Monopoly replaces boot, thimble and wheelbarrow with a T-Rex, penguin and a rubber ducky

[riversedge]

Source: telegraph





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Monopoly replaces boot, thimble and wheelbarrow with a T-Rex, penguin and a rubber ducky

17 March 2017 • 4:31pm




The eight game tokens that will be included in upcoming versions of the Monopoly board game Credit: Wayne Parry

The boot has been given its marching orders, the wheelbarrow has been wheeled out, and the thimble got the thumbs down in the latest version of the board game Monopoly. In their place will be a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a penguin and a rubber ducky.

More than 4.3million voters from 146 countries weighed in on which pieces they wanted to see in future versions of the property-acquisition game and makers Hasbro announced the winners on Friday
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The board game was "born" on March 19, 1935, ......................


The original 10 pieces were an iron, purse, lantern, racecar, thimble, shoe, top hat, battleship, cannon and a rocking horse.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/17/monopoly-replaces-boot-thimble-wheelbarrow-new-game-board-pieces/

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This is considered major world news. YUP!!

[ret5hd]

1. As long as the car is still there.

I won't play if I can't be the car.

[Lochloosa]

3. I was the boot...so I could kick you out of your house.

Isn't that what the game is all about?

[Yavin4]

4. Let me guess. You make car noises as you move around the board, right?

There's always one.

[ret5hd]

5. .

[riversedge]

9. yup-so many times when I play--there is always one!!

[Hortensis]

15. Our son is the one in our family. Obnoxious.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Ditto!

[FBaggins]

2. Heresy! n/t

[uppityperson]

7. Not the wheelbarrow! I loved the wheelbarrow.

[yurbud]

8. in Trump's honor, they should have made the boot stepping on a human face forever

[alarimer]

10. The most boring board game on the planet.

I refuse to play; or I play to see how quickly I can lose all my money and quit.

[spiderpig]

17. That's why you made up your own rules.

Like "no banker" and all the cash went into Free Parking, which you claimed when you landed there.

Also, when I played as a kid we didn't know what a mortgage was, so we never bothered.

[Dave Starsky]

18. Strict by-the-rules Monopoly is actually not a bad game.

It can even be fun.

The problem is, almost nobody plays by the actual rules. Every family in America uses their own set of house rules (like money on Free Parking) that have been handed down through generations. These draw the game out and make it deadly dull.

[Dopers_Greed]

11. Worst board game ever

I refuse to play it, especially considering the huge number of high quality alternatives.

I'd almost rather play "TRUMP the Game"

[Codeine]

20. It's barely a game. Near-zero decision points

are presented to the player, and winning the game is a largely random function.

So many excellent modern board game designs out there, and yet people still buy that box of crap by the millions.

[TuxedoKat]

12. The boot got the boot

too bad. Will miss the wheelbarrow and thimble too.

[Little Tich]

13. Dibs on the T-Rex!! n/t

[area51]

14. A rubber ducky?

[spiderpig]

16. If they replace the doggy

I will be royally pissed.

[JudyM]

19. I don't remember there being a cat or a battleship.

[IndyJones]

21. I love the T-Rex!

We have a few versions of Monopoly already so I don't think I will be buying the new version, though.

[Kablooie]

22. Didn't the kitty replace the iron recently?

Sacrilege!
How can you play Monopoly without a thimble!
Preposterous!