3D Puzzles

I have a 3D puzzle my family and I put together a few years ago.

It was really tough, too, because all of the pieces' images changed when you moved them. It was hard getting just the right angle to know if they matched up or not.

To make things slightly more difficult (but not as difficult as the 3D fish puzzle my brother had), the puzzle is of hot air balloons against a green/blue backdrop. Some of the hot air balloons had similar-looking pieces.

But anyways, we completed it a while back, and then we got it framed. Yay! ♥

Now it hangs in my room for a lifetime of optical enjoyment. xD

Going back to my brother's 3D fish puzzle, we got that one mostly put together too. But then there was a piece missing at the end. Boo!

So we called the puzzle place that made it and got a brand-new package of the same puzzle, hopefully with no pieces missing. Unfortunately, we can't tell, because we never got around to really opening that one and either looking for the missing piece to the other one (needle in a haystack) or putting that one together as well.

Sigh, poor 3D puzzles. Doomed to either success that lasts forever, or failure that gets it put back on the shelf forever... =P