(by A Dad) I returned it immediately. Overall, the product wasn't bad: construction was appropriate for cost, styling as represented in the picture, but there were two critical design flaws that rendered it unusable as a kids backpack. Both of them stem from the fact the buckles visible in the picture are purely decorative. First, the magnetic closures for the main pocket are far too weak to actually close it reliably. Basically, load it with anything heavier than an empty water bottle, turn it upside and shake it, and everything's likely to fall straight out. Second, the decorative buckles attached to the magnetic closures are sewn on upside down, so they fall open when the backpack is worn. This leaves the tang sticking out at about eye level for a kid one year younger than the one wearing the backpack as a significant safety hazard. When I say "significant," I would only consider a 5-year-old with a Class 3B laser to be a "significant" hazard if it was a particularly immature 5-year-old who wouldn't stop horsing around with it. Any child of any age can handle a Class 2 and below laser safely with what I would consider "no significant" hazard. Anyway, the idea of sending these incidental eye-pokers out into a busting mass of mini-humans just didn't sit right with me, so I deemed it unusable as a kid's backpack and returned it.
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