My 2.5 year old son has finally gotten into everything that involves cars! So I was tired of tripping and stepping on his cars. I love how there are are two compartments to got the cars and the little pieces like the stop sign, the cones, etc. My son enjoys carrying this car around to when we go to restaurants or a friends house. This makes for a much easier clean up. It is easy to open up as well. Some of these other ones, require an adult to open. So I like that I dont have to open it up all the time.