Hard to work with, even on a calm day ...
347713
Hard to work with, even on a calm day.  Material too thin.  Still gave us the basic pattern to paint.
730558
After I spent 4 hours on a rainy afternoon to assemble this model, I can now say this is a very difficult model to put together successfully. I've put together a variety of Legos, plastic airplane models, and diecast cars in my day but this one has some small parts that tend to not line-up everytime.  I used a good pair of tweezers and without them I can't see my fingers surviving the assembly process. My model came out looking kind of like the picture on the package, but some of the parts are loose even after the tabs have been tightened down so I'll probably still use some glue to make sure it doesn't fall apart on me on the stand. Bending the metal into place tends to be tricky at parts so they give you some spare pieces for the fragile ones that might break in your fingers. The instructions are also hard to read at times with small numbers that match to specific pieces. Overall, it can be completed but be warned this is more of an adult model and make sure you're ready to build for a few hours.
1647754
I am not tech safey enough to like this, I find it hard to work with.
474876
Hard to control writing on board, and get writing lined up with the paper used.
1827728
They work, but they are a real pain in the behind to get going.
2404220
These gloves do provide warmth, and a solid grip. However, I still found myself taking them off to do any detail work.  It was hard to operate a garden shears with them on, or to pick up smaller objects.  That said- they're well made, appear durable, and I may find them dextrous enough when it gets really cold.  My review is based on the practical use of a free evaluation pair.
984488
Not as soft as some of the others, but easy to work with.
3332633
Takes some practice. Not as easy as it looks
631055
I was very pleased with the finished result, however- buyer MUST have patience for this item! It tool me almost an hour to meticulously place this on the wall, as just about every letter is individual and fragile.
681386
Figuring out the character and plot twists was too difficult for me. Don't like working that hard. But, the great story.
3152170
.It is very hard. Looses it's coolness under your head. Should have different grads of firmness. Guess I will learn to live with it.
1716162
I do prefer my jigsaw puzzles to be more then the 256 piece puzzles my mother used to own.  I remember sitting down with Mom and working one or two of those in an afternoon.  That will NOT be the case with this puzzle.  This has to be the most difficult 1500 pc. puzzle I have ever worked as yet.  There were days I would get but 2 or 3 pieces fitted.  I for one believe that the harder the puzzle the more the subconscious works on it for me.  There are some very slow days and yet other days when I seem to just know what to pick up and it fits.
I have always had a difficult time with colors.  I am not colorblind but it seems I am not always sure just what color is what.  This particular puzzles difficulty is due to the fact that it is hard to tell the pieces apart as there is not much to differentiate one from another.  And therein lies the problem.  And yet it is not a 'problem' for me, it just means that I'll be working on this particular puzzle longer then all of the others.
In fact, this 1500 is even more difficult then the few 2000's that I own!

But I definitely recommend this puzzle to anyone who enjoys having that ongoing hobby rather then something you can knock off in a few hours, a day or several days.
3319383
I work with fondant a lot and it was difficult to get it out of the mold without breaking the design.
3614243
The foam is very easy to cut, however, I had an extremely difficult time peeling the layers. I even tried peeling it off the edges to see if it works and I found it really difficult. To work around this, I cut the shape I wanted all the way through and cut however many layers I needed off the cutout, then stuffed it back. So for some of my small wrenches, I cut the block out, then cut out 2 layers off that black and stuffed the rest back in. I tried peeling at first but it ended up just ripping off into pieces.

Overall, it did the job, but required a lot more effort than I would've liked, but at least my wrenches are organized now!
245261
I was very much looking forward to this DVD.  I was expecting a gentle, flowing yoga practice that was relaxing and meditative.  It really wasn't that.  It was a hard yoga practice, that just moved slowly.  She holds the poses a long while, a little too slow for my taste.  I got bored, and found it very difficult, which made me frustrated.  Others may love this though.

It was beautifully shot, and beautifully done.  If you like to hold poses for quite a while, I would recommend trying this DVD.  I don't know that it's really appropriate for beginners though?  It was challenging to hold the poses for that long.  And some of the poses were pretty hard, although she often gave a modification.  I think a beginner would be frustrated.  I consider myself an intermediate and I was a bit frustrated.

