New "Monopoly" Ditches Racecar Game Piece for Prius

What is this a racecar gets replaced with a Prius? What is wrong with the world ;).

"In a brand-new "Here and Now" edition of its long-running Monopoly board game, the Prius is one of several name-brand tokens in a group that includes the Motorola Razr, Starbucks coffee, McDonald's french fries and New Balance running shoes."

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bigslick83 - 9/21/2006 1:43:55 PM

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wtf that is stupid. why not change all the names of the property on the board for more advertising. this reminds me of when they were going to put spider webbing on the bases of major league baseball in order to build up the new spider man 2 movie. PB your dead to me now. next they will make a new clue game. i can see it now, "i think it was Kobe Bryant, at Scores stripclub, with the Miller light bottle."

mkk21 - 9/21/2006 2:51:42 PM

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Take it ease bigslick83. This is just an update to the Monopoly game. The original was getting a bit outdated. And FYI they did change all the names of the properties for this edition. If you didn't hear about it they had a contest and which ever location got the most votes would replace boardwalk.

Now you have places like Times Square, the Las Vegas Strip, and Waikiki Beach on the board. And prices for the properties were updated as well ranging from $10,000 to $5 million. I hear rents on the las vegas strip range from $260,000 for one house to 12.75 million for a hotel. Didn't you think it was kinda ridiculous buying an entire avenue for only 50 bucks?

Carboy - 9/21/2006 3:37:53 PM

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Can they at least make it a S550 not a Prius

bigslick83 - 9/21/2006 4:15:46 PM

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yea your right mkk i hate that game anyway. i was always the guy who after playing for 4 hours in a dead stale mate with whole board divided in two with all hotels, i would just tip it over and say oops! oh well im tired good game. ? for you tho, if you alreayd had a perfectly good 1st gen monopoly would you buy this one? ive seen lots of editions like star wars and crap. and they should have a cooler car and phone, gawd i hate the razr. and if prices are that high in the new game, i do not wanna be the banker. now that i think about it i did like the new styles they made for gaming consels with diff themes.

chewy - 9/21/2006 8:51:21 PM

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Monopoly is all about going over the top. Where does Kobe come into this?