I bought this for my granddaughter for Christmas.
She loved it so much and so did her dad. As they played together with the marbles that i've just recently bought a second one 2 take to them in south africa. i assumed it would break in 10 minutes, but it just kept going and going. I just decided since she loved it. Of all of her toys, and there was plenty of them. You could tell, this is the one she came back to and still wants and still talks about. So I'm gonna bring her new one as well as the old one. If I can fit em all in a suitcase, and I know she will be thrilled.There's just something about the the noise that the marbles make everything pretty well worked much better in what you'd think for a toy of this price and plastic Held together, basically, it has a elevator for your marbles.And it just goes and goes, she used it for hours during her couple weeks here. as long as you have a parent to help, I think a three year old can manage this.And then it goes all the way up to probably eight years old, to give them hours of their attention.