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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 got a Nintendo Entertainment System when I was younger…maybe a Nintendo Classic would be good this year!

  2. The coolest I received growing up was …not sure if counts as a toy but the Panasonic shockwave Walkman!!! Also had a Furby!!

  3. My favorite tech toy growing up was Nintendo. My siblings and I used to love to have competition playing of all things Tetrus. Best childhood every.

  4. I think the coolest tech toy at Best Buy is the Parrot Mambo Quadcopter Mini Drone with Camera ready- to- fly black/ white

  5. The coolest best buy toy I believe is the E90 electric scooter really cool I would of loved one of those when I was younger

  6. The best toy i’ve received was a karaoke machine for Christmas made my Christmas extra special especially where we didn’t always have much so I was awesome my parents always tried there hardest to make it worth while and so did Santa lol 🙂

  7. I think the drone is great any of them or the star wars droid is a wonderfull toy all of them are great for children

  8. The coolest toy when I was young was the Atari- the games I loved to play was Kangaroo, Frogger and of course Pac-man and Mrs Pac-Man lol
    Coolest toys I bought my daugther is the BIG Tyronosaurus and just last week, the Dragon from real furs…
    And my son, was a robotic dinosaur T-Rex

  9. The drone toys are super cool! My little o e is juat 2.5 yrs old so i would love to win the ultimate toys prize pack for her and I would like to donate some of the toys to a kid in need this holiday season.

  10. LOL This will be very obvious that I am getting old but the best ‘Tech’ toy I got when I was little was my SuperNES and I still love it!

  11. my kids would love the celestron telescope. We live in the middle of nowhere and they spend hours looking at the night sky.
    There were not many tech toys when i was growing up but the one I remember spending hours playig with was the Frogger console- definitely a blast from the past

  12. My fav tech toy back in the 1990’s must be the Nintendo system. Provided me with counless hours of entertainment.

  13. The coolest toy in my opinion is the WowWee CHiP Robotic Dog. It’s almost like a real dog without having to clean up after.

  14. THE WOWEE CODER IS PRETTY NEAT! MY 9 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER IS CURRENTLY LEARNING HOW TO CODE IN SCHOOL.
    THE COOLEST TECH TOY I RECIEVED AS A GIFT AS A GIFT WAS PROBABLY A NINTENDO.

  15. When I was young my brother and I received a Nintendo with two controllers, Mario Bros, Duck Hunt and the gun controller and 31 in 1 game. We were in heaven.

  16. I think the coolest tech toy at Best Buy is the Parrot Swing Quadcopter Mini Drone with Camera & Controller – Ready-to-Fly – Black/White.

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