Hot news: Hasbro is updating its Monopoly tokens, and you can vote some down and others up if you go here. Here’s your selection for new tokens:
You know what to do. Generations of children to come will be playing with your choice. Really, do you want them to play with helicopters or diamond rings?
Just look at that cute moggie!
And Butter cat, you can engage, too.
h/t: Graham
Friends don’t let friends play Monopoly
Listen, it can’t be “Go” all the time.
I’d played so much Monopoly by the time I was 12, business school was superfluous.
true … you can vary it with a little hnefatafl if you so desire. (Did I spell that right? And are there any Viking warriors around to correct me if I didn’t?)
Ha ha, but serious : when Aberdeen still had a Go club, we had discussed hnefatafl as a possible alternative use of the boards and stones.
No, but they could play Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Ingenious, Sentinels of the Multiverse, Pandemic, Forbidden Island, Ticket to Ride, Formula D, Formula Motor Racing, Airlines Europe.
I could go on, there are over 4000 games that are better than Monopoly.
Not impressed with any of the choices.
Its got to be either a llama or a badger, nothing else cuts the marmite.
You don’t have that choice, just like Obama vs. Romney. Go with what is offered.
For once, as an atheist, I can condemn sacrilege.
Pbbb! Mammals are already loyally represented. Bring on the sentient machines: Robot all the way!
+1
I like the robot best too, that cat is not well done.
I agree about the cat, but that robot doesn’t look anything like my robot!
How can I vote if I’m not on Facebook?
It’s facebook or nothing it seems. Looks like I won’t be voting then.
I am on FaceBook (how I found out about my friend’s recent death ; probably not a ‘first’), but I distrust the general level of information that FB collects, so I’ll not be participating.
A cat would definitely be a poor choice. Move it 3 places and tell it to stay? I don’t think so. It would be playing with the thimble the whole game. I’d have to go with the robot, at least you can control them (for now).
…and can you imagine what would happen if the cat and the dog land on the same spot!?!
I never played a Monopoly game that had a wheelbarrow, a battleship or an iron.
I thought I recognized the battleship and iron, but not the wheelbarrow.
I don’t recall a battleship or iron
They were all there when I started playing, back in the Johnson administration.
I’m sorry, but robot is the obvious choice.
I thought the robot should replace the thimble… but I voted for the cat, anyway. Not that it cares.
Robot vs cat, can’t they make a robot-cat? Would make my choice much easier…
> And Butter cat, you can engage, too.
DID SOMEONE SAY SOMETHIN BOUT ROBOT KITTEH?
This message was posted from my Blackberry!
DARN. VOTEZ R TID 2 FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS. EVEN BUTTR KITTEHS PAWS R NOT STRONG ENOUGH 2 PUT DENT IN IT
This message was posted from my Blackberry!
Robot. Sorry, but it must be the robot.
OK, but what are all of you willing to get rid of? If the “replace” vote has no clear loser, they might not bother to change?
Sorry; I went to vote for cat but could not move my cursor past the robot.
Honestly, if I were to see a Monopoly set with this robot token, I would buy it on the spot. I might buy two so I could have two robots to play the game with.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Transformers-MONOPOLY-Collectors-Edition-USAopoly-Board-Game-BRAND-NEW-Sealed-/251208508077#vi-content
Nuff sed.
Okay, not that robot but robots.
The robot connects with me on a visceral level- the Transformy things do not. I guess I’m too old to appreciate them
I guess you get photos of kittens/cats all the time. But this one is soooo cute. Plus I miss my cat. He disappeared 4 days ago and I’m worried for him. And he’s just a grown up one of these: http://500px.com/photo/22527159
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