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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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  2. The coolest tech toy I received when you were younger would probably have to be a mint, electric train set. I remember I used to always beg my parents to purchase that for me and they finally did – eventually.

  3. Osmo and the new bb8 Droid. Either would provide hours of fun for my husband and kids. Thanks for the chance to win

  6. I think the coolest tech toy available at Best Buy in 2016 is The Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4K Quadcopter Drone with Camera & Controller – Ready-to-Fly – Black. Probably because I’m a huge fan of drones and remote controlled toys.

  8. The coolest tech toy you received when I was younger was a Commodore 64! I learned how to program the good old BASIC programming language on the C64. Great memories!!

  13. The coolest tech toy I remember recieving was a mini donkey kong arcade game. a sphero looks much cooler. lol

  18. I think the Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4K Quadcopter Drone with Camera & Controller – Ready-to-Fly is the coolest tech toy this year .

  22. The best tech toy I received as a child was a transistor radio that was designed in a flat(ish) shape to fit under your pillow. I went to bed every night to my favourite songs on the radio.

  23. The coolest Best Buy tech toy is a Yunneec Typhon 500-4k-quadcopter-drone. Maybe not the coolest tech toy nut I did receive the original Pong when it came out.

  32. I think that the Sphero Spec Ed BB-8 Droid and Force Band is one of the coolest “toys” ever. It was a pretty cool thing before they added the force Band, but that just took it up a few notches.

  34. I think my two sons would really enjoy the Osmo genius toy. It’s an awesome learning toy!!!! Thanks for the opportunity to win!!!!

  36. The coolest tech toy I had when I was little would be a toss up between my Atari and my Lite Bright!!!! I loved both of them very much!!!!

  42. bb-8 and wowwee coder mip are mine and my sons top tech toy picks for 2016. when i was young my walkman and game boy were my favorite tech toys and my sons favorite tech toy from his younger days is his ds he still plays with it

  43. I haven’t received a tech toy when I was young but the new black and white television was a sensation for the whole family. Evenings we gathered together with friends and watched Fred Astaire an Ginger Rogers dancing and singing. I wish to see them again!

  46. I think the coolest tech toy available at Best Buy for 2016 is Sphero BB-8 App-Enabled Droid with Star Wars Force Band! We are a family of sci-fi geeks and Star Wars fanatics! <3

  50. well over 40 years ago, my brother and I each got a toy which had a city scene which spun around while you had to drive to navigate the city streets…loved it! that or the vibrating football game..the vibrations would drive your team towards the opponents goal line …

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