Another important thing to remember is that there are toy grade planes and there are serious hobby grade planes. The toy grade stuff is Air Hogs and the Harbor Freight Yellow Bees and such, while hobby grade (for starter planes) are traditionally the .40 size and up balsa trainers and sport models. The Slow Stick falls in the middle because it uses hobby grade components but is designed to be easy to fly and low performing like a toy. If you're wanting to get into the flying hobby, then a hobby grade trainer is the way to go, and you'll need a club for that so you can get some instruction. If you just want a toy to take out on calm days and fly in circles a bit, the Slow Stick is hard to beat. As long as there is some tall grass around to ditch it in you can have a good time with very few flying skills. Just don't expect it to get you ready for any serious flying and don't expect it to play nice in the wind.