I am surprised the dog is the most popular token; when I was a kid the car was nearly almost always the first picked, often followed by the boot (useful for disdainfully kicking over other players’ tokens en passant as you passed them on the board). We were a mobility oriented lot, I suppose. Plus only one kid I regularly played Monopoly with had a dog, who did consistently pick the dog.
Other pieces seem like they should be protected due to being shown on the iconic artwork on some of the Chance or Community Chest cards: the yellow CC “Advance To Go” card shows Mr. Moneybags running to Go with the giant boot on, and the orange Chance card “Advance to nearest utility” shows Mr. Moneybags lugging the battleship piece on his back.
I like the idea of protecting pieces that appear on the chance and community chest cards, unless they all are and a token can’t be eliminated.
Anyone knows what the list of pieces are eligible to be eliminated if you take out the ones on CC and chance cards?
I have to say, I don’t see the boot on the Advance to Go CC card.
When it comes down to it, as long as they dont get rid of the top hat, my personal token of choice for over 40 years, I’ll be fine. I hate playing if i can’t be the hat.
The hat, the Scottie, the iron, and the battleship.
I don’t think that the boot is shown in the card where Mr. Moneybags is stretching his foot to go.
So, if we go by the new criteria, those 4 are out of the elimination race. Those cards look old, so maybe there is a newer set with new or different drawings on them.
Yeah… That’s the card I mentioned, in the link robardin gave.
Useless information: I originally thought they had the same exact card twice somehow, but the copyright notice is shifted, so it’s physically two different copies of the same card.
That was my first thought, but in every other card, he’s just wearing dress shoes. If it’s not the boot token, why the boots on that one card?
The cat was the worst of the new choices, but there was hardly anything that could have been done to prevent its selection. There are just too many cat lovers out there, and too few robot lovers. (Yes there are a lot of guitar players, but are those folks really going to take the time to vote?) I hate that it creates a needless new in-game rivalry that must erupt between the dog/cat players. Another sign of the decline of American culture.
I suspect none will weep for the iron. Indeed, they should have kept the horse and rider years ago and dispatched this distasteful piece at that time. But what’s done is done.
However the cat…? That’s another matter. Would a cat even care if it won?
just so no one thinks I’m actually taking this seriously.)
