- Massive 32,000 piece jigsaw puzzle with high quality and sturdy pieces
- Bright and colourful retrospect of Keith Haring’s artwork
- Holds the Guinness World Record for the largest commercially available jigsaw puzzle
- Puzzle measures 544 x 192cm when complete
- Made from strong premium grade cardboard,with linen finish print to minimise glare on puzzle image
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Product Specifications
| Educational Objective(s): | Spacial Awareness |
| Model Number: | 17838 |
| Number of Game Players: | 1 to 32 |
| Number of Puzzle Pieces: | 32256 |
| Material Composition: | 100% Card |
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Product Description
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If you’re really up for a challenge and have got plenty of room,then this could be the puzzle for you! Setting the Guinness World Record for the biggest puzzle on the planet that you can buy,the 32,000 pieces build into a retrospective of artwork by American artist Keith Haring (1958–1990). Each of the 32 different images shows one of Haring’s quirky illustrations,inspired by the cartooning skills he learnt from his father. Haring was very keen for art to be available to everyone,and many of his works were created for charities,hospitals,children’s day care centres and orphanages. The limited but vibrant colour palette used in these illustrations will make this puzzle an incredible challenge. The 32,256 pieces (supplied in 8 separate bags) build into a truly massive puzzle measuring 544 x 192cm. The puzzle comes packed in a large sturdy box and is supplied with its own trolley,so you can transport the box around more easily. This puzzle is ideal for those who want a large challenge and could be used by a group of people who want a huge piece of stunning artwork to display - perhaps in a school,hospital,community hall etc… Ravensburger adult puzzles are made using “Softclick Premium Puzzle” technology. This uses thicker and stronger board (manufactured especially for Ravensburger),and hand-crafted cutting tools resulting in strong,smooth and dust-free pieces with a superb fit. Founded in 1883,Ravensburger remains a family owned business specializing in the development and manufacture of jigsaw puzzles and games. All of our cardboard jigsaw puzzles are made in our own European factories and use the finest quality print and materials. Much of our range is developed especially for the British market by our Oxfordshire-based development team,who actively support the work of British artists,illustrators and graphic designers. Ravensburger Puzzles are easily identified by the “blue triangle” logo
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With a length of 5.44 metres and a width of 1.92 metres, the world's biggest jigsaw puzzles has the size of two garage doors. It also is a real heavy weight: The 32,256 puzzle pieces have a weight of 17 kg and therefore come with a trolley.
The world-wide successful pop art artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) would have been pleased with this homage to his art, considering that he was a fan of large-scale objects. He received international recognition with his colourful characters. Now the colourful pop art images are a challenge and joy at once for all puzzle enthusiasts. "Keith Haring: Double Retrospect" is Ravensburger's very first super-sized puzzle with a contemporary arts image. But the world's biggest puzzle is not only for professionals: The 32,256 pieces are divided into 8 plastic bags. This way, even untrained puzzle enthusiasts can finish one 4,000 piece puzzle after the other and unite them to have the world's biggest puzzle. Due to the special quality of the puzzle pieces, all pieces fit together superbly.
Experience a unique joy with Ravensburger quality puzzles. The unique puzzle pieces fit together perfectly. Thanks to handcrafted stanzing tools, the variety of shapes of Ravenburger's puzzle pieces stays unrivalled. That's Ravenburger passion for quality.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Wonderful idea to create such a large puzzle, and interesting background to the artwork as well. Don't underestimate the weight, size and scale of taking this on - it requires a bit more of you than just a standard coffee table puzzle otherwise you'll just lose patience with it. It took us just under 12 weeks to complete this one although if you were on it a bit more it could be done much quicker.
We found some of the pieces slightly damaged/lightly folded and it is all too easy to take a piece out of the puzzle (a wrong attempt) and start peeling apart another piece in the process. Generally the piece composition material is quite dry (there's considerable dust in the packaging so watch out for rubbing your eyes) and powdery so take care with the pieces. The correct pieces do click together nicely though and the top finish is good.
The puzzle is supplied in eight bags of pieces, each bag being very modestly labelled to assign it a position on the puzzle so you can complete this in sections. Each section has the same template as the others, with the exception of the edges which obviously sometimes differ. Coloured pieces are not too bad, the white pieces can prove a little more tricky as some are reasonably similar and need checking until you get the good fit - there are no small gaps or ugly pushed together pieces when they are in properly.
