The kids for whom these were intended love them. They're colorful and fun. I wonder if someone who loved pop beads back in the eighties decided to reinvent them because they loved them so much? Downside is, they are sometimes only loosely connected and can fall apart more easily than the kids want. The kids in our house actually combined two sets, and watching them work with those two together, I think one canister will only work if you only have one child!...