A couple problems I saw:

1. There were a couple times I noticed when she would hold a pose on one side MUCH longer than on the other.  2-3 times longer in some cases.  This didn't seem to happen too often, but it happened.

2. Sometimes I could not hear her words over the music.  I was using the detailed instruction.  This was frustrating at times.  Turning up the volume wouldn't help, because it would just make the music louder too.  Dubbing problem I guess.

All in all, I do think this is a very nice yoga DVD.  The choice of music is nice as well.  The instructor's voice is soothing.  The practice just was not for me.
3358032
This Ravensburger "Rooftops of Paris" puzzle is probably the most difficult jigsaw puzzle that I've ever assembled.  The manufacturing quality of the puzzle is superb--every piece slips easily into place when it is the correct piece, but not otherwise.  But problems with the puzzle photo itself and the puzzle box photo increase the jigsaw's difficulty to the point where the puzzle is a chore--not a pleasure--to put together.

First, the puzzle box photo:  you must work the left and right corner segments of the puzzle without ANY photo, because the puzzle box photo has descriptive graphics (a "video-animation" banner and a photo of an iPhone display) that completely cover large segments of the puzzle photo.  A tiny supplementary photo appears on the side of the box, but the puzzle photo's lower edge is cut off.

Second, the puzzle photo:  the photo detail on most of the puzzle pieces is quite tiny, and in many areas, the photo itself is out of focus.  Consequently, to have any hope of finding the location of a piece, you must look very closely at both the piece and the puzzle box photo.  With the most out-of-focus pieces, you often cannot tell whether the piece is turned with the correct edge facing up.  I actually started with the nearly one-color sky, because it was the easiest part. (I like doing single-color puzzles from time to time, for practice with recognizing puzzle piece shapes and orientations.)

After finishing the sky, I discovered that I could NOT assemble the remaining puzzle normally, by looking at the pieces, locating the ones that seemed to belong together, and assembling the pieces into various areas of the picture.  Instead, most of the photo detail is so tiny that the "pictures" on the pieces look like parts of an abstract impressionist painting, and even obscure the shapes of the pieces.  Worse yet, the pieces are often cut along color change points (for example, a mostly black piece may join with yellow tabs extending from a mostly yellow piece).  In the end, I sorted all of the pieces by general color AND camera focus, and worked the puzzle in horizontal and diagonal bands, using a magnifying glass at times to peer at the box photo and the pieces.

The Augmented Reality feature is rather nice, although I had to Google "AR Puzzle" to find the free app in the iTunes store.  (The app works only with the iPad and iPhone; it does NOT work with the iPod Touch.)  To view the promised Paris nightscape, you must "Start" the app from the button on the menu screen.  This turns on the camera; then you activate the app by focusing the camera on the Eiffel Tower.  Thankfully, you can focus on the Eiffel Tower in the puzzle box photo as well as the Eiffel Tower in the assembled puzzle, so you don't have to finish the whole puzzle if you only want to see the AR app.

Once you activate the app, you see a fisheye photo with the Eiffel Tower lit up.  Then you must move your iPad or iPhone to a vertical position to see the 360 degree nightscape that surrounds the central fisheye.  By spinning in a chair, or just turning yourself around in a circle (and holding your device facing you vertically), you see the night view of Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower.  Circles identify major points of interest (e.g., Arc de Triomphe, Louvre, Notre Dame de Paris).  When you touch one of the circles,  a page of historical, travel-guide-type description of the famous landmark comes up.

Whenever I'm working on a jigsaw puzzle, I get rather obsessed with finishing it.  Assembling this puzzle (only 1000 pieces!) took me almost five full days--and I didn't enjoy the process, even though I normally love working the hardest  jigsaws.  In addition, the Augmented Reality feature is largely a gimmick that doesn't add much to the jigsaw experience. For these reasons, I rate this extremely well-made, extremely difficult puzzle at just 3 stars ("It's okay" on the Amazon scale).
88366
It's really cumbersome when trying to wrap up.