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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 when I was younger was a handheld gameboy. I loved that thing!! Wish I had of hung onto it.

  2. I think the Parrot Mambo Mini Quadcopter Drone with Camera for 2016 is pretty cool. I didn’t have the pleasure of experiencing any tech toys in my day.

  3. I love, and think, the coolest tech-toy of 2016 is the Robotic Dog……we didn’t have tech toys in my childhood, so this age of tech is amazing!

  6. The coolest tech toy I received was a robot that asked questions called 2XL.
    It even had an 8 track!
    Yeah…I’m old.

  7. I have to say the coolest toy are the drones and nothing says i love you with a tech toy, they are all awesome, thanks, would be thrilled anfd grateful to see the excitment, joy and yes gratitude in their faces.

  10. The coolest tech toy i got when i was younger was a robot who made smoke when you filled him with vegetable oil lol

  12. The coolest tech toy I received when I was younger was a device for checking my spelling. Very useful during the days of dictionaries and no internet or spell check on the manual typewriter.

  16. The coolest tech “toy” I received was my Cannon Rebel SL1, (which by the way I still do not know all the features, because I am old!!)

  20. Razor Hover Trax 2.0 Electric Hoverboard! Sure would be fun to use while going shopping! Zooming thru the isles! But I think the kids would grab it before I could.

  23. The Yuneec Typhoon Q500 4K Quadcopter Drone with Camera & Controller – Ready-to-Fly – Black will be the coolest Tech toy!

  28. The best tech gift I have received was the Nikon camera my husband got me last Christmas from Best Buy 🙂

  29. The coolest tech toy is the DJI Phantom 4 Quadcopter. I know my husband would love to receive this for Christmas.

  30. The coolest toy I ever got as a kid was Omega Supreme Transformer! I was the only kid on the block to ever get that transformer and was known as the cool kid that Christmas!

  31. The Coolest toy would have to be the BB-8, growing up in the star wars Era, I’m so excited about how the Star wars toys have evolved from the Kenner figures I use to play with as a child!

  36. As for myself, my coolest gift when I was a child, was definitely my NINTENDO NES system, along with Mario Bros, Tetris and another game, called THE ADVENTURES OF LOLO. 🙂

  38. As my son is only 15 moths old, I would have to say that the Fisher-Price Think & Learn Code-A-Pillar seems pretty interesting. This one gets my vote for 2016.

  40. The coolest tech toy I had while growing up was a microscope- I was always interested in science so I was able to put all kinds of samples under the scope and be amazed at what things looked like close up!!

  41. I think the coolest tech-toy of 2016 is the Robotic Dog. My family suffers from a lot of allergies, so pets are really a challenge. With the Robotic Dog- the kids can play with it for hours- you can take it for a walk- but you don’t have to buy food or other animal accessories, and you don’t have to worry about any waste products- which gives this toy a thumbs up for me!!!!

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