 you know that kind of stuff drives me crazy I love when my puzzles do that. Okay now I am super excited about this puzzle because for one it's from a brand that I have been so looking forward to trying for the longest now and many of you have said such amazing things about it too so you know that that makes it even more exciting for me and on top of that it's a Disney Thomas Kincaid image which is something that I actually hadn't really worked on in quite a while but anyways you know what let's get on with it because I'm too excited I can't wait to open it the puzzle that I am talking about is from Schmidt puzzles it's called Alice in Wonderland as I said it is a Disney Thomas Kincaid image which you for sure know by now that's my absolute favorite and it's 1000 pieces and it's 693 by 493 millimeters when it's completed the box has a nice big stamp on the front that says it's premium quality and there's a whole list of things here on the side that talk about all the great things about this brand unfortunately my particular box doesn't have any of this in English but you know what that's okay just judging from these little pictures here I can tell we're in for some good stuff and now that I think about it it's moments like these where I highly regret not continuing my German lessons which I was doing sometime in the beginning of last year and I kind of stopped because of the channel was taking up a lot of my time but you know that's probably something I'm gonna get back into this year but anyways I can't say enough how spectacular Disney Thomas Kincaid images are at least to me they're they're just I just think they're like the top Disney images and just like all the others this image is absolute perfection I love Alice in Wonderland that's probably like my earliest memory of watching a Disney movie and not only do you have Alice in this image but you have all the other fun characters you have the white rabbit tweedledy tweedledum queen of hearts the strange looking flowers there's just so many elements in this image that just take me back to some of my favorite scenes in the movie and the scenery itself is just absolutely amazing now in terms of challenge level with this one thing that I've noticed and I think a lot of you have mentioned this as well but I seem to find with Thomas Kincaid images Disney or not they tend to be quite on the challenging side and I'm not sure if it has more to do with the style of artwork because when you look at the pieces really up close the details tend to see more on the blurry side and I feel like that's mainly because that's just the nature of Thomas Kincaid's artwork it's a painting it's kind of supposed to look that way now one of the things that I can't wait to you know find out with the schmitz sets is how the print is on these pieces now I've only ever done Disney Thomas Kincaid images from Seaco and overall those puzzling experiences you know they weren't absolutely fantastic to be honest the only thing that really saved those experiences was you know the image itself they're beautiful I love them so that was always my driving force into completing the puzzles because you know to be perfectly honest the nature of Seaco puzzles you know their quality isn't that great those those pieces are very hard to you know kind of figure out what you're looking at so I'm really looking forward to finding out if the schmitz brand is gonna be a much better experience and again judging from all the things that I've heard from all of you guys I'm I just can't wait so you know what guys I'm I'm just gonna shut up now because I have to get into this puzzle so you know what let's finally get this one started all right let's get this one finally opens now with this being my first schmitz puzzle I want to be very gentle opening this I don't want to have any casualties here so let me do this without my trusty scissors oh I must say the packaging is fantastic this is a very very solid box this is beautiful we got no flimsy stuff going on here all right let's finally open this up so Schmidt doesn't come with the poster but I was gonna speak too soon there there is a bit of puzzle to us but to be honest it doesn't seem like it's as bad as the robinsberger sets I mean I don't know yet what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put it in this box just in case because I don't really want to get my puzzle table all dusty again so that's a light piece it's kind of a very fine dust really I don't know if you can see that on my hands but you can see it on the outside in the inside of the bag even there there you go very powdery dust anyways oh this feels already amazing we got a really nice piece size here I don't really remember what the seco 1000 piece sizes look like I'll probably do a comparison at some point in the video but look at what we're dealing with here so far these pieces have a great thickness to them and they're very strong oh my god this is impressive wow these are this is quality guys I'm really loving this so far this is getting me even more excited now let's look at this print real quick all right I'm trying to get pieces here with some some detail in them and also ones with some flowers but from what I'm seeing so far I mean I kind of feel like this is pretty darn clear it has some glare to it not too much really but that's really not bad but look at that print look at the rabbit's eyeballs the print looks pretty darn clear compared to my seco sets and I'm saying that because for the most part when I do my seco sets they do tend to be on the blurry side like I can easily make out what's going on in these pieces and the colors look very true to the box image as well I mean I must say I am very impressed now the question here is what is putting it together going to be like am I gonna feel the same way whilst I'm piecing it together I do not know but so far I'm really liking what I'm seeing here so you know what guys yeah I'm just gonna stop with this unboxing now because I gotta get this started so you know what let's just move on all right so honestly the sorting wasn't too bad but anyways here's what I did so of course we have the edge pieces this tray here is anything with the characters or any pieces that had like the table or the signs this tray here is kind of piled high but what I did was put anything that was just kind of just greens really and some browns we have some of the path here which is this area and again it's gonna be mostly like just the plain green parts of the image the next tray here it's an even bigger pile because this has anything that has flowers in it it's gonna be all this here all of this area with flowers in the background I'm pretty sure I have some of the trees in there as