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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!

bb8Every 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 toyscoder-mip

e.g., WOWWEE CODER MIP

  Robotic toysbb8

e.g., Sphero Spec Ed BB-8 Droid + Force Band
 Remote control and Dronesmambo

e.g., Parrot Mambo

  Ultimate toysrazor

e.g., Razor Power Core E90 Electric Scooter
Ultimate STEM Toysosmo

e.g., OSMO GENIUS KIT

 Ultimate Dronesyuneec

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.

Good Luck

Cool toys at best buy contest rules and regulations

Martin Renaud
Martin Renaud
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Martin loves working with the talented editors and writers on the Best Buy Blog as Editor-in-Chief. During his spare time he is either working on his next novel, cooking up a masterpiece in the kitchen, or adding some smart tech to his new home on Mayne Island in British Columbia.
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  4. The coolest tech toy I got was a train set. Started off with just an oval track and eventually added more track so I could run it all around my room.

  5. At our house, it’s all about droids this year so the Sphero BB8 droid would be a huge hit!

    One of the coolest tech prizes I received as a child was a doll that actually cried and a Barbie car that made sound., yes, I’m that old!

  6. The coolest tech toys now to me are the Drones. I’d love to take pictures and video from the air without leaving the ground.

  7. The coolest tech toy I received when I was younger was a Sega Genesis. The countless hours i spent playing Sonic the Hedgehog on it

  13. The coolest tech toy my children like is, the bb-8.
    Personally, I would love a done, lol.

    The coolest tech toy I received as a child, was the talking teddy ruxpin.

  18. When I was a kid it was build and race RC cars, now my son (7) is into them and really wants a Slash for x-mad this year!

  22. the only tech toy I remember having was Chatty Cathy– a doll that talked by pulling a string. It was amazing back in the 50s

  32. The best gift ive ever been given was a Nintendo 64, along with zelda orcarina of time. Thank you for your time.

  35. The coolest toy in this list is most definetly the Yuneek Typhoon 4k, mainlu because of how DJI has been at the top of the ladder for a long time, and I love that a new product is out competing with the giants.

  42. The coolest tech toy I received was a toboggan, no programming necessary. The first ‘tech toy’ I bought for myself was a Commodore Vic 20, Google it to find the era.
    Entering for my grandchildren. Thank You

  43. Entry 2 of 2: What was my coolest toy I received when I was younger?”……….Oh, there were so many toys that I loved when I was young, from my “Big Wheels” to my much loved Micro-Machines collections to my Brio Trains and eventually the REAL miniature trainsets, too. BUT, as for a “TECH” toy, it had to be the “ARMITRON”…..oh, wow, I LOVED that robotic arm and played with that thing for YEARS, and hours on end. I just loved it. And come to think of it…..I THINK I even still have it in one of my storage boxes under the house somewhere. Hmmmm, maybe I’ll have to bring it out again 🙂 Sure, I’m almost 38, but hey, never to old to play like a kid again, right? ha ha ha Thank you, Best Buy for the entry into this great contest 🙂

  44. The coolest toy for 2016 would have to be Sphero BB-8 App-Enabled Droid from the latest StarWars movie.

    As a kid the coolest toy I ever got from you guys was the Atari-2600, the game Astroids was the boss.

  49. Entry 1 of 2: What I think is the coolest toy at Best Buy in 2016″……….well, other than Video Games/consoles as usual which is big again this year (including VR probably)……….I personally think that “DRONES” are probably going to be VERY popular……and they’re really COOL for sure. (as long as people don’t “abuse” them, fly them where they SHOULDN’T be flown, etc.). So for sure, if anyone is thinking of getting these for their own family, friends, etc…..make sure you give VERY strict talks/teachings to them to make sure they know the RULES to keep not only THEM safe, but also all the public, etc……so that the drones can truly be enjoyed “safely” and especially “LEGALLY”, too. Thank you, Best Buy for the entry into this great contest 🙂

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