This seemed like a good gift for my 9 year old daughter's stockings as she recently started collecting LOL dolls. The included accessories are cute. I think it ran a total of 4 minutes before it started stalling as if it needed new batteries. We changed the batteries to see if that helped and a minute later same thing. It never "returned to our voice", so maybe the concept of this toy was a good idea, but they clearly haven't perfected it. I'm really surprised they haven't pulled them off the shelves as it seems like a lot of people are having the same issues after doing a little research on our difficulties. This toy is now in our two year old's toy bucket and unfortunately she isn't interested in it either.