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Hasbro to retire a Monopoly piece and add a new one. Hooray for marketing stunts to try and drum up sales in a game that's a century old, that no one really likes playing anyway! Since most of you haven't played Monopoly in years, let me remind you of the pieces:  Scotty Dog. Best piece, bar none. I will loving punch you in the face for this piece.   Battleship: A close second. Use the cannons to blow up the other pieces.  The car: Pretty cool, you can always pretend you're driving from place to place.   Top Hat: Who doesn't like feeling fancy every now and then?   Shoe: It's...a shoe. Big deal.  Thimble: See Shoe.  Wheelbarrow: Pretty useless...who plays as these pieces?  Iron: Why is this piece even here? Who ever wants to be the iron? That's the piece your little brother got because he lost the Battleship piece last year. Now, this isn't the first time Hasbro has retired a Monopoly piece...let's have a moment of silence for our fallen comrades:  Cannon.   Horse and Rider...you were too beautiful for this world!   Train. Most people don't even know Train was ever even a piece. AFAIK, it was only in some Anniversary edition:   I actually had this set growing up...all the pieces were gold-colored, and the houses and hotels were made of painted wood instead of cheap plastic. I thought this was normal for everyone until I played it at a cousin's house once and wondered why there was no train, and why the houses and hotels were lovely plastic. So in addition to hopefully killing off the lovely thimble, iron, or wheelbarrow because they are terrible, they are also introducing a BRAND NEW TOKEN for the 21'st century. The contenders:  The Cat.  The Diamond Ring.  The Guitar.  The Helicopter.  The Robot. Now, Robot is the clear winner here. But odds are, Cat will win because internet.  Here's the current standings as of 1/9 for who's going to get the axe:  Scotty Dog is clearly safe, thank God. So is car and Battleship. And it looks like Thimble will be fine, but hard to say. What's surprising is that there are people who are actually voting for the POS iron and wheelbarrow. WTF?! People really like those pieces? Weirdos. Vote for both the one you want to stay, and the one you want to rise from the melted slag of the tossed aside tokens here: https://apps.facebook.com/saveyourtoken/ They aren't showing the current standing for the new pieces, alas. Remember...vote for the piece you want to STAY, not the piece you want to go away. You can vote once per day until Feb 6. DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at Jan 10, 2013 around 03:33 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 21:17 |
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Is there something we can vote for them to throw away Monopoly in general for being an awful game?
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:33 |
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I hope 4chan organizes a mass vote to kill the scotty dog, it would be their greatest legacy
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:36 |
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I was the iron because it has a handle. I like that. Monopoly sucks in general and the trades/negotiations have nothing on war games.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:37 |
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Monopoly rules but are you kidding me? Physical downloadable content? Get hosed.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:38 |
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The Robot has a mustache too? It'll be a crime if it loses.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:40 |
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Shoeonhead22 posted:I was the iron because it has a handle. I like that. I beg to differ: 
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:40 |
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Oh man, they got rid of the horse and rider? That was my favorite piece growing up (well, actually the car was, but my big brother always got to play with the car). That robot is tops and might even make me buy the game if it gets picked. What better way to be a sore loser than destroying the hotel on Boardwalk with a goddamn robot?
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:40 |
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The shoe is awesome, just because it's so nonsensical. I'm a ship! I'm a car! I'm a... shoe. And I'm RICH!
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:41 |
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I can understand getting rid of the wheelbarrow, but the iron? It's got a tiny handle you can grip to push around the board. Also the toy robot gets my vote.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:43 |
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Why did they junk the cannon? The one piece capable of fighting the battleship
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:44 |
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Kai Ryssdal talked about this today. I didn't even know the cannon was gone! It's Hasbro, so obviously I was hoping one of the new piece options would be a pony (I'M SORRY), but that robot looks pretty drat good. The guitar has an appealing design, but it doesn't look like it'd make a good board game piece. I don't see a base on it, so what would it do? Lie flat on its back? The cat looks too fancy, the helicopter is pretty lame, and I guess I don't know what to say about the diamond ring.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:45 |
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I always played as the boat, I don't get why nobody else wanted a battleship with cannons.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:50 |
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OP, you're playing Monopoly wrong. All the chance, luxury tax, and community chest money goes in the middle and whoever lands on Free Parking gets it. Also I was always the shoe.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:52 |
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My monopoly moneys on the robot. Also I'm almost certain the version we had growing up had a different car, it was a modern sports car (knight rider style) image search brings up nothing, it was a pretty old board too the pieces may have been lead, they certainly weren't shiny like these new ones.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:56 |
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The thimble is the superior piece because it is a kiss.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 03:56 |
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I have never owned or even seen a Monopoly game that had a battleship in it. Is that a recent addition? Also, shoe for life, yo.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:01 |
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Retail Slave posted:OP, you're playing Monopoly wrong. All the chance, luxury tax, and community chest money goes in the middle and whoever lands on Free Parking gets it. Are you me? Also yellow/green corner is the money corner. Welcome to my domain bitches. 
