If you want to torture your child with a great looking train-type thing that he can't touch, this is the thing for you. It's designed to look like a child's toy, but it takes an hour to get it up and running (waaaay beyond the average 7 year old's attention span), and then once it's running, you can't touch anything or it won't work. This is definately a Daddy's toy and not a little boy's toy.