Mattel, Inc.

Alton Takeyasu

Eric C Ostendorff

Janice Ritter

Michael Andrews

A game device is disclosed, including a tank charged with a fluid, a base for supporting the tank, the base further including a pump system to generate a fluid current within the tank, the pump system having a nozzle through which current is directed into the tank and an actuating system to operate the pump system, a play piece within the fluid having a specific gravity slightly greater than the fluid, the play piece further including a body portion and at least one protuberance extending outwardly from the body portion, wherein the at least one protuberance is adapted to impart one or more of rotational and translational motion to the play piece upon engaging a fluid current.

Fluid-filled game device

A toy figure includes a lower torso and supporting legs together with a supplemental angled support. An upper torso and weapons backpack joined thereto is pivotally supported upon the lower torso and is pivoted in response to activation of a bi-directional motor and gear drive mechanism. The backpack supports a plurality of projectile launchers and simulated machine gun units which are pivotally moveable between a stored or closed configuration and a forwardly directed launch or firing configuration. A second motor operated within the upper torso rotates a plurality of cam which in turn engage various latch mechanisms for release of the spring-driven projectile launchers to fully deploy the weapons in their firing positions and to initiate projectile launch. A pair of infrared sensors within the weapons backpack respond to commands received from a remote controller worn on the user's wrist.

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Playa Del Rey, CA, United States of America

Alton Takeyasu