It's a tradeoff, though. The loss of explorability means that kids no longer have (with these newer toys) the same opportunity for exercising their curiosity that the older toys permitted. My sister never took our toys apart and reassembled them, that was all on me. With a toy like this one I would have (and probably did, with whatever equivalent I had) taken it apart and seen how the music box worked (the metal tines, the bumps on the record corresponding to notes, etc.). The new version removes that opportunity, taken or not. That is a loss.