Haruhi Jigsaw Puzzle
See how big the box is—It’s as tall as Haruhi!
Woohoo! My 1000-piece Haruhi jigsaw puzzle has finally arrived! Or rather it arrived ages ago but I missed the delivery and only now found time to move my lazy ass to the post office to collect it! Yay!
This puzzle set was released by EPOCH, a company that specializes in making lame things like dart boards and those fake toy computers made for children. Apparently, that includes puzzles.
I bought it off Amazon JP. Being the anal bastards that they are, Amazon absolutely refuses to ship anything classified as a toy internationally and I had to pay through my nose for the shipping via a service offered by the local post office. I don’t know why exactly does Amazon have such a stupid policy, but I’m guessing it’s because toys are dangerous weapons of mass amusement that can destroy entire childhoods if they ever fall into the hands of terrorists. Haruhi bless Amazon.
Surprise! Bet you didn’t expect to find puzzle pieces in this box!
The puzzle measures 75.0cm x 50.0cm (for you silly non-metric people, that’s about the size of a fully-grown African elephant) when—and if ever—completed. The title printed on the box says “Super Live”. EPOCH also released another 1000-piece set called “Muteki no Kosupure” and a 500-piece set called “Saikyou no Kosupure“. Not the most creative names but what the hell since when did people care about naming their puzzle sets? All the source pictures are taken from illustrations that were made for past magazine centrefolds, which is kind of cheapskate too but what the hell since when did anime studios ever bother to draw more than five different pictures per series for merchandising purposes.
Wooo… Puzzle pieces.
Actually I’m being too harsh on it. It’s a puzzle set. Nothing more, nothing less. The quality is what you would expect from a jigsaw puzzle. The relevant features all are there (i.e. printed cardboard pieces with protrusions and holes). It comes with a pack of glue too. Although I really don’t see how glue can be made to be “designed for jigsaw puzzles”, but the packaging says so, so it must be true!
So, yeah. I wonder how long it will take for me to put it together.
You know, I would gladly kill a dozen people for there to be an official poster or puzzle set that uses the cover art of “Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou” Live DVD. Sigh, a guy can dream…
August 28th, 2007 at 12:16 am
There goes my dreams of ordering my own Haruhi puzzle -_-; Damn Amazon and their policies against weapons of mass amusement >.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:42 am
WOW!!! may I take a look after u finish it? XD
August 28th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Looks like a fun puzzle! Probably not super hard to assemble, though…
“What’s this? A boob? Welp, I know where this piece goes now.”
August 28th, 2007 at 10:11 am
for those in singapore that are so dying to get it because you saw DM gotten it, KKnM is selling them. 1000pcs set i think cost around $60.. but you should go down again to check
August 28th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Hey DM, did you take the Japanese O level? How is it? Some people I’ve heard said it was around jlpt 2-ish but personally, doing some of the past year papers, I felt it was more like jlpt 3-ish, which I did 2 years ago.
August 28th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
u can always gt some1 in japan 2 order 4 u n send 2 sg..its much cheaper like tt i believe..*im staying in japan* hoho..im so goin 2 order tis from amazon..
August 28th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
me too
August 28th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I did not take the Japanese O’level due to through train.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
RP is kinda screwed don’t you think?
August 28th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Hey DM, just in case you are interested in shipping more toys from amazon jp,I’ve got a friend who’s in Japan and he can send the stuff over,if you pay for the shipping. Shipping locally in Japan is free for amazon if the order is above 1,500 yen,so all you have to worry in the shipping to Singapore.
He sends using EMS,and so far,the average cost of a 1/8 figurine would be about 1000 to 1500 yen. He charges comission,but only a few Singapore dollars.
Oh,and he takes orders for yahoo japan auctions too.And it’s much cheaper than other methods of bidding.
If you are interested,you could just leave me an email,and I’ll give you his msn contact ^^
August 29th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Omg paper, I’m so jealous, oh so jealous. T_T
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August 29th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Eh, DM, if cannot finish, let me have a go at it can? :P
But, boy, am I envious. :)
August 30th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
hey dm…
i got the same puzzle
sadly though some of my pieces are missing
so yea… would you mind telling me if you have the same problem?
thanks in advance dood…
and arr get the frame before you start..
would be much easier IMO
can check my blog if you wanna see it half done with the frame
September 1st, 2007 at 11:02 am
I finished that puzzle around a month ago lol
January 27th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Excellent article!
Aren’t jigsaw puzzle’s the best? : D
- John