We bought this for our daughter's first birthday as we thought that it would make bathtime even more enjoyable. When we came to wrap it we noticed you could give it a trial run in the packaging, but the batteries were dead, when we opened the back to change the batteries it appeared that one of them had leaked. I was really surprised by this as v-tech are normally so good and we have quite a few of their toys already. Maybe this had been sat in the warehouse for a while. Once the battery compartment had been sorted and new batteries had been put in it was working fine. This is a lovely toy and a can't wait to see it working and our daughter enjoying the bubbles and it won't put me off buying v-tech again - though if you do buy this, change the batteries at the earliest opportunity without the child present as we ended up with fluid on our fingers!