well next tray is anything with water in it this tray um this was tricky for me and what I mean by that is I don't really know what these pieces are exactly it could be some water areas but it's mainly dark so it's probably like the tree here kind of have some other dark areas in the puzzle like here I also put this area in there with the little what do you call that glitter stars sparkles you know you know what I mean and then for the last tray here these were all very light pieces these colors I don't know this stood out to me the most hence why I have it separated so it's anything with like this bright peachy orangey color and I know that's a dark piece but it kind of has that one little bit there and this is very light as well so it's going to most likely be anything with the sky here and this background and also it's going to be this background as well with the castle and probably the maze as well now that I look look at it it kind of looks like those pieces so I am very sure that I am going to have to resort most of these trays especially the ones with the flowers this I don't know but you know what who knows we'll see right I'm really loving the image print you know I'm able to better make out what I'm looking at in these pieces compared to you know the Thomas Kincaid's Seco pieces so you know what I feel really good about this I'm super excited so let's finally start putting this together all right let's move on so as soon as I was done with that I went right into getting the edges put together which was pretty easy and during this first stage I was already starting to get a little bit suspicious about the overall fit to me it felt a little bit on the loose side but I kept telling myself you know don't jump to conclusions already you only just started and it's just the edges because you know that can tend to be the case with edge pieces in most puzzle brands but I got that completed fairly quickly and side note I actually had all the edge pieces sorted out properly the first time around with nothing missing and that doesn't usually happen so I was proud of myself but anyways I moved on to the tray with the least amount of pieces which had the lighter pieces with the sky the castle the maze and then moved on to the water and started putting the characters together which tends to be my favorite part of putting Disney puzzles together because you know Disney is all about them amazing characters and the more I started piecing these sections together the more I started to rethink about my earlier suspicions and really started to see what Schmidt was all about all right so far so good at first I thought the puzzle was gonna be on the crumbly side because of the edges but once they were all together it seemed to just kind of sit very well but we're getting the characters put together now I kind of have some of these signs coming up we got the Cheshire Cat Alice is pretty much done and now we kind of have to get to the rest of this puzzle which is gonna mainly be like the flowers in the grass and the sky kind of like uh all the hard stuff really we're already at that point I think so you know what I think what I'm gonna do is because these trays kind of got like a lot going on here I think the best bet would be is to re-sort these like flowers colors whatnot you know what I mean I don't know there's a lot in this tray this is gonna be quite a lot of work so you know what let's let's move on and let's see how we can uh let's see how we can get this going yeah that flower tray was a beast because really this image consisted of a lot of plant life so I felt a bit overwhelmed at times with this resort I had a number of piles forming and I had moments where I just wanted to get back into actually putting the image together but really there is a benefit to resorting your trays because it kind of gives you a better sense of direction on how to go about the completion of certain areas in the image especially areas that can be challenging to figure out at least to me I know most people don't care to sort and that's okay but if you are a sorter I highly recommend you try to re-sort your trays throughout your puzzle sessions and I know I keep saying this all the time but you know someone might be new here and will be hearing this for the first time also re-sorting your trays doesn't always work for certain images but it sure does for this one so I figure I best mention it besides I always like to give you a rundown of how I go about completing the puzzle in my videos just in case you decide to try it out yourself or if you just so happen to be stuck working on the same image and can't figure out how to continue on with it and if you're the latter don't give up you can do it all right now I've made a ton of really good progress here but now I am down to like the trays with lots and lots of pieces in them this one here has mainly like darkish pieces we have this was with just like mainly grass and green overall and then these other trays here are filled with like flower pieces but kind of like finished up the easy areas of the puzzle and now it's just a case of filling the gaps and yes I know I made a mess on my table again but I don't know I guess that's just the way I puzzle anyways what I've started doing in little areas throughout the table as you can see I've set aside little piles with pieces that kind of have the same thing going on so here we have like the orange flowers I've got like bluish flowers here some of these trays here have just like red flowers in them this tray I'm not really sure what I'm gonna do yet because you know they're all pretty dark but I don't know I think I'll be able to sort this out a little easier and then for this one I'm thinking about just separating it by like tree branches we have some of these but like grass and paths and them yeah you know what I'm not too worried about it because you know what I'm having a lot of fun with this puzzle and I almost don't want it to end but anyways you know what let's just continue on with this as I've said a million times and I'll say it again my favorite kind of puzzle is a Disney Thomas Kincaid he's he's my absolute favorite artist and the further I got into this puzzle the more I started to feel like this Disney Thomas Kincaid experience was the ultimate not only because the image was so beautiful and colorful but the overall quality of these pieces amplified the whole experience I fell more and more in love with Schmidt as I got closer and closer to the end and I took my time with it because I wanted to savor every moment of it and it made me think about how I wish my Disney Thomas Kincaid collection wasn't all seco because with that brand the lack of quality would take away from the