Gleaming the Cube the Netflix original series "" makes a word-play reference to the film. Episode four is titled "Greening the Cube." The film is referenced in the dialogue in "The Lego Batman Movie". Professional skateboarder Stevie Williams has stated in an online interview that Slater's character in the film was his first skateboarding influence. Skateboarding figure Tony Hawk, in a 2008 interview with Slater, revealed that he is continually asked if Slater actually skated in the film. Hawk has remained in contact with Slater well beyond the production of the film. Gleaming the Cube Gleaming the Cube (also known as A Brother's
The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube season working out a solution, which he published as a 32-page pamphlet for the university bookstore. It reached the hands of a publisher at Bantam who persuaded Nourse to expand the guide into a 64-page book. The book was published June 1981. It became the best-selling book of 1981, selling 6,680,000 copies that year. It was the fastest-selling title in the 36-year history of Bantam Books. In November 1981 Nourse published a sequel, "The Simple Solutions to Cubic Puzzles", as an aid to the numerous puzzles that were spawned by the Cube-craze. Many later solutions to Rubik's Cube published on