Patent ID: 6881122

Claim:
A toy vehicle comprising: a vehicle chassis; a plurality of road wheels supporting the vehicle chassis for movement across a supporting surface; a power source supported by the vehicle chassis; a vehicle lift mechanism supported by the vehicle chassis and including: a rotary member; a lift motor operatively connected to the power source and to the rotary member; a lifting lever hingedly attached to the vehicle chassis, so as to pivot between a retracted position and an extended position; a first biasing member positioned to bias the lifting lever into the retracted position; and a second biasing member operably coupled to the rotary member; wherein the lift motor operatively engages with the rotary member to rotate the rotary member into a release position where the second biasing member causes the rotary member to move out of operative engagement with the lift motor and into operative engagement with the lifting lever, the second biasing member moving the lifting lever into the extended position through the rotary member, whereby the lifting lever engages the supporting surface and the toy vehicle is lifted away from the supporting surface in a lifting motion.