KidWise Little Star Bouncer

I got this as a Christmas gift for my 2 year-old grandson and we kept it at our house. I normally would not spend this much but he is a "wild child" and I thought this would be the perfect thing for him to toss himself about in without getting hurt. And it is. We have a large basement with high ceilings so we had plenty of space. However, the motor is LOUD. It is basically at the sound level of a leaf blower. I did not think we would be able to use the castle indoors because you cannot communicate at all when it is running. But luckily we have a closet near the space I wanted to put the castle. This closet has always bothered me because the door has an annoying large (1.5") gap between the bottom of the door and the floor. As it turns out this was a perfect solution for us. I put the motor in the closet. The big gap under the door is large enough to allow proper air flow to fill the maintain the proper air volume for the castle. You can still hear the motor running through the solid core door, but it is at a level I can live with especially seeing how much my grandson loves playing in it. My husband can still watch TV when it is running. (And we all know how important that it is.) I will try to attach a picture of this. I am so glad I got a castle with a ball pit. He spends 90% of his time in the ball pit. Be sure to buy at least another 100 balls as the 50 that come with the castle are not enough. The slide is not a "slide" because it is not at all slippery. It is a merely a ramp. We had to put a futon mattress under the ramp because he like to jump off and run down it. We also put a thick comforter by the ball pit "door" because at some point he is going to open up the Velcro closure and toss himself out that exit as well. As soon as he comes to our house he says "DOWN" (meaning go down the basement). Then he keeps repeating "ON" until we turn on the blower. Even after having played in it many times over the last few weeks, he is still thrilled with it and last night he was at our house for about 5 hours and spent at least half his time in the castle. It is absolutely the worth every penny.