Where's Waldo? The Totally Essential Travel Collection Paperback – March 12, 2013

My son (3yr) olds search and find. I had to find my old Waldo hardbacks but couldn't, so i replaced with these. We have a ton of fun spending time seeing all the crazy adventures on each page and trying to find Waldo!

These books are not the originals. We have a couple still we were able to compare them with. We were thinking these would fill in the gaps of our collection. But no. Waldo, and other characters are in different spots. So if you have a crazy good memory and remember the whereabouts of where something should be, you'll drive yourself nuts with these books! Don't treat them as replacement books, treat them as new books to add to your collection.

To find waldo lol

My son loves these books. We spend a lot of time looking for things and trying to make each other find random items in the pictures. I used to love these books as a kid and now my son loves them too. Classic.

I’d you used these as a kid you be amazed how much you remember! Their great!

Grandson opens this book often. He's 16 😆.

its cool

Brought as a gift for a 5-year old. it is wonderful gift and the whole family likes it!

I received the outside box with zero books included!!!

The book came with brown marks all over the front ,pages inside were all bent over, as advertised as new this is appalling. DO NOT BUY

Only the cover no book

Great

As a kid they always had these books around in the school and public libraries - but they were very much in demand and often they were quite dirty with pages torn out, if I could even get my hands on them.To buy each of the 7 books in hardcover, as I always saw them in the past would be a significant expense. This boxed set of new-edition 7 paperbacks is a great way for me to get my chance at trying to really find Waldo, his companions, and all their hidden belongings.One small thing I notice is that some of the pages throughout the 7 books are printed less-clearly than most of them. I don't know if this has to do with the original drawings, or if its just a printing inconsistency in this run, but its just kindof weird. Even in the later books, when the images are higher quality than the earlier books and often much more clearly detailed, there some pages here and there that look 'softer' in focus. Still totally useable, not fuzzy enough to obscure the hidden objects, but still noticeable.Another thing is that the paper itself isnt glossy paper from the hardcover printings. Its actually very matte. This might contribute to some of the pages looking less sharp, I don't know.Anyway, I have no complaints for the price I paid. If you like comic/illustrative art, you can waste hours looking at these chaotic images.tip: If you don't want to write in the books, but you still want to complete the checklists, you can just photocopy the checklist pages and put them into the box along with the books.One weird thing I didn't know was that the 7th book, The Incredible Paper Chase...is really an oddball in the series. It has 2 major punch-out/fold-out cardboard inserts in the book. A board game, and a circus scene made of little paper dolls that you much out. Both of them seem totally for kids only. This book only has half the number of 2-page spreads as most of the books (6 instead of 12), with a few 1-page games thrown in. And even the 2-page spreads are much more simplistic than in other books. I don't know if this is all because this final book was intentionally aimed at a younger audience, or because this book came out 22 years after the first one, and the artist/author had tired of it a bit. Either way, It's a bit disappointing that what will probably the ultimate Waldo book, actually seems to be the simplest. Maybe some Waldo experts will say that its actually the most intricate and complex one - but I don't see it.