As you can see from the other parents reviews, the toy has some issues. I have an 18 month old who loves the toy itself. However, when the balls shoot up the top, they go absolutely everywhere. I have to keep catching them because they literally go everywhere. Now all five balls are all over the house and we can't find them. The machine is very loud, a loud vacuum sound, so it took her about 3 weeks to get used to it after clinging on to me every time we turned it on. This isn't one of the better ones but it also is not that expensive.