My statue is getting pushed up but when I check the times it will go down and then go back up.. What's the deal?

That's actually pretty normal. It calculates the time remaining based on the number of people pushing it.

As it gets up the path there is less room to get around it so fewer pushers can participate and the time extends a bit.

It says I have 15 hours left by my statue has not moved at all. Can you tell me how long it takes for it to move somewhere?

15 hours! *shocked* Sigh.

Well, it's a very big statue, and the villagers are only small!

So my 8 villagers have been pushing this statue on fast speed for 5 hours now and nothing. Time is the same and hasn't gone anywhere. Is this normal?

You'd expect it to take a while, with just 8 pushing.

Those are all the builders I have. Is there a way to get others trained as builders? I have everything built already..

If you have the max # of builders, the time is half this. *Phew* Good thing I made so many villagers builders.

I just finished the puzzle and it took along time. You do loose patience but just let them keep going at it.

They stopped pushing my puzzle altogether when it was almost completely up. No one will respond to it in any way at all. I posted about this somewhere else & someone seemed to think that I just needed to stick them in the right spot (or put the chief in the right spot) but they will NOT touch it. Its just about as far up as it will probably go & the only thing the chief will do is contemplate the tribe, inspect the food, etc. when I try placing him on or near the statue. THe villagers will "see a good place to anchor the statue" but nothng else. Sigh.

Try placing your chief at the bottom of the path rather than on top of the statue - that worked for me.

Me too. I had the same problem but put them at the bottom of the path and it worked.