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Boot, wheelbarrow, thimble ousted from Monopoly board game
Associated Press ^ | Mar 17, 2017 10:01 AM EDT | Wayne Parry

Posted on 03/17/2017 7:52:31 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Monopoly is making changes: The boot has been booted, the wheelbarrow has been wheeled out, and the thimble got the thumbs down in the latest version of the board game.

In their place this fall will be a Tyrannosaurus rex, a penguin and a rubber ducky. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: boot; hasbro; monopoly; penguin; rubberducky; thimble; tyrannosaurusrex; wheelbarrow
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To: Olog-hai

The thimble was my favorite. A pox upon you, Monopoly.


41 posted on 03/17/2017 8:25:50 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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To: Olog-hai

42 posted on 03/17/2017 8:27:05 AM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Haiku Guy
I played the board game Risk a few months back, and Hasbro has completely changed the way the game is played. The cards no longer have to be matched, and you simply collect more cards to get more armies. They don’t even put the symbols on the cards so you can play the old way.

That's bad news...we spent hours playing that game growing up.

43 posted on 03/17/2017 8:27:42 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: RegulatorCountry

I want an Owl, called hooter!


44 posted on 03/17/2017 8:34:41 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

A Monopoly red hotel is pretty painful! :-)


45 posted on 03/17/2017 8:36:55 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Olog-hai

Are they changing Boardwalk to Trump Tower or the White House?

Park Place should be Mar-a-Lago.


46 posted on 03/17/2017 8:42:07 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: mountn man

>>>Baltic or Mediteranean<<<

Rename them MLK and Cesar Chavez.


47 posted on 03/17/2017 8:44:55 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Mercat

I never thought of it that way.


48 posted on 03/17/2017 8:49:17 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Olog-hai

Because they’re all symbols of work, maybe?


49 posted on 03/17/2017 8:50:10 AM PDT by knittnmom
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To: SgtHooper

I wonder if you’d be asking for a lawsuit by making and selling alternative Monopoly pieces? I think a Trump would be hilarious and appropriate, along with reproductions of the old pieces that they’re discontinuing and anything else that would sell.


50 posted on 03/17/2017 8:50:24 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Buckeye McFrog

My wife was reclining in a lazy boy right next to the stool next to the kitchen counter. Not to disturb her I just stepped over the stool. I hadn’t seen the Hot Wheels fire engine my son had left on the floor on the other side of the stool. I realized what was happening but couldn’t stop my weight from shifting. All my weight was on one bare foot on top of a square fire engine.


51 posted on 03/17/2017 8:54:58 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Olog-hai

Did someone decide that these game pieces were racist? Everything else is these days, apparently.


52 posted on 03/17/2017 8:56:52 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: mountn man

>They could make trailers for houses, for Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana.

with a yahoomobile on cinderblocks out front.


53 posted on 03/17/2017 9:16:42 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: Olog-hai

So they replaced pieces that were relevant to the theme of the game with totally random animals? OK.


54 posted on 03/17/2017 9:37:50 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: Olog-hai

I got to check with my parents, but I used to want to be the steam locomotive. Is it replaced? A Penguin, really?


55 posted on 03/17/2017 9:51:02 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Olog-hai

You mean I have to trade in my boot for a rubber ducky? Outrageous! The boot always wins.


56 posted on 03/17/2017 10:10:33 AM PDT by upchuck (U have not lived today until u have done something for someone who can never repay u ~ John Bunyan)
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To: alternatives?

Lego on bare feet is equally as bad.


57 posted on 03/17/2017 10:11:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai

Let me guess. One person was “triggered” by a racist wheelbarrow, sexist thimble, and ableist workboot.


58 posted on 03/17/2017 11:30:30 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: alternatives?

Interesting my strategy was either to take over Australia or South America as a base. You get the continent bonus and have to defend fewer attack routes - and by merely possessing one other territory prevent someone else from gaining a continental bonus (typically mexico or Indonesia).

As to Monopoly I recently saw an article or special about how very rarely are the actual rules followed. If they were the games would actually be much faster. For example: 1) there is an actual limit on houses/hotels if there are no more pieces no one else can buy them. and 2) if someone lands on a place and doesn’t buy the bank is supposed to auction it immediately to the entire player population.


59 posted on 03/17/2017 11:56:11 AM PDT by reed13k
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To: SkyDancer

What color would the diaper pin be for snowflakes who are unsure of their gender? :-)


60 posted on 03/17/2017 1:18:57 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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