Lillis (1969-2024). |
Cubix: Robots for Everyone (Korean: 큐빅스) is a Korean CGI animated action science fiction television series made by Cinepix and Daewon Media that first aired on August 11 2001. It aired on Kids WB in the United States.
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 Sorry guys, but these aren't exactly what one would call "robots for everyone"...
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Plot
In the year 2044, a boy named Connor moves to Bubble Town with his father Graham who does not like robots. Over there, he finds a robot named Cubix and becomes friends with him.
Bad Qualities
- The theme song is somehow very unfitting for a show about robots.
- Mediocre CGI animation, even for 2001 standards.
- All the humans' designs are really creepy and enters in the Uncanny Valley. Geez, they remembers the Butt-Ugly Martians' ones.
- The Botties are stereotyped really badly. Chip is the nerdy kid with glasses, Mong is the one who constantly binge eats and Abby is the typical sassy girl.
- Dr. K’s plan of deactivating Cubix and taking his Solex crystals is very generic.
- It can feel like a rip-off of The Iron Giant sometimes because of the similar concept of a young boy fixing a giant robot.
- Dondon is very annoying and distracting.
Good Qualities
- The CGI animation, while is obsolete and with much animation errors, is surprisly good, has aged well and can look quite nice.
- Some designs of the humans, like the Dr. K and Abby's ones, aren't so bad.
- Speaking of designs, the robots' ones are cute.
- The soundtrack is really good, despite the theme song being unfitting as stated in BQ#1.
- The video game tie-ins are really enjoyable to play.
- Graham does care about Connor despite disapproving of his hobby.
- The voice acting is decent, as most of the voice actors were from 4Kids Entertainment. However, the most notable one is the fact that Kan-It is voiced by (we kid you not on this one) the late Steve Irwin in the English dub.
Trivia
- This show reran in the late 2000's on The CW4Kids which replaced Kids WB and again in 2012 on Vortexx which replaced The CW4Kids.
- Daewon Media later improved with their next show, Iron Kid.
- It received three video game tie-ins called Cubix: Robots for Everyone: Showdown, Cubix: Clash 'n' Bash and Cubix: Race 'n' Robots. It also received lots of toys based on the show and a promotion for Burger King.
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