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!
Every 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 toys
e.g., WOWWEE CODER MIP |
 Robotic toys
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 Remote control and Drones
e.g., Parrot Mambo |
 Ultimate toys
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Ultimate STEM Toys
e.g., OSMO GENIUS KIT |
Ultimate Drones
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:Â 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.
the parrot mambo is the coolest
The coolest toy I received when I was a kid was the original Nintendo
The best tech toy I ever had was iMac all in one growing up
the parrot mambo is the coolest
Yuneec Typhoon 4K Quadcopter Drone with CGO3 4K Camera – Ready-to-Fly – Black
Model #: YUNQ4
Coolest tech toy is Sphero products — great for introducing coding without the blah!!
The coolest tech toy I got when I was a kid was an Atari. I guess I’m showing my age now. Video games sure have come along way since I was a kid.
Yuneec Typhoon 4K Quadcopter Drone with CGO3 4K Camera – Ready-to-Fly – Black
Model #: YUNQ4 would be the coolest tech toy
I think the Parrot Mambo Quadcopter Mini Drone with Camera is a very Cool Tech Toy. Toys aren’t just for kids anymore.
The YUNNEEC TYPHOON 4K looks pretty cool.
The coolest tech toy I have ever had was an all in one iMac computer as a child
My son would love this for christmas and it would be amazing to watch him open these up and try them out. He loves toys like this and as a single mother can’t afford to get him lots of things like this..
The coolest toy I received as a kid was a model rocket kit. It led me through many years of building and flying model rockets, then mid-power rockets, then high-power rockets.
I think the coolest tech toys are the quad copters with onboard camera.
BB 8 DROID would scare the dickens out of the newf puppy wehave
I got a tiny computer ..like a calculator..dont recall the name. I tried to program Mastermind in basic and it didnt work. Showed a coder who said my code was fine..so i never played with it again…
Coolest tech toy I received as a kid was my Nintendo console. This year’s coolest toys at Best Buy are the remote control drones! My son is obsessed with getting one from Santa!
I feel the same as many people – Monopoly was the gift I desired and one that I treasured for many hours of
entertainment through the years. If I were a child now, the one I would ‘die for’ would be the ‘Ultimate Drone”.
It’s new and exciting.
The coolest toy is the ultimate drone
The coolest toy I remember was my Sony walkman
The coolest toy i ever recieved was the old nintedo game .
Coolest tech toy from when I was a kid was probably our NES. My brother and I gave up birthday and christmas presents for 2 years to get it and it was totally worth it. Have so many great memories playing with it and my family.
The coolest tech toy i had was Sega Genisus ….loved Wonder Boy!
The coolest for this year at least as far as my family is concerned is the code-a-pillar. I can totally see my little guy and his daddy bonding over this one for hours.
The Wowee Chip Robotic dog looks pretty awesome and my son would love it! But BB8 would be a close second!
the coolest toy I got… was my keyboard … I loved playing it…
the coolest tech toy for 2016 is Sphero BB-8 App-enabled Droid
The coolist tech toy I got as a kid was my Atari. The coolest tech toy this year would be virtual reality goggles. Def on my husbands wish list.
The coolest tech toy I received as a gift when I was growing up was a road race set!
The coolest tech toy I received as a child was a Nintendo Game Boy! I was one excited girl, I didn’t care about any other gifts under the tree that year! To my surprise I am still all about electronics!!
lol…I’m 71 and there weren’t any tech toys when I was a kid…but the best gift I received was my first pair of skates
The coolest has to be the Parrot Mambo Remote control Drone.
The coolest toy at Bestbuy I would have to say is the http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/sphero-sphero-bb-8-app-enabled-droid-with-star-wars-force-band-r001sfc/10453095.aspx. Star Wars is a FAV in our house right now! Both of my boys would love go crazy over this amongst many other but this would be the top pick!
I think the hoverboard is an amazing tech toy
I think the best tech toy is virtual reality headset. My husband is a huge kid at heart and he tried a friends VR for his PC and he feel in love, now that’s the only thing on his wish list. Fingers crossed Santa finds him this year.
Thank you
My coolest toy was a monopoly
My coolest toy was a scooter
my favourtite gift i ever got was a small old style automatic hockey game – not even sure what it was called
The coolest Toy was an electric guitar
Sphero BB-8 App-Enabled Droid with Star Wars Force Band
BB8 is the coolest toy this year.
I think the Ultimate Drone is the coolest toy!
I didn’t get a lot of tech toys growing up but I remember having a lot of fun with my YAK BAK.
The coolest tech toy I received when I was younger, was a tape recorder with a microphone!
the coolest tech toy in 2016 is the Parrot Mambo Quadcopter Mini Drone with Camera – Ready-to-Fly –
Tech toys weren’t really a thing when I was younger, but I was pretty stoked when my brother and I got a Super Nintendo for Christmas when I was 15.
The coolest tech toy at Best Buy for 2016 is for sure a drone: The YUNNEEC TYPHOON 4K looks pretty cool!
The OSMO GENIUS KIT looks so cool. We’re really excited for the possibility of utilizing this for our kids’ education
I think the coolest tech toy is the Sphero BB-8 App-Enabled Droid with Star Wars Force Band because I’m a Star Wars nerd.
The coolest toy I ever got as a child, that’s a tough one but I’m going to go with my 35 mm camera with flash cubes, I had so much fun with it and got flash cubes and film in my stocking for the next few years.
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