Assembly with toy character in housing
AssigneeSpin Master Ltd.
InventorsHamid R. Hashemi, Anne N. Charbonneau, Victor Lai
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Abstract
In an aspect, a toy character assembly is provided, and includes a housing, a toy character, at least one sensor and a controller. The toy character is positioned inside the housing and includes a breakout mechanism that is operable to break the housing to expose the toy character. The at least one sensor detects interaction with a user. The controller is configured to determine whether a selected condition has been met based on at least one interaction with the user, and to operate the breakout mechanism to break the housing to expose the toy character if the condition is met. Optionally, the condition is met based upon having a selected number of interactions with the user.
Claims15
A toy character assembly, comprising:
- a housing;
- a toy character inside the housing;
- and
- a breakout member that is operable to break the housing to expose the toy character;
- wherein the housing includes a plurality of fracture elements provided on an inside face thereof to facilitate fracture upon impact from the breakout mechanism, wherein the fracture elements include a plurality of channels on the inside face of the housing.
A toy character assembly as claimed in 7, wherein the fracture paths are continuous and arranged in a geometric pattern.
A toy character assembly, comprising:
- a housing;
- a toy character inside the housing;
- and
- a breakout mechanism that is operable to break the housing to expose the toy character,
- wherein the housing includes a plurality of fracture elements provided on a face thereof to facilitate fracture upon impact from the breakout mechanism,
- wherein the housing is formed of a polymer composition comprising:
- 15-24 weight-% base polymer;
- 1-5 weight-% organic acid metal salt;
- and
- 75-84 weight-% inorganic/particulate filler.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.