Say it isn't so, Monopoly!
Okay, this is old news and voting is closed but I just ran across it now. Monopoly let the public VOTE OUT AND REPLACE one of its game pieces. Aaagh! Up for the cutting room floor were the car, thimble, boot, scottie, ship, hat, iron, and wheelbarrow. I would have totally kicked out the wheelbarrow. What about you?
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Jun 01, 2013 04:22AM
But they voted in a cat! So it's all good ;)
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How could people have not picked the robot?!?! I want the robot, damnit!
Aniko wrote: "How could people have not picked the robot?!?! I want the robot, damnit!"The robot was extremely cute, but nothing beats the popularity of a cat on the Internet ;)
I didn't even particularly like the way the cat was done. But the fact that it was a cat trumped everything.I also liked the ring, I thought it looked retro. And the robot.
I have noticed that, Sean, lol. And I like cats and all, but that robot was way cooler!Jordan, I suppose since they already had a dog, the cat was kind of inevitable, even if it wasn't particularly well done :-p
It wasn't a bad cat in itself, I just would've liked it to look more 1930's like the other pieces. I think that's what I liked about the ring.
An arching Halloween type cat would've been interesting, or a really slender, stylized Siamese. The cat they created felt too "friendly."
Aniko wrote: "I have noticed that, Sean, lol. And I like cats and all, but that robot was way cooler!Jordan, I suppose since they already had a dog, the cat was kind of inevitable, even if it wasn't particular..."
The robot was very cool and retro.
Jordan wrote: "An arching Halloween type cat would've been interesting, or a really slender, stylized Siamese. The cat they created felt too "friendly.""I just felt it was so that it felt like it fitted in with the terrier.
Sean wrote: "Jordan wrote: "An arching Halloween type cat would've been interesting, or a really slender, stylized Siamese. The cat they created felt too "friendly.""I just felt it was so that it felt like it..."
Wow, that was a really bad sentence. I need more coffee.
There's always that pressure to write at least a serviceable sentence, isn't there? I often think, "Here's what I sound like when I haven't rewritten it ten times."
I liked the robot, it was cool. I thought the idea was to make the new piece more relevant to the modern players, which would make sense for it to be a robot. A cat is timeless!
I seem to be the only one with an aversion to the wheelbarrow! It reminds me of grueling, backbreaking yard work :D
Lol, I love wheelbarrows, because I have never used one! Wheelbarrow=honest, earthy Labor, oops. Wrong interpretation...all romanticized. Can I do a (terrible) paper on the class dynamics of Monopoly tokens? No? Good! Some mean labor/poverty others mean leisure/wealth.
Some mean labor/poverty others mean leisure/wealth.So true, and they're half and half. Although there were earlier tokens like a guy on a horse, so I don't know if the wealth/poverty split was always equal.
