I like the balloon. It looks great and I love the idea. It is usually easy to fill since there is always something you can plant a few times before it leaves and then there are just two of the other 3 items. If I don't want to part with the stuff it requires, I just skip it. So I only have 12 or so tickets. I like that you can load things a few at a time so you don't have to store 72 spinach in your silo. I wish we could do that with the train. I do not like that there is no way to access the ticket redemption if the balloon is not at the launching site. So I don't know how many tickets for sure I have and I always forget to check and then it takes off again. I will just save the tickets. I like decorations but I feel they should be new things or you can go to a site and then spend the tickets on what you want. That would be a big improvement as I would not like repeats of what I already have. In general though I am very pleased with the whole balloon idea. Thanks!