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!
Every 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 toys
e.g., WOWWEE CODER MIP |
Robotic toys |
Remote control and Drones
e.g., Parrot Mambo |
Ultimate toys |
Ultimate STEM Toys
e.g., OSMO GENIUS KIT |
Ultimate Drones
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
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i think the Sphero BB-8 App-Enabled Droid (R001FCA) – is the coolest tech toy for 2016. i cant believe the difference in toys from when i was a kid, and even wen my son was a kid, the greatest tech toy i ever got was a thing called, “simon” u had to follow the lights in sequence to win, lol….. before that i think it was the etch-a-sketch, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, just kidding!
The coolest tech toy that Best Buy has for 2016 is the Ultimate Drone.
The , Razor Power Core E90 Electric Scooter is very cool! It would be a lot of fun!
I really loved my little portable transistor radio. I wish I still had it!
I got a Rifleman’s Toy Rifle that made some noise. Note too much electronics then.
I think that I would have liked to have the “Razor Hovertrax 2.0 Electric Hoverboard ” when I was a youngester.
The coolest tech toy I received as a kid (a looong time ago) was a Speak & Spell!
I think the coolest tech toy at Best Buy for 2016 is the Osmo Coding Set. Fun for the kids, and great for the parents whose kids grow up to be the next Steve Jobs!
I don’t remember having any cool tech toys when I was a child.
I think the coolest are the drones. This is the one I like best Parrot Bebop Quadcopter Drone with Camera & Controller Bundle – Ready-to-Fly – Blue.
The coolest Tech Toy I ever received when I was young was a toy poodle that barked and walked
My favourite as a child was Nintendo.
Coolest by far is the Sphere bb8 druid with WRISTBAND.
The coolest tech toy I had as a kid was a Tamagotchi. I still have it!
The WowWee CODER MiP Self-Balancing Robot looks pretty cool. WowWee stuff is always good quality.
I love the Sphere BB-8. My 4 year loves how BB-8 just goes wild! The hologram is cool too. When I was younger, we were given a pacman portable game. It was round and we held in our hands, and it was the source of many a disagreement in our home! There was no two player option! How times have changed.
I think a cool tech toy you is the caterpillar where you can take it apart, reprogram, makes learning fun, my kids would like that. Coolest toy I got as a kid was this 3 d racing car with a wheel and litted background, made it seem realistic, back in the days! Of course Nintendo game boy, super Mario brothers and Tetris!
The coolest tech toy you received when you were younger was the Atari 2600.
The coolest tech toy available at Best Buy in 2016 is probably the Parrot Bebop Quadcopter Drone with Camera & Controller Bundle
My coolest tech toy at the time was a Vic-20. I had a Simon and I had a Merlin but the Vic-20 blew them away 🙂
The Sphero SPRK+ – we’ve got a real fan of Scratch in the house; being able to use it to drive a Sphero would make him crazy!
Coolest tech toy I’ve seen this year is the “Meccano Meccanoid 2.0” I mean who hasn’t imagined having a real robot as a kid but to be able to build it and have it “come to life” recognizing you etc. Now that’s awesome.
I think my favourite tech toy as a kid was a the Fisher Price PXL2000 black and white camcorder that recorded real video on regular audio cassette tapes and even came with a small portable sized tv to play it on, pretty awesome for 1987!
The coolest toy I received was a Coleco Galaxian portable… mini Arcade game… me and my two brothers each got our own. But I don’t recall what there games were. I guess I will text them in the a.m.
I think the Ultimate Drone is the coolest toy of 2016…would love to gift it to my oldest nephew!
Robotic toys are pretty cool.
the coolest tech toy when I was a child was Lionel Train Set
Sphero BB-8 App-Enabled Droid (R001FCA)
I think the coolest tech toy of 2016 is The Fisher-Price Code-A-Pillar, my daughters friend has one and they spend hours playing it! When I was a little girl the coolest tech toy I had was my easy bake oven!
The coolest tech toy we got when I was a kid was not much a tech, but it was a microscope.
The tech toy from Best Buy is either the Robotic Paw Patrol or the Ultimate Drone. I can’t seem to decide.
I think the Ultimate Drones are the best tech toys this year. Mainly because they are great for adults too. Lots of fun and adventure with this one.
I think the coolest tech toy for 2016 is the Sphero BB-8 App-enabled Droid. My daughter would LOVE this!
Looking for tech toy gifts for my 11 year old son… don’t know what to get him… any suggestions?
One of the first coolest tech toys I received was the Nintendo Family Computer (aka the NES)
My first coolest electronic toy was back in the 70s and it was PONG, the best today would be a drone….
I really like the Protocol Slipstream Quad-copter because it is a real cool tech toy
The LiteHawk Snap Drone is really cool and I can play with it all day and night.
The Osmo coding set is cool stuff
The coolest tech toy I received as a kid was called Capsula. There were these hard plastic spheres with ports on six sides that could connect to other spheres or different movable parts such as a fan, wheels and other little bits. In order to make it work, one of the capsules had to be the motor and another had to have the battery power source. It was a cool tother for the early 90’s.
I go for the cool Osmo Genius Kit
The Vex IQ Robotics Construction kit seems pretty cool, able to allows a child’s creativity to be expressed in a mechanically inclined way.
coolest tech toy when i was younger .. hmm operation game
coolest tech toy simon
the coolest tech toy that I received when I was young what a set of walkie talkies!
I think the Ultimate Drone is the coolest tech toy this 2016
The coolest Tech toy from the ones above at Best Buy would be the Ultimate Dronesyuneec e.g., YUNNEEC TYPHOON 4K. This would be amazing for my two married sons who would love a Drone, and even my 18 year old grandson, and 4 year old grandson would love this.
these are so cool, my darling nephews would be over the moon for these tech toys!!!
Game boy with Tetris.. I became a gaming addict immediately after receiving this for xmas.
The Code-A-Pillar is the perfect toy to introduce coding basics to my preschooler. This tech toy is a must for a bonding and nerd out experience!
The Code-A-Pillar is the perfect toy to introduce coding basics to my preschooler. This tech toy is a must for a bonding and nerd out experience!
The coolest tech toy when I was a child was probably the super Nintendo
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