I have three small boys and I am getting really fed up with toys. I searched and searched for a good quality transporter and was willing to pay a bit more for quality. This wasn't extortionate but not cheap either. It has a nice, solid die cast cab but then the most flimsy, complicated plastic mechanism for the trailer which hardly works and was very quickly broken. Why is quality so poor? Would it really be prohibitively expensive to make it all from metal, have simple mechanisms that would last years? Or are the manufacturers just hoping people will buy new ones when they break and create landfill? Not a criticism of Gift and Gadget but a real bug bear on toys generally.