Abstract: A toy racing assembly includes a toy racing car having a drive and a speed shifting device, and a toy racing track arranged for guiding the car during running and having at least at one location of the track a formation operative for actuating the speed shifting means of the car when the car passes the formation and engages the latter, whereby the speed of the car is shifted. The engaging formation may be formed as a projection on a gate member which is provided on the track. The track may include a section having an uneven road surface, an irregularly shaped plate cam member extending onto the road surface of the track, and guardrails located at both lateral sides of the track. Thereby, the car can jump on the uneven road surface, collide against the plate cam member, and collide against the lateral guardrails.

Abstract: A self-powered toy comprises a relatively small toy animal and a relatively large toy animal having an openable mouth. A reel provided inside the large animal is connected to a drive and has a line connected to it that extends out the mouth of the large animal and is attached to the smaller animal. In addition the large animal, which may be constituted as a floatable fish or the like, is provided with means for propelling it through the water so that the drive unit can propel this large animal through the water and simultaneously reel in the small animal. Thus the large animal will appear to pursue and then eat the small animal as it pulls the small animal into its openable mouth.