My son, now thirteen months, loves this toy. He carries it around and brings it to us to play with him. It seems that banging on the shapes with the hammer helps his motor skills and hand eye coordination. Unfortunately, after only SEVEN days it was already broken. Nothing extrordinary happened to it, he didn't stand on it or drop it on a hard surface - just from normal play, one of the pop-up people just came out. There appears to be no way to put it back in and have it function like it originally did as pieces came off inside as well. We own a lot of Fisher Price toys and this was really disappointing.