Mego Corporation

Reiner; Lawrence L.

Michael Hennig

Lawrence L Reiner

A game which simulates the sights and sounds of vehicles such as automobiles racing on one or more tracks, in which a vehicle is steered to avoid simulated crashing into the oncoming vehicles on the tracks, thus completing one or more laps of the race within a fixed time interval. The game includes an enclosure and a transparent panel which is an inclined front part of the enclosure and is both light transmissive and light reflective. Light is admitted into the enclosure from above. A plurality of movable belts having a horizontal reach are mounted within the enclosure, together with means to move the belts along their reaches. At least one toy vehicle is mounted on each belt, so that the motion of the toy vehicles as the belts move is visible through the inclined transparent panel. Another toy vehicle is disposed below the inclined transparent panel so that its image is reflected from the panel in juxtaposition with the toy vehicles on the belts. The other toy vehicle can be manipulated, so that the image of the other toy vehicle can be moved relative to the moving toy vehicles on the belts. Suitable sensors are provided to correlate the instances of visual coincidence of one of the toy vehicles on a belt with the image of the other toy vehicle. When coincidence occurs the other toy vehicle is driven so its image appears to somersault over the one toy vehicle.

Simulated road racing game

A doll with a simulated identity or plurality of identities. The simulation is attained by providing a transparent panel which is both light transmissive and light reflective and which is viewed by the child playing with the doll, which doll is mounted in front of the transparent panel. The transparent panel defines the front of an enclosure so that the movable panel, when in position, is generally parallel to and spaced from the transparent panel. The movable panel bears a recognizable portion of the identity desired. The balance of the surface of the movable panel is light absorptive, and the balance of the interior of the enclosure is also light absorptive. The doll is placed in front of the transparent panel and spaced therefrom by a distance generally equal to the distance between the two panels, so that the image of the doll reflected from the transparent panel appears to be coincident with the identity portion of the movable panel within the enclosure. In a preferred embodiment, the doll is rotatably mounted on a pedestal so that it can be turned alternately for front and back views, with corresponding front and back identity portions being provided on the movable panel, which moves linearly across the back of the enclosure in conjunction with the turning of the doll.

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Fort Lee, NJ, United States of America

Michael Hennig