Abstract: A ground-engaging toy vehicle powered by water flowing from a garden hose. The hose is connected to a stationary portion of a stake that serves as a center of revolution for the tethered vehicle. The water leaves the stationary portion of the stake into a rotary portion, traversing through a plastic tube that serves as a tether into an impeller housing. The impeller is attached to the drive shaft that is, in turn, attached through a reduction gear box and a series of pulleys and drive belt to the four wheels of the vehicle. After the water stream of the hose has partially exhausted its energy driving the wheels, it is discharged from the impeller housing to a plurality of fluid exhaust ports to provide one or more water sprays for kids to run through. In the preferred embodiment, the toy vehicle is configured as a fire truck.

Abstract: A transmission structure of toy fire engine including a casing in which a power source is disposed and connected to a driving shaft for rotating two cams disposed in the casing and two cams disposed outside the casing. The outer cams serve to drive two lateral slide members to slide and push two decorative members pivotally disposed on two sides of the casing to pivot outward. One of the inner cams via a support rod abuts against a linkage set to drive a scaling ladder to pivot upward from the casing or downward to the casing. When the scaling ladder is pivoted to an upright position, a movable doll is driven to climb up along the scaling ladder. The other of the inner cams pushes a pushing slide member to depress a pushing shaft of a rotary power wheel set, making the rotary power wheel set descend and touch the ground for driving the toy fire engine to running.

Abstract: An educational play-on structure that has a number of teaching stations adapted to convey varied educational aspects to children. There is a reading teaching station, a writing teaching station, a study teaching station and a talking or communication teaching station. The structure itself is intended and designed to impress upon children that they can play together and share toys together as they role play at the various teaching stations.

Abstract: A toy assembly includes a base toy unit, a plurality of accessories which are removably receivable in predetermined positions on the base toy unit, a plurality of switch assemblies for detecting the absence or presence of the accessories relative to the respective predetermined positions thereof and a control unit which is responsive to the switch assemblies for issuing prerecorded sound effect, including voice messages. The sound effect are preferably related to the removal or repositioning of the accessories relative to the respective predetermined positions thereof on the base toy unit for leading, responding to and reinforcing the activity of a child in a play format. The base toy unit is preferably embodied as a toy vehicle, the accessories are preferably formed as accessories which are related to the vehicle and the sound effect are preferably related to the vehicle and the accessories.

Abstract: A child's walker toy includes a walker unit and a sound and light module on the walker unit. The walker unit is operable by a toddler-age child for stabilizing the child during a walking exercise; and the sound and light module is responsive to movement of the walker toy on a supporting surface for producing predetermined sound and light signals.

Abstract: A reconfigurable toy assembly is disclosed which is adapted to be reversibly transformed to provide two kinds of configurations entirely different from each other between a first position and a second position by only swinging operation. Typically, the reconfigurable toy assembly is constructed in such a manner to provide a vehicle form by folding the toy assembly and a robotic humanoid form by unfolding.

Abstract: A toy vehicle which is capable of changing both its size and shape has a compound vehicle chassis having a first and a second chassis member. The chassis members are movable with respect to one another. The chassis members are connected together such that they can be moved with respect to one another reversibly between a first position and a second position. The body of the vehicle includes at least one movable member which is movably associated with one of the chassis members and is movable with respect to the chassis member with which it is associated with between two positions. The spatial relationship between parts of the body of the vehicle is changeable in conjunction with movement of the chassis members and the movable member between their respective positions.