Great toys hold a special place in our hearts. They create great experiences at the time we play with them. They also leave a treasured memory that we can look back on and smile as we get older. The coolest toys do something a little extra. Really cool toys unite a generation, and sometimes multiple generations. Many of the hottest toys these days are tech toys: robots, drones etc. Which tech toy of 2016 do you think will make the biggest impression in a child’s life, or in your life? Just tell us what you think the coolest toy of 2016 is and you might win a huge trove of the newest toys from Best Buy.
There are over $12000 in toys available to be won!
Every year new toys are released that have the potential to become a child’s special treasure. Best Buy carries many of these. Best Buy also has the greatest selection of tech toys. Last year I fell in love with the Sphero BB-8 App-enabled Droid. It’s the kind of toy that will resonate in a person’s memories for decades.
(Four of the new special edition version of this droid are included in this contest’s prizes!)
You may find it difficult to decide what the coolest toy is this year. It’s not always easy to predict what will be the best toy in a given year, but really there are no wrong answers. For example, I asked my wife which tech toy she remembers as having been really cool when she was young and her answer, the Fisher Price parking garage (shown below), really surprised me! Note that Best Buy carries a Melissa & Doug version of this parking garage. I too had one of those vintage Fisher Price garages when I was young and played with it incessantly. I hadn’t thought about that toy in many years, but just the mention of it brought back a ton of great memories.
Kids nowadays may not view a parking garage as a tech toy given the options that exist. The prizes in this contest contain many of the best tech toys available in 2016. We have divided the more than $12000 in prizes into 6 toys bundles:
Coding toys
e.g., WOWWEE CODER MIP |
Robotic toys
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Remote control and Drones
e.g., Parrot Mambo |
Ultimate toys
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Ultimate STEM Toys
e.g., OSMO GENIUS KIT |
Ultimate Drones
e.g., YUNNEEC TYPHOON 4K |
These prize bundles range in value from just over $1200 to over $3000. A complete breakdown of the prize bundles is shown in the rules and regulations below. So enter now for your chance to win one of these 6 great prize bundles. Each person can enter twice so read the directions carefully.
HOW TO ENTER
It is really easy to enter. You can submit a maximum of 2 entries for this contest. In a comment at the bottom of this blog article, tell us what you think is the coolest tech toy available at Best Buy in 2016. In a separate comment, tell us about the coolest tech toy you received when you were younger.
WHAT YOU CAN WIN
We will randomly draw 6 winners. Each winner will receive one of the prize bundles listed here: Coding toys, Robotic toys, Remote control and Drones, Ultimate toys, Ultimate STEM toys, and Ultimate Drones.
A complete breakdown of the prizes is shown in the Contest Rules and Regulations below.
The contest runs from November 4th until November 22nd
Remember that you can only enter this contest by leaving a comment below this article. Each of these prizes is amazing and perfect for sharing, so tell all of your friends and family to enter as well and they will undoubtedly share with you too if they win.
I think the electric scooter is the best because my kids love their manual scooter and this is a step up from that a d encourages them ttop get outside. Although im sure my girls would pick the coding robot toy.
As a kid i loved game on my sega genises!
The coolest tech toy when i was a kid was definitely the Super Nintendo.
The coolest tech toy of 2016 is the Parrot Mambo.
Osmo genius kit looks real nice!!
Best gift I ever received as a kid was the 3 floor Barbie house I got that was as tall as me. It had a elevator. Only down tall I had to share it with my sister. Hahahaha
I. Believe the razor power core is the best ultimate toy
Chip the robot dog by WowWee looks cool so does the new bb8 droid
When I was little, I really enjoyed my electric railway set 🙂
The coolest toy is DJI MAVIC Quadcopter, of course! 🙂
Coolest tech toy I received as a child was a cool remote control car.
WowWee coder mip !! And chip the dog by WowWee
I think the coolest tech toys are the drones!!
My favourite tech toy as a kid was my bright yellow Sony Walkman. So many hours were spent high in a tree, playing and rewinding my favourite cassettes.
This year’s coolest tech toy (as a mama of four littles) has got to be the OSMO system. So cool!!
Definitely the coding toys! My girls have used the Lego ev3 but would love the coder MIP or another coding toy to have of their own. I didn’t
grow up with tech toys but did like playing on friends’ Atari.