Positives:
+ wonderful concept, interesting artwork
+ tricky to bring such a large puzzle to market so well done to Ravensburger for taking the plunge
Negatives:
- take care with fragility of pieces, all too easy to remove the laminate layer
- watch out for dust
Would we buy another Ravensburger? Oh, yes, very much so.
We found some of the pieces slightly damaged/lightly folded and it is all too easy to take a piece out of the puzzle (a wrong attempt) and start peeling apart another piece in the process. Generally the piece composition material is quite dry (there's considerable dust in the packaging so watch out for rubbing your eyes) and powdery so take care with the pieces. The correct pieces do click together nicely though and the top finish is good.
The puzzle is supplied in eight bags of pieces, each bag being very modestly labelled to assign it a position on the puzzle so you can complete this in sections. Each section has the same template as the others, with the exception of the edges which obviously sometimes differ. Coloured pieces are not too bad, the white pieces can prove a little more tricky as some are reasonably similar and need checking until you get the good fit - there are no small gaps or ugly pushed together pieces when they are in properly.
Positives:
+ wonderful concept, interesting artwork
+ tricky to bring such a large puzzle to market so well done to Ravensburger for taking the plunge
Negatives:
- take care with fragility of pieces, all too easy to remove the laminate layer
- watch out for dust
Would we buy another Ravensburger? Oh, yes, very much so.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Before you even think about starting to put this together, make sure your calender is empty for the next few weeks, as you will find it hard to stop! This puzzle is good quality. Out of the 32 000 pieces only 1 was damaged a little (nothing a bit of glue couldn't fix), the other 31 999 where in perfect condition.
This Puzzle is packed in 8 bags of 4000 pieces each. When I got to the 4th bag I noticed some of the colors in this bag (green and blue) didn't have the same shade on all the pieces. Once put together It showed that there was a shade gradient from left to right, going from blue and green to a more purple blue and a more yellowish green. Depending on the lighting it would be more or less noticable, and it wasn't someting I couldn't have lived with. However, I contacted Ravensburger anyway, explaining my observations, and two days later ups dropped of a brand new bag with 4000 pieces to replace this part of the puzzle! Great service from Ravensburger!
Packaging of this rather heavy puzzle is very good! The white ravensburger puzzle box was packed together with a trolley in a very sturdy cardboard outer box and made its way to Belgium in perfect condition.
Just a hint, be carefull if a piece doen't fit very well. The puzzle contains a repetitive pattern of 1000 pieces, which means every piece will appear 4 times in each bag. Thanks to the pattern being flipped upside down on the lower half of each part and a slight shift in placement of the illustrations, this will mostly not cause any problems. However, most white pieces will appear twice in each bag, almost identical, if not identical. Even some coloured piece will be identical. If a piece doesn't seem to fit perfectly, don't push it in but but start looking for its identical twin (which if already placed will be found at the exact same position of the side-neighbouring illustration, or in the lower/upper neighbouring illustrations at +/- the same location if you flip it 180° and shift it up/down a couple of lines. Luckely there are 2 very strange pieces in every illustration, which makes it easier to orientate yourself and locate the twin.
This Puzzle is packed in 8 bags of 4000 pieces each. When I got to the 4th bag I noticed some of the colors in this bag (green and blue) didn't have the same shade on all the pieces. Once put together It showed that there was a shade gradient from left to right, going from blue and green to a more purple blue and a more yellowish green. Depending on the lighting it would be more or less noticable, and it wasn't someting I couldn't have lived with. However, I contacted Ravensburger anyway, explaining my observations, and two days later ups dropped of a brand new bag with 4000 pieces to replace this part of the puzzle! Great service from Ravensburger!
Packaging of this rather heavy puzzle is very good! The white ravensburger puzzle box was packed together with a trolley in a very sturdy cardboard outer box and made its way to Belgium in perfect condition.
Just a hint, be carefull if a piece doen't fit very well. The puzzle contains a repetitive pattern of 1000 pieces, which means every piece will appear 4 times in each bag. Thanks to the pattern being flipped upside down on the lower half of each part and a slight shift in placement of the illustrations, this will mostly not cause any problems. However, most white pieces will appear twice in each bag, almost identical, if not identical. Even some coloured piece will be identical. If a piece doesn't seem to fit perfectly, don't push it in but but start looking for its identical twin (which if already placed will be found at the exact same position of the side-neighbouring illustration, or in the lower/upper neighbouring illustrations at +/- the same location if you flip it 180° and shift it up/down a couple of lines. Luckely there are 2 very strange pieces in every illustration, which makes it easier to orientate yourself and locate the twin.
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