Hasbro will be giving Monopoly a facelift this fall. The new edition of Monopoly will be called The Here & Now Edition. It will feature landmarks from 22 cities, including Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas and New York. You can vote for your favorite national landmarks at monopoly.com between now and May 12. The landmarks with the most votes in each city will appear on the game board when it is released in the fall.
I gotta say, they would have been better off having a smaller number of cities with three properties per city. Some of the cities, Atlanta and Cleveland and Dallas in particular, had nothing interesting to choose, while others like Chicago New York and Boston had more than one excellent choice. That might also have allowed more choices per city, since I found it strange to be missing things like the Sears Tower and Empire State Building…
I thought the same thing about several of the cities: some major landmarks are missing, while other seemingly unimportant landmarks were present. It would have also made sense to have two or three landmarks per city so that each property set on the board would consist of a city.
On the other hand, I could see how you could construct a property set with three baseball stadiums (yawn) or both the Empire State Building and the Sears Tower (if they had been included). I wonder if the money will just have extra zeros, so that rent on the “Boardwalk” property were $500 or even $5000 instead of the steal of a deal $50 that it has been. I also wonder if the railroads will be replaced with an industry like biotech or hardware.
Yeah, that was my thought as well. Wrigley and Fenway I can understand, but Jacobs Field in Cleveland is a nothing stadium, it’s not famous at all. They just didn’t have anything else to list I guess…
I agree with everything you both said. I kinda felt like, what? Cleveland? Houston’s weren’t that great either. And also, frankly, I feel like you can’t own all of hollywood, can you? Maybe that’s being nitpicky. But yeah. I bet either Hollywood or Disneyworld becomes the new Boardwalk.
Maybe Times Square for Boardwalk. Bottom line, lame lame lame…