Jan van Haasteren 'The Soap Box Race' 1000 pieces

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Jan van Haasteren Puzzle 'The Soap Box Race'

I made the puzzle 'The Soap Box Race' – this is number 20053, issue in 2022 on February 24th. This is Jan van Haasteren's second new puzzle in 2022. This puzzle is drawn by Jan van Haasteren himself! Studio Jan van Haasteren. It's this puzzle:

and this is the box:

More about this puzzle - 200th puzzle!

This puzzle is actually dedicated to two very unique events:
Jan van Haasteren will turn 24 on February 2022, 86!
It is the 200th unique illustration / drawing by Jan van Haasteren. This is the 200th puzzle of Jan van Haasteren (ie unique drawings).

In an interview with the newspaper of the AD on the day of his birthday, Jan tells about the origin of this puzzle. He made this puzzle because he saw a photo of a soapbox race on the internet and this photo made him think back to his childhood in Schiedam (Jan was born there)† Then there were those soapbox races. He also says that things that he sometimes see in photos, that they suddenly become a source of inspiration for a subject of a puzzle.

General review of this puzzle

I made a general review about this puzzle:

Video about the Returning Elements

This puzzle features the 'Unofficial' Jane

Of course. You see an 'Unofficial' Jane in this puzzle. What is the 'Official' and 'Unofficial' Jane? I made a special page about Jane, since this is a real thing among the hardcore Jan van Haasteren puzzlers. Read all about 'Jan van Haasteren and Jane'. You can see the 'Unofficial' Jane here:

Laying this puzzle

I made this puzzle on a puzzle mat and always start by sorting the puzzle pieces, sorting out the straight pieces, if all is well there are 126, but I never count them:

and arggg, I have that often, I miss a straight piece, so not properly sorted after all. In the course of puzzling I do come across this straight piece:

As you can see I started with the easy parts and those are the houses. The hardest part is the street with all the soap boxes driving through the streets. The 'boarding' consisting of the straw bales is also very difficult. you can't really see which part belongs where:

I didn't take that many puzzle photos this time, partly because it was finished quite quickly, this was one of the easiest puzzles by Jan van Haasteren I've ever made. And finally the puzzle is finished:

This puzzle falls into the Category 'Anniversary' puzzles

This puzzle falls in the category 'Jubilee puzzles' by Jan van Haasteren. These puzzles have all come out in honor of the existence of an organization or collaboration for x number of years. Do you want to know exactly which anniversary puzzles are available?
View all anniversary puzzles in 1 overview
View a description of all anniversary puzzles in 1 overview

How long will it take you to complete this 1000 piece puzzle?

I made the puzzle 'Soap box race' in peace and took several days to complete it. Beautiful on a puzzle mat made on the floor in the living room. I do take the time, but not very precisely, it remains a hobby that puzzles! But to give you an idea of ​​how long it took me to complete this 1000 piece JvH puzzle:

• Explaining the pieces: 20 minutes
• Laying the edges = 30 minutes
• Laying the rest of the pieces = 4 hours and 05 minutes
• So it took me a total of 4 hours and 55 minutes to complete this puzzle. That is faster than it takes me on average over a JvH jigsaw puzzle, namely about 8 hours

About Jumbo puzzles

Jumbo (not to be confused with our supermarket Jumbo!) makes toys, games and puzzles. Jumbo, for example, has made the very well-known games such as “Human don't get annoyed” and “Stratego” and “PimPamPet”. Games that have been around for generations and are still widely played by both young and old. Jumbo has been making and developing toys since about 1900. In the early years of the company, only toys from other countries were imported to the Netherlands. However, since about 1930 it was decided to also make their own toys, at the time manufacturing wooden toys, which was very popular at the time. Almost all toys in those years were made of wood. An important spearhead was that the toys made by Jumbo had to be of very good quality; it had to be as strong as an Elephant. An elephant had to stand on it! The red elephant has been the hallmark of Jumbo's games and puzzles for years. The name Jumbo and the red elephant together form the logo from about 1935. The Jumbo elephant is drawn by Mr. Möhr. He worked at an advertising agency and regularly signed for Hausemann & Hötte. Mr Möhr was at one point commissioned to design a beautiful new elephant logo for the Hausemann & Hötte toys. The logo has changed a bit since then. For example, the eye has grown over the years and has dropped slightly more, resulting in a friendlier elephant.

In the past, the elephant was not only used in the color red, but in all kinds of colors such as blue, yellow, black, white and green. All those colors were cozy and playful. For example, one time there was a yellow elephant on the box and the other time a red one. It was usually looked at which color best matched the color of the box. It was not until the end of the 60s that the red elephant was definitively chosen. Red is a color that stands out and attracts attention.

From 1945 Jumbo also started to focus on games made of cardboard. Jumbo has therefore been a guarantee for strong quality for years! Jumbo is a unique Dutch company with a rich history, with its head office in Zaandam. About 130 employees work for Jumbo. With a turnover of €75 million, Jumbo is a medium-sized European player in toys. Jumbo has sales offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. They export to more than 25 countries around the world.

In 1980 Jumbo starts the production of Jan van Haasteren Puzzles.

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