Not sure how helpful my answer will be but I got one for christmas when I had just turned 3. While I was less than thrilled with being woken up, I still remember walking out the back and seeing it. Santa had it all ready and assembled for when I woke up. Me and my 2 younger sisters used it a lot growing up, and it got extra use as I've got a lot of cousins much younger than us.
We were given one as our niece was no longer using (around 12 yo at the time) so free.
My girls love it DD1 has used it since she was two and will go out and play on it EVERY day unless I say she can't because its raining (she doesnt care about the rain). DD2 uses it when dd1 is out there but is more into creative pplay than active play.
Ours has monkey bars attatched that dd1 spends a lot of time on, to the point she has callouses on her hands. Think about what ds1 loves at the playground and maybe see if you can get one with his favourite thing eg swing or slide etc
DH put ours up when we got it and when we have moved, he is pretty handy but it didn't look too hard
If I was going to buy one I would look at getting one with a cubby/fort attatched as we loved them as kids
ETA ours is a Hills and apart from some minor rust has survived well
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