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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. My coolest tech toy i received was the ‘yak bak’
    I remember my friends and I playing with it for hours

  6. I think the coolest tech toy is the Razor Power Core E90 Electric Scooter ! Scooter have alwasy been awesome but an electic one blows my mind, so awesome!

  13. My 7 year old little girl would love the Razor electronic scooter so she could keep up with the bigger kids.

  15. The Razor Power electric scooter is so Cool! My 7 year old little girl has a regular scooter and gets upset that her little legs can’t keep up with the bigger kids and generally ends up in a few tears. Coolest gadget I got was an CP30 radio that moved and danced. Lol.

  19. I’m not sure if it’s really considered a tech toy, but back then it was super awesome for me as a kid. My brother and I got walkie talkies and would use them to chat and bed time. 🙂

  21. The Air Hogs Star Wars Imperial Aratech 74-Z Speeder Bike Drone looks so awesome! My son would have so much fun with that. 🙂

  26. I dont know if this can be considered a tech toy, but my favourite toy I received as a child was my easy bake oven! I used to make “cakes” for my dad and he always ate them gladly even though I bet they tasted like cardboard (I tend to overbake things). 🙂 Happy holidays!

  27. I think the coolest tech toy of 2016 is the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog. It’s so lifelike and great for parents like me who keep saying “no” to the “can we get a dog?” question!

  32. I am a child of the 80’s so my favourite gift was the SNES- Super Nintendo Entertainment System. My brother and I received it as a Christmas gift and I am pretty sure our parents didn’t see us the whole Christmas break. We played Nintendo from morning until night (no screen time limits back then!) Our favourite game was Super Mario Bros. 3 and we knew all the hacks and cheats. I can’t believe how far gaming and tech has come since those days! It’s is this generation’s equivalent to the “walking to school in woolen underwear, uphill both ways!” stories our parents told us. My boys are five and six and they so so much more technologically advanced than I was at their age!

  36. I think the OSMO genius kit is the coolest tech toy available at Best Buy in 2016! My little boys are five and six years old so this would fit their age groups. I love toys that are educations but are so much fun that the boys don’t even notice how much they are learning! I want them to have exposure to STEM and coding but I want them to play while they do it. This seems perfect! They are also HUGE Star Wars fans so all of those toys would be be hits at our house too! They’d be the coolest kids in the neighbourhood!

  40. And our tech toys when we were kids…my sister got Cricket and I got Corky doll..the ones with the tapes in the back
    Best friends till the end.lol

  43. Well tech toys in the 70’s were different. My fave tech toy I received as a kid was baby-that-a-way. Although I asked for batteries not included because that is what the picture in the catalogue said.

  49. Coolest tech toy available at Best Buy in 2016 are the Drones !…My coolest tech toy I recieved when younger would be nintendo

  50. I think the coolest tech toy available at Best Buy in 2016 is the Drones..what an awesome toy to play with and explore and be able to see things from a birds eye view..certainly a toy for both young and old alike..The coolest tech toy I recieved when I was younger was nintendo when it first came out 🙂

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