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Earth 540 pc puzzle ball
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Released: 2007-07-15 |
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Earth 540 pc puzzle ball
- Features perfectly crafted, curved puzzle pieces
- Can be easily assembled together to form a solid, smooth ball
- No glue required
- Includes both a plastic base stand and metal rotation stand
- 540 piece set
Product Description
Get to know the Earth's rich geography as you piece together this detailed 3-D globe.- Expertly crafted puzzle pieces fit perfectly together
- Forms a solid, smooth 3-D globe
- No glue required
- 504 pieces
- Includes two stands – a plastic base stand and a metal rotation stand
- Finished puzzle size is 8.5" in diameter
- Each piece is individually numbered on the back for convenience
- By Ravensburger
Piece together your very own planet Earth – and take a 3-D lesson in geography the fun way!
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Earth 540 pc puzzle ball
- Toy: 0 pages (2007-07-15)
- Publisher: Ravensburger
- Label: Ravensburger
- Studio: Ravensburger
- Manufacturers Age: 10 years and up
- Our Recommended Age: 10 - 12 years
- Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews
- Sales Rank in Toys: #521
Avg. Customer Review:
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Innovative and fun 2008-11-02
Comment: I was thinking about getting a globe as a gift for school age children and came across this puzzle globe. It is a current, working globe with the added bonus of being able to visualize each country as it is put together. The puzzle format is easy to use (the pieces are numbered on the back), but still a little challenging. It is also hard and durable, and can withstand pressure and falling (not a hard fall, I don't think). It would be nice to have some sort of back lighting for night use, but craft aficionados will find a way to remedy that. After I gave one away as a gift, I recommended it to a friend of mine as a gift for an 8 year old puzzle lover. It was his favorite gift ever and he finished it before the night was over!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Old Guy's toy 2008-08-27
Comment: We love maps and globes. Our family room is full of them. This is just the latest addition to the decor. It was fun to put together. I'm not sure how kid friendly it is but it is really old guy friendly.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: great puzzle 2008-08-21
Comment: I'm not a big fan of jigsaw puzzles (sure, they are fun, but I can think of more fun things to do with my time), but when I saw this thing in its assembled form at barnes and noble, something about it made me do a double take. It just looked so cool and unusual -- a professional-looking globe made out of jigsaw pieces with no internal support! How can it be so smooth? How can it stay solid? I hadn't even noticed that it wasn't a solid globe at first, when casually catching it out of the corner of my eye a few times as I was browsing the book stalls. It seemed like a lot of fun to make something like this, as was the prospect of testing my geography. My wife didn't see it as all *that* cool, but we still had a blast assembling this thing, though she only did the US, canada, and antarctica and only had patience for 30-60 minutes at a time. Trying to figure out which part of the world a given piece belonged to based only on parts of city names was a lot of fun. Watching it grow was great. Highly addictive, causes sleep loss. Took 3 days, maybe 4 hours a day. I would say the difficulty level is appropriate for adults and kids over ~12, or under 12 if accompanied by adults (unless it's assembled in cheat-mode where you look at the numbers on the backs of pieces). The pieces are hard and plastic, and interlock pretty tightly. It holds together pretty well during assembly, and is sturdy when fully assembled -- you can roll it around like a soccer ball (just don't kick it) and it can spin in the base very fast without breaking. It didn't seem quite as smooth as in the store -- some pieces jotted out by a fraction of a mm, but it does look perfectly smooth from a distance. My only qualm is that the printing on some adjacent pieces was slightly misaligned (< 1mm) and that some ocean pieces are completely identical, so that the only way to distinguish them is by the numbers in the back. But it's actually perfectly useable as a regular, fairly detailed globe and especially as a cool decoration! I'll probably eventually get some of their other ones, such as the globe of the night sky.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Excellent product!! 2008-01-18
Comment: My 9-year old daughter and I have had a wonderful experience with this puzzle. She started out using the numbers on the back of the pieces, but I convinced her to use her regular puzzle skills to assemble the globe. We've both learned a thing or two about geography! I chose the Ravensburger brand because of its quality and durability; I wasn't disappointed. I definitely recommend this product to others.
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