Buffalo Games - Charles Wysocki - Four Aces Flying School - 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

After going years without any missing pieces in our puzzles, we are starting to encounter Buffalo puzzles with missing pieces. This is our third Buffalo this year with missing pieces (and I'm writing this on 2/6/21)!Other reviewers mentioned that Buffalo has recently moved a lot of their production offshore. Because of this, we thought we would start logging where the puzzles with missing pieces were made. This one is marked "Made in USA with US and imported material." The date code is 10/15/2020. The box lid was spot glued on all four sides and there was no inner bag - the pieces were loose in the box but there was no way a piece could have escaped the box.The puzzle image was sharp and clear. Assembly was not difficult.

I like the Buffalo Games puzzles. They fit together easily but stay together when trying to life a block of pieces into the puzzle. I ran into one problem that I did not expect. There were several pieces that fit in size and color in the wrong place. I was surprised. I do not remember that happening to me with my other Buffalo Game puzzles. Other than that it was a pleasurable puzzle to work on.

So very disappointed in this 1,000 piece 'perfect snap' puzzle. The 500 piece worked great but this one was impossible to complete. Pieces of the common areas (green grass in particular) were almost interchangeable!I had to undo a 6 piece brown/green section and re-arrange until all of them fit.Buy the 500 piece - not the 1,000....

Two missing pieces, right next to each other. Nearly statistically impossible for me to lose pieces that are right next to each other, this is a production issue for sure. Otherwise a fun picture. More pieces than normal were very close fits to similar pieces, had to make more corrections than normal, which is usually zero.

Buffalo Games puzzles are usually very well-made. However, quality control failed on this one. Many bent pieces and splitting lamination. Sent back because I found it unacceptable. It seemed to be a delightful puzzle, but I could not accept it in its condition.