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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. I think the coolest tech toy available is the Code-a-pillar.I have 2 baby boys and would love to win this or something equally awesome from you.
    As a kid the coolest tech toy I received was a Walkman. Music you could take to go in something “so small”.
    I feel old now.

  2. The coolest tech toy available at Best Buy is definitely the drones! I’d love to be able to fly it above the trees or the ocean with a camera and feel like I’m flying.

  3. The most exciting/coolest gift we got as children was the Commodore 64 computer. It was an exciting Christmas!

  4. Drones or coding robots are the coolest tech toy. As a kid, the coolest tech toy for me was getting a Nintendo!

  5. Wow.. I think the coolest tech toy is the E90 Electric Scooter. My kids will it! My vote goes to “Ultimate Toys”. Thanks for the chance…

  6. Sphero BB 8 App Assisted Drone and the 3D pen I would say are the coolest tech toys my kids would love and yes me too!

  7. Showing my age a little a bit, but my favourite tech toy as a child was the Atari VCS 2600! My first video game system! Have so many awesome memories of my Grandfather and I walking the mile or so to the nearest video store that rented Atari Cartidges. Of course the graphic were awful by today’s standards but boy it was like having an arcade at home at the time!

  8. I would say that I didn’t received any toys when I was younger because my family is only poor and my dad can’t afford to buy any of those stuff for me and another reason is because we are a family of 9 so I understand that situation.

  9. the best tech toy i had as a child was the nintendo. the best tech 2016 would be the robots. my three year old boy would be fascinated to play with any of these toys. they look very interesting…

  10. The coolest tech toy I received when I was younger was the 1972 ABC Monday Night Football Electric Game by Aurora ROGER STAUBACH Cowboys.

  11. My favourite tech toy that I received as a kid was a tamagotchi (even though I wanted a talking nano pet)

  12. The coolest tech toy is Sphero BB-8 App-Enabled Droid with Star Wars Force Band. My son is too young to enjoy it but my husband would definitely love to have one!

  13. Coolest toy: DJI MAVIC Foldable Quadcopter Drone with 4K UHD Camera & Controller – Ready-to-Fly – Black

  14. Sphero SPRK is so popular amongst students. I would love to see WowWee Chip robotic dog! This ages me but my first tech experience had to the Simon Says electronic game. #lovemakerspace

  15. Probably the coolest prize you are giving away is the 4k drone. There is a lot of dune to be had with that.

  16. The best tech toy I received as a child was a remote control car. We built ramps to jump and bridges to drive over puddles.

  17. The best tech toy I received was Coleco vision and my Amiga computer! Both had awesome graphics and sound for its time.

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