"We purchased 30 of these swords as the primary party favor for my son's pirate party. Unfortuanetly, we did not give them out. We blew one up before the party, and found they did not work as hoped. It is difficult to inflate them enough, to support the blade. The sword folds where the blade meets the hilt, if you try to hold it by the handle. The size is nice, but it doesn't function as we'd hoped. Nothing but landfill fodder."