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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. The coolest tech toy I received was a Smurfs walkman when I was 6 years old, my grandpa bought it for me for christmas, I thought I was so cool !

  2. I Think the coolest toy at Best Buy is the Razor power core electric scooter, my son would love this.

  9. I can imagine when if my one year old boy watch Coding toys he will amazed. My second daughter is a tech kid. She will love Robotic toys. I am sure my 5 years old son will love Remote control and Drones, and Ultimate toys.
    I remember when I was a young, I was not bothered my mom who was a single mother to buy toys for me.
    I had not much toys. I loved play with friends at streets.
    We just could play with rocks, sands, tweaks.
    Honestly, we have more nowadays but less happy.

  13. This has to be the ultimate tech toy! I know it’s more than 1, but if I were to win this prize, I’d be good for the year!
    Prize #5 – Ultimate Toy
    OSMO GENIUS KIT, OSMO CODING SET, LITEHAWK SNAP DRONE, PROTOCOL SLIPSTREAM QUAD-COPTER, PROTOCOL GALILEO STEALTH, PROTOCOL NEODRONE MINI QUADCOPTER, TRAXXAS RUSTLER RED, Sphero Spec Ed BB-8 Droid + Force Band, ZOOMER CHIMP, MECCANO MECCANOID 2.0, MECCANO MECCASAUR, FISHER PRICE THINK & LEARN CODE-A-PILLAR,WOWWEE CHIP, Razor Power Core E90 Electric Scooter – Green, Franklin Sports Shoot Again Arcade Basketball Set, Sportcraft EZ Fold PVC Goal (Approximate value: $2530.00)

  16. The coolest tech toy at Best Buy is the coder mip. What a cool way to get kids into coding!

    The best gift I got as a kid that was techie was my super nes. It was a gift to myself bought with money I made delivering papers. Truly awesome!

  17. I didn’t have any tech toys when I was a kid that I can remember, but in high school i very much wanted the original game boy (it was in black and white). I finally got one at a garage sale 2 years ago lol

  20. The coolest tech toy at Best Buy I think is the Sphero BB8 Droid with “force” control. My boy would flip out if he got one.

  25. The coolest tech toy I ever received was definitely the racetrack set I got. Man, we spent hours racing eachother, setting up new tracks, cleaning dust and grime off the tiny wheels…..hehe. Good times!

  26. After looking through all your tech toys, I really think the Air Hogs Star Wars RC X-Wing vs. Death Star, Rebel Assault Is not only the coolest, but will be one of the Hottest items this year! I mean come on, who doesn’t want to take on the Death Star for realz!

  31. The coolest toy probably would be the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog. I remember when in was younger there was a smaller type of robotic dog that I always wanted. To give my daughter one would be cool!

  34. The best tech toy I received was my Nintendo! My dad surprised my sister and I with it for Christmas one year and it soon became the family’s favourite toy! All these years later I still miss playing Mario 3 🙂

  37. For my sons I’d say one of the new drones. I know they would love seeing the world from a birds eye view with the hand held camera/controller! The best part is teaching the kids about flying and them learning how to operate it themselves. I’d love to win for my sons!

  39. The coolest tech toy of 2016 is the STEM or bb8 (as a Star Wars fan). The coolest toy I received as a kid was an original Nintendo console.

  43. Anything S.T.E.M. related are the coolest tech toys! The “coolest” tech toy I had when I was a kid was the Game & Watch… yes, I’m old hahaha.

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