Abstract: A toy system having two toy vehicles and a figurine for enhanced play value. One toy vehicle is large, has three actuators and front and rear ramps. The first actuator causes the large vehicle to open its sides to form a playset. The second actuator is located on a risible ladder with a platform having a trap door floor and enables the figurine to drop from the platform to the small toy vehicle. The third actuator launches the small toy vehicle down the front ramp from a storage compartment in the large toy vehicle after the small toy vehicle had been loaded into the storage compartment by opening the rear ramp. The small vehicle is transformable between a vehicle configuration and a robot configuration.

Abstract: A reconfigurable air table hockey game includes at least one air puck and is designed to be set upon a flat, horizontal surface. The game comprises a perforated, bounded playing surface overlying a plenum chamber that is supplied with air under pressure, at least during game play. A score keeping mechanism receives signals indicative of scoring events. The game includes goals suitable for air hockey game play attached to and positioned at opposite ends of the playing surface to accept an air puck and to signal to the score keeping mechanism the passage of an air puck through a goal. The game further includes a control that, when actuated, reconfigures the game to at least one new and different physical configuration such that the game is no longer suited for air hockey but is well suited for the playing of at least one other type of air table game that also utilizes one or more air pucks.

Abstract: A sitting toy includes a base and a platform mounted to the base for rotation about a generally vertical axis. The platform includes an outer periphery and a central aperture. A handle is mounted to the base and extends upwardly through the aperture in the platform. A conduit is formed in the base, with the conduit including a plurality of nozzles spaced at intervals about the outer periphery of the platform, the conduit arranged for attachment to a water supply.

Abstract: A toy car comprises a base, a plurality of wheels arranged to support the base for rolling movement over a surface, a spring-powered drive train carried by the base and operatively coupled to at least one of the wheels and having at least one rotatable drive gear, a post shiftably mounted to the base and moveable between a first position and a second position and including a camming surface, and a pawl carried by the base and including a camming surface. The camming surface of the post and the camming surface of the pawl are arranged to shift the pawl into engagement with the teeth of the drive gear in response to movement of the post to the first position, and the pawl is arranged to shift away from the drive gear in response to movement of the post to the second position.

Abstract: A playset for use with a wheeled toy vehicle includes a flexible first track section defining a first part of a path for the toy vehicle, a rigid and looped second track section defining a second part of the path, and a cavity formed in the second track section sized to permit the first track section to be shifted between an extended position and a retracted position. The first part of the path and the second part of the path are aligned when the first track section is in the extended position, and at least a major portion of the first track section is disposed within the cavity of the second track section when the first track section is in the retracted position.