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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. Unfortunately I never got any Christmas presents as I was raised in a strict religious house and we didnt celebrate Christmas or any of the other holidays. I left the Jehovah’s witnesses as soon as I was old enough to say I had enough of this crap so it really sucked being a kid and not getting any presents when every one else did but oh well days gone by.

  2. I think the coolest toys are the Drones ! They are just awesome and look like they would be a blast to play with

  3. I actually had the parking garage when I was young!! It was amazing, all of my friends used to come over to play with it. Wish I still had it!

  4. My bays 2 so the itech toy for him since his into gaming already and ipad would the logitec or vtech lipfrog educational would be ideal..but..

  5. I really like the WowWee CODER MiP Self-Balancing Robot
    Thanks for the great giveaway…someone is going to be really happy!

  6. The coolest tech toy is the Meccano Meccanoid XL 2.0 Personal Robot. Although if the Nintendo Classic becomes available at Best Buy, that’d be my fave tech toy for 2016!

  7. The coolest tech toy I ever got as a child was Nintendo. We played for hours yelling and screaming at the game. We were all thumbs at first!!!! But we got really good at it, and we always had fun!!!!

  8. Coolest tech toy I had as a kid was smartie bear. A stuffed bear that could talk. It was so amazing at the time as it was one of the first talking toys that I can remember. These days of course, everything talks to you.

  9. I think the coolest tech toy from Best Buy this season is the ultimate drone!

    When I was a kid, the best tech toy I ever received was my Super Nintendo. I have one now as an adult!

  10. My favorite tech toy when I was a kid was a game called Blip. It had a little red light that went from one side of the screen to the other and we used to pretend it was possessed.

  11. Coolest tech toy I ever received was my NES. It was 1990 and probably the best birthday present ever! Still have it, too…

  12. The coolest tech toy from when I was younger would most definitely be the super Nintendo hours and hours of non stop fun and sore thumbs from getting too excited and pressing the small buttons too hard. (=

  13. The coolest toy i received growing up was either when furbie mania took over or the N64 game system. We certainly didnt have the technology we had today that brings us hoverboards and vr systems!

  14. The coolest toy is the Sphero BB8. As a die hard Star Wars fan i had to opt out for a car decal instead of this awsome remote control robot.

  15. The Code-aPillar is the coolest new tech toy.
    I’m getting it for my granddaughter on her 3rd birthday in February.
    Thanks for this awesome opportunity to win 🙂

  16. The coolest tech toy available from Best Buy in 2016 is probably the Sphero BB-8 App-Enabled Droid with Star Wars Force Band. I know R2D2 was a real hit with the kids from the original Star Wars movies and I know BB-8 is just as adorable, all the kids will love playing with it!

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