I bought this for my daughter at christmas and it was her favourite thing on Christmas day. It plays her ipod through pretty decent speakers (well for a six year old anyway!) It does do lots of loud moving and woofing which is fun, but does get a bit annoying. The flashing lights are great but we haven't yet worked out how to turn the noises off - and this can get a bit annoying if she wants to listen to an audio book. Ii am sure with a bit of reading of the instructions we will get this sorted. Overall this is a fun pair of speakers.