ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — 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 Monopoly. In their place will be a Tyrannosaurus rex, a penguin and a rubber ducky.
More than 4.3 million voters from 146 countries weighed in on which tokens they wanted to see in future versions of the property-acquisition game, which is based on the real-life streets of Atlantic City. Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based Hasbro announced the winners Friday morning.
Jonathan Berkowitz, Hasbro’s senior vice president of marketing, grew up playing the game with his family.
“While I’m sad to see the iconic thimble, boot, and wheelbarrow tokens go, it will be fun to have some new, fan-sourced tokens in the mix,” he said. “Personally, I’ve always especially liked the boot token, but I’m excited to move onto the T. rex.”
There were 64 contenders, including a winking emoji, a hashtag, a clunky ’80s-style cellphone and a pair of bunny slippers.
The existing Scottish Terrier, battleship, racecar, top hat and cat tokens will carry on.
The Scottie was top dog in the competition, leading all contenders with 212,476 votes. The T. rex was second with 207,954, and the hat was third with 167,582. The car was fourth with 165,083; the ducky was fifth with 160,485; the cat was sixth with 154,165; the penguin waddled into seventh place with 146,661; and the battleship made the final cut with 134,704 votes.
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Toy company Hasbro is asking the public to help them decide on some new game pieces for Monopoly, the board game that taught us about bankruptcy and budgeting before we even knew what a mortgage was.
Online voting on over 50 new pieces runs until Jan. 31, 2017. Some of the classic pieces, seen in silver, could very well go the way of the iron which was booted in 2013 for a cat.
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Toy company Hasbro is asking the public to help them decide on some new game pieces for Monopoly, the board game that taught us about bankruptcy and budgeting before we even knew what a mortgage was.
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Toy company Hasbro is asking the public to help them decide on some new game pieces for Monopoly, the board game that taught us about bankruptcy and budgeting before we even knew what a mortgage was.
Online voting on over 50 new pieces runs until Jan. 31, 2017. Some of the classic pieces, seen in silver, could very well go the way of the iron which was booted in 2013 for a cat.
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Toy company Hasbro is asking the public to help them decide on some new game pieces for Monopoly, the board game that taught us about bankruptcy and budgeting before we even knew what a mortgage was.
Online
… more
Photo: Hasbro
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