4D Cityscape Chicago Skyline Puzzle

I am in the process of recovering from a tedious illness that keeps me home much of the time. Its a bit boring to say the least. When someone told me about these 4D puzzles I thought it might just be a good way to pass the time and keep things interesting. I've lived in NY most of my life so figured the NYC puzzle would be a good one to start with.First thing I was to say is that there does indeed appear to be different versions of this puzzle. I received the version shown in the product photos but there is an earlier version that might now be as good.This is a fabulous puzzle. The base layer, NY in the 1700s is amazing. quite challenging to put together but I don't want a puzzle that is easy. I highly recommend having a small magnifying glass on hand when assembling this bottom layer. Along with enjoying putting it together, I also quite enjoyed seeing Manhattan as it appeared 300 years ago.The next layer... the foam backed layer was pretty easy to put together but it also didn't fit together quite as well as the bottom traditional jigsaw layer. This became a small annoyance when I moved on to the third layer.... the placing of the buildings....The instructions suggest that once you have finished the foam layer you adhere it to the bottom layer with double stick tape. I didn't want to do that because I want to be able to see and reference the bottom layer. I want to see how 1700 NY compares with modern day NY. So, because I wasn't taping down the foam layer it was a little susceptible to coming apart when I placed the buildings. It was easy enough to push it back together but it was just kind of annoying.I LOVED the placing of the buildings. Once again a magnifying glass comes in very very very handy (more so with the buildings than even the first layer) because there are tiny (very very tiny) numbers on the bottom of the buildings which correspond to numbers on the map which show you where each building is to be placed. I found it very interesting to see the order in which buildings appeared in our city and also what year different buildings came into existence. At first I looked for buildings one at a time. I probably did this for the first 30 buildings until I had driven myself crazy. I finally realized that it made more sense to sort the buildings by their numbers first so that I wouldn't have to pick through every building looking for the next one. I am not sure if this makes any sense to you if you haven't as yet seen the puzzle. But hopefully you'll remember this comment once you set about to put the buildings in.BOITTOM LINE: Very challenging and a real test of eyesight, but one of the best jigsaw puzzles I've ever done. Lots of fun, and kind of fascinating. i highly recommend keeping a magnifying glass handy when working on this. I had so much fun with it that I came back to amazon to order the 4D of the united states/

First of all, I have to say I'm a little biased because I love playing puzzles and New York is my favorite city. BUT I do believe that non-puzzle players can give this one a shot, since it's really different from the typical puzzle that's out there.The first layer is like the typical puzzle, which is the layout of the land and what it was called beforehand. You do get a small colored map beforehand so you have more of an idea how to piece everything together. This may be the most difficult part of the puzzle, since most of the colors are blue, tan, and green. The first layer took me the most time to complete.The second layer is made out of foam, and if I remember correctly, there should be a picture of what the puzzle should look like when its completed on the opposite side of the first layer map. This part is significantly easier and more interesting, since it's really different from the normal puzzles out there already. It still might take a bit effort to piece everything together, but it shouldn't take as much time compared to the first layer. There is one little flaw though: I personally think that the tape isn't strong enough to fully stick to the first layer. That might be so that it's easier to remove if you happen to place the piece at the wrong place. It's not too big of a deal though, if you have decided where to put the puzzle permanently.The third and fourth layers are combined together. There's a big, colored printed poster that provides information on the buildings you're about to put up. It tells you the name and the year its established. There's little numbers on the map and on the buildings (if I'm correct, I'll have to check). You put the buildings on the puzzle according to chronological order, and it's really interesting to see how the city "builds up", turning to the New York that it is today. I've learned a lot from the puzzle and realized that there's still a huge chunk of New York that I didn't know about.I would recommend this to anyone who's interested to learn more about New York, or if they just want to try out an unique puzzle. Either way, it killed a lot of time and I really enjoyed spending time on it. You do need to figure out where you want to put the puzzle at first though, since it was really difficult to move the puzzle once its done and I had to piece some parts of the layers back together.

The puzzle was very enjoyable. I'd never done a puzzle like this before. The puzzle is done in 3 stages. 1st, you do the base puzzle which is like any other puzzle I'd ever done. (720 pieces). The base puzzle shows San Francisco when most of it was undeveloped, but street names were defined. 2nd, you do the elevated top layer flexible foam piece modern puzzle that lays over the historical foundation. 3rd, you do plastic building pieces. But you don't just put them into precut holes. You put them in the order they were built in a specific order. And as you do, you get to see how the highrise architecture sprung up to the 2019 building skyline. It was visually educational and surprising to see the locations of what buildings came up next as I layed it out. I found myself intentionally pausing for a while to take in the view of the city with each new building I added. When I was done, I found myself already planning to chose and look for other cities that I could do for the same historical perspective all while doing puzzles that I love. The puzzle pieces were all high quality. Foam pieces were good. But they don't stay flat that well once you start inserting the plastic buildings. But wasn't too bad. Also. the plastic buildings were pre-molded and left on the plastic tree mold trees that one get's when you build plastic models. So when you seperate the buildings from the mold brackets, I had to get out my Exacto knife to trim the plastic burs. Not doing so would result in the burrs ripping through the paper top portion of the flexible foam pieces. So I did that for every building piece. That was a pain. But there was just no choice. The puzzle was really worth it.

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I really loved this puzzle! Easy to assemble and very entertaining! I love the fact that they included the twin towers. I obviously left the old WTC site. Love this puzzle!

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Goof concept but Nnot as exciting as expected

We went to DC with our son in the summer, this was a great way for him to experience DC again.