Review on Challenging and Dazzling: Discover the Original 3D Crystal Puzzle Deluxe Puzzles! by Justin Butler

I'm a big fan of these puzzles. It was my first big one, 4 in total. For starters you can only build a ship from the bottom up, believe me I spent 4 hours trying to build it from the back and top but I realized that it was useless. Put simply, it falls apart as you keep building it. Your only hope is to do it from the bottom up, being VERY careful not to hit him lest you push the piece too hard. Usually build starts with the stabilizer and works your way up, but that's not possible on this ship. There are 2 such sticks, both must be inserted from above after completion. I tried starting at the top (deck) and working my way down, but quickly found I didn't have enough hands to hold the fragile thing. The next big problem is poor manufacturing. I had to use my swiss knife to cut off the excess plastic a couple of times to get the pieces to fit together (I've never had this problem with any of the other puzzles before). Sideguns are my real hell. They have an awful design and those were the main parts that I had to shave off the plastic on. They're labeled right and left, but it took me a while to figure out if they're viewed from the front or the back. These little things were the reason that I had to redo the whole thing twice. The only part I broke was the side slot for one of those cannon parts (it still works) due to an issue with them not fitting properly. I advise anyone who gets to this stage to put the left and right sides together and look at them closely and see how they fit into the side panels before doing anything, shave off excess plastic as needed and pray to the gods you do can worship. When it's finished it doesn't look bad but its construction is hell and took 8x longer than any other crystal puzzle (I finished almost in an hour but restarts and cannon issues made me spend 3 more hours)/ 5 Stars . Wouldn't recommend it. Solve one of the other big crystal puzzles or one of the smaller ones.