Abstract: A voice puppet for creating vocal sounds includes a puppet body; a sound creation assembly including an oral cavity having a cavity wall and a cavity mouth in the form of an opening in the cavity wall, the cavity wall being formed of flexible and resilient material such that the shape of the oral cavity and of the mouth can be manually manipulated to produce various vocal sounds and a sound box containing a sound producing device and opening into the oral cavity through a box port over which a baffle such as a user finger tip can be moved, placed and removed to act as a tongue and to control the timing and duration of released sound and an oscillator circuit including the sound producing device, a variable pitch control device, and a circuit power source.

Abstract: An image generating apparatus includes an image display board having an array of member ports; a light source behind the display board; a translucent pigment sheet positioned between the image display board and the light source, the translucent pigment sheet including several pigment clusters, each pigment cluster including an array of translucent pigment areas, each member port in the image display board being rotatably fitted with a colorless translucent member preferably in the form of a translucent disk having a disk distal end which is substantially planar and positioned directly proximally of one of the pigment clusters. Each disk has a radially offset selective color admission structure admitting only certain selected wavelengths of light from the light source, each disk having a disk proximal end with a radially offset engaging and orienting structure in the form of a proximally protruding structure or an abrasive surface.

Abstract: An image generating apparatus includes a pigment sheet having an array of translucent pigment clusters, each pigment cluster being formed of a number of pigment regions, each pigment region containing an individual pigment differing in radiated color from that of a pigment in another pigment region within the pigment cluster; an image display board perforated by an array of light transmission member wells and positioned above the pigment sheet so that the member wells are located over and substantially register with a corresponding pigment cluster; a number of translucent light transmission members, each light transmission member being mounted within one of the member wells so that each light transmission member is movable within its corresponding member well relative to the pigment sheet to any one of various light transmission member positions to selectively receive a selected radiated color from one of the pigment regions; and at least one artificial light source mounted below the pigment sheet.

Abstract: A toy for entertaining a user includes a composite structure configured to execute a play function, the composite structure including several removably interconnected structure elements, each said structure element having at least one propulsion mechanism including a spring-loaded, directionally selectable propulsion member connected to the structure element. The triggering object is optionally a play surface and the element shell optionally includes a representation of a human or animal face. The composite structure has at least two of the structure elements, each structure element having a propulsion mechanism so that several propulsion mechanisms are distributed over the outer extremities of the composite structure for depressing and tilting by the user in individually selected directions into engagement with the shoulder engaging structure.

Abstract: A fishing hook apparatus includes a resilient shaft including a shank segment which is substantially rectilinear and having a shank segment proximal end and a shank segment distal end and including a hook segment which is substantially rectilinear and having a hook segment connected end joined to the shank segment proximal end, the hook segment being extendable from the shank segment at an acute angle relative to the shank segment generally back toward the shank segment proximal end and outwardly from the shank segment and terminating in a hook point; a line engaging structure including at least one shaft loop formed in the shank segment proximal end by doubling a terminal length of the shaft back along the shank segment proximal end toward the shank segment distal end and then angling away from the shank segment to freely receive a strand of fishing line between the adjacent portions of the shank segment.

Abstract: An image generating apparatus includes a pigment sheet having an array of translucent pigment clusters, each pigment cluster being formed of a number of pigment regions, each pigment region containing an individual pigment differing in radiated color from that of a pigment in another pigment region within the pigment cluster; an image display board perforated by an array of light transmission member wells and positioned above the pigment sheet so that the member wells are located over and substantially register with a corresponding pigment cluster; a number of translucent light transmission members, each light transmission member being mounted within one of the member wells so that each light transmission member is movable within its corresponding member well relative to the pigment sheet to any one of various light transmission member positions to selectively receive a selected radiated color from one of the pigment regions; and at least one artificial light source mounted below the pigment sheet; so that li

Abstract: A spark generating lighting mechanism includes a quantity of spark material; a grinding wheel; a spark material retaining structure secured relative to the grinding wheel and containing the spark material; a biasing mechanism for biasing the spark material against grinding wheel; a grinding wheel rotation mechanism drivably connected to the grinding wheel; and a translucent spark shield secured relative to the grinding wheel for deflecting and containing within the mechanism burning particles of the spark material causing sparks while passing rays of light out of the mechanism. A flashlight embodiment and a lighted shoe embodiment containing the mechanism are provided.

Abstract: An imitative figure apparatus includes a figure body with a body torso and a body head having a face portion with an illumination sheet of luminescent material for absorbing and storing ambient light energy and for producing illumination from the stored light energy, the sheet being oriented so that the produced illumination is directed forwardly from the figure; and a translucent cover secured over the illumination sheet, the translucent cover representing at least part of the face portion. The translucent cover preferably is configured as a dome having a dome apex. The apparatus additionally includes a mouth and nose representing structure secured to the exterior of the dome substantially at the dome apex.

Abstract: An image generating board apparatus is provided, including an image display board having an array of peg ports, pegs formed of translucent and colorless material rotatably fitted into each of at least two of the peg ports, each peg having a peg distal end which is substantially planar and is fitted with a polarized film section, and each peg having a peg proximal end, a light source adjacent to the display board and to the peg distal ends, a polarized film sheet mounted to extend between the light source and the peg distal ends and with its polarization axis angled relative to the polarization axis of the film sheet, and a tape sheet mounted to pass between the film sheet and the peg distal ends, so that light from the light source shines through the film sheet, through the tape sheet, and through the film sections at the peg distal ends and isolates and selectively passes into each peg an isolated wavelength of visible light from the light source, the isolated wavelength illuminating each peg with a color co

Abstract: A toy is for entertaining a user includes a shell portion configured to execute a play function, and at least one propulsion mechanism including a spring-loaded, directionally selectable propulsion member connected to the shell portion.

Abstract: A vehicle for entertainment includes a chassis with several support wheels, where at least one of support wheels is a drive wheel, an electric motor drivably connected to the drive wheel, an electric power source, a power supply circuit interconnecting the power source and the motor, for selectively delivering electric power from the power source to the motor, including power circuit first and second terminals, and an activation duration limiting module within the power supply circuit and timed by liquid draining from a drain vessel, where the presence of a sufficient quantity of the liquid in the vessel causes the power circuit terminals to make electrical contact with each other and thereby completes the power circuit, activating the motor, and where the circuit remains complete and the motor activated until enough of the liquid has drained from the vessel to decrease the quantity of the liquid to a level below the sufficient quantity, and thereby causes the power circuit terminals to electrically disconnec

Abstract: An entertainment apparatus includes a chassis, support wheels rotatably secured to the chassis, a back-wind spring powered motor mounted to the chassis and drivably connected to at least one of the support wheels, so that the motor is wound by rolling the chassis backward on the support wheels, and a locking mechanism including a structure for releasibly locking the motor against unwinding and a structure for releasing the motor to deliver torque to and thereby rotate the at least one support wheel and accelerate the apparatus across a support surface.