Pop up toy

Abstract

A pop-up toy includes an housing with a lid and a handle operable by a player to release a pop-up doll within the housing. The pop up toy is a licensed character where rights in a copyright and/or trademark in the character are held by another party and licensed to the manufacturer to allow use of the character. The handle also operates a sound generating system having a memory containing a plurality of sound tracks at least some of which are associated with the licensed character.

1 . A pop-up toy comprising:
 a housing;   a lid on the housing   a handle on the housing operable by a player of the toy;   a pop-up doll within the housing having the appearance of a licensed character;   a sound generating system operated by the handle for generating sounds as the handle is rotated;   a memory containing a plurality of sound tracks at least some of which are associated with the licensed character;   a pop-up mechanism for opening the lid and elevating the doll to a pop-up position after a time period of operating the handle;   the sound generating system being arranged to play one of the sound tracks from the memory when the doll is in the pop-up position.   
   
   
       2 . A toy according to  claim 1  wherein the music is a recording of a licensed song or music associated with the licensed character. 
   
   
       3 . A toy according to  claim 1  wherein a length of each sound track is of the order of ten seconds. 
   
   
       4 . A toy according to  claim 1  wherein there are ten different sound tracks. 
   
   
       5 . A toy according to  claim 1  wherein the sound tracks are chosen at random to play upon each new time the doll pops up. 
   
   
       6 . A toy according to  claim 1  wherein the sound tracks are selected in order each time the doll pops up. 
   
   
       7 . A toy according to  claim 1  wherein the doll is of hard plastic with fine detail to be as life-like in appearance as possible.