I loved the blue color, which is why I chose this specific candy machine. It does seem cheaply made. I was expecting the bowl and base to be plastic (which they are) but I was also expecting the parts that are silver to be metal (which they aren't). The inside mechanism is metal and that's the most important part I suppose. It did come with two keys which is important to me because I'm always misplacing a key; I like to have a backup. It holds a lot of candy. Different shaped candy does tend to get stuck occasionally and sometimes it doesn't dispense anything. I just keep backup quarters handy in case I need to make up for an empty withdrawal.