The slide seems a little flimsy. We bought this a few days before Christmas. Well we still haven't finished building it. in all fairness grandpa is 70 and once the college kids went back to college it is taking a long time to assemble. When I was just going to pay to have it assembled I was quoted 400.00 . We hope it have it all assembled by this weekend.  my grandson who is 4 keeps asking Papa to hurry up and fix it. it is a beautiful set. perhaps if we had the help it would of been put together a lot sooner.