Abstract: A mother aircraft has a fuselage, and a releasable rocket mounted thereon for propelling it. The fuselage has an opening therein, and a cover for the opening movable between open and closed positions. A miniature rocket propelled aircraft is selectively mountable within the fuselage and on the cover when it is in its closed position. The rocket is selectively releasably mounted on the mother and miniature aircraft.

Abstract: A toy vehicle has a pair of gripping tongs spring-biased open and loosely housed in a recess preferably in the underside of a housing for the toy vehicle. A pair of spaced-apart cam surfaces are located in the recess for engaging the tong arms on opposite sides of their pivot, and a manually operable lever engages and moves the pivot deeper into the recess so the cam surfaces pivot the free ends of the tong arms together against the spring bias. The cam surfaces are preferably closer to the pivot than to the free ends of the tong arms, and the tong arms preferably have shoulders slidably engaging the cam surfaces during opening and closing movements.