whole experience it really does come to show how important quality is when it comes to puzzling it can really make or break an experience no matter how amazing or perfect the puzzle image is to you all right well we're pretty much at the end right now and quite honestly I wish it wasn't because I don't really want it to end I'm actually feeling quite sad about it but you know what that's okay because I do have another Schmidt puzzle in my collection that's also Disney Thomas Kincaid so I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna be waiting too much longer to get that one completed but anyways you know what let me stop being sad about this let's just continue here and let's get it done so after getting most of the flowers in place it was just a matter of filling the gaps with the rest of the darker piece which were for the big tree trunk and moving myself to the other side of the table to get the rest of the orange flowers in place then I was ready to join the mad hatter and the hair to celebrate my unbirthday it took me about eight and a half hours to finally join the tea party and to gather my overall thoughts on this Schmidt experience so Schmidt is another major German puzzle manufacturer I think it's kind of like robinsburgers competition or something and their English website doesn't really have much to it you can't really even order anything directly from it and I did find the German website and that of course had everything in it but of course it was all in German so with the little knowledge that I have of the German language and with the help of google translator I was able to translate the info from the back of the puzzle box so let's very quickly go down the list first it states it has a great variety of p shapes absolutely I think there were at least five different p shapes in various forms and to me I thought the p size was great as well the next one loosely translated to perfect cohesion from specially developed cardboard I think that translation is a little bit off but I think I get what it's trying to talk about here and it's the overall hold and the material which I do have to say was probably two of my most favorite things about this brand these pieces are nice and thick and of course you know I had to go grab the calipers to see what kind of thickness we were dealing with here and of course to see the differences between that brand alongside robinsburger and seco which are two other puzzle brands that carry a number of disney images and it beat both of them I did have that quick questionable instance in the beginning of the completion process when I was putting the edge pieces together but that doubt was very short-lived and I mean I have to say the overall experience just continued to get better and better and as I completed sections either in trays or in open sections on my messy puzzle table I was able to easily pick them up slide them across the table without any casualties you know that kind of stuff drives me crazy I love when my puzzles do that and not only did it pass the pickup test but it also passed the storage test it wasn't the easiest to take apart in sections because the fit and the hold is just it's snug so you have to kind of separate it slowly and carefully but I did it and set all the sections right back in the box but I mean quite honestly this is a puzzle that I know I'm gonna want to work on again at some point so you know I wasn't too fussed if it wasn't gonna work out it has a perfect fit thanks to the fine cut and it has a matte and linen finish and these statements are totally true the cut was just so smooth the edges were smooth and I absolutely loved the matte finish on these pieces and because of the matte finish glare really wasn't an issue and it might look like it with some of the camera angles during the time lapses but honestly you know whilst I was sat in front of it I didn't have any struggle with it and the print oh my goodness I don't know if this was just because of this particular um Thomas Kincaid image but this this print was not blurry on the pieces it was clear I knew what I was looking at and the colors were great and like I mentioned earlier it's it's surprising because Thomas Kincaid images are kind of you know they they're painting they look kind of blurry but this was great I was able to make out all the details in the pieces and that in turn helped the whole experience seemed you know easier in a sense you know yeah actually easier much easier compared to my Ziko experiences the fit was fantastic it was nice and snug and the best part of it all was that it wasn't crumbly which you know can drive me super crazy when it comes to like putting together puzzles but anyways I don't know if I'm sounding super crazy or is is Schmidt really this amazing is this gonna end up being like a one-off experience and when I open up my other puzzle it's gonna be totally different I don't know so I'm super curious now let me know down below what have your experiences been like with this brand is this how it always is is just is this gonna be a one-off for me I don't know but I'm honestly hoping that it always is this amazing when I work on them because as of this moment without a doubt I think honestly Schmidt has become like my number one it seriously it tops all of them at least all the ones that I've tried I've honestly never had a Thomas Kincaid puzzle image experience like this this was so much fun to put together I honestly didn't want this experience to end and I really need to figure this out because Amazon only really carries four or five different puzzle sets in their stock and there they're going for about 30 dollars which to be honest I would very gladly pay for I swear if I had all the money in the world I'd go nuts and I honestly wish I knew about this before I collected all my Disney Thomas Kincaid puzzles in the Seco brand but if any of you know of any US based websites where I can actually pick up a number of Schmidt puzzles please let me know down below I'm desperate and I say that as if I have all the space in the world to start another collection on my puzzle shelves but you know what it doesn't matter I'll figure it out but anyways guys if any of you would like to share your own puzzling experiences with other puzzlers I do have a community that you can join and I'm gonna leave a link down below so that you could look more into it and if you're new here and you want to hear what I have to say about other new to me brands be sure to subscribe anyways guys thank you so much for bringing this brand to my attention because now I honestly can't stop thinking about it so I hope you're all doing great thank you all so much for watching and I will see you in the next one