The purple plastic behemoth is stable and has a switch to turn it off. That's the best thing I can say about it. The play value of the "thing" is limited to pushing it back and forth and to listen to his intellectual effusions. So it begins with every touch or movement to keep making the same sounds or sung rhymes (the word to avoid "Song") to it's own, which are unfortunately little witty. Example? "I am a hippopotamus large and round, I floating around - for no reason" Our daughter found this "thing" very funny, at least for 10 minutes, since she did not make it further noted.