Abstract: A toy vehicle having a longitudinal central axis aligned in a direction of travel and for travel through a passageway of an elongated tubular track having a non-linear pathway which extends in three dimensions and which at least partly confines said toy vehicle, said toy vehicle comprising a first plurality of translational elements comprising two+2n, wherein n=1 or more, translational elements spaced about the longitudinal central axis of the toy vehicle for engagement with the inner surface of the elongated tubular track; and a second plurality of translational elements comprising two+2m, wherein m=1 or more, translational elements spaced about the longitudinal central axis of the toy vehicle for engagement with the curved inner surface of the elongated tubular track, wherein each of the translational elements of the first plurality of translational elements and each of the translational elements of the second plurality of translation elements are independently moveable in relation to each other and are bia

Abstract: A toy vehicle has a longitudinal central axis aligned for travel through a passageway of an elongated tubular track having a non-linear pathway which at least partly confines the toy vehicle. The toy vehicle has first plural translational elements spaced about the toy vehicle's longitudinal central axis for engagement with the inner surface of the tubular track. At least one translational element is a drive translational element which drives the toy vehicle through the passageway of the elongated tubular track. Second plural translational elements are spaced about the longitudinal central axis of the toy vehicle for engagement with the curved inner surface of the track, and each of the translational elements of the first and second plural translational elements are independently moveable and are biased in at least an outward radial direction from the longitudinal central axis of the toy vehicle.