As all the dolls of "Living Puppets" He is very well made. He is not as fast break, unless you can really play children with him that around tugging at him. Then it can of course happen that tear the seams. But for the actual use as a ventriloquist's dummy or doll therapy, these dolls are indestructible.
Oh, and this shall be the only intervention for smaller hands, seen not with me. I'm just saying: "hands like frying pans!"