The puzzle ball globe is made of plastic and was manufactured in the United Kingdom. This is cool and it’s really fun to put together. If I was building it, I would glue it together: My suggestion would be to assemble the whole globe then carefully glue the pieces together using Tamiya’s extra thin model glue (the pieces are plastic).
This is a bit tricky I'll admit. But the pieces are a nice sturdy plastic and they snap together just great. This is a bit difficult as each character is on the puzzle two times. But it's super nice that each piece has a number printed on the back (I won't lie, I cheated a bit). It even comes with a plastic printout of the layout as a guide and a platform to display it on. This was a lot of fun and also challenging!