Patent ID: 8342903

Claim:
An intersection apparatus for use with a toy vehicle track for toy vehicles, the apparatus comprising: a ramp portion and a corresponding receiving portion spaced to form a gap therebetween, and defining a first toy vehicle pathway from the ramp portion to the receiving portion across the gap; a second toy vehicle pathway that crosses the first toy vehicle pathway; wherein the first ramp portion is translatable in a direction transverse to the first and second toy vehicle pathways between a bypass position in which the trajectory of a first toy vehicle traversing the first toy vehicle pathway passes and does not intersect the trajectory of a second toy vehicle traversing the second toy vehicle pathway, and an intersect position in which the trajectory of the first toy vehicle traversing the first toy vehicle pathway intersects the trajectory of a toy vehicle traversing the second toy vehicle pathway, such that when the ramp portion is in the intersect position, the first and second toy vehicles traversing the first and second toy vehicle pathways at substantially the same time will collide; and wherein the bypass position is a first bypass position, in which the trajectory of the first toy vehicle traversing the first toy vehicle pathway passes on one side of the trajectory of the second toy vehicle traversing the second toy vehicle pathway, and wherein the ramp portion is further translatable to a second bypass position, in which the trajectory of the first toy vehicle traversing the first toy vehicle pathway passes on the opposite side of and does not intersect the trajectory of the second toy vehicle traversing the second toy vehicle pathway.