| | |  | Melissa & Doug Toys | Home » » Melissa & Doug On the Go (Vehicles) Jigsaw (12 pc) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | 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! | | | 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
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 11.8 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.8 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.8 pounds | | Package Length:
| 11.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 20 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 HUGE hit with my busy little man!Dec 15, 2007
By Jeddy 3
Another great product from Melissa and Doug. This, and the similar Melissa & Doug Construction Wooden Chunky Puzzle, were my 21-month-old son's first jigsaw puzzles, and he loved them on sight! Because these puzzles are made of thick, sturdy wood, there are some not-completely-smooth edges. No biggie -- I gave them a little buffing with very fine sandpaper and they were fine.
He worked with the puzzle, with a little help from Mom & Dad, until he had literally memorized it and could put it together lightning-fast. Now, at 24 months, he enjoys putting his puzzles together wood-side-up, too, so we're really getting our money's worth with this thing.
One thing to note is that, after much love and enjoyment, the paper is starting to wear at the edges. And my son actually managed to tear some of it off one of the puzzles in a moment of toddler curiosity. However, contact cement pasted the paper back on and all is well again.
The recommended age is 3+, but I think kids much younger than that can enjoy starting to learn how to work jigsaw puzzles. The look of pride when they figure out how to put them together is priceless!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Paper Picture Peels OffOct 24, 2010
By Nikhil's Mom
We just bought this for our son who is almost 2.5 years old. He likes putting the pieces together, but the quality is very poor. Almost as soon as we took the plastic wrap off the paper (which is what the picture is printed on) started to peel away from the wood pieces without any encouragement from him. By the time he had finished playing we had probably put white glue on about half of the pieces to keep the paper from peeling off entirely.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Mom broke itNov 22, 2009
By Kathryn
The first time my son used this puzzle, he was having trouble taking the pieces apart. He asked for my help, but even I couldn't take the puzzle pieces apart without tearing the applied paper picture. That said, my son loves the illustration, and frequently works on this puzzle. Much of the image has torn away in the last couple of months, and wood has splintered on the underside. Pretty flimsy stuff.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Melissa & Doug...need I say more?May 13, 2007
By YGH
"fan of educational TV"
These are great wood puzzles. To make them a little more user friendly, a light sanding around the edge helped the pieces flow into one another more seamlessly. Great quality however, and the best test is the kid test....it passed!
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Good but flawedSep 10, 2009
By D Darkman
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.
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