ROKR 3D Puzzles for Adults,Wood Model Kits for Adults, DIY Craft Gifts for Kids Teens- Hot Air Balloon (122 Pieces)

Obviously I bought this because I love the design and the challenge of a 3D puzzle. However it was badly laser cut. The nuts and bolts were too thick for the holes, and the instructions weren’t always helpful. Also some pieces that are designed to fit together simply don’t, and awkwardly hover over each other.Also some images are inverted in the instructions.

Kids are loving these puzzles and great toys to keep forever.

Item is small and difficult to work with

My daughter received the pumpkin ("Cinderella-style") cart/carriage puzzle for Christmas. This is a beautifully ornate tiny puzzle with real moving parts, and that alone makes it so cool and worth the trouble, though at many points throughout our attempt to piece it together and correct mistakes, I had my doubts. For people who like building models, working with their hands, or accomplishing the near-impossible... this one's a charmer.Feedback for the manufacturer: The directions would be better if they were black and white photographs of the parts involved in each step, rather than sketches of the parts. Words would also be helpful, but if you are sticking with picture-only instructions, photographs would be better.Here are some tips for builders:1. The pegs that fit into the tiny holes like little nails are so, so tricky, but we found a way to work them into the holes. You press and twist them and once you twist it in like they are screws, then you can press them the rest of the way through the hole with your fingertip or the flat handle of a knife or something until they are level with the surface (like a nail). Don't bother trying to use toothpicks as substitute pegs; the toothpicks we had (standard round) were too narrow and fell right through the holes.2. Also, I inadvertently broke off little curly-Q wood embellishments on parts of the carriage frame and was able to use a tiny drop of super-glue and hold it together for a minute and it stuck and was strong. Tape does not stick to this wood, but super-glue works great.3. Another tip: when you are looking at the side of the carriage -- like the profile -- from back wheels, to carriage, to front wheels, there is a panel on either side of the carriage which is wider than all the other panels. Just as you might expect on a real carriage, because these wider panels are like the "doors" where someone would get into the carriage. (But they do not open on this puzzle.) I say this because when my kids first put the top of the carriage together, with the frame pieces, they did not have the wider pieces opposite each other, so things did not line up right. Once we realized the error and corrected it, things came together.4. Also: the tiny pegs at the top of the frame pieces that plug into the very top of the carriage are quite fragile. We broke a few, and now have a hair band applying pressure to the top "ceiling" of the carriage, though super gluing the panels to the frames would permanently fix that so I may do that and apply pressure for a minute or two using my hand as a clamp.I am not a big person but felt like a clumsy giant trying to work on this; it takes patience, but my daughter was thrilled with the results, the wheels really turn, and she immediately made a tiny polymer clay princess for it, using tweezers to set the figurine on the nice seats inside the carriage. Some miniature 3.5" posable skeletons (Re-ment, amazon.com) are the driver and footman at either end of the carriage and fit perfectly on their seats. We have made homemade reins for a small hippo as a reluctant stand-in for a horse. It's really cool looking and very detailed. We also tried the ferris wheel and merry-go-round, but the pumpkin cart (carriage) was by far the most involved.

It's a really cute piece not a lot of moving parts so you don't have to worry about breaking Pieces

I have experience building wooden models, I've built quite a few. However, this one had a part shatter into 4 pieces while I was *carefully* putting it together. It was very surprising. There was no replacement part, so the entire model was unusable, unfortunately, and I had to throw it away. My advice would be to buy two, so you have replacement parts! Or, try to be gentler than I was, but I'm not kidding when I say I was being very ginger about this piece, it was delicate. I was disappointed.