Radio-controlled toy blimp with infrared beam weapons for staging a gun battle

A remote-controlled air, land or water borne player toy vehicle comprising:

• a remote control transmitter console used by a pilot of the player toy vehicle to:
• (a) control the speed, direction, or altitude of the player toy vehicle, (b) select among several weapons including a machine gun, a cannon and a missile, each simulated by a unique infrared code, and (c) shoot a selected weapon;
• an infrared light transmitting means for shooting a series of infrared light pulses at an opponent's toy vehicle;
• encoding means for modulating said infrared light pulses to (a) specify the type of weapon fired and (b) identifying the toy vehicle firing said infrared pulses;
• an infrared light detecting and amplifying means for sensing said infrared light pulses fired by an opponent's weapon;
• decoding means for (a) identifying the type of weapon fired by the opponent's toy vehicle and (b) identifying the opponent's toy vehicle doing the shooting;
• score keeping means for up-dating and storing the number of successful hits made by the opponent's toy vehicle.