Vehicles are disclosed which have a lower center of gravity than existing all-terrain, amphibious, and unmanned ground vehicles due to the location of propulsion units and other vehicle components inside the wheels of the vehicle. The vehicles can climb over large obstacles yet are also able to corner at high speeds. The vehicles can be configured for direct manual operation or operation by remote control, and can also be configured for a wide variety of missions.

A tire insert for a tire of a model vehicle. The tire insert is made of a closed-cell foam and includes an outer surface, an inner surface, two perforated disk surfaces, and at least one cushioning cavity having at least one opening. The two perforated disk surfaces connect the outer surface with the inner surface. The at least one opening is arranged on one or on each of the two perforated disk surfaces so that the tire insert has a defined flexibility and/or an increased flexibility. The inner surface is substantially parallel to the outer surface so that the tire insert has a form of a hollow cylinder.

In an aspect, a toy assembly is provided, and includes a housing and a toy vehicle inside the housing. The housing has a movable housing portion, and at least one functional element that is movable and is separate from the movable housing portion. The toy vehicle has a drive wheel that, when driven in a first rotational direction causes the drive wheel to drive movement of the functional element so as to carry out a function without driving movement of the toy vehicle towards the movable housing portion, and when driven in a second rotational direction causes the drive wheel to drive the vehicle towards the movable housing portion.

In an aspect, a toy assembly is provided, and includes a housing and a toy vehicle inside the housing. The housing has a movable housing portion, and at least one functional element that is movable and is separate from the movable housing portion. The toy vehicle has a drive wheel that, when driven in a first rotational direction causes the drive wheel to drive movement of the functional element so as to carry out a function without driving movement of the toy vehicle towards the movable housing portion, and when driven in a second rotational direction causes the drive wheel to drive the vehicle towards the movable housing portion.

A suspension system for radio-controlled vehicles improves stability and traction. The suspension system includes a chassis, a motor pod plate, a shock absorption system, an upper pitch suspension link, a lower pitch suspension link, a left yaw suspension link, and a right yaw suspension link. The shock absorption system is used to reduce vibrations caused by impacts onto a radio-controlled vehicle. The upper pitch suspension link and the lower pitch suspension link allow the motor pod plate to pivot back and forth about a pitch axis of the chassis in order to increase stability and traction. The left yaw suspension link and the right yaw suspension link allow the motor pod plate to pivot back and forth about a yaw axis of the chassis in order to further increase stability and traction.

An enhanced hybrid battery elimination circuit, power control system, and method for R/C vehicles is provided. The system may include a power input from a vehicle battery and a converted power output to vehicle electronics. The system may also include an enhanced hybrid battery elimination circuit (BEC) electrically coupled to the power input and providing the converted power output and including a linear regulator and a switching regulator connected in parallel to the linear regulator between the power input and the converted power output. The enhanced hybrid BEC further includes a linear electrical decoupler provided between the linear regulator and the converted power output and a switching electrical decoupler provided between the switching regulator and the converted power output. Wherein the switching regulator and the linear regulator are either electrically coupled or decoupled from the output power and/or the input power based upon a monitored voltage level.

A ride-on toy includes a main body having a lower wall and a centered wheel. The centered wheel is rotatably mounted in the main body with a portion of the wheel protruding from the main body through an opening in the lower wall, such that when the ride-on toy is disposed on a flat surface, it can be rocked back and forth relative to an axis defined by the centered wheel. A seat is arranged over the wheel and between two handles of different lengths. Stabilizers are connected to the lower wall at opposite sides of the opening. The centered wheel may be hollow and contain one or more developmental toys.

Specific classroom tools, toys, and vehicles including a connected plastic and non-conductive materials including encasements around front and back positioned same polarity magnets only and electromagnets train car including train cars with and without energy sources for the purpose of providing invisible contact repulsion between cars and vehicle movement when force is applied to the first car. The invention includes attaching magnetic and electromagnet encasements to the front and back of train cars. The encasements allow close and distant magnet and electromagnet impactful interactions between cars with and without bottom-positioned wheels. The invention is usable for classrooms, toys, and as vehicles and provides a permanently-attached-to-train car thick plastic fence-net-type encasements around magnets providing reduced contact potential and possible magnet-to-magnet contact and desired magnet type, size, power, and only one polarity one-side magnets to reduce magnet attraction and hence provides safety and protection for younger users.

In one aspect, there is provided a toy vehicle that includes a vehicle body, at least one motor and a plurality of wheels. The at least one motor is mounted to the vehicle body, and is sized to have a selected amount of torque. The plurality of wheels includes at least one driven wheel which includes at least one flip-over wheel which has an axis closer to one end of the vehicle than the other end. In an upright orientation the vehicle body extends above the plurality of wheels. The toy vehicle has a centre of gravity that is positioned, such that, application of torque from the at least one motor causes the vehicle body to drive rotation of the vehicle body about the axis of rotation from an inverted orientation over to the upright orientation.

A ridable kart having a front portion rotatably coupled to a rear portion. The front portion includes an inner surface that is adjacent to an outer cover portion and the two surfaces move relative to one another. The outer cover portion includes window portions or openings through which a portion of the inner surface is visible. The inner surface includes a visual feature that is visible through the window portions and the visual features moves relative to the window portions when the front portion rotates relative to the rear portion.