Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)We bought this for our family as a gift and assembled it together so it does make for a fun group activity. It is also educational - we learned quite a bit of geography putting the globe together.
There are some weak points worth noting about this product though. Many times the pieces were a bit loose (didn't fit together very tightly) whereas sometimes you really had to jam the pieces together to make them fit. You can check to make sure you are putting the right pieces together (the back of the peices are numbered - very helpful for the water) so it's not like we were trying to fit pieces together that just didn't fit.
Another problem we had is that the text (eg. names of bodies of water, cities etc.) doesn't always line up. I expected all the pieces to come from one globe but this doesn't seem to be the case. This would probably also explain why some pieces didn't fit together well.
My final problem with this product is the insert that comes with the globe to show you what the globe should look like. The "map" they provide is incredibly small and hard to read. I find it hard to believe that they couldn't make it a little bigger.
Overall though, putting the puzzle together was quite fun. The stand that comes with the globe looks nice and allows the globe to rotate freely when in place. Once assembled the puzzle does look pretty cool. Had it not been for the misaligned text, I think I probably would have given the puzzle 5 stars rather than 4 overall.
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Perfectly crafted, curved puzzle pieces allow for an exact fit and are easily assembled together to form a solid, smooth ball - with no glue required!
960 PiecesDiameter: 12
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