UPDATE! FINALLY got it to work and the thing is FANTASTIC! It came with no instructions and it really isn't an "easy" pour fill spout but the bubbles finally came in bunches. When you first star it you need to keep doing it and doing it for like 5 minutes (no lie) almost like priming an engine but when it does start to work it is soooo worth it. HUNDREDS of bubbles come out if you keep holding down the handle. I was so frustrated with this thing at first but now my son now loves it. People have commented on having a hard time finding the Little Tykes bubble juice (which does work best in it) but I have since found that I can take any regular bubble juice and add a little Dawn dish detergent and it works just as well. You have to fiddlewith the soap ratio a little but that's worth it too. I mostly wish it had come with instructions so I hadn't gotten so angry and badmouthed it all over the place. A great toy once you get past all thefrustration.

I managed to get the batteries and bubble solution in without too much trouble, but it just didn't work. So I exchanged it, thinking I had purchased a dud, but the new one also didn't work. Air comes out, but no bubbles. A lady in the parking lot saw me carrying it in, and said she had also bought one that doesn't work. So I guess it is just a faulty product.

AWFUL! Came with no instructions, had to dig through the garage for a funnel to fill it, definitely not an "easy fill spout", bubble juice went everywhere, the battery screw was stripped by the time we were able to get the compartment open and worst of all NO BUBBLES! Makes the fan noise and creates not 1 single bubble. I have never, ever been this disappointed in a Little Tikes product before. It's going back tomorrow and it definitely gets a thumbs down, F minus, zer stars and any other low review I could possibly give it. Stay awaY!