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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 an Atari. I guess I’m showing my age now. Video games sure have come along way since I was a kid.

  8. Yuneec Typhoon 4K Quadcopter Drone with CGO3 4K Camera – Ready-to-Fly – Black
    Model #: YUNQ4 would be the coolest tech toy

  9. I think the Parrot Mambo Quadcopter Mini Drone with Camera is a very Cool Tech Toy. Toys aren’t just for kids anymore.

  12. 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..

  13. 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.

  16. 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…

  17. 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!

  18. 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.

  22. 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.

  24. 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.

  30. 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!!

  31. 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

  35. 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

  38. my favourtite gift i ever got was a small old style automatic hockey game – not even sure what it was called

  46. 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.

  47. The coolest tech toy at Best Buy for 2016 is for sure a drone: The YUNNEEC TYPHOON 4K looks pretty cool!

  48. The OSMO GENIUS KIT looks so cool. We’re really excited for the possibility of utilizing this for our kids’ education

  49. 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.

  50. 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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