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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
Editor in Chief
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.

4715 COMMENTS

  1. the coolest tech toy you received when you were younger was the original Pong game with my little brother from my awesome Uncle as our Christmas gift. How exciting to play a game on our black and white TV! Aging myself, eh? 🙂

  2. The best tech toy I ever got for Christmas was the original Sony PSP. It could play games, movies, takes photos and be used to browse the internet before there were smartphones everywhere.

  3. The coolest tech toy is definitely the YUNNEEC TYPHOON 4K! It would be great to take this on some hikes and really get a bird’s eye view of the scenery.

  4. Coolest tech toys are the latest gaming consoles. The electric scooter is pretty cool too. Best tech toy I ever got was an Atari.

  5. Coolest tech toy is the Drone! Would be amazing to fly out in Parksville on Rathtrevor beach when the tide goes out.

    My fav tech toy I got when I was a kid was a Furby!

  6. When I was a kid, I was blown away when I woke up to an Atari 2600 under the tree. I’ve been addicted to consoles ever since. #PS4

  7. There are so many cool tech toys but I think the best are the remote control toys. My hubby and two daughters love anything remote control!!

  8. The coolest toy as at Best buy is the Ultimate Drones!
    What I had when I was younger that I really liked was a CB radio!

  9. The BB-8 is the coolest tech toy of 2016. Awesome!
    Way back in the day, for me the coolest tech toy was “Merlin”. It had like 8 games on the red hand held unit. So big and bulky compared to today’s devices, but at the time, it was high tech all the way. Imagine!

  10. The greatest toy I ever received was he lego 8880 super car! It had a functioning manual transmission and V8 engine, it was the best lego build of my youth.

  11. The coolest toy I ever got as a child was a moon base set. The moon lander was just a balloon with a weighted plastic stand tied to the bottom. With the radar which was just a disguised fan, you could raise the balloon and move it around and land it at another spot. It was a demonstration of the Bernoulli’s principle.

  12. I think the Sphero BB-8 App-Enabled Droid with Star Wars Force Band is the coolest tech toy of 2016!

  13. Ha, ha, ha, you might also laugh at this, but I can tell you honestly that the coolest toy I had when I was a kid was my beaded skipping rope! Do you remember those? The slap slap slap it made as you skipped? Oh my I wore those beads out!

  14. I think that the coolest tech toy available at Best Buy in 2016 is the YUNNEEC TYPHOON 4K drone! So so cool!!! I would LOVE to own one!

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