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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. Coolest tech toy at Best Buy is the amazing Spec. ed. Sphero BB-8 droid.

    coolest tech toy i got as a kid was a transformer! LOL

  2. I always wanted a drone. had lot’s of rc trucks and cars as a kid but never one that fly’s. be a great way for some father daughter time

  3. Paw Patrol ZOOMER Marshall is certainly my son’s favourite and the Coolest Tech Toy of 2016! He’s intrigued by the interactive and cool features that Zoomer Marshall has!

  4. For me for this year the coolest tech toy would be the mini NES system for sure, Obviously waiting till they release the next batch after the holiday hype is over lol

  11. The coolest toy this year according to my 4 yr old is the hatchimals. Looked every where can’t find them and due to evacuation don’t think I can afford one this year maybe next.

  17. The coolest tech toy I ever received as a child was a C3PO remote control robot .the base had all e technology and the rest was a blow up thing that was almost 6 feet tall .It was the coolest thing to the 5 year old me .

  18. I am a giant fan of electronic scooters .I always have been .So to me it’s the coolest out there .As a parent I want to say he coding toys but deep down inside I rather have them ripping down the street on one of those bad boys .

  19. Coolest toy to have from Best Buy is definitely the Meccano Meccanoid XL 2.0 Personal Robot! My son is dying to have one! Because, who wouldn’t want his own personal robot?

  20. Coolest toy I received as a kid, was that 2-1 brick game! I love to play tetris! My mom used to sell them and sometimes I take some at school the ones with more games in it to attract customers for her. Well, partly so I would look cool!lol!

  21. The coolest toys this year are the vex robotic kits. With 3 science loving kids we are stocking up this year 🙂

  22. The coolest toy I received when I was a kid was the original Nintendo. I can still feel the excitement now. Thanks.

  24. The coolest toy available now at Best Buy is the Sphero Spec Ed BB-8 Droid + Force Band – sounds like a blast.

  28. Picking one thing out of your gear list is no easy feat, but I am going to have to go with the Yuneec Typhoon H Hexacopter drone.

  29. Picking one thing out of your gear list is no easy feat, but I am going to have to go with the Yuneec Typhoon H Hexacopter drone.

  30. The coolest tech toy I ever recieved as a kid was the first generation ipod nano. I lined up outside Best buy at 6am with my dad for him to buy it for me. It was such an amazing tool being able to have all my music in one place and not having to carry around a walkman and a bunch of CDs. I was obsessed with it and loved bringing it in the car, on trips, and even just around the house. It definitely started my obsession with Apple products and after owning it I was hooked.

  31. The coolest tech toy available at Best Buy this year is definitely the Sphero Spec Ed BB-8 Droid + Force Band! This toy looks amazing and would be so much fun to be able to steer BB-8 around. I loved BB-8 in the Force Awakens and even dressed up my dog as BB-8 this year for Halloween!

  32. It’s got to be the patriarch Mambo; at least in the eyes of my eldest grandson, but each of these bundles has so many things that each of the whole ‘gang’ would go crazy for!

  38. The coolest tech toy I received as a kid was my dream phone game. lol. My friends and I played it all the time.

  39. Coolest tech toy at Best Buy is the amazing Spec. ed. Sphero BB-8 droid. My favourite toy was a remote controlled motorcycle with blazing lights and roaring sounds…

  40. I think the coolest toy this year is the coding robot. It’s never too early for kids to learn the basics of coding. 🙂

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