For a 6 year old girl who loves sharks. Had this been for my own son it would have had the mouth open and ready for business, but the little girl in question is more into the aesthetic nature of the shark rather than its ferociousness. The big dilemma for me was in how to make it as realistic as possible while still having manageable dimensions. For its diameter, the shark should have been at least half again as long, but it would have had a tremendous frosting to cake ratio. The downside is that it now looks somewhat more dolphin-like than shark-like.