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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. Coolest Tech toy I ever received as a kid was a Nano, trying to keep that thing alive and going consumed my life

  5. didn’t really get too many tech toys as a kid….probably the techiest thing that comes to mind is a microscope and blank slides to make and look at crazy things.

  7. Sphero SPRK is defiantly the must buy toy in our house this Christmas, with three boys who love learning new things I can see this as a fun and educational hand on toy!!!!

  8. I think the coolest toy I received as a kid was a Vtech laptop that taught spelling, math and featured some games. Pretty low-tech by today’s standards but I thought it was very cool!

  9. The coolest toy is the Fisher-Price Think & Learn Code-A-Pillar. I love to code and I think my daughter is going to enjoy it as well. I’d love to get her one of these!

  10. the coolest tech gift I received was my pink duo-cassette player! I loved it I would make mix tapes, or tape stuff off the radio 🙂

  11. I think the coolest toy is the OSMO GENIUS KIT. My son was just diagnosed with Autism and I think this is something he would actually use 🙂

  14. The coolest tech toy I received when I was younger was a RC Car K2000 my best hero ever when i was young It was cool until it stopped working but i kept it for a while untill it was stoled from the house with many other things i tryed to find it on ebay or smtgh but no chance oh well i will keep it in a corner on my memories cause i never forget that car. Thanks Daddy.

  15. The coolest tech toy I received as a child was definitely the teckno(sp?) robot dog. My son has the newest version and the puppy version now 🙂

  16. I think the coolest tech toy available at Best Buy this year is the razor Power Core E90 Electric Scooter – Green

  18. i can’t remember receiving coolest tech toy when i was younger. i would love to win one of this coolest toy from Best Buy. thanks for the chance.

  20. I think the coolest toy will be the Spero BB-8. Kids will love it and i know it’s on many wishlists for Christmas.

  22. The coolest tech toy I received as a child was an electronics set where you connected wires to do simple things, like light an LED bulb, make a solar meter, etc. Doesn’t compete with what’s available now but was very cool to me at the time.

  23. I think the coolest toy is The Parrot Mambo – can’t wait for hundreds to be flying around at the same time! 🙂

  24. All the tech toys are pretty awesome lol too many to narrow down and my favourite tech toy wasn’t actually mine it was my brothers big bubba remote truck and it was pretty awesome

  25. The coolest tech toy I got as a kid was an old school Star Trek phaser! It lit up and had the sounds from the original show, it was awesome!

  29. My first memory of the coolest toy I ever received as a child was “Lightbrite”. I thought it was da bomb!

  31. The best “tech toy” I had growing up was Simon – The Memory Game! My sister & I would play that thing for hours! Thanks for the chance to win, the prizes packs are ALL amazing!!

  32. hi anything that has PAW PATROL ,haha, i got three grand kiddies who are crazy about this serie and so do i haha
    thank you

  33. The coolest tech toy I got as a kid was an electronic spell and speak. My brothers and I fought over it. And I used it constantly.

  36. Oh I will never forget my first tech toy it was my teddy ruxben I loved that thing so much. My kids would just love to win an aswome tech toy they would never forget that

  41. Sorry I have to copy Laurie, as I too loved the miniature Pac-Man Arcade Game, as 34 years ago me and my future husband would compete on who would get the biggest score, ( was me) lol

  45. Coolest tech toy is the Traxxas XO-1 4WD 1/7 Scale RC Supercar. Always loved rc cars when I was younger, especially those that are fast, and have great aesthetic appeal.

  47. The best tech toy that I got was a robot that was able to move, and it moved its arms. Pretty simplistic now but back when it came out it was really cool.

  48. Thank you for the chance to win.

    Coolest tech toy this year I would probably say one of the many awesome drones that are out there now or the sphero bb-8 .

    Most played with tech toy i had as a kid was a robotic arm i think from radio shack back in the day. It moved so many way and could pick up a lot with its claw. Man i loved that toy.

    Thanks again for the chance to win for me and my 2 munchkins.

  49. The coolest tech toy I received when I was younger was a RC boat! It was awesome until it stopped working and sank in the middle of the pond..

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