In the next few weeks we will be receiving new 2009 Gibsons puzzle stock. Included will be a brand new range of 250 piece puzzles with pieces that are 60% larger than the standard size pieces. They are priced to move and introduce new customers to the quality and look of Gibsons puzzles at a very attractive price. Responding to demand, there are more animal pictures with lots of cats, pigs and horses. There is a new cat puzzle in the 636 piece size sure to be as popular as Jumble Sale also a 636 size puzzle with a whimsical animal theme. There is also a new 1000 piece O’Brien puzzle which will do as well as the hugely popular 1000 piece Summer’s Evening which came out last fall. Needless to say ther are new puzzles in the remaining 500 piece puzzle size. There are also a few new multi-puzzle boxes coming out. Be sure to check our website as the new pictures are posted.

This week we’ve just received a 40 foot container stacked full of Gibsons jigsaw puzzles from England. The container has almost 40 new styles for 2008 including several Christmas pictures. Gibsons have the most exciting range of really English looking images which our customers love. We’ve been busy like crazy stripping down the container and delivering and shipping the new puzzles to stores who have been calling us looking for their fall selection. This fall will easily be our best season with these puzzles as most of the other imported puzzles from Europe are the usual tired images of castles and airbrushed horses and offer no real competition to the Gibsons range of pictures. I’ve driven over 2000 kilometers this past week making sure our clientele see that we mean business by personally delivering new goods.

The Gibsons Game company is almost 100 years old. Despite not developing a puzzle line until fairly recently the company has created a range of puzzles with a decidedly English perspective through a span of time dating back to the early twentieth century and, especially for the Christmas season, even earlier into the Victorian era. Other European puzzle manufacturers compete from an increasingly weary range of stock photographs of castles, mountain lakes and air brushed galloping horses. Gibsons use only painted images which enhance the more homemade feel of the puzzles. Less dramatic but more humanly sympathetic, Gibsons puzzles appeal to the hobbyist who has an interest in the interaction of working people and the goings-on of everyday social activities through decades of seasonal occupations from spring to winter.