Tomy Company, Ltd.

Hasbro, Inc.

Other

Playskool, Inc.

Douglas Arthur Schultheis

Luke C Lohan

Hiroyuki Hama

Michelino Paolino, Jr

Kei Nishizawa

Thomas Maguire

William M Paukert

Makoto Muraki

Yohei Bando

Takeaki Maeda

Richard A Daley

Lee Spielberger

Paul J Kotowski

Bernard A Fitzmorris

Michael Kossak

Christina M Beecher

Max J Sackett

Ted Lubin

Ramon Antonio Campos

Lily Liu

Hiroyuki Matsukawa

Joseph P Sejnowski

Shina Saito

Todd S Herlitz

LaMont C Morris

Mark Foster

Hama Hiroyuki

Charles Latham Gaines

Shin Young Hong

Evan Charles Brooks

Ashley Aust

Saito Shina

Jr Michelino Paolino

A top toy includes a shaft part, a trunk part, and a top tip cover. The trunk part is detachably configured on the shaft part. The top tip cover is detachably configured on the shaft part at a longitudinal end. The shaft part includes a first engagement part being movably configured between a raised position and a lowered position in an axial direction and a second engagement part. The top tip includes a third engagement part being configured to be engaged by rotating in a first direction with the second engagement part to prevent the shaft part from separating from the trunk part in the axial direction. The top tip cover includes a fourth engagement part being configured to be engaged with the first engagement part to prevent the top tip cover from rotating in a second direction with respect to the shaft part.

Spinning top toy

Launching apparatus for spinning top toy

Playing surface for spinning top toy

Playing surface for spinning toy

A battling stadium game apparatus and methods for toy tops providing multiple play level surfaces which may include platform inserts to actively direct interactions of spinning tops across multiple play level surfaces, a base, concave areas at a first play level surface at the base, concave areas with battling surfaces at the first play level. The battling surface includes a middle area and a periphery area surrounding the middle area, an overdrive surface disposed at a second play level surface at the base, the overdrive surface is at a level elevated from the concave arena. A lid nests within the base and defines an exterior wall around the perimeter of the base, with a third level platform element between the base and the lid for a third play level surface.

Battling environment with multiple play level surfaces

Playing surface assembly for spinning top toy

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Cumberland, RI, United States of America

Douglas Arthur Schultheis