The BB8 Droid is the toy that my son and I think is the coolest there is right now!
The coolest tech toy I received as a child was definitely my hit clips music player. Britney Spears at my finger tips haha
I think a lot if kids would love Drones! My grandsons have asked for them, as well as my granddaughters! I kinda think the grownups would love to “help” them play with them ha ha. My fondest memory of a “tech” toy was playing Meccano with my brother many moons ago. The most techiest toy I had was a Betsy Wetsy doll that I adored.
I would love the Yunneec Typhoon 4K drone! That is definitely the ultimate tech toy from Best Buy for 2016!
🙂 My fav toy as a kid was a balsam wood little plane that was gas powered with an elastic band starter on the propeller. ……and attached to a string! We spent hours spinning in circles flying – and crashing (lol) the plane! – a very ancient version of a drone!! 🙂
I think the absolute best tech toy at Best Buy 2016 would be a drone and my fav is the Yunneec Thyphoon! 4K
I believe coding toys are the best toys, cause with them our kids will learn what they need for the future.
Best toy at Best Buy for 2016 I would say would be the ultimate Stem Toys. I have no idea what they are but they look interesting because I’m sure you have to use your brain.
My best tech toy way back when would have to be My Easy Bake Oven. I could make a cake and 7 of us all had some in that wee thing. I’m still baking today!
The coolest tech toy I received was a mini arcade game-Pac Man. It took 4D batteries, but it rocked.
The coolest toy I remember getting as a kid were those tamagotchi’s! I had so much fun with those things!
Coding toys are awesome. My son learned a little bit of coding at school, so that would be right up his alley.
The coolest one is the one I’m hoping to get my son for Christmas. The paw patrol Zoomer! He is obsessed with paw patrol and robots! Best of both worlds!
The coolest tech toy i received as a child was a pong.i remember going back amd forth with a little ping pong ball on screen.it was in black and white.my brothers and i thought we were the coolest kids on the block.wow have we ever come far.the future awaits.
The Best tech toy I received as a child was a tamagotchi. My twin sister and I both received one for Christmas one year and I remember taking such good care of our “pets” together. We both have two children and I know between the two of us, we’d be able to give our kid’s great Christmases with one of the prize packages!
Thanks for bringing back great childhood memories!
Coolest tech toy I’ve ever received was the original Nintendo… Coolest of 2016 is the brew mini NES classic, of course!
In the olden days, The Wiz was a fabulous tech gift.
I think the coolest Toy at Best Buy This year is the Fisher Price Think and Learn Code-a-pillar! It looks so neat and having two children, I think both would enjoy playing and learning together with a toy so different!
Loving the Osmo set for engaging kids in all areas; art, math, coding, reading and more !! Fantastic ! Can’t wait for the pizza game to come to Canada
Easy bake oven was my favorite. My daughter would say the electric scooter nowadays.
Drones offer so many possibilities plus the pppotunity to build some skills!
Loving the Osmo set for engaging kids in all areas, art, mathcoding, reading and more !! Fantastic ! Can’t wait for the pizza game to come to Canada
The remote control drones i think are the coolest tech toys this year.in getting 2 for my grandkids.awesome!
The coolest tech toy that in received were those creepy crawler maker things where you can make your own bugs. That was really neat. I remember I had a blast with them lol. Or I had a lite brite
The coolest toy of 2016 are the drones. Technology has come so far since I was a kid! It’s neat what they can do!
The Osmo is so cool! As a teacher, I can see the education value of this toy. Kids love it because it’s fun, pRents can love it because their kids are learning while playing. I think the Osmosis Genius Kit is the best Christmas gift this year!
I remember getting the atari
Sphero bb-8
I loved my Nintendo Donkey Kong handheld video game
The best toy is the spherical BB-8 app enabled Droid, by far the coolest thing.
I loved my lite-brite when I was a kid, simplicity back then worked for me.
My kiddos would love to get their hands on the Osmo Genuius Pack.
Don’t laugh. The coolest tech toy I had when I was young was the original pong game.
I think owning a remote controlled drone would de awesome.
my coolest tech toy would have to have been when i got a sega genesis!
i would say the YUNNEEC TYPHOON 4K or Parrot Mambo
That OSMO genius kit looks pretty darn cool. My husband would probably play it as much as our children would.
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