Abstract: A hand manipulable apparatus for the receipt and extrusion of a stream of edible material. The apparatus includes an elongated housing having a first end and a second end with a discharge nozzle in the first end. A chamber is arranged within the first end of the elongated housing for receipt of a meltable edible material. A circuit is arranged in the first end of the elongated housing for heating and melting the edible material; and a chocolate advancer member such as a rotatable auger is arranged within the distal end of the housing for extrudably discharging the edible material out of the housing through the nozzle.

Abstract: A musical hoop toy may be provided with a hoop structure, a sensing mechanism coupled to the hoop structure and being disposed on an interior side of the hoop structure such that, when the hoop structure is spun around a person's waist, the sensing mechanism will be periodically activated by a portion of the person's waist, an audio speaker coupled to the hoop structure, and a controller operatively coupled to the sensing mechanism and the audio speaker. The controller may include a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory. The computer program may have a computer program portion that causes a music sequence to be generated and a computer program portion that causes an audio sound effect to be generated in response to each activation of the sensing mechanism.

Abstract: A hand-held ornamented candy dispenser in the form of a candy figure, has a dispenser body with a storage chamber for candy which can be in opened or closed positioned as determined by novel closure member, to allow storage and dispensing of candy portions.