We travel back to a simpler time in 1962 when little ol’ me wasn’t even born yet. I love finding merchandise that is older than me!

Even though it is pretty beat up and missing one piece, I couldn’t pass up a chance to put together one of Walt Disney’s Interlocking TV picture puzzles. This one features The Disney Gang from TV:

Jaymar always does a good job with these easy puzzles for children. The imagery is playful and colourful, if not always ‘on model’. This one features a rather womanly Tinker Bell, a weird castle not found in any particular Park, and Goofy from his ‘Man-on-the-street’ cartoons. I believe the deer and squirrel are from Snow White’s story and are not meant to represent the world of Bambi.

The price was just $5.00 CAN so I didn’t have a lot to loose with this purchase. But when I saw the bag of pieces, I knew there was a good chance some pieces would be missing. I was right, but only one was missing.

We always start with the edge and then finish from there:

Can you spot the missing piece?

One thing that was quite delightful with this puzzle was the two creature shapes interspersed with the regular puzzle shapes:

Why not go back up the finished puzzle image and see if you can find where they fit in?

I have several Jaymar puzzles from this era, such as my Zorro version. Other big manufacturers of vintage Disney puzzles is Whitman, and you can see my Walt Disney World example here, and my Walt Disney Characters example by Parker Brothers here.