The star is much thinner and more fragile than I expected.  The box it was shipped in was well packaged with lots of Bubble Cushion and all of the pointed ends were wrapped in cardboard; however, two of the arms were still dented and bent.  One of them was severely bent.  Given the original price of the item and the shipping cost to return this, I decided to keep it and try to straighten it out.  Not happy with the product.