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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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  1. The coolest tech toy is the remote control drones! My favourite drone is the Parrot Disco Fixed Wing Drone with Camera, FPV & Controller.

  3. The best tech toy when I was a kid were the electronic Star Wars toys. Remember waking up on Christmas morning and opening the electronic AT-AT and the Millennium Falcon.

  6. I’m old so tech toys were nothing like today. I guess the coolest toy I ever got was a Kodad instant camera.

  7. I think know the Ultimate toy this year is the Power Core Electric Scooter. It’s like “Power Wheels” for one person.

  9. oops I was supposed to say the coolest tech toy from when I was a kid in a seperate comment . So I will say it again. We didnt have alot of techie toys but if a view master qualifies it was pretty cool at the time

  12. The coolest tech toy I got when I was younger was a miniature pacman arcade game. I memorized that sequence.

  14. The coolest tech ‘toy’ I had growing up was when I received my first handheld calculator… seriously. (That was 1973 or 74 I think.) I actually wore it out. 🙂

  17. I love the Star Wars 16″ Legendary Yoda Interactive Robotic Toy. I watched the video and watching Yoda use the lightsabre was great . They didnt really have alot of tech toys when I was a kid. I loved the view masters if that qualifies as tech lol

  20. As a skid in the early 80s I got for christmas an elctronic baseball game, which was really just little lights goign ona dn off in a diamond-shaped “screen”. loved that thing to death.

  22. The coolest 2016 tech toy is definitely the Parrot Mambo Drone! Such an amazing piece of technology. I think my husband could have a lot of fun with one of these!

  25. The coolest tech toy that I got was an Atari 2600 . We played pac-man so much that we had to turn off the console because he would slide down the center of the screen when the power supply would overheat .

  31. The most “tech” toy I received as a child was a “Chatty Cathy” doll. You pulled a string at the back of her neck and she said one of several phrases. That was a long time ago (lol).

  35. I think the coolest tech toy this year is the Segway Ninebot miniPro. I like that it has self-balancing technology, a knee control bar for steering and that it can connect to a smartphone. Fun!

  39. I think the LeapFrog LeapPad Platinum Learning Tablet is great! Being a teacher I love that kids are learning and having fun at the same time!! the would be so cool in the classroom as a centre! The kids would love them!

  44. I like the 2016 Wowwee Coder MiP. As a child, I watched my brothers program the Commodore64. I didn’t have too many tech toys, but I loved my Easy-Bake oven!

  50. The coolest tech toy I received when I was younger would have to have been my Nintendo 64 system.
    I thought it was the coolest thing and played it for years after.
    Now my kids love it and we collect the games for it that we lost (lent out).
    They fight over who gets to keep it all.

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