Thimble tossed! Game piece voted out of Monopoly board game. May be replaced by hashtag or emojis

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/thimble-tossed-game-piece-voted-150245463.html

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — You can still pass "Go" and collect $200 on the Monopoly board, but you soon won't be able to do it with the thimble game piece.

Voters have rejected the thimble, an integral part of the game since being added to Monopoly in 1935. The move is part of a campaign to select the next generation of game pieces.

Hashtags, emojis and even a rubber duck may replace dogs, cats and hats in an upcoming version.

Hasbro Inc. is holding a worldwide contest to let people choose the eight tokens to be included in the next generation of the property acquisition game, based on the real streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Winners will be announced March 19, and will be included in games hitting shelves this August.
 
Might as well changed the name of the game. Don't ruin a classic for dumbass millennials who won't be playing anyway.
 
You know the shoe has to be sweating its balls off now

Race car & the top hat looking at it like 'you're next motherfucker'
 
raw
 
Here's all the new choices.

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Peteyandjia said:
You know the shoe has to be sweating its balls off now

Race car & the top hat looking at it like 'you're next motherfucker'
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This article says the Scottie Dog needs to watch their back.

By LARA RUTHERFORD-MORRISON

10 hours ago
In January, board game lovers had the opportunity to vote for a new lineup of Monopoly pieces. Now, the first casualty of “Monopoly Token Madness” has been announced: The classic thimble Monopoly piece has been voted off the island. Is anyone safe in this Monopoly game piece shakeup? The Scottie dog had better watch his back.

This latest Monopoly news proves that seniority won’t protect you: The thimble has been a standard player on Monopoly boards since the game was first released in 1935. Back then, the thimble was one of ten pieces, which also included an iron, purse, lantern, race car, shoe, top hat, battleship, cannon, and rocking horse. Many of these original pieces, including the battleship, top hat, race car, and shoe, remain in the current lineup — for now.

The thimble is the second classic token to be taken off of the Monopoly board in recent years. In 2013, players voted to replace the iron token with the cat piece. (Was anyone sad about that? I’m kinda bummed about the thimble, but the iron? Pfft.)

In January, Hasbro launched voting for the Monopoly Token Madness campaign, in which voters got to select their favorite eight tokens from both the current token lineup and a pool of 56 new tokens. The full results of the vote — which could replace any or even all of the current tokens — won’t be announced until March 19, but we do know that the thimble is out. “We were a little bit surprised that the thimble got among the lowest votes because it's been in the game for so long,” Jonathan Berkowitz, senior VP of marketing for Hasbro Gaming, told CNN.
 
Terrible. No respect at all. I can't believe this shit.









What's a thimble?
 
Bush league marketing. Is there a Monopoly app? If not there should be. Tweak it so buddies can play at leisure, for like forever. As every stupid game of Monopoly ends up being.
 
New choices suck (except for dat rubber ducky ...
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May as well add Harambe and a LOLcat piece if they're going to go this retarded route.
 
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Wait, there's a cat? Since when?
 
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