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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. 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!

  6. I think that I would have liked to have the “Razor Hovertrax 2.0 Electric Hoverboard ” when I was a youngester.

  8. 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!

  10. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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!

  19. The coolest tech toy available at Best Buy in 2016 is probably the Parrot Bebop Quadcopter Drone with Camera & Controller Bundle

  20. 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 🙂

  21. 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!

  22. 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!

  23. 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.

  24. I think the Ultimate Drone is the coolest toy of 2016…would love to gift it to my oldest nephew!

  28. 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!

  31. 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.

  38. 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.

  40. The Vex IQ Robotics Construction kit seems pretty cool, able to allows a child’s creativity to be expressed in a mechanically inclined way.

  45. 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.

  48. 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!

  49. 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!

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