This toy not only frustrated my 6-year old; when he asked me to jump in, I was frustrated too! As with the Imaginext castle, this product is complicated to assemble and falls apart easily. While it looks like it can be put together in countless ways, this is not the case. The pieces only fit together in certain configurations - God forbid you put the wrong one in place in step 3 -- it will be a problem in step 18!