Monopoly retiring a game piece, vote to keep your favorite
Monopoly is sending one of its tokens directly to jail forever — without passing go, without collecting $200.
The iconic board game is asking its Facebook fans to vote for their favorite game piece, including the car, thimble, boot, Scottie dog, battleship, hat, iron and wheelbarrow.
The one that receives the fewest votes will be voted off the board next month.
As of Jan. 9, the dog and the car have garnered the most support. Fans of the wheelbarrow and hat may need to select a new game piece.
But out with the old and in with the new: Monopoly will replace the shunned piece with a cat, diamond ring, guitar, helicopter or toy robot.
This isn’t the first time Monopoly has introduced replacement tokens. According to Hasbro.com, the lantern, purse and rocking horse got the ax in the early 1950s, making way for the dog, wheelbarrow and the horse and rider (the horse eventually got booted from the box, too).
Hasbro's promotion hearkens back to M&M’s marketing stunt in 1995, when the the tan-hued chocolate candy was nixed and fans were asked to vote for a new color (the verdict was blue).
Hasbro will reveal the new token on Feb. 6.
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if a piece has to go, I say iron in favor of cat.
there will be blood
and by blood I mean tears
and by tears I mean mental anger the two times of year I play this and my grandma whoops my ass with her donald trump bank managing.
In college a few of my stoner friends used to have a continual game of millennium monopoly going, they would skip class just to play lol.
Edited at 2013-01-09 09:38 pm (UTC)
We end it when 2 people go bankrupt. After that anyone who's left just counts how much property/money they have and what their property's worth. Whoever has the most wins.
The way you say is the long version, and most people just forfeit before it gets to that point.