Patent ID: 8628373

Claim:
A toy vehicle playset, comprising: a vessel configured to hold a body of water therein; a toy creature disposed in the vessel, the toy creature having a head portion with an upper jaw portion and a lower jaw portion, the lower jaw portion being pivotally coupled to the toy creature for movement between an open position and a closed position with respect to the upper jaw portion, wherein the toy creature is configured to reciprocally move between a first position and a second position such that the toy creature moves out of and into the vessel and wherein the lower jaw portion moves towards the upper jaw portion when the toy creature is moving toward the first position and the lower jaw portion moves away from the upper jaw portion when the toy creature is moving towards the second position; a first track segment and a second track segment disposed proximate to the vessel such that a gap is formed between the first track segment and the second track segment and across the vessel, wherein the toy creature is located at least partially in the gap when the toy creature is in the second position; a toy vehicle having a thermochromic paint thereon that is configured to travel along the first track segment and the second track segment; and, wherein the toy vehicle traverses the gap when the toy creature is in the first position and the toy vehicle moves from one of the first track segment and the second track segment into the gap, and wherein the toy vehicle is captured by the toy creature when the toy creature is in the second position and the toy vehicle is launched from one of the first track segment and the second track segment into the gap, and wherein the thermochromic paint on the toy vehicle changes from a first color to a second color when the toy vehicle contacts water.