Melissa & Doug On the Go (Vehicles) Jigsaw (12 pc)
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Melissa & DougBrand: Melissa & Doug
Model: 2931
Product features:
- Bright illustrations of favorite vehicles travel across this puzzle
- Packaged in a sturdy, wooden tray for puzzle building and easy storage
- Ideal introduction to jigsaw solving
- Sturdy wooden construction
- Exceptional quality and value
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Toys and Games Reviews of Melissa & Doug On the Go (Vehicles) Jigsaw (12 pc)
Customer Review: Good but flawed
Summary: 3 Stars
For a child just learning to fit jigsaw pieces together, this puzzle is barely acceptable. They designed the puzzle to have a captivating image, the piece sizes are good, the interlocks are okay but not great (several times my child puts two pieces together successfully that are not meant to go together -- as a "first jigsaw puzzle" they should have been more careful to make the various interlocks more unique.)
The reason I really give it a lower rating is that they clearly never thought to examine how the puzzle's "cuts" interact with the image. In some places, the cut separates (nicely) the red car in two, so a child can use the colors on the pieces as a guide to how they match up. But that's not the case for so many of the cuts of the puzzle! Too many cuts just happen to fall between two different colored areas, or a cut will just barely "skim" one color or another (enough for the parent to notice, but not the child). So the result is unnecessary frustration, and depending on the nature of your child, it could mean a LOT of frustration. Didn't have to be. Now, I normally wouldn't make this argument for a jigsaw puzzle... but when you're designing an image intended for a first-learning jigsaw puzzle, it is disappointing that the designers made such errors. They never thought to create a prototype, look at where the cuts would be placed, and say to themselves "this cut here isn't good, let's re-draw this part of the image over so it's clearer to the child what's going on..."
After several months of play, I've seen no physical / manufacturing problems; a child takes it apart by literally trying to rip it, or throw it, and the pieces so far have withstood that twisting & pounding. The images have stayed on the pieces. Still, I'd try not to get it wet.
Overall, I'm actually disappointed. But, given what's out there, I think this is probably still about as good a "first true jigsaw puzzle" as one might expect to find.
Description of Melissa & Doug On the Go (Vehicles) Jigsaw (12 pc)
Avoid gridlock with this 12-piece wooden jigsaw puzzle. On land, sea or air, bright illustrations of favorite vehicles travel across this puzzle. Comes packaged in a sturdy, wooden tray for puzzle building and easy storage. This is the ideal introduction to jigsaw solving - once the corner and edge pieces are in place, the puzzle is almost finished!Puzzles Toys
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