This is quite a sizeable toy made out of chunky, brightly coloured plastic. It is funfair themed with a helter skelter slide, a rotating ferris wheel with lights and several jolly tunes (eg heads, shoulders knees and toes).
There are three different coloured bean like things with smiley faces which ride the ferris wheel, tumble down the slide and climb up the steps. The step climbing mechanism is quite clever as the steps pop up and throw the bean up into the air a little and up onto the step above. When the bean gets to to top of the steps it rolls down behind the ferris wheel and back round to the bottom step to begin climbing again.
There is a switch with three settings, off, low volume and full volume. The action can be started using one of three buttons: the star shaped button under the wheel, the large red button placed at the bottom if the slide (which gets pushed by the beans at the end of their helter skelter ride), or the rattle like roller at the front of the toy.
Some assembly was required, but nothing tricky - just place the ferris wheel into the hole in the base, then slot the sections of slide together. Batteries were already in place.
This was bought for my 7 month old, but older children seem unable to resist playing with it too. Great value and good fun.