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.
The BB-8 Droid is Awesome! Definitely my pick for the Best Tech Toyof 2016!!!
I think the coolest tech toy of 2016 is the VR helmet; really takes gaming to the ultimate level. When I was a kid, my favourite Christmas present was the Commodore 64. Just dated myself!
The WowWee coder is the coolest toy- looks like a great Intro to coding too!
I think the coolest tech toy of 2016 is the VR helmet; really takes gaming to the ultimate level. When I was a kid, my coolest Christmas present was a Commodore 64 pc. Just dated myself!
Those coding toys look amazing. My son would love those.
Coolest tech toy I received when I was younger was a reel to reel portable tape recorder.
Coolest tech toy is the Sphero Spec Ed BB-8 Droid + Force Band.
I had quite a few great tech toys as a child. I think my favorite was my Nintendo gaming system. I also really loved my Animator.
Definatly Drones are the coolest. Esp when you can take pictures using them. Not even just as a toy but taking pics of events from above:).
I think my son would love to win a Fisher Price think and learn code a pillar. Every time he sees it in a catalogue or flyer he asks for it.
best toy I ever got was an electronic walking doll in 1967! Pretty cool for that time!
The coolest tech toy I received as a kid was probably a record player. Very cool at the time, lol
I think the drones are the coolest tech toy. My grandson is interested in anything mechanical. I was a kid in the late 60’s to early 70’s. The tech toys then were the game of operation, a foam plane that had an elastic that was wound up by turning the propeller and letting it go.
Coolest toy is the coding toy!
I think the new RC Cars & hoverboards are gonna be a huge hit this year!
The coolest tech toy I received as a child was the Simon game where it would light up a pattern that you would need to play back in order to get the next, more involved pattern. We would play for hours!
We are starting to learn about coding at school – I would love the coding toy for my classroom!
The best Tech Toy I recieved as a kid would have to be the original Atari. We would wake up early every Saturday to play Space Invaders before hockey practice!
Loved my Nintendo when I was young, played Space Invaders so much. Might have to get the new NES Classic.
The best Tech Toy right now I think would be the Uneec Typhone 4K drone
Ultimate drones is the coolest tech toy. My grandson will be 2 in May and he always looks at planes in the sky and everything else around him. I grew up in the 60’s to early 70’s. The game called operation and slinky were about as techy as you could get back then. I liked this coin bank that a skeleton hand would reach out of a casket and grab a coin when you put it down on the toy casket.
Sphero looks like a lot of fun for this year.
The best tech toy gift in this bunch is the Sphero SPRK – it’s a great mix of gaming, coding, and using your imagination. It’s a toy for all ages because you can delve deeper into the technology the more you use it.
Definitely the drones. They can almost fly themselves now a days so you can feel pretty cool getting one up in the air
The coolest tech toy that I received when I was younger was a Time Machine Clock – Rolling Ball similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svGiLfZWEcs It required assembly and was a master piece to behold! Though it wasn’t a big hit with my brother who shared a room with me at the time. Meccano kits also were popular around our house.
I think the Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4K Quadcopter Drone with Camera & Controller is the coolest toy this year. Toss up who would enjoy it more my great grand children or grant children. Either way it would make me the coolest Great Gram ever.
I have to say that the Sphero BB-8 App-Enabled Droid with Star Wars Force Band is definitely the coolest!
I am sure the robotic toys will be the biggest hit. My kids would love the sphero bb8 droid!
My favourite tech toy I received as a child was the talking Teddy Ruxpin. I loved listening to his stories played from cassette tape and watching him move. Boy have we come a long way from that.
The awesome BB-8 is the coolest tech toy this year. Our family loves anything Star Wars
Hi. I’d say the earliest “tech” toy I received were strap on roller skates followed by a scooter which was powered manually. Mind you I was born in 1941 so not too many tech toys available in the 40’s. Now I’m a techie junkie, love all the new gadgets, I’m buying for my great grandchildren.
Osmos genius kit the perfect imagination and interactive gift for my young niece.
As a child I loved when I received “Simon” my tech gift that helped improve memory.
We are Huge fans of Star Wars!
As soon as we saw the Air Hog Star Wars RC Millennium Falcom Quadcoptervwe were both in love. Not to mention how much fun it would be for our dog to chase after it. This wouldn’t be just an awesome Christmas present but an awesome anniversary present for me hubby (our wedding was Star Wars themed)
Drones drone and more drones
My grandson is really into technical things. I think he would just love coding toys.
The coolest tech toy i received when I was little is a nintendo 🙂
The best tech toy I ever got as a child, was a Nintendo video game system.
The coolest toy i think is the Osmo Genius Kit.
I think the coolest tech toy is the Sologear 350-Watt Self-Balancing Electric Unicycle.
Favourite tech toy when I was a kid was the Auto World Dukes of Hazzard HO Slot Car Set w/ Jumps. That was some cool stuff.
Current tech toys are amazing. The Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4k Quadcopter Drone is my pick.
When I was younger, the best tech toy that I received was an R/C Jeep.
I think the best tech toy is the Sphere SPRK.
Any of the drones are amazing with use of control and imagination, hours of endless fun.
Etch and sketch was my favourite gift for years.
I think drones are the coolest thing, it would be so cool to be able to fly up and around checking out nature things such as baby birds in a nest. Showing my grandson some cool things.
For got to add that my favorite tech toy when I was young was the Fisher Price Record player that came with 4 colored records. It would have been the original one from the 1970’s. I loved playing the songs / records. I had it for a long time.
Coolest tech toy I got as a kid is Atari on the tv…..clearly I’m older than most of your com mentors.
Drones are definitely the coolest tech toy! Kids can dream they are up there looking down like a bird! And the cost is not out of reacjyfor most families.
Wow wee chip robotic dog. MY son loves robotics and he would love this one. It’s neat what it can do.
The coolest tech toy for 2016 st Best Buy I think would be the robot dog for my 12 year old son and the drone for my husband. They both are into technology toys.
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