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:02 |
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Retail Slave posted:OP, you're playing Monopoly wrong. All the chance, luxury tax, and community chest money goes in the middle and whoever lands on Free Parking gets it. That's how we usually played, too, but it's technically wrong.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:04 |
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Everytime the jail card came up Ace Ventura did too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj1wcs7SZj0
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:10 |
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That loving mustache robot. God drat. God drat. Fine as hell.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:13 |
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I hope they get rid of the dog and add the cat because gently caress dogs.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:13 |
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I only play with Horse and Rider. If a person's Monopoly set does not contain this piece they can go to hell.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:25 |
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Flavahbeast posted:I hope 4chan organizes a mass vote to kill the scotty dog, it would be their greatest legacy Unfortunately you don't get to vote anyone off the island, you just vote for which one you want to keep. They can't vote out the dog, but they could vote in the cat, which is less impressive. But then they could play monopoly on caturday.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:26 |
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When I heard one of the pieces was a robot, I thought that was gimmicky and stupid. Then someone sent me a link and I saw it had a mustache. Robot 4 Life.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:29 |
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I didn't even know the Scotty Dog had such a huge fanbase until today. All my life growing up, I was all about the Car, and most of my friends were too.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:35 |
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Angela Christine posted:Unfortunately you don't get to vote anyone off the island, you just vote for which one you want to keep. They can't vote out the dog, but they could vote in the cat, which is less impressive. But then they could play monopoly on caturday. They could spam-vote up all the other pieces so scotty dog was in the danger zone.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:37 |
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The Thimble is my thing. The simplicity of it's shape and different texture makes it cool to me.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:38 |
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If they get rid of the shoe then I will never buy a Monopoly board again.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:39 |
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I always turned the wheelbarrow upside and pretended it was a speedboat. Seriously, try it. Speedboat / wheelbarrow for life!
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:40 |
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They better not get rid of the iron, gently caress everything if they do. Also, team dog 4 lyfe. edit: all these new tokens are dumb. gently caress if I'm gonna want to be friends with someone who picks a cat as their piece.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:41 |
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Rocketlex posted:I didn't even know the Scotty Dog had such a huge fanbase until today. All my life growing up, I was all about the Car, and most of my friends were too. People are idiots. The scotty dog is the stupidest piece.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:41 |
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I always play thimble. It is the piece that makes the least sense and I love it. gently caress the haters. Also, people who play Monopoly without money in the middle that you get if you land on Free Parking are awful, I don't care what the actual rules are.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:42 |
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Actually another rules question - Did anyone ever play the rule that you auctioned off properties that were landed on but not bought? I didn't even realise that was a thing until I reread the rules recently. Same with the free parking money collection.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:46 |
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Anyone ever play the Dot-Com edition? It had pieces like this: THREE different monitor pieces! And I'm pretty sure they used the Mouse Trap mold to make the mouse. The houses were the best, though. They stacked on top of each other!! There was also this jumbo piece of the Monopoly Man being confused by his computer:  It's kind of dated now. Half the properties are now-defunct websites.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:48 |
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Monopoly is the game of enraging your loved ones regardless of what house rules you choose. I don't know what to tell you if you play it any differently.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:52 |
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There should be a version of Monopoly called Job Creator. It's like Monopoly, but everyone has to keep playing even after they lose everything. Eventually, you realize the the person who owns everything needs tax breaks. This is the only way I support anyone playing a game of Monopoly. Otherwise, at least play Risk.
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:53 |
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Wait, when did Monopoly get rid of the Cannon and Horse and Rider? And they opted to keep THE IRON?
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| # ? Jan 10, 2013 04:55 |
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Cannon got retired? loving bullshit. Our house rules allow cannon a once-per-game instant demolition of one single building on the space it's on. edit: Other pieces got buffs too, like Car got an optional +1 to every dice roll, Hat got paid 10% more for rent, Thimble paid 10% less for properties Telemarchitect fucked around with this message at Jan 10, 2013 around 05:01 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 21:17 |
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Which one contains the map that shows me how to escape the Nazi prison camp?
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