There is a fair chance one of these sets is already in your house, in a bin under a bed or on the closet shelf with the wrapping paper. Goody King magnetic building cubes sold on Amazon between January 2024 and July 2026 for somewhere between $17 and $50, which made them an easy gift for a grandchild and an easy thing to stop thinking about. As of August 13, 2026, those sets are recalled, and the purchase price is recoverable in full.
The model number on the back of the box decides whether you get money back
This is not a recall you can settle by squinting at the picture on the lid. Goody King sold the cubes under eighteen different style names, in sets of 45, 56, 100, 120, 150 and 300 pieces, in themed designs that look nothing like each other. The thing that qualifies your set for a refund is the model number printed on the back of the packaging, which is why the box matters as much as the toy does.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s notice for recall 26-686 prints the full grid: Cute Zob ZB150, Dark Castle DK100 and GC150, Dinosaur DIN100, Farm FM100, Firefighter FF100, Forest FR200, PX200 and FR300, Galaxy GL100, Game MR200, Grassland Forest FR150, Magic MG100, Mineral Adventure MA200, Sky Grass SI150, Solid Blocks SB56, Transparent Solid Blocks TSB56, Travel Game MR045, Unicorn UN100 and UN150, Volcano Forest VF200, and Woods WD100. About 213,500 units are covered. The importer is Yi Suen Commerce of Hong Kong, and the cubes were manufactured in China.
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A full refund and a pre-paid label, which is not how most recall remedies read
Under “Remedy,” CPSC’s notice says one word: Refund. Owners are told to stop using the cubes immediately and contact Yi Suen Commerce, which will send a pre-paid label for the return and then pay the money back in full. There is no destruction requirement, no photograph of a cut-up product, no store credit, no replacement set you did not ask for. You send the toy back on the company’s postage and you get your $17 to $50 returned.
CPSC lists two ways to reach the importer: the email address [email protected], and a dedicated recall website named on the notice. Keep the model number and, if you still have it, the Amazon order line, because the sale window runs a full two and a half years and the sets moved at a lot of different prices inside that $17-to-$50 band. If the set was a gift and the receipt belongs to somebody else, the model number on the packaging is still the identifying detail the remedy runs on.
What CPSC says happens when a child swallows two of these magnets
The hazard here is not choking, and it is not the cube. It is what the cube is holding. CPSC’s magnet safety center describes high-powered magnets as up to eight times stronger than the magnets ordinarily used in toys, and explains the mechanism plainly: when two or more are swallowed, they attract each other inside the body, pulling toward one another through whatever tissue sits between them. The agency lists the consequences as perforations, twisting or blockage of the intestines, blood poisoning and death, and notes that when magnets have to be removed surgically, the operation often has to repair the child’s damaged stomach and intestines as well.
Two details on that page are worth carrying around. The symptoms a parent or grandparent would actually notice are ordinary-sounding ones: abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. And on an X-ray, several magnetic pieces stacked together can appear as a single object, which is a specific reason to tell a clinician that magnets are a possibility rather than waiting for the image to say so. CPSC’s instruction if ingestion is suspected is immediate medical attention. Yi Suen Commerce, according to the recall notice, is aware of two children who ingested magnets from these cubes and required surgery to have them removed.
At least 27 reports of cubes breaking open, and what recall 26-686 does not allege
The number that explains this recall is 27. That is the minimum count of reports the importer has received of the cubes breaking or opening, which frees the magnets inside and puts them within reach of a child. A sealed magnetic building cube is a legal toy precisely because the magnet is enclosed; the enclosure is the safety feature, and 27 reports say the enclosure did not hold.
The federal rule in the background is 16 CFR part 1250, the mandatory toy safety standard, which incorporates ASTM F963-23 by reference and applies to toys sold in the United States. It is worth being precise about what CPSC did and did not say here: the Goody King notice describes the breakage and the ingestion hazard, but it does not allege that these cubes violated that standard. Several companion magnet recalls posted this year say so in their titles. This one does not, which is a distinction that matters if you are trying to understand why a toy that was legal to sell in July is refundable in August.
Reporting a broken cube to CPSC, and why this set cannot be resold
If a set in your house has already come apart, the recall refund is one action and the incident report is a separate one. CPSC collects those through SaferProducts.gov, which takes reports online, by phone at 800-638-2772, or by mail, and keeps the filer’s name and contact information out of anything published. Those reports are part of how the agency decides whether to recall a product, fine a company, or write a rule, so a report about a cube that split is not a formality.
One more thing, because recalled toys have a way of migrating rather than disappearing. CPSC states on every recall notice that federal law prohibits any person from selling a product subject to a recall. That covers the garage sale, the online marketplace listing, the church rummage table and the box handed to a neighbor. The set goes back to Yi Suen Commerce on a pre-paid label, not down the street.
CPSC’s own tally, published August 13, 2026, is the whole case in three figures: about 213,500 units in circulation, at least 27 reports of the cubes coming open, and two children who needed surgery to have the magnets taken out.
This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by a human editor. Figures are linked to their primary sources; where a claim could not be verified from the public record, we say so.
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