Supercompressed sponge interactive toy

Abstract

An interactive toy in which a supercompressed sponge novelty item in an internal chamber expands or pops open a pop-open door when significant water is intoduced into the chamber. There is a water receiving device for water entry, which is connected to the interanl chamber so as to trigger a surprise expansion of the supercompressed sponge novelty items in the chamber. The supercompressed sponge novelty item, or plurality of novelty items positioned together or separately, expand to interesting size or pop open the door when the expansion becomes sufficient. The interactive toy may be in various forms, including a cookstove embodiment with expandible food novelty items including bread, rolls, cake, etc. or nonexpandible items such as a roast. Another form may be a guts-gushing monster with a belly chamber full of expandible entrail novelty items. Another form is a race car. Water may be introduced into the chamber by, for example, an eyedropper 'baster' for the novelty items in the oven of the cookstove and, for example, a squirt gun for the entrail novelty items in the belly of the guts-gushing monster. Water-activated dry aromatics may be added during manufacture or by the player so as to cause cooking odors or stench.