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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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  7. The coolest tech toy I got when I was a kid was my Tamagotchi pet. Everyone in my class had one. We used to take turns taking care of each others “pets” during recess and lunch it was a lot of fun back then.

  9. The coolest tech toy available at Best Buy is the VEX IQ Robotics Construction Kit! I have always been fascinated with robotics and loved building things as a child. My own kids love building things too. I could see us having a lot of quality time playing with the VEX IQ Robotics Construction Kit at home!

  12. This is going to date me but pretty sure the coolest “tech” toy that I received growing up was a spirograph lol!

  15. coolest tech-toy has got to be the drones for sheer functionality and advancements in controls and improvements in camera capabilities. true spy tech toys.

  20. The parking garage is something our little great grandson would be so entertained by. It is great to have so many learning toys available at Best Buy for all ages.

  21. I think the coolest tech toy of 2016 is the Parrot Mambo Quadcopter Mini Drone with Camera – Ready-to-Fly – Black/White

  24. I think the coolest tech toy has got to be the electric scooter! I can imagine my 5 year old scootin’ ahead of me on one of our walks. Should we be so lucky to win one, I just might have to get one for myself!! Thanks for the opportunity to win Best Buy!!

  26. My coolest toy as a kid would have to be this set of red and black phones my parents got me…they were linked by a wire, and you could call one phone from the other and have a conversation…i was thinking about those just the other day…they were one of my most memorable toys!

  30. My favourite tech gifts when I was a kid would probably be my light brite. That was pretty awesome. Or my Simon game. You were shown patterns of lights and then had to repeat them. Very high tech.

  31. My favourite tech toy is the wowee coder. I think it’s awesome that kids are playing and learning these skills so young. I think my kids would love it but they would probably say the drone would be their favourite.

  32. I’m impressed with the Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4K Quadcopter Drone with Camera & Controller – Ready-to-Fly – Black
    and would love one!

  36. I really think the drones are amazing! By far one of the coolest tech toys! I could see my family having hours of endless fun with one.

  40. I think the coolest toy is Fisher-Price Think & Learn Code-A-Pillar. I don’t know who would love it more, me or my kids!

  48. The best tech toy I received when I was younger was a Tandy 1000 PC. Home computing was in its infancy, and it was amazing.

  49. When I was a child my grandfather bought me a speak and spell! I still have it and my kids play around on it.

  50. I really think that OSMO genius kit looks futuristic, my children would love to get something like that for Christmas.

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