It’s all fun & games
Money moguls, travelers and game lovers can unite with Hasbro’s new Monopoly version: Monopoly Here and Now: World Edition. Released this past week, world cities have replaced the streets of the original version. The cities in place were nominated by votes from around the world – and based on some of the choices, it seems some cities got their citizens involved. European destinations include some expected ones: Paris, London, Rome as well as Athens and Barcelona. Riga is an up-and-comer so that was nice to see. A few eyebrow raisers? Kyiv, Belgrade and Gdynia (it’s in Poland).
To celebrate the launch, thousands of Monopoly fans gathered in more than a dozen cities, including London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Bogota, Lisbon, Hong Kong and Las Vegas to try and set a world record for the World’s Largest Simultaneous Game of having the most people playing Monopoly at one time.
Twenty-two destinations in all; experience wanderlust, and if you are good, can perhaps own the “world” in one afternoon.
Photo Credit: Hasbro
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1 opinion for It’s all fun & games
Art V
Sep 3, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Which US cities made the list? And who took the coveted Park Place/Boardwalk spaces?
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