Claims
- 1. A package for a play object comprising:at least one object selected from the group consisting of humanoid figures, animal-like figures and other objects with a definite shape, said object having a body formed of flexible foam plastic material which is compressible to cause air to be expelled therefrom to shrink the object, said body having a plurality of collapsible air pockets dispersed therein which enhance the compressibility of the object so that it can be shrunk to form a small object; said air pockets being substantially larger than open cells inherent in the foam plastic material; and a container smaller than the object having the object compressed therein to maintain the object in a shrunken state, whereby when the object are removed from the container the object absorb air to regain their original form and size.
- 2. A package as set forth in claim 1, in which the container is in a form thematically related to the object.
- 3. A package as set forth in claim 1, in which the foam plastic is polyurethane.
- 4. A package as set forth in claim 1, in which myriad open cells are distributed throughout the body, and in which the air pockets are much larger than the cells.
- 5. A package as set forth in claim 1, in which the object is a dinosaur and the container is a dinosaur egg.
- 6. A package as set forth in claim 1, in which the container is formed of two telescoping sections which after the object is placed therein can be pressed together to further shrink the object.
- 7. A package as set forth in claim 6, further including means to lock the two sections of the container together when in a fully telescoped state.
- 8. A method of producing a body as set forth in claim 1, comprising the steps of bouncing a mixture of reacting components into a tray which then rises in the tray to form an open-cell foam plastic material, and injecting air into the resin mixture to form air pockets therein.
- 9. A package as set forth in claim 1, in which embedded in the figure is an armature of ductile metal which when bent remains in its bent state until again bent, the armature making it possible to change the posture of the figure.
RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part of the Spector application Ser. No. 09/129 991, filed Aug. 6, 1998 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,961,363 entitled “Package Containing Shrunken Figure” which in turn is a C-I-P of the application Ser. No. 09/674,871, filed May 8, 1998 entitled “Test Tube Doll Package,” now U.S. Pat. No. 5,897,418 granted Apr. 7, 1999.
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