Make the jump for a few more shots.

[Thanks, Beeb]

Originally retailing for $29.95, one recent auction just closed for $365 plus $8 to ship. Another is currently bid up to $105 with hours left on the listing. I'm the first to regret not ordering a cube for my own collection, but this Beanie Baby madness has got to stop. It'll give us all a bad name (as well as a vicious reputation within the collectibles circuits).

Unopened Weighted Companion Cube Plush [ebay]

There's no way you're going to wrest that Companion Cube free from the clutches of its owner, but that doesn't mean you can't buy your own. Joel Johnson, besides launching and organizing Funde Razor, managed to deliver unto the charity-attending masses not one, not two, but three of these giant plushies. One was given away at Joel's Brooklyn event, one was given away at the Denver event and the third has been placed on eBay with all the proceeds going to Child's Play.

If you missed out on the events, or weren't lucky enough to win one, now's your chance to buy one for charity. We'll post the total money raised at Funde Razor (Brooklyn and Denver) once this auction wraps up.

Portal's Weighted Companion Cube Life-Sized Plush [eBay]

1. A Rubik's cube. Our local department store stocks them in the electronic toys section. Sadly, it didn't include a robot to solve it for me. 2. Self-adhesive lamination sheets. Look for ones that are about 3 mils thick or so. Staples and Office Depot has them, as does Hobby Lobby and other scrapbooking-centric stores. 3. A sharp X-Acto knife. And it'd better be sharp. Don't use something you'd be ashamed to bring to a knife fight in the arts & crafts room. 4. A metal ruler. You're going to need to cut very straight lines, and it's best if you cut the paper and not the ruler. 5. Double-sided tape. Get the kind that has one side covered with a peel-off back. If you're lazy, like me, you can pick up the small double-sided tape squares they sell scrapbookers for sticking photos into scrapbooks. 6. A craft cutting mat or a big stack of paper so you don't score up your table, desk, or lap.

So get crafting. But first take a look at the photos of Stephen and his Companion Cube, which I thought were quite clever and very funny.

Rubik's Companion Cube, or How to Make a Custom Rubik's Cube [Live Granades via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]

the everyday happenings of weebl - cube [Weebl's Stuff - Thanks William!]