My entire family and friends who came to my house for Xmas was sooooo impressed with this decoration!  It is very very entertaining, whimsical, and almost "true to life".  Santa really does climb up and down the very long ladder along to a myriad of Christmas songs.  My 2-year old grandson could not get enough he would run over to our tree to turn him on and off.  With it running musically in the background made our home feel sooooo cozy whenever everyone was over.  I live in Las Vegas and this made up a little for missed snow.  So buy it already!