i have to admit that my husband didn't build ours... we paid the extra money to have it put together for us... well worth the extra expense...
Always wished I could get one for my boys, they loved them when they went to other’s homes (and far beyond the ages of 7 and 10). But I’d have paid the extra money to have it set up too. My husband always has the best of intentions...but we now have grandchildren and the pieces would still be laying around the yard quietly moldering away if we’d waited for him!