OMG this is the bomb.  I bought it for my daughter to use with her Statue of Liberty costume, SHE LOVES IT.  And it's traffic stopping adorable.  So adorable that we're taking backup batteries for trick-or-treating, as she would be devastated if the batteries in it died while she was prancing through the neighborhood.

That was then, this is now:

I had to lower the stars I gave it.  Total devastation on Halloween.  Granted I bought this for a rambunctious 6 year old girl.  However it is a toy, by that definition alone it should be substantial enough to withstand a single evening of play, right?  Nada, at the last house of the night she got pushed from behind by another rambunctious child and fell to her knees on a wooden porch, torch in hand.  It was cold out, but not below freezing, but apparently plenty cold enough to make the plastic brittle.  The torch broke off the flashlight completely, it still turns on, but won't stay lit.  And my baby is absolutely devastated, all the way to the car she's sobbing, "It's useless, it's broken, I can't light the world".  Okay yes, lots of drama, but in the end she's still devastated and will forever remember Halloween 2012 as the night Lady Liberty's torch got smashed to smithereens (not really the magic I was hoping for as I stayed up late 3 nights running making her costume).  When we got home she begged me to glue it back together, but the plastic is so thin that there is not enough edge to put glue on.  It's about as thick as a plastic water bottle, but not nearly as flexible.  I would have paid an extra dollar for thicker plastic, really I would have.