Abstract: An electronic toy vehicle track that abruptly stops selected cars along their path of travel based of their progress on the course. The abrupt stoppage can occur as a result of a vehicles position relative to other vehicles on the track, time duration on the track, traveling at too low of a speed for any period of time or combinations of such data or other data. A selected car may abruptly stop by such methods as crashing into an obstacle having a disruption in its lane of travel by something such as a collapsing bridge.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an expandable protective pocket arrangement comprising a back panel, two or more front side panels and at least one connecting member for connecting said front side panels, the connecting member or members being arranged to adjust the distance between the front side panels. The present invention provides for a protective system which is expandable and thus able to enclose paper documents and other essentially flat media such as a laptop computers and portable electronic devices. This kind of protection system is particularly well suited to holding office paperwork and study materials. In the form of a simple pocket, it is also a useful addition to many existing filing products, such as a ring binders and lever arch files, which frequently include a way in which to accommodate un(hole)punched pages and other loose documents and reports.

Abstract: A gaming system that employs a video game system and action figures to allow both video game play and action figure play. A video game score, obtained by a player through video game play, may be transferred to the action figure associated with that player to become the action figure score of that action figure. The action figures have a gun that generates a light beam and a target detector for receiving light beams from other action figures. The action figure will register a hit, and break apart, if its target detector receives a light beam from another action figure that has a higher